A new Los Angeles art exhibition is shining some fabulous light on the beauty of Black women’s agency in all aspects of their life.

The HoochieCon exhibition launched on June 16 at Junior High — which is a queer community space located in the Glendale neighborhood of LA.

Curated and founded by Zorine Truly, the HoochieCon exhibit explores the intersection of Black women’s sexuality and their influence on all aspects of culture.

“HoochieCon celebrates the sexual liberation of black women through their undeniable influence in music, beauty, art, fashion, and culture,” reads a statement on the HoochieCon event page. “HoochieCon highlights artwork that explores the nuanced foundational cultural impact of the hoochie archetype.”

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The group exhibit features numerous artists across a range of mediums — including photography, painting, graphic design, nail art, and hair art.

And for the opening weekend of the event, HoochieCon even hosted a dance party, a vendor market with local Black-owned businesses, and held a panel discussion focused on the “complexities and influence of Hoochie culture on music, sexuality, beauty, and fashion.”

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Truly said she is excited to be able to tribute the generations of Black women who influenced so many elements of popular culture without receiving their proper recognition.

“Not only did they pioneer it, they also had to suffer for it,” Truly said. “They had to suffer to wear their hair the way they wanted to. They had to suffer to wear their nails the way they wanted to, and gold teeth, and to be sexually liberated. They had to suffer to shine.”

Truly hopes the exhibition and its programming encourage attendees to always find power in living their truth.

“I hope they take away from HoochieCon the importance of being yourself, no matter what people might judge you by,” Truly told the LA Times.

“It’s important to be happy with how you look, how you feel, how you dress, and the choices that you make, and that is the most important thing,” she added “I want people, especially Black women, to take away that they can be fully themselves no matter what that looks like and still be worthy of all the good things.”

Though the kickoff event happened on June 17 and June 18, HoochieCon will be holding some followup programming on July 16 through July 18.