“In a landscape drawn from an ocean bed, you can’t drive yourself sane—so angry you are crying. You can’t drive yourself sane.”

Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

On July 10, 2015, Sandra Bland, a twenty-eight-year-old woman from Chicago is pulled over by a state trooper, Brian Encinia, in Waller, Texas. During the stop, she smokes a cigarette inside of her car. According to the dashcam video, Encinia asks her to put out her cigarette. She refuses, noting her right to smoke inside of her car. Encinia orders…

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Bettina Judd. “Sapphire as Praxis: Toward a Methodology of Anger.” Feminist Studies 45, no. 1 (2019): 178–208. https://doi.org/10.15767/feministstudies.45.1.0178.

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Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought. Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL. 2023.