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The color pynk : black femme art for survival / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, (c)2022.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781477325636
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BH301 .C656 2022
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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 and 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.
Subject: "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"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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 and 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.

"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"--

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