Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought Photography Her ideas are intuitively persuasive

Her ideas are intuitively persuasive

Am I safe to exist without worry

she fears the most formidable monster she’ll have to face is the one inside

James discovered the real power in creating for the runway and started her own business in a flea market

Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought Photography Her ideas are intuitively persuasiveHow creativity makes its way through feelingand 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.