Title: My Female Gaze

Artist: Brenda Nasr

Medium: Photography

Date: Unknown

Words from the Artist: These images were shot with the intention of embodying softness as an answer to the pervasive expectation that women of color, particularly Black women, must evoke anger or harshness in our work as a form of politic or as a direct result of trauma, which justifiably produces an array of emotions — including rage. However, the freedom to both create and exist in softness and lightness represents to me a post-gendered violence world. My hope is that those engaging with this work feel a deep resonance to that place within them that harkens back to a past untethered by violence, and a future where it no longer exists.