Radical Deconstruction Through Afrofuturist-Feminist Design

• In Event: Planting, Birthing, and Imagining: Using Black Feminist Methods to Chart Black Feminist Futures

Abstract

Sociopolitical erasure of Black women presents itself in many ways in design. It is seen as a “systemic issue” (Hewett, 2021, p. 1) by Black women craftivists. Despite erasures and omissions, Black women continue to craft new ways to dismantle systems of oppression to gain liberation. Through surrender (Dillard, 2006) and mosaic (Evans-Winters, 2019), a close reading of creative and written scholarship is performed to investigate ways that I, as a Black woman designer-scholar, utilize apparel and textile design to craft and redefine power and conceptualize the future of an Afro-centric design within the matrix of domination (Collins, 1990).

Presenter

• Alaundra Shealey, Auburn University