![]() As the notion of dissemblance has taken root in the Black feminist intellectual tradition, scholars have often sought out its counternarratives: pleasure, fluidity, transgression, and freedom. Using Monáe’s work as a site of contemporary Black feminist resistance, I interrogate the still salient theoretical and methodological questions that Hine’s essay first brought to bear. ![]() Monáe’s work has been critically lauded for its groundbreaking depiction of Black femme experience, especially through its use of tech-inspired and futuristic metaphor and imagery. Both an album and a short film, Dirty Computer expands Monáe’s Afrofuturist imaginings of Black queer life to deepen her reclamation of Black women’s sexual experiences. In this essay, I critically reflect on Darlene Clark Hine’s framing in “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West” to consider the intersections of Black women’s labor, migration, and survival techniques present in Janelle Monáe’s latest performance offering, 2018’s Dirty Computer. ![]()
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