It has been my honor to work with the scholars, artists, and artist-scholars for this special-topics issue of Dance Research Journal. A number of intellectual, creative, and personal conversations inspired me to propose this intervention at the intersection of dance, race, and gender. It is a continuation of my larger intellectual mission to help us better understand the importance of work by Black women in the arts and in the world through the arts. We must attend to all of the nuanced particulars of these and other negotiations. This curation builds on my participation in conference panels, seminar room discussions, artistic collaborations, and scholarly working groups, where participants dive deeply into this intellectual history. This process is necessarily embodied knowledge— written on, with, and through the body.

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“看看我的手臂！” – 编者注

我很荣幸能与学者、艺术家和艺术家学者一起为《舞蹈研究杂志》的这个专题问题工作。一些知识分子、创造性和个人对话激发了我在舞蹈、种族和性别的交叉点上提出这种干预。这是我更大的智力使命的延续，以帮助我们更好地了解黑人女性通过艺术在艺术和世界中工作的重要性。我们必须关注这些和其他谈判的所有细微差别。这个策展建立在我参与会议小组、研讨室讨论、艺术合作和学术工作组的基础上，参与者深入研究了这段知识史。这个过程必然是具体化的知识——写在身体上，伴随着身体，并通过身体。