Since 2008, after her public mental health-related hospitalisation, rehab and recovery, global pop star Britney Spears has been under a conservatorship managed primarily by her father, Jamie Spears. The singer’s career has been in the hands of legal guardians, as is the arrangement of the conservatorship, and even though she has continued to release albums,…
As much breath, depth and comfort I tend to find in the spaces of (re)memory and remembering, they are also thickly populated with disappointment and leaking holes and cracks that seem to filter out—more often than not—the work and presence of Black femmes where H/history and artistic cultural production is concerned. We often hear people…
When Britney’s sophomore album Oops!…I Did It Again came out in 2000, a year before P!NK’s Missundaztood sophomore album, I had barely just begun “big school” at seven years of age. Moving was an annual to every-two-years ritual for my family while I was growing up—so although I don’t quite remember the exact house we…
