thenublack | for future revolutionaries
visualise: Ebony Patterson
‘Gangstas for Life’ explores the fashionable practice of skin bleaching within Dancehall culture.The images raises questions about perceptions of masculinity within Jamaican dancehall culture. The images are deconstructed into stereotypical homosexual beauties, with bleached faces, red glossed lips, glitter and feminine motifs. These images challenge practices of the emasculation of young black males and question stereotypical [...]
