*A recent Los Angeles art exhibition rolled through southern California celebrating Black women’s beauty and sexuality.
Curated and founded by Zorine Truly, the HoochieCon exhibition launched on June 16 at Junior High, a queer space in the Glendale neighborhood of LA, 21 Ninety reports.
“HoochieCon celebrates the sexual liberation of black women through their undeniable influence in music, beauty, art, fashion, and culture,” reads a statement on the HoochieCon event page. “HoochieCon highlights artwork that explores the nuanced foundational cultural impact of the hoochie archetype.”
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Many different mediums were represented in the exhibit, including photography, painting, graphic design, nail art, and hair art, per 21Ninety.com
Truly told the Los Angeles Times that the exhibition highlights Black women who’ve made a lasting impact on popular culture but are never recognized for it.
“Not only did they pioneer it, they also had to suffer for it,” Truly said. “They had to suffer to wear their hair the way they wanted to. They had to suffer to wear their nails the way they wanted to, and gold teeth, and to be sexually liberated. They had to suffer to shine.”
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“I hope they take away from HoochieCon the importance of being yourself, no matter what people might judge you by,” Truly told the LA Times.
“It’s important to be happy with how you look, how you feel, how you dress, and the choices that you make, and that is the most important thing,” she added “I want people, especially Black women, to take away that they can be fully themselves no matter what that looks like and still be worthy of all the good things.”
The HoochieCon event was held on June 17 and June 18, with follow-up programming planned for July 16 through July 18, according to 21ninety.com.
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