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How do the girls in Shapeshifters define and assert their agency in terms…
How do the girls in Shapeshifters define and assert their agency in terms of race, sexuality, gender and/or class?
Discussions of gender conformity and disruption and of expressions of sexual pleasure and desire in enduring contexts of violence and exploitation rarely include how these critical inquiries differ for Black girls and young women.
Fresh Start girls wrestle with the ability to deliberately act in their own bodies in ways their wants and needs beyond sexual fulfillment of the most efficacious presentations of self.
The question of agency, pleasure,power, and counternarrative performance surround LaT's spoken-word reading and dance.
Performances of sexuality and articulations of sexual identities at Fresh demonstrates neither the option of being a Jezebel or asexual is .
question os sex and sexuality for young Black women are not simply matter of desire, survival , victimization, or mortality.
Consider how the young women sexuality intersects with their need such as the need to establish loving interactions, to eat, to live in a safe home, and to exert control over their own lives.
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Middle-class Black women often unwittingly find themselves endorsing behavior and aspirational standards that are complicit with hegemonic structures that constrain the possibilities for all Black women to live and work as they choose.
it is easy to point out and blame the social structure of Black women than to attack faceless ideologies and structures that truly constrain the movement of Black girls and women across the boundaries of race, class, and gender.
paternalistic politics of care denied Black girls the right to live outside of a market that sees them first and foremost as laborers in the service of everyone but themselves, as perpetually struggly, and as bodies that need to be discipline or reshaped to begin to approach legibility as worthy citizens.
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