{"product_id":"the-color-pynk-black-femme-art-for-survival-hardback-9781477321157","title":"The Color Pynk; Black Femme Art for Survival (Hardback) 9781477321157","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Color Pynk\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBlack Femme Art for Survival\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eOmise'eke Natasha Tinsley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477321157, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 November 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.653 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis is not just a book.  This is a function.  So the question is, what are you going to wear to this gathering? Omise'eke Tinsley gathers us once again, turning her brilliance to creative femmifestations of black femme fierceness in the so-called Trump Era.  (Or what I prefer to think of as the Tourmaline Ascendency.) Theorists, fashionistas, sweethearts, and innovators: we are all here in loving revelation.  I wear a quilted robe the color of a rose from my grandmother’s garden. I wear a hot-pynk, ribbed tank top screenprinted by a black lesbian yogi. I suggest you wear your curiousity, your vulnerability, and your desire to \u003ci\u003elook like love\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e - Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals \u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Color Pynk\u003c\/i\u003e Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley pays homage to the foremothers of Black feminism by developing a Black femme reading practice.  Tinsley’s analyses of Black femme cultural production are rendered poetically and with the deft critical eye we have come to expect of her. Indeed, Tinsley’s is one of the most important voices of her generation.\u003c\/div\u003e - E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University, author of Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautiful commitment to and demonstration of Black femme poetics, \u003ci\u003eThe Color Pynk\u003c\/i\u003e offers a radical alternative to the genre of the academic book, one that celebrates Black queer language as its own tactic of freedom-dreaming. Conjuring a Black femme future with each sentence, Tinsley writes in collaborative solidarity and with love for Black femmes of all shades and genders. With her lyrical prose - in her words a 'joy-tinted freedom song for the twenty-first century'-\u003ci\u003eThe Color Pynk\u003c\/i\u003e manifests Black femme freedom, now and forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Autostraddle) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Color Pynk\u003c\/i\u003e appears as a beautifully experimental and generous text, where a new concept emerges to help us theorize from the ground that the Black, queer femme has tilled, rather than asking her to fit within a failed feminist framework. Daringly, she challenges readers to revise what they think of as feminist resistance under Trump and what we readily mark as Black or queer in ways that erase Black femmes. With this, Tinsley offers a kind of scholarship that generates as many pathways forward as the Black femme-inist artistic practices at the center of the work.\u003c\/div\u003e (Frontiers)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 John Leo \u0026amp; 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)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 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)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2024 MPCA\/ACA Best Single Work by One or More Authors, Midwest Popular Culture Association \/ Midwest American Culture Association (MPCA\/ACA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Color Pynk\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePose\u003c\/i\u003e, the fashion of Indya Moore and (F)empower, and the films of Tourmaline and Juliana Huxtable, as well as poetry and novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Color Pynk\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrologue: For Alice Walker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Femme-inist Is to Feminist as Pynk Is to Pink\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart One: Pussy Power and Nonbinary Vaginas\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJanelle Monáe: Fem Futures, Pynk Pants, and Pussy Power\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndya Moore: Nonbinary Wild Vagina Dresses and Biologically Femme Penises\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Two: Hymns for Crazy Black Femmes\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKelsey Lu: Braids, Twists, and the Shapes of Black Femme Depression\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTourmaline: Head Scarves and Freedom Dreams\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart Three: Black Femme Environmentalism for the Futa\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e(F)empower: Swimwear, Wade-Ins, and Trashy Ecofeminism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJuliana Huxtable: Black Witch-Cunt Lipstick and Kinky Vegan Femme-inism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: Where Is the \u003ci\u003eBlack\u003c\/i\u003e in Black Femme Freedom?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue: For My Child\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword by Candice Lyons: Pynk Parlance, a Glossary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52590958182680,"sku":"9781477321157","price":55.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-color-pynk-black-femme-art-for-survival-hardback-9781477321157","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}