Why You Tryna Silence Her Body?

Artistic expression is a vessel to define, refine, understand and become. Poetry and dance are tongues and instinctive expressions of my thoughts, feelings, and analyses. Thus, my embodiment, challenges and responses to social inequities often merge in these forms. Yet, artistic expression can be se...

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Published inQualitative research journal Vol. 11; no. 2; p. 102
Main Author Hill, Dominique C
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Armidale Emerald Group Publishing Limited 01.07.2011
Subjects
African Americans
Artistic expression
Desegregation
Education
Human body
Learning
Middle English
White supremacy
United States > US
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Summary:Artistic expression is a vessel to define, refine, understand and become. Poetry and dance are tongues and instinctive expressions of my thoughts, feelings, and analyses. Thus, my embodiment, challenges and responses to social inequities often merge in these forms. Yet, artistic expression can be seen as trivial when used as method to illustrate social inequities. Drawing on the works of feminists of color, I offer poetry and dance as a queered performance to name and resist my embodiment of racism, sexism, and heteropatriarchy. Using these methods with my body as the site of struggle and potential, this piece talks back to standards of analysis and demands accountability be taken for the marking, sculpting and appraisal of my black female body. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:1443-9883
1448-0980