Nancey B. Price on Why She Doesn't Identify As a Strong Black Woman

Nancey B. Price, collage artist, writer and performance
story teller joined us in the virtual studio to chat it up with
us about all things Strong Black Woman and why  she doesn’t
live her life from that space. 


In today’s episode, Nancey gets real about why she hates being
called strong and how she’s not rocking with the term Queen
either.  Trust! You don’t want to miss this episode
because Nancey is boldly and unashamedly sharing
why she’s throwing the Strong Black  Woman Trope back at all
the people constantly throwing it at her. 


Here are a few things that came up in our
conversation:


 – How the terms “Strong Black Woman” and “Queen” removes
our humanness
 – Generational differences and expectations as it relates
to being called strong
– The trauma of being a strong Black girl
 – The soft grind and the shifts needed to be able to grind
in way that feels good
– The Deconditioning, relearning, and redfining needed to live a
sustainable life


ABOUT NANCEY B. PRICE


Nancey B. Price is a self-taught collage artist, writer and
storyteller with an appreciation for all things Black, Southern
and imaginative. In all of her creative pursuits, she seeks to
build worlds in which Black people can exist freely in all their
beauty and complexity. 


With collage as her visual medium, Nancey explores how it feels
to center and exalt Blackness and womanhood from the fields of
rural America to the stars in the night sky and everywhere in
between. Her work has been featured in various publications,
including O, the Oprah Magazine, Garden & Gun Magazine, and
Black Joy x Reckon. She‘s also exhibited across the country,
including Yale Divinity School, the Montgomery Museum of Fine
Arts, and the Jepson Center at the Telfair Museums.


Nancey uses words and performance to take her audience on a
journey of selfhood, spirituality, and ancestry. As the executive
producer and host of the podcast, Dreaming In
Color, she highlights the importance of dreamtelling in
the Black community by creating space for each of her guests to
share a dream story and deconstruct its meaning in their waking
lives. In her stories of fiction, Nancey invokes magical realism
and southern gothic storytelling to build worlds and weave
together lives inspired by the folklore of her hometown, Girard,
GA. 


Nancey currently resides in Statesboro, GA and can be seen
sharing her creative process on social media (@nanceybprice) and
her website (nanceybprice.com). 


Connect with Nancey via her Online Home, the
Dreaming in Color Podcast and on
Instagram, and be sure to check out her
catalog of artwork.




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