Vulnerability Is Liberation
Posted in Research, The Arts, Writing on June 7th, 2017 by dlbryant.teach
The long, anticipated album of the year, Ctrl, by SZA, is now available. Being the anticipated album of the year, of course, I am talking about myself. However, we must note before this album, SZA has been vulnerable in the past, with allusions to POP culture (without abstractions) on her current and previous albums. A lot of great feminists come to mind while listening to this album, ahem, Rebecca Walker, Patricia H. Collins, J. Elena Featherstone, Signitha Fordham, and this list goes on.
Even though this album makes me think about feminists and womanists, but other artists also came to my mind. But I will save that for the paper I am conducting and will submit to PCA/ACA. Fingers crossed. The album and record cover and booklet is well designed! I love the multimodality. It is definitely important to pay attention to the things she has written. I am honestly excited about this even though I am in a hard dark place.
In all, cheers to those of us who are unapologetically vulnerable. In other words, “Go Gina!”
If you any suggestions on women artist(s) I should look into and/or include (If you’d like to tell me why, please feel free) in this scholar paper, please let me know, but here’s a list of women I have already included:
Jessie Reyez
Lana Del Rey
Lauryn Hill
Salt N’ Pepa
SZA (who the paper is mainly about)