The Color Pynk: Black Femme Art for Survival PDF
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THE COLOR PYNK T H E COLOR PYNK Black Femme Art for Survival Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley Candice Lyons AFTERWORD BY University of Texas Press Austin Copyright © 2022 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2022 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 utpress.utexas.edu/rp-form ∞ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Tinsley, Omise’eke Natasha, 1971– author. Title: The color pynk : black femme art for survival / Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley. Description: First edition. | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2022002695 ISBN 978-1-4773-2115-7 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4773-2644-2 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-4773-2563-6 (PDF) ISBN 978-1-4773-2564-3 (ePub) Subjects: LCSH: Lu, Kelsey. | Monáe, Janelle. | Huxtable, Juliana, 1987– | Mock, Janet, 1983– | Tourmaline. | Moore, Indya. | Feminist aesthetics. | Feminism and the arts. | Womanism. | African American sexual minorities. | African American feminists. Classification: LCC BH301.F46 T57 2022 | DDC 111/.85—dc23/eng/20220518 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022002695 doi:10.7560/321157 For my cousin AnnA ElizAbEth StAplEr April 11, 1988–september 13, 2021 in loving memory CONTENTS Prologue: For Alice Walker 1 Introduction: Femme-inist Is to Feminist as Pynk Is to Pink 7 PART ONE Pussy Power and Nonbinary Vaginas 29 Janelle Monáe: Fem Futures, Pynk Pants, and Pussy Power 33 Indya Moore: Nonbinary Wild Vagina Dresses and Biologically Femme Penises 57 PART TWO Hymns for Crazy Black Femmes 81 Kelsey Lu: Braids, Twists, and the Shapes of Black Femme Depression 85 Tourmaline: Head Scarves and Freedom Dreams 109 PART THREE Black Femme Environmentalism for the Futa 135 (F)empower: Swimwear, Wade-Ins, and Trashy Ecofeminism 139 Juliana Huxtable: Black Witch-Cunt Lipstick and Kinky Vegan Femme-inism 165 Conclusion: Where Is the Black in Black Femme Freedom? 191 Epilogue: For My Child 213 Afterword by Candice Lyons: Pynk Parlance, a Glossary 215 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 227 Index 275 THE COLOR PYNK
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