The Genius of Janelle Monáe by Amanda West by Amanda West https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c A new wave of Afrofurturistic artistry en-us 2021-04-15 02:33:48 UTC 2023-07-16 23:04:33 UTC hello@padlet.com The Genius of Janelle Monáe by Amanda West awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1419275151 A new wave of Afrofurturistic artistry ]]> 2021-04-15 02:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1419275151 Genocide Scholarship awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1434827785 "Invisible Bodies: Anti-black Genocide in the U.S." by 
Darryl Walker Jr.]]> 2021-04-19 19:11:35 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1434827785 Afterlife of Slavery Scholarships awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1434844985 "Introduction:
Blackness, Abjection, and Sexuality" by Darieck Scott /Afropessimism An Introduction by book editor

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]]> 2021-04-19 19:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1434846996 Black Feminism awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1434848184 "Envisioning Black Girl Futures : Nicki Minaj's Anaconda Feminism and New Understandings of Black Girl Sexuality in Popular Culture" by Aria S. Halliday 


]]> 2021-04-19 19:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1434848184 Legacy Connections awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1434849069 Janelle Monáe and Prince have a lot of similarities in regards to lyrics, vision, and in some ways with the music video with Monáe's song "Make Me Feel" and Prince's "Kiss". They have the same beat, it is an uptempo kind of song which has many qualities that make you want to dance. Both songs are talking about attraction, which both communicate a sort of queerness to listeners. Monáe is a part of Prince's legacy by continuing the type of sound he had in addition to create more spaces for black cultural producers. ]]> 2021-04-19 19:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1434849069 Connection #1 awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453376321 "Django Jane" is an anthem to black girl magic and highlights the black female experience. This communicates the elements of black girlhood, where black women finally get a place to voice their experiences. For example these lyrics, "Black girl magic, y'all can't stand itY'all can't ban it, made out like a bandit They been tryin' hard just to make us all vanish" and "If she the G.O.A.T. now, would anybody doubt it?". Monáe owns their body and vision, where who they are despite living in a world where black are heavily policed and black women are silenced. ]]> 2021-04-23 19:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453376321 Connection #2 awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453376870 "Pynk" from the emotion picture, Dirty Computer, highlights what the empowerment of the black female body looks like. In this video Monáe shows women being empowered by their bodies and celebrating their femininity. They even go so far as to use lots of pink in the video (a traditionally feminine color), and featuring what looks like vagina pants. ]]> 2021-04-23 19:30:06 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453376870 Connection #3 awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453648496 "Q.U.E.E.N" by Janelle Monáe (Featuring Erykah Badu), from the album The Electric Lady, is an example of anaconda feminism because of its lyrical content. For instance, lyrics like "Is it peculiar that she twerk in the mirror?" and "Am I a freak because I love watching Mary?", which conveys how Monáe is owning their body and sexuality. ]]> 2021-04-23 21:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453648496 Aspect #1: Black Girlhood awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453651182 The way in which the young black girl experience is connected to historical and political pasts and show the past experience of black women.  ]]> 2021-04-23 21:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453651182 Aspect #2: Empowerment of the Black Female Body awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453651774 Not being ashamed of their body, rather embodying the black female body which is empowering. ]]> 2021-04-23 21:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453651774 Aspect #3: Anaconda Feminism awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453652103 Owning their sexuality and making choices about their creative process, everything they reveal has a purpose.]]> 2021-04-23 21:10:21 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453652103 Aspect #1: Afrofuturism awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453661777 Focuses on the black and future, where there is a culmination of what that looks like for black bodies specifically in regards to and antiblack society.]]> 2021-04-23 21:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453661777 Aspect #2: Quare Studies awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453662208 Opens up the queer studies to those who identify as black and queer, analyzing a range of issues not just based off sexuality. ]]> 2021-04-23 21:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453662208 Aspect #3: Disidentification awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453662426 Coined by the theorist José Muñoz, it represents a way in which artists try to defy dominant institutions by not outwardly defying norms but by subtly hinting at it.]]> 2021-04-23 21:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453662426 Connection #1 awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453667233 The entire album Dirty computer highlights afrofurturism in addition to the majority of their work, which for this particular album details a future for black queer people which mirrors a lot of issues today. Monáe's work is also heavily influenced by the future and works like Metropolis, where most of her albums have afrofuturistic ideas. ]]> 2021-04-23 21:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453667233 Connection #2 awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453667411 Monáe's character from the film Moonlight Teresa where they play a nurturing mother like figure to the protagonist. However more important than their actual performance is their involvement with the movie itself which is connected to quare studies in the way that it studies the black queer experience in a white supremacist society.]]> 2021-04-23 21:17:54 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453667411 Connection #3 awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453667582 The song "Tightrope" from Monáe's album The Archandroid, has deeper things when looking into the music video. The lyrics are not necessarily trying to say something, but with the way the music video uses dance it does. For example dance in the video is supposed to take place in an asylum which dancing is forbidden, which can be an ode to how black dancers are never fully credited for their work and how black bodies are how they are a commodity. Moreover, through dance and music artists like monáe are able to try and subtly defy norms set by dominant institutions, representing the idea of disidentification. ]]> 2021-04-23 21:17:59 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453667582 Aspect #1: Afropessimism awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453670774 Is a framework used to describe the far reaching impact that a society of antiblackness has on black individuals.]]> 2021-04-23 21:19:37 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453670774 Aspect #2: Abjection awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453670933 In relation to being the abject is being excluded outside history where colonialism and white supremacy are quite prominent in this area.]]> 2021-04-23 21:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453670933 Aspect #3: Libidinal Economy of Antiblackness awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453671088 The exchange of fears and desires of black bodies which are engrained into them, acting like a new form of currency.]]> 2021-04-23 21:19:47 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453671088 Connection #1 awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453673513 "Screwed" from Monáe's album Dirty Computer carries themes of afropessimism, which is specifically shown in the music video. The video details a group of black queer individuals who are trying to escape the police robots, which represents these lasting antiblack sentiments in the U.S.]]> 2021-04-23 21:20:50 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453673513 Connection #2 awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453673879 The act of the dominant institution in Dirty Computer trying to change and take away everything form the character Jane relates to abjection. Even with the costumes, they were all in white, projected the idea of being purified, and the head person Virgin Victoria was a white woman. ]]> 2021-04-23 21:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453673879 Connection #3 awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453674112 In the emotion picture Dirty Computer when the two men are going through Jane's memories and deleting them throughout the film connects to the libidinal economy of antiblackness. Where the act of viewing these memories and getting pleasure from violence against black bodies fuels the libidinal economy of antiblackness. ]]> 2021-04-23 21:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453674112 Aspect #1: Systemic Racism awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453683306 Racism which is built into society, where it is meant to be invisible, particularly through institutions like prison and laws. ]]> 2021-04-23 21:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453683306 Aspect #2: Antiblack Genocide awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453683599 Genocide which is fueled in an antiblack society with intent to annihilate and be violent towards black individuals.]]> 2021-04-23 21:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453683599 Aspect #3: Social Death awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453683772 Social/cultural aspects which perpetuates mental violence rather than a physical one. ]]> 2021-04-23 21:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453683772 Connection #1 awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453686713 This is Monáe's most recent release which talks a lot about the upcoming political moment, and features a lot of imagery of violence of black bodies. Some important lyrics are "A different vision
With a new dream
We kickin out the old regime
Liberation, Elevation, Education". It calls for change and hopes with a new president there will be an improvement for the black community, trying to change systemic racism.  ]]> 2021-04-23 21:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453686713 Connection #2 awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453686858 Monáe's work in the 2020 film Antebellum features many aspects which relate to antiblack genocide. Where it shows how antiblack genocide is still rampant in the U.S., which they create a nuanced character which has to deal with the afterlife of slavery and genocide. ]]> 2021-04-23 21:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453686858 Connection #3 awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453687039 "Take a Byte" from Monáe's emotion picture Dirty Computer exemplifies what Walker was saying about social death. They are deleting all of their memories which is an act of violence because it seeks to destroy something from the character of Jane. ]]> 2021-04-23 21:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1453687039 Black Feminism Theorist: Aria S. Halliday awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1455297822 She is well versed in areas related to hip-pop feminism, black girlhood, in addition to visual mediums. Recent publications detail the black female body and black girl hood like her piece "Envisioning Black Girl Futures". Has lots of interviews done this year on these particular subjects. Morever, Halliday connects to Monáe because she writes about subjects which are incorporated into the creative projects of Monáe.]]> 2021-04-24 22:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1455297822 Afterlife of Slavery Theorist: Jared Sexton awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1455304864 Specializes in the area of African American studies and film/media at UCI. Published work focuses on blackness in film and black experience in general. This relates back to Monáe's work because they delve into the black experience in both their music and film career. ]]> 2021-04-24 23:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1455304864 Genocide Theorist: Darryl Walker Jr. awest155 https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1455305162 Primarily featured work on his blog, but not very recently. However, he has a variety of work on different subjects ranging from capitalism, racism, and sexism. He connects to Monáe since he writes about the antiblack genocide rampant in the U.S. which is featured in the work of Monáe. ]]> 2021-04-24 23:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/awest155/ls7co2jbjvlnq0c/wish/1455305162