The Color Pynk
Black Femme Art for Survival
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Texas Press
- Date of Publication 1 November 2022
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781477326442
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 229x152x23 mm
- Weight 513 g
- Language English 467
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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)
2024 MPCA/ACA Best Single Work by One or More Authors, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association (MPCA/ACA)
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.
MoreTable of 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 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
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
