SALON / Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
In collaboration with Bria Lauren of Gold Was Made Fa' Her, join us in the library for an afternoon of reading and conversation centered on Mikki Kendall's groundbreaking text Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (2020).
ABOUT BRIA LAUREN
Bria Lauren (b. 1993) is a transdisciplinary visual artist, community architect, and Third Ward, Houston native. Her practice bridges portraiture, storytelling, creative writing, and arts activism, centering Black women while building infrastructures of radical care and liberation around their livelihoods and futures.
ABOUT GOLD WAS MADE FA' HER
Gold Was Made Fa’ Her (GWMFH), created by transdisciplinary artist Bria Lauren, began as a visual love letter and body of photographic work in 2019 dedicated to Black hood women on the Southside of Houston, Texas, and Lauren’s mother, Rhonda “Mama Peaches” Renee Harrison-Davis. GWMFH was manifested out of necessity to memorialize and amplify the voices and visibility of Black women across generations who have been impacted by structural inequity, generational narratives, and respectability politics.
Image: Bria Lauren, Madison, 2020. From the Gold Was Made Fa' Her series.