The strikingly beautiful, powerful, original presentation allows visitors–perhaps for the first time–to deeply and broadly consider the lives and perspectives of Black girls. “They’re considered older than their age.”This “adultification” commonly results in Black girls facing double standards when being disciplined in school or engaging with police. “The importance of the exhibition that we’ve created is a really an intervention calling a focus on Black girlhood, (and the vastness) of what Black girlhood is,” Tillet explains. “Someone like Carrie Mae Weems or Latoya Ruby Frazier, for so many photographers, especially Black girls and women photographers, they really are the icons. “The work around COVID is work made by Black girls about Black girlhood.

Source: Forbes May 29, 2022 00:21 UTC