Rockport Public Library

The color pynk, Black femme art for survival, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley ; afterword by Candice Lyons

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

The color pynk

bibliography

1302182952

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley ; afterword by Candice Lyons

William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere

Black femme art for survival

"This book is a series of examinations of Black queer cis and transfeminity, a personal and loving homage to "Black femmes poetics of survival during the Trump era and beyond." Tinsley examines contemporary Black femme cultural production: the music of Kelsey Lu and Janelle Monáe; the visual work of Juliana Huxtable; Janet Mock's writing/directing of the TV show Pose, and the creations of Tourmaline; the fashion of Indya Moore; and (F)empower. She is interested in Black femme representations in film, popular music, television, graphic novels, and poetry to conceptualize Black femme as figuration: that is, as a set of consciously, continually rescripted cultural and aesthetic practices that disrupt conventional meanings of race, gender, and sexuality"--, Provided by publisher

Prologue. For Alice Walker -- Introduction. Femme-inist is to feminist as PYNK is to pink -- Part One. Pussy power and nonbinary vaginas -- Janelle Monáe : fem futures, pynk pants, and pussy power -- Indya Moore : nonbinary wild vagina dresses & biologically femme penises -- Part Two. Hymns for crazy black femmes -- Kelsey Lu : braids, twists, and the shapes of black femme depression -- Tourmaline : head scarves and freedom dreams -- Part Three. Black femme environmentalism for the futa -- (F)empower : swimwear, wade-ins, and trashy ecofeminism -- Juliana Huxtable : black witch-cunt lipstick and kinky vegan femme-inism -- Conclusion. Where is the black in black femme freedom? -- Epilogue. For my child -- Afterword by Candice Lyons : pynk parlance, a glossary