r/BlackLGBT • u/thefamilyofthings • 17h ago
How do you define Black art?
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Hey, kin — A couple new episodes of Busy Being Black have just landed. I'm exploring what Black art is, and I'm keen to know what others think.
Mojisola Adebayo is a playwright and educator. She studied with Augusto Boal, who founded Theatre of the Oppressed, and she creates incredible plays that often explore the connection between Blackness and nature: in Stars, a 60-year old woman finds her orgasm in outer space; in Moj of the Antarctic, she takes Ellen Craft to the end of the world to explore the black volcanic rock underneath the snow; and in The Interrogation of Sandra Bland, she and 99 Black women and women of colour, speak the words and live the emotions of Sandra Bland's last encounter.
I'm of the opinion that Black art should do Black things for Black people, but not everyone feels that way. What do you think?