LIBERATED THREADS, stories of Black style, Aperture No. 259, Summer 2025

152pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Aperture, New York, 2025

ISBN: 9781597115803

This issue of Aperture features photographers, stylists and filmmakers across Africa and the Diaspora who are exploring fashion and style as a powerful tool of resistance and celebration.

Guest edited by Tanisha C. Ford and titled after her 2015 book, Liberated Threads: Black women, style, and the global politics of soul.

Includes the article "Living Archive: Seydou Keïta’s revelatory portraits of Malian life" by Kobby Ankomah Graham.

Harlem-based writer and researcher Tanisha C. Ford is Professor of History at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.