- Description
- 278 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
- Uniform Title
- William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781477321157
- 1477321152
- 9781477326442
- 1477326448
- 9781477325636 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781477325643 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022002695
- OCLC
- YBP 2022002695
- Author
Tinsley, Omise'eke Natasha, 1971- author.
- Title
The color pynk : Black femme art for survival / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley ; afterword by Candice Lyons.
- Publisher
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
©2022
- Edition
First edition.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.