The Color Pynk

This is not just a book.  This is a function.  So the question is, what are you going to wear to this gathering? Omise'eke Tinsley gathers us once again, turning her brilliance to creative femmifestations of black femme fierceness in the so-called Trump Era.  (Or what I prefer to think of as the Tourmaline Ascendency.) Theorists, fashionistas, sweethearts, and innovators: we are all here in loving revelation.  I wear a quilted robe the color of a rose from my grandmother’s garden. I wear a hot-pynk, ribbed tank top screenprinted by a black lesbian yogi. I suggest you wear your curiousity, your vulnerability, and your desire to look like love.

~Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals

In The Color Pynk Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley pays homage to the foremothers of Black feminism by developing a Black femme reading practice.  Tinsley’s analyses of Black femme cultural production are rendered poetically and with the deft critical eye we have come to expect of her. Indeed, Tinsley’s is one of the most important voices of her generation.

~E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University, author of Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women

A beautiful commitment to and demonstration of Black femme poetics, The Color Pynk offers a radical alternative to the genre of the academic book, one that celebrates Black queer language as its own tactic of freedom-dreaming. Conjuring a Black femme future with each sentence, Tinsley writes in collaborative solidarity and with love for Black femmes of all shades and genders. With her lyrical prose — in her words a 'joy-tinted freedom song for the twenty-first century'—The Color Pynk manifests Black femme freedom, now and forever.

~Autostraddle