“The place where these images and words meet can always only be specific to every person’s history and memory; an elusiveness that illuminates the instability that all representation is built on. Words and images are always fictional attempts to produce communication.” Amber Jamilla Musser is is an Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, who writes about race, aesthetics, and sexuality and is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU, 2014) and Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU, 2018). Her brief essay about my Notations series is on her Instagram @ a_jamilla.
Notations Series Instagram essay @a_jamilla