...Mireille Miller-Young This essay explores how black feminists working in the area of sexuality and visual culture necessarily face serious questions about what it means to present images of black women’s sexuality. Examining 1980s porn star Jeannie Pepper’s career, the author argues that black...

...Tsitsi Jaji The large-scale Pan-African festivals held in Senegal, Algeria, and Nigeria (1966–77) are recognized as central to forging a transnational repertoire of cultural practices and memories that are the bedrock of a post-independence global black consciousness. Nevertheless, such festivals...

..., transforming Ringgold herself into a black feminist. At the same time, the Black Light series displays her formalist and aesthetic concerns regarding the larger American art scene, with which she was thoroughly familiar as a well-trained artist conversant with the European and American modernist canons...

... "Africana" as flexible rather Without discussing Cox's images di• black feminism, Tesfagiorgis pre• practice of contemporary women than fixed, the concept neverthe• rectly, Meyers reviews historical sents a manifesto of "Black feminist artists...

.... Their relationship also narrates another history of Black women s activism and organizing and of Black feminist imagi­ naries that remain so crucial to Himid s practice. In other paintings such as Six Tailors (2019) or Ball on Shipboard (2018), we are invited into a dialogue with men conversing, sometimes awk­...

... and black-feminist cri• is adept at reconceptualizing hip-hop's masculin- tiques of normative racial blackness as it was con• ist pose by queering the reified and mythically structed during the Civil Rights and Black Power constructed black male body that has become eras. Within...

... "Africana" as flexible rather Without discussing Cox's images di• black feminism, Tesfagiorgis pre• practice of contemporary women than fixed, the concept neverthe• rectly, Meyers reviews historical sents a manifesto of "Black feminist artists...

... twenty years, 19 Okwui Enwezor, “Networks of Practice: Globalization, but grasping the meaning of blackness from a queer feminist Geopolitics, Geopoetics,” in Contemporary African Art since 1980 perspective in connection to representation is a complex endeavor. (Bologna: Damiani, 2009), 25. One...

... ruminate in order to do the work ourselves to close it. This work is what the black feminist cultural theorist Tina Campt describes as the affective labor of feeling with or through the photographs, the special attention and imaginative efforts they demand so that our preconceived notions of revolution...

.... cutting her images. Her images may cut very deeply 4 Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, for a region often still steeped in denying, or worse, Consciousness, and the Politics...

...: A Black Feminist Anthology, ed. Barbara Smith (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000), 213–15. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies miriam cooke, Banu Gökarıksel...

..., Badu imports a wildness and revelation for people and their embodied histories; exoticism into “Q.U.E.E.N as well as a claim for when worn—and worked—it becomes “another black/feminist authority, as she combines her Afro way” by which to fashion the self and progressive and Cleopatra looks...

... by the artists. Through this pro- ists resulted from the influence of the feminist gram the WWA offered special career-­development artists, in my opinion this is not so. Although the classes in graphic design, illustration and media WWA members and other black women artists all skills, painting, ceramics...

... Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An Ameri- 10 Armstrong, Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching, 76. can Grammar Book,” in The Black Feminist Reader, ed. Joy James 11 Meta Warrick Fuller to Bruce A. Getchell and Alfred Perry, and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Malden, MA: Blackwell...

... Sirry’s work feminists, and social activists in the sense that she as painter goes beyond its obvious formalist preoc...

... are drawn. at Race and Gender in Visual Culture (1999), and Thus his aesthetics of the pole cannot be simply Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art: Ghosts folded back into a conventional discussion of sci- of Ethnicity (2006). ence, the sublime, whiteness, blackness, fashion...

... could be and inspiring her to pursue a career as an artist. Determined to adopt a feminist and issue-based conceptual practice that would take her personal and cultural background as a starting point, she began combining found images of black women in magazines with her own drawings in col- lages...

.... Each sitter, who is unclothed and meets the viewer’s gaze in a feminist gesture, holds a mobile phone inscribed with a barcode. Viewers can scan the barcodes from their smartphones via a QR scanner in order to access a digital space. The reviewer stages a subjective and experiential encounter...

...Naminata Diabate Cultural products and discourses about erotic pleasure have recently proliferated, leading to what the author calls “the pleasure turn.” In studies of African culture, “the pleasure turn” can be read as decentering the dominant paradigm that has mostly associated black nakedness...

... on the floor created a Technicolor to what good use this fantasy fruit could serve, a installation the viewer was enclosed inside, rather tions such as Judy Chicago’s Feminist Art Program skyline. The garden-like landscape was peppered video playing in the corner, Ethnography of No than exterior...