Tenderness: A Black, Queer Meditation on Softness and Rage
Artist(s)/Author(s): Annika Hansteen-Izora
Format: Book, Archive Item
Edition: Second edition of 750
Dimensions: 5 x 7.5
Date Published/Produced: 4/2023
City Produced/Published: Los Angeles
Reference Number: B.38201.HA
Location: Box 092.3 - Feminist Center for Creative Work 3
Acquisition Date: 4/10/2024
Copies: 1
Description:

Tenderness is back with a second edition and new title, Tenderness: A Black Queer Meditation on Softness and Rage. This second edition has all the original content from the first edition with more to explore, including a new preface from author Annika Hansteen-Izora.

What would it mean if tenderness could hold a simultaneous existence of joy and rage? How to call on tenderness as a practice of love, rather than a regurgitation of white supremacy? Author and writer Annika Hansteen-Izora explores answers in Tenderness: A Black Queer Meditation on Softness and Rage. A meditation, critical inquiry, and invitation to expand our imaginations on meanings of tenderness, this piece calls into question conceptions of tenderness that are rooted in desirability, anti-Blackness and white supremacy, and instead unfolds the potentials of tenderness as a tool, a balm, a healing agent, and a question to lean into.

Copy Edited by Aliyah Blackmore. Designed and Illustrated by MJ Balvanera. Risograph printed by Neko Natalia. Spiral bound by South Gate Bindery.

–A.R. 11/9/24

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