FORUM: You do not have to be a Black woman to appreciate 'Black Venus,' a new MoADsf exhibition of Black women by 18 Black women and nonbinary artists. But if you are, you may recognize pieces of yourself or how you’d like to be seen.
You do not have to be a Black woman to appreciate ”Black Venus,” a new Museum of the African Diaspora exhibition of Black women by 18 Black women and nonbinary artists. But if you are, you may recognize pieces of yourself or how you’d like to be seen or a girl or a queen from a daydream or a memory. If you aren’t, you may realize how stunted the commonplace images of Black women can be or how seldom you’ve seen so many views of Black femininity in a museum.
Baartman’s story is too sad and too long to get into here; it should tell you enough that in life she was marketed as a “missing link” and a “phenomenon” because of her small stature, African features, dark skin and large buttocks. For more than 100 years after her death in Paris at 26, Baartman’s preserved body parts were still on display.
Ming Smith, who worked as a print model and a dancer before becoming a professional photographer, made “Me as Josephine,” in 1986. Smith’s Josephine appears lost in an erotic reverie, dancing for herself, her golden neck and arms gleaming above a dark, strapless gown. Ex // Top Stories Warriors-Kings ticket prices on pace to break playoff record Forget"Light The Beam." Fans will need to light up their checkbook to watch the Warriors vs. Kings playoff series
“It’s wonderful to see. But I also get worried because what is representation without protection? If you look in Lizzo’s comments or you look online in other spaces that post her pictures, there’s so much fat phobia, racism, misogynoir,” Olagbaju said. “Oftentimes the bravest of us are the ones who are the most subjected to harm out in the world because we are trailblazing and defying stereotypes that are long part of this country’s legacy and even beyond this country.
I spent so much time chatting with people that I was rushing to see everything on the third floor before they kicked me out. Hardly anyone was left, but a Black woman standing between me and “Miss Thang,” a large, Technicolor photo of a Black woman lounging in a frothing hot tub, part of Renee Cox’s 2009 series “The Discreet Charms of the Bougies.”
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