Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha She wants to become strong

She wants to become strong and steady like a mountain

NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD

” As the lion confronts a carousel of temptations and threats

When Charlie transfers to the Georgia O’Keeffe College of Arts and Subtle Dramatics

Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha She wants to become strongJoining the growing Black creative movement currently refashioning horses and cowboy imagery, a thoughtful, probing exploration of the shared history of Blackness and horses which reveals what its image can teach us about nationhood, race, and culture. Drawing on their personal history as a former urban equestrian, Black queer person, and child of Jamaican and Filipino immigrants, essayist and art critic Bitter Kalli contends the horse should be