Dr. Tiffany E. Barber’s Book Release

Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women’s Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation

In the wake of contemporary art’s post-Black turn and the mainstreaming of intersectionality, Undesirability and Her Sisters charts a new genealogy of Black women’s art that exposes the unfinished project of racial and gender empowerment in the twenty-first century.

Barber argues that Black women’s social positions at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and class are inherently queer, thus spurring unexpected aesthetic strategies that throw into high relief the ethical terrain of what it means to be Black and a woman now.

Barber will be joined in conversation about the book and its themes by artist Gabrielle Civil.