Awake’s own work centers on Black aesthetic traditions and histories, drawing inspiration from Poynor and other Black artisans. Among them, Lewis Buckner, who was born a slave in Tennessee in ...

Her lecture, “The Cosmos is a Black Aesthetic,” explored Black cosmological storytelling and underscored the notion that Black science and Black scientists have always existed. Organized by the ...

But can Black aesthetics transcend beauty? Can they be relevant and functional to our liberation? To imagine our self-expression beyond beauty, we must imagine ourselves beyond the systems that ...