A conversation with vvchambers, prolific writer, author, journalist and editor, about her new book 'Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter'
What led you to work on this collection on Beyoncé?which was about Michelle Obama. And it was my first anthology that I edited, even though I’ve been in a number of them. And after it was over, my editor said we should do another one. I thought, who could we possibly do after having spent two years thinking about Michelle Obama? And she suggested Beyoncé. So, it was kind of an interesting next step because they’re so different. But obviously they both impact culture in big ways.Yes.
If you look at her social media, you can see early visits to the Louvre, pictures of her with the Mona Lisa, then her taking Blue to Paris when she’s younger… and then they’re shooting in the Louvre for the “Apeshit” video. She had thought about those paintings and that artwork and the heritage of the French lineage of New Orleans. She thought about it all.
Oh my God, there’s just so many layers in it. And I think that’s the beautiful thing. I’m still listening toalbum, and I just think all the references to Afrobeat and the connection to the motherland, and women and men, and strength and spirituality, beauty—there’s just so much there, and it makes it not boring.
I notice a number of these authors are self-identified black feminists. Would you identify this project as a black feminist anthology?
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