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Jennifer C. Nash rewrites black feminism's theory of representation. Her analysis moves beyond injury and recovery to consider how racial fictions can create a space of agency and even pleasure for black female subjects. Nash's innovative readings of hardcore pornographic films from the 1970s and 1980s develop a new method of analyzing racialized pornography, focused on black women's pleasures in blackness. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, critical race theory and media studies, she creates a new black feminist interpretative practice, one attentive to the messy contradictions between delight and discomfort, between desire and degradation, at the heart of black pleasures. Nash is assistant professor of American studies at George Washington University. Presented by MPS Art Therapy.