JALYLAH

women’s love rights:

anthems from

mentors and muses

“I Want to Be Evil” Eartha Kitt
“You Got the Love” Chaka Khan / “I Like Sex” Marsha Warfield
“Don’t Call Her No Tramp” Betty Davis
“Give It “ RAMP
“Women’s Love Rights” Laura Lee
“Since I Laid My Burden Down” Lawanda Page
“This Is It” Millie Jackson
“Jasper Country Man” Bobbi Humphrey / “That Day” Nikki Giovanni
“Get You Somebody New” Labelle
“I’ve Never Been To Me” Randy Crawford
“Share My Love” Gloria Jones / “August 2014 Interview” Mickalene Thomas
“Do The Funky Do” Sister Sledge
“Ha Ha Ha” The Sisters Love
“Women’s Lib” Lyn Collins
“I Take My Fire With Me” Lea Roberts

This mix was commissioned by Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in conjunction with the exhibit ‘Mickalene Thomas: Mentors, Muses, and Celebrities’ on view February 9 – May 20, 2017. ‘women’s love rights: anthems from mentors and muses,’ convenes black women’s irreverent and inspired assertions of freedom, with emphasis on the revolutionary crucible of the 1970s. Like the blues women of a previous generation, these black women musicians and comedians were chiefly expressing what Angela Davis called “sovereignty in sexual matters,” a heavy but hushed component of freedom pursued in my manuscript, Capacity for Laughter: Black Women and the American Comedic Tradition, and long aired in the artwork of Mickalene Thomas. ‘women’s love rights’ includes some artists featured in the current installation, some artists who have provided titular inspiration to Thomas’ past works and some artists whose style and self-possession reflects that of Thomas’ past subjects. 

Follow this link more details on the exhibit: museum.spelman.edu/exhibitions/mic…es-celebrities/

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