{"content":[{"text":"gender, and sense-of-self are informed by the ways women (and “feminine” \n spaces) are represented in art and popular culture.","bbox":{"left":0.118431,"top":0.105993,"width":0.706179,"height":0.04297000000000001}},{"text":"(If you didn’t know, the portrait all the way on the left of Solange is actually \n Beyonce’s sister.)","bbox":{"left":0.118431,"top":0.170841,"width":0.700454,"height":0.04297000000000001}},{"text":"Slides 4- 8","bbox":{"left":0.118431,"top":0.235386,"width":0.095436,"height":0.021454999999999974}},{"text":"Black Femininity and Bodies: \n Portrayal of black women in the media has often been limited to inaccurate two- \n dimensional and detrimental depictions \n ○ Sapphire/ “Angry Black Woman” \n ○ Jezebel \n ○ Mammy \n Read more about these stereotypes here: \n https://www.lsu.edu/chse/news/BeyondMammy.pdf","bbox":{"left":0.118431,"top":0.27872,"width":0.7501490000000001,"height":0.17236399999999996}},{"text":"Defeminized even when (hyper)sexualized \n ○ Rooted in transphobia \n Generalization and misrepresentation of black women have taken its place out of \n media and fiction into reality \n In the media and elsewhere, it is common to publicly defeminize black women \n ○ Serena and Venus Williams \n ○ Michelle Obama \n ○ Megan thee Stallion \n ○ Laverne Cox \n ○ Leslie Jones \n Exclusion of black women as feminine and powerful with a different traits \n ○ Includes masculine and feminine","bbox":{"left":0.118431,"top":0.472962,"width":0.7551200000000001,"height":0.25872799999999996}},{"text":"Much of Mickalene Thomas’ work shifts the narrative from what has been written \n by racists and sexists to “celebrating black femininity and sexuality in a different \n way by claiming the space that seemed to be voided. Just as there is ambiguity in \n the terms “sexuality” and “masculinity”, there is ambiguity to “who a black \n woman is” that deserves to be represented. “To see yourself and for others to see \n you is a form of validation” – Mickalene Thomas \n Proper representation is necessary and vital","bbox":{"left":0.118431,"top":0.753265,"width":0.762395,"height":0.15115200000000006}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}