The Poem, a Smile, and Black Feminist Placemaking

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ID19488807
AutoresMuna Dahir (Queen's University, autor de correspondencia), Katherine Mckittrick (Queen's University)
Año2026
Páginas1-18
Fecha de publicación2026-06-03
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeoHumanities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2373-5678 • E-ISSN: 2373-566X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2373566x.2026.2631450
OpenAlexW7163424360
IdiomaEN
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In Spring 2025 a collective of artists, scholars, poets, curators, and designers exhibited A Smile Split by the Stars, which closely engaged a single poem, nourbeSe philip’s “Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with the Flying Cheek-bones.” Working with philip and her archival materials, the installation sought to spatialize the poem by staging a series of multi-textured, multi-sensorial, and audio-visual compositions. This essay thus offers its own meditation on this experience through lessons learned about black feminist placemaking, drawing attention to a constellation of alternative imaginative and geographic practices of freedom, which in turn offer brief moments of reprieve, rebellion, and respatialization. Across seven interrelated sections, we reflect on how our curatorial process experimented with multidisciplinary and collaborative methodologies for engaging black women’s creative texts beyond extractive scholarly conventions, while remaining attentive to institutional limits

Beauty · Black feminism · Feminism · Girl · Meditation · Multidisciplinary approach · Placemaking · Poetry · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Latin American and Latino Studies · Race, History, and American Society

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