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Erotic Art & Fabulous Defiance: Reclaiming the Body through Art

By Shuddhashar / Listen and Watch, Webinar / 2 minutes of reading / Agency, Feminism, Political art, Queer, Subversive Art

This webinar brings together Tamar Ballard and Ibtisam Ahmed with moderator Afra Sampreety to explore how subversive art reclaims the body, desire, and selfhood in Black feminist and queer contexts. Discussing Black women’s music and queer catwalk, they center practices that do not seek permission or validation but instead boldly celebrate intimacy and pageantry. Together,

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“‘Callin’ Out My Own Name’: Black Women’s Music, Sexual Agency, and Sounds of Pleasure

By Tamar Ballard / Issue 46, Subversive Art, Magazine / 10 minutes of reading / Agency, Art, Black Femininity, Music, Racism, Sexism, Sexuality, Subversive Art

Depathologizing Black women’s sexuality should involve acknowledging Black women’s capacity to affirm their sexuality for and between themselves.

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Hearing the South Without a Crisis

By Zahra Modarres / Issue 46, Subversive Art, Magazine / 10 minutes of reading / Agency, Arab Spring, Art, Authoritarianism, Emel Mathlouthi, Gender, Morocco, Music, Sexism, Subversive Art, Tunisia

Subversive art is not only the soundtrack of a historical moment but also the insistence on continued practice after the moment has passed, and the refusal to be packaged as a political product.

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Erotic Art & Fabulous Defiance: Reclaiming the Body through Art

“‘Callin’ Out My Own Name’: Black Women’s Music, Sexual Agency, and Sounds of Pleasure

Hearing the South Without a Crisis

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