A Politics of Tenderness

• In Event: Dancing Black Feminism: Girlhood, Nation-Making, and Black Women’s Work

Abstract

This paper analyzes the black feminist work exercised through Camille A. Brown and Dancers’ BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play (BGLP) (2016). It situates BGLP within a history of black feminist theorizing of black women’s interiority and psyche. BGLP privileges the lives and experiences of black girls; in so doing, it requires audiences to commit their full attention to intersectional adolescence within and against a society in which a black girl’s person is presumed to be both transparent and stereotypical.

Presenter

• Jasmine Elizabeth Johnson, Brandeis University