We Were There. We Are Here. We Are In the Future.
Tanekeya Word American
Printer Du-Good Press American
Publisher Du-Good Press American
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Word draws on womanism in her work, a theory that engages the histories and experiences of Black women; the term itself was coined by Alice Walker. This poster depicts a woman in profile, her headwrap and top inscribed with the names of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Black women reformers, including those who led the African American women’s club movement and fought for voting rights for Black women and men. The image was inspired by the cover of Homecoming (1969), a book of poems by writer, scholar, and activist Sonia Sanchez. The designer, Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, often included pin-back buttons in his work. In homage of this, Word included one such button on the figure’s top, left blank to invite our participation.
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