Society of Scholars Cohort Archive

Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure Politics, and Black Feminist Thought

This project explores how Black women artists produce Black feminist thought through the creative process. Using the African American Vernacular English use of the term “feelin” as a mean to index knowledge as affective, Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure Politics, and Black Feminist Thought argues that Black women artists approach and produce knowledge as internal and complex sensation entangled with pleasure, pain, anger, and joy to name a few emotions, making artistic production itself the meaning of the work. Feelin intervenes in discourses in critical theory that would disembody feeling as knowledge, and expands notions of Black women’s pleasure politics in Black feminist studies that are inclusive of the erotic, the sexual, the painful, the joyful, the shameful, and the sensations and emotions that yet have no name.