A Black Gaze by Tina Kempt

Lawrence: I think the advantage we have in that we're learning how to wield in a new way as activists and publishers, is that we were really functioning outside the bounds of institutional frameworks as we have known them. And i am committed to questioning my own ways of visually comprehending the world, and trying to find authors who can push me and push others. This book solicits a viceral response to black precarity, but it also invites us into understanding our own positionality as readers with reference to black joy. It's distinctive positioning. What tina allows us to do is understand, through artists like denelosson and arthur jaffa and datwood bay, what