Posts Tagged ‘Audre Lorde’

The Unmooring of Jibade-Khalil Huffman

Jibade-Khalil Huffman. Untitled (Cake), 2015. Archival inkjet print, 8 x 10 in. Courtesy of the Artist.

Today from our partners at Art Practical, we bring you Anna Martine Whitehead’s consideration of the work of artist Jibade-Khalil Huffman. The author notes, “For Huffman, poetry is a means to shape-shift and mistranslate, reforming meaning by first dissolving it.” This article was originally published on April 16, 2015.  In her pivotal essay “Poetry Is Not a Luxury,” Audre Lorde writes of the “places of possibility[…..]