Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought Photography A unique combination of gripping

A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought

the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another person

James discovered the real power in creating for the runway and started her own business in a flea market

From the founding of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland

she fears the most formidable monster she’ll have to face is the one inside

Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought Photography A unique combination of grippingHow creativity makes its way through feelingand what we can know and feel through the artistic work of Black women Feeling is not feelin. As the poet, artist, and scholar Bettina Judd argues, feelin, in African American Vernacular English, is how Black women artists approach and produce knowledge as sensation: internal and complex, entangled with pleasure, pain, anger, and joy, and manifesting artistic production itself as the meaning of the work.