This week’s Full Body Frequency is all about dressing and undressing as metaphors for armor, power, masking, and presentation.
the flow
Yours truly shares my opinion on the the short-lived #DropThePlus campaign, Target’s partnership with Lilly Pulitzer, my spring fashion picks, and more plus-size travel adventures!
global hotness
Internationally renowned and award-winning, Brooklyn-based photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn joins me. We talk about her rich body of work including her participation in the just opened and AMAZING Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity exhibit, her recent trip to Abu Dhabi, and the perceptions and misperceptions of her black body while wearing a hijab.
changing frequencies
The Femme FATales, a new plus size burlesque troupe, makes its world debut this week during The Flab’N Fab Review. Hear co-founders Iridessence and Molotowcocktease and member Jellie Mae Jones explain why full-figured women need a safe space to learn and perform the empowering art of burlesque.
Photos clockwise:
Left-Right:
-Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, courtesy of Barrayn
-Shoes, courtesy of Femme FATales
-Dancer, courtesy of Femme FATales
-Patchwork shoes, Baye Fall: Roots in Spirituality, Fashion, and Resistance: copyright, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
-Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, courtesy of Barrayn
-Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity: Symposium Panel: copyright, Cesar Wilson Photography
Center:
Che Baraka, Dandy Lion: (Re)Articulating Black Masculine Identity: copyright, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
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