Conversation + Book Launch with Tiffany E. Barber

Join The Print Center to celebrate Tiffany E. Barber’s new publication, Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women’s Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation, published by New York University Press. Barber will discuss the inspiration behind the project and tell us more about the book. This event will be presented both in-person and on Zoom, and is free and open to the public.

In the wake of contemporary art’s post-Black turn and the mainstreaming of intersectionality, Undesirability and Her Sisters charts a new genealogy of Black women’s art that exposes the unfinished project of racial and gender empowerment in the twenty-first century. Tiffany Barber argues that Black women’s social positions at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class are inherently queer, thus spurring unexpected aesthetic strategies that throw into high relief the ethical terrain of what it means to be Black and a woman now.