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

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

ISBN: 9781597115803

Aperture’s Summer issue highlights image makers around the world who are exploring style and fashion as a language of Black resistance, refusal, and joy. Guest edited by the writer and researcher Tanisha C. Ford and titled after her 2015 book, Liberated Threads: Black women, style, and the global politics of soul, this edition features photographers, stylists, and filmmakers who remix, reimagine, and in some cases, reject the aesthetic and politics of what she calls the “soul style” of the twentieth century - sparking a bold conversation about style’s ability to create possibilities for solidarity and selfhood today.

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

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