![]() ![]() ![]() In her past life as an academic, Painter explored historic Black trailblazers and stories. Generation means that I'm in a different place with my Blackness from the ideas that are circulating now." "People who were coming up in a moment of upheaval like 2020 experience it differently from people in my generation, who already lived through this in the '60s and '70s. "When you think Black and the imagery that comes up, it's young people, and I am not young," Painter said. But Painter struggles to identify with what she calls "the current iconography of Blackness." Her research on Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist and women's rights activist, led her to explore art. ![]() Painter has explored Blackness as both an artist and a historian. Painter's age comprises a large part of her identity, she said, and she's found that it has conflicted with another part of herself: Blackness. She followed in the footsteps of her mother, Dona Irvin, who published the book "I Hope I Look That Good When I'm That Old" about coming to terms with her age in 2002. ![]()
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