Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought

Join scholar and interdisciplinary artist, Bettina Judd in celebrating her newest book, Feelin, with a conversation and interactive film screening at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum Maryland African American History and Culture (The Lewis Museum). Dr. Judd will be joined in conversation by Dr. Izetta Autumn Mobley, Dr. Tiffany Lethabo King, and Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson.

Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought (Northwestern University Press, December 15, 2022), is a timely work that contextualizes Black women’s interiors and demonstrates how Black women’s creativity and “feelins” are critical landscapes for revolutionary thought and theory. This urgent work intends to “name the ways that racism and sexism is felt, and thus creative responses to those experiences must also be felt.” Judd expertly interrupts the impassive academic research tradition by opening lines of communication on each page between Black women artists, including Joyce Scott, whose work is included in the BMA collection. Lucille Clifton’s, Aretha Franklin’s and Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ voices speak through the page alongside the voices of Renee Cox and Avery*Sunshine. Their genius and joy are woven expertly together with Judd’s own poetry, art, and academic thought.

This event will be held at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum. Register here. 

About the Author

Bettina Judd is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and writer whose creative research centers Black feminist thought. She is the author of patient., winner of the Hudson Prize from Black Lawrence Press, and an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington and is from Baltimore.