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Solange taught me that Black female rage can be used in the fight for freedom With the unconventional roads she sought to travel, Solange Knowles has always been an inspiration for Stephanie Phillips. In an extract from her new book, Why Solange Matters, she explains how the musician reminds Black women that when anger is kept inside, it can fester Sunday 09 May 2021 06:30
Solange performing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2014 (Flickr/Neon Tommy) The first time Stephanie Phillips, a London-based music journalist and the frontwoman of the punk trio Big Joanie, saw music polyhistor Solange Knowles, it was nearly baptismal. It was July 2017, and Phillips and her friends were at the Lovebox Festival in London. "Up there in the air, looking down from above on the sea of festival-goers, I could suddenly see my place in this fandom," Phillips writes in Why Solange Matters. "Throughout the crowd, there were replicas of my own frie...