Bitter Kalli

Mounted (eBook, ePUB)

On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Joining 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 regarded as a critical source of power and identity in Black life.

In a series of astute essays, Kalli explores the work of Black artists and influencers from Beyoncé to filmmakers Tiona Nekkia-McClodden and Jeymes Samuel and explores their own life-long relationship to equines. Alternatively playful and critical, meditative and biting, these essays navigate time and placefrom the shadows of racetracks where jockey culture and the ubiquity of equestrian chic was born, to the reclamationor, in Lil Nas X's word, yeehawificationof the image of the cowboy, to the fraught connections of equestrian sport to slavery, US militarization, and European colonial domination. At heart, Kalli probes a central question: What does it mean for Black people to ride and tend horses in the context of a culture that has also used horses against them?

Throughout these essays, Kalli reflects on the experience of being the only Black member of the equestrian team at Columbia University, and how the aesthetics, ethos, and practice of horse stewardship contributed to their understanding of gender, sexuality, and radical community building. Mounted moves beyond the reductive stereotypes that dominate our perceptions of horse peoplethe swaggering masculinity, snooty elitism, and assumed whitenessto reveal how Black people relate to the image and physical presence of the horse in nature and culture, considering violence, sexualization, power, migration, and more through its image.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063371798
• Artikelnr.: 72307016

Autorenporträt

Bitter Kalli is a writer and land worker originally from Brooklyn, New York. Kalli's writing has appeared in prestigious magazines such as Bomb, Guernica, The Brooklyn Rail, Arts.Black, and Architectural Digest. They have received support from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and Columbia University and are the founder of Star Apple Farm and Nursery, a project focused on the stewardship of Caribbean and Southeast Asian heritage crops. Kalli lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.