Abstract

My article ‘The Sounded-Word Aesthetics’ explores the ways that Black girls make spirit felt as found in the music created in Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT). SOLHOT is a collective space of organizing with Black girls to celebrate Black girlhood. Using personal narrative alongside black feminist, womanist, and black girlhood scholarship, I argue that spirit is made felt through the aesthetics of Black girl covenant and the fire commandments. I conclude that sounded-word aesthetics allows Black girls to be heard differently while resisting dominant narratives of black girls and pushes us into a desirable future.

摘要

我的文章“The Sounded-Word Aesthetics”探讨了黑人女孩如何在拯救我们的生命聆听我们的真相（SOLHOT）中创作的音乐中感受到精神。SOLHOT 是一个与黑人女孩一起庆祝黑人少女时代的集体空间。我将个人叙事与黑人女权主义者、女权主义者和黑人少女奖学金一起使用，我认为通过黑人女孩盟约和火戒律的美学可以感受到精神。我的结论是，声音美学允许黑人女孩以不同的方式被听到，同时抵制黑人女孩的主导叙事，并将我们推向一个理想的未来。