Read the full article by Kim Eckart and Sindu Karunakaran on the UW News website. The article focuses on 3 new faculty books, including one by Bettina Judd that focuses on exploring the art, emotion and life experiences of Black women.
Emotion, creativity and knowledge intertwine in ‘Feelin’
Early in her new book exploring the art, emotion and life experiences of Black women, Bettina Judd makes clear the title, “Feelin,” is intentional, to be written, uttered and understood exactly as is.
“I’m grounding it in the cultural space of African American language and knowledge production. The context in which the word feelin would be used — I’m feelin that, I’m not feelin that, you feel me — that marks knowledge, a kind of complete understanding of something,” says Judd, an associate professor of gender, women and sexuality studies. “I consider the word whole in its own right, and to use an apostrophe would mark where something is missing. To take seriously the cultural meanings of the term, the language from which it comes from, I’m no longer using the standard English reference. I’m using the cultural term.”
