Description
2023 John Leo & Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies, Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association (PCA)
2023 Honorable Mention, Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association (PCA)
A celebration of the distinctive and politically defiant art of Black queer, cis-, and transfemmes, from the work of Janelle Monáe and Janet Mock to that of Indya Moore and Kelsey Lu. The Color Pynk is a passionate exploration of Black femme poetics of survival. Sidelined by liberal feminists and invisible to mainstream civil rights movements, Black femmes spent the Trump years doing what they so often do best: creating politically engaged art, entertainment, and ideas. In the first full-length study of Black queer, cis-, and trans-femininity, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley argues that this creative work offers a distinctive challenge to power structures that limit how we color, gender, and explore freedom.Tinsley engages 2017-2020 Black femme cultural production that colorfully and provocatively imagines freedom in the stark white face of its impossibility. Looking to the music of Janelle Monáe and Kelsey Lu, Janet Mock's writing for the television show Pose, the fashion of Indya Moore and (F)empower, and the films of Tourmaline and Juliana Huxtable, as well as poetry and novels, The Color Pynk conceptualizes Black femme as a set of consciously, continually rescripted cultural and aesthetic practices that disrupts conventional meanings of race, gender, and sexuality. There is an exuberant defiance in queer Black femininity, Tinsley finds--so that Black femmes continue to love themselves wildly in a world that resists their joy.
Author: Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.07w x 0.84d
ISBN13: 9781477326442
ISBN10: 1477326448
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Social Science | Gender Studies
- Social Science | Popular Culture
About the Author
Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley is a professor of Black studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism, Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature, and Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders.