Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought

How creativity makes its way through feeling—and what we can know and feel through the artistic work of Black women

Feeling is not feelin. As the poet, artist, and scholar Bettina Judd argues, feelin, in African American Vernacular English, is how Black women artists approach and produce knowledge as sensation: internal and complex, entangled with pleasure, pain, anger, and joy, and manifesting artistic production itself as the meaning of the work. Through interviews, close readings, and ...