
Making and Taking Space to Be Free: On Solange Knowles’ A Seat At the Table
Listen *insert Black girl hand clap*
Today Solange Knowles dropped A Seat At The Table
An album
So Black
So woman
So beautiful
So brutal
So painful
So comforting
So broken
So whole
All at the same damn time.
And much like her sister’s masterpiece earlier this year, I’m gonna take some time to sit with it before I write about it in-depth but I needed y’all to know that this album, and accompanying digital book— is life. Make it part of yours.
In the meantime, if you must read before you listen, here are a couple of conversations with Solange herself.
Solange Interview with W Magazine-Tavi Gevinson
A Seat With Us: A Conversation Between Solange Knowles, Mrs. Tina Lawson, & Judnick Mayard
I told y’all 2016 was the Year of the Black Girl. 2017 looking like ours, too. We just gon’ grab the next few decades. We ain’t asking.