Now the professor is bringing her expertise to a book:Beyonce in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism.
Slated for publication in the fall,Beyonce in Formationdraws cultural analysis from the singers iconicLemonade.
Tinsley has exclusively shared the vibrant cover forBeyonce in Formationwith EW, as well as a brief excerpt.

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Read on below, and pre-order the book ahead of its Nov. 1 releasehere.
Is she even a feminist, really?
The debates over whether Beyonce deserves the title feminist have, I admit, exasperated and intrigued me.

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Black feminism isnt a dogma with tenets every good feminist has to adhere to on pain of expulsion.
You could say Beyonces feminist self-declaration broke the internetbut you could also say the internet was temporarily fixed.
But for two days after, the word most associated with feminist online was Beyonce.
And thats something all feminists should pay attention to.