From Pockets to Power: How to Use Fashion as Resistance with Kimberly Jenkins

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Host Darren sits down with award-winning scholar and fashion expert Kimberly Jenkins about the subversive power of adornment in enslavement, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, and contemporary Black identity. Don’t miss this rich conversation about fashion, sustainability, and the power of Black creativity. To learn more about Kimberly’s Fashion and Race Database, visit fashionandrace.org. Black History Year (BHY) is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company. PushBlack exists to amplify the stories of Black history you didn't learn in school and explore pathways to liberation with people who are leading the way. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com — most people donate $10 a month, but every dollar makes a difference. If this episode moved you, share it with your people! Thanks for supporting the work. Hosting BHY is Darren Wallace. The BHY production team includes Brooke Brown, Amber Davis, Mina Davis, Kevin McFall, Gabby Roberts, and Leslie Taylor-Grover. Our producers are Cydney Smith, Darren Wallace, and Len Webb, who also edits the show. BHY’s executive producers are Julian Walker and Lilly Workneh. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, we're talking fashion and asking what secrets are sewn into the clothes we wear.
0:05.0	Catch it next on this episode of Black History Year.
0:09.4	Adobe Express is the Quick and Easy Create Anything app. It's a game changer for my business, my go-to
0:15.9	for creating content. From social posts to images, videos, flyers, whatever I need to stand out.
0:22.6	With customizable templates and smart features, it saved me endless hours.
0:27.6	And the best bit, it's free.
0:30.6	Search for Adobe Express to find out more and get started today.
0:35.6	Fashion statements. What does your fashion statement? to find out more and get started today.
0:38.3	Fashion statements.
0:39.3	What does your fashion say about you?
0:42.3	Think about it.
0:44.3	Would Martin Luther King's speeches have landed the same way if he was wearing a pinky ring and a Coca-Cola mink fur?
0:50.3	Does Rockin and Daishiki make you down for the cause?
0:53.3	When Prince put on those assless chaps at the VMAs, what was he really saying?
0:59.0	And why were folks so pissed when Obama wore a tan Easter suit?
1:04.0	I guess what I'm really asking is what fashion got to do with politics?
1:08.0	Because fashion is never just fabric.
1:10.0	It's a statement, a code, a story, and every story
1:15.1	has a history. I'm Darren and you're listening to Black History Year. Joining us today is
1:22.0	Kimberly Jenkins, an award-winning scholar, researcher, and fashion expert. She's here to help us
1:27.4	him up exactly why we wear what we wear
1:29.3	and what it means when fashion becomes a social movement.
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