Feelin’: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought by Bettina Judd (Northwestern University Press, 2022) is the text that I needed as a teenager, navigating my identity, sexuality, and all the complications of moving out of Black girlhood and into Black womanhood. Feelin’ is the book I needed when I went to a college 45 minutes away from my very Black hometown, and, for the first time, had to navigate the perceptions of white teachers and employers, who could determine my success or failure based on my ‘attitude.’ Most importantly, Feelin’ is the guide that I need now that I am a grown woman working to unlearn the ways I was taught to deny myself the humanity of sitting in my feelings. Read More
