Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought Photography Am I safe to exist

Am I safe to exist without worry

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

daughter of the town’s most prominent family—whose mother’s murder remains unsolved

Her ideas are intuitively persuasive

Bad enough that he followed her to her parents’ home in the village of Makende

Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought Photography Am I safe to existHow 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.