Jillian Hernandez gives voice to girls and women of color in her 2020 book Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment. In this episode, you’ll hear how she has been delving into the “aesthetic hierarchies” of femme culture for more than a decade. Research, critical writing, and personal experience come together to enrich this vividly illustrated book. Hernandez shares a few stories of her own fraught adolescence, along with those of Women on the Rise!, a community of teenage girls for whom she and local artists created opportunities to collide with art, through the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.
Sound Editor: Anamnesis Audio | Special Audio: Chonga Girls, “Chongalicious,” Crystal Pearl Molinary, “Off the Chain”
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Puerto Rico Rising—Resisting Paradise https://freshartinternational.com/2021/02/24/puerto-rico-rising-resisting-paradise/
The Awakening https://freshartinternational.com/2021/01/27/women-artists-curators-awakening/
Topical Playlist—Art and Feminism https://freshartinternational.com/2020/10/28/topical-playlist-feminist-art/
Related Links
Jillian Hernandez, University of Florida https://people.clas.ufl.edu/jillianhernandez/
Duke University Press https://www.dukeupress.edu/aesthetics-of-excess
Women on the Rise!: Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami https://mocanomi.org/2012/03/women-on-the-rise/
