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Femme-inist is to Feminist as PYNK is to Pink
April 9, 2021 @ 4:00 pm
What is a black femme-inist? This talk offers preliminary thoughts on black femme-inism’s gender-specific, race-specific, and desire-specific contributions to the ongoing project of getting free. Meditating on what makes “black femme” a very smart, very black, and very queer gender, Dr. Tinsley outlines why black femme perspectives prove important to dismantling white supremacist heteropatriarchy.
Omise’eke Tinsley is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Motivated by love for boundless black femme creativity, her research focuses on queer and feminist, Caribbean and African American performance and literature. She recently completed a manuscript entitled The Color Pynk: Black Femme-inist Love and Criticism, which explores black femme aesthetics of resistance in the Trump era. Earlier monographs include Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism (2018); Ezili’s Mirrors: Black Queer Genders and the Work of the Imagination (2018), winner of the 2019 Barbara Christian Prize in Caribbean Studies; and Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature (2010).