As a result of inscriptions informed by slavery and colonialist ideology, the Black femme body bears dialectic narratives of unfeminine and asexual with exotic and hypersexual, limiting its liberatory potential in the imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy. In an attempt to rewrite and reimagine Black femme embodied narratives, this dissertation calls for a Black feminist-womanist and decolonizing framework to analyze Black women’s archival imagery. More importantly, the dissertation highlights three case studies, Katherine Dunham, Angela Davis, and Grace Jones, to evaluate how those who self-identify as Black women/femmes use their bodies, and the many uses of their bodies whether dress, movement, expression and more, to enact resistance and liberation. The analysis attempts to resist the violent historical narratives inscribed onto Black femme bodies to give articulation and set free the limiting binary of Black women’s identity and thus their embodied liberatory practices. By extending and interrogating mainstream readings of Black femme archival imagery, the study elucidates a new praxis of Black femme liberation, one that highlights the somatics of joy and pleasure. The analysis illuminates how embodied interventions might form their own theoretical framework for Black feminist-womanist and decolonizing thought and for reclaiming Black femme humanity from the typologies that have so structured Black women/femmes/gender expansive people in the past and present. The study finds that Black femme liberation is a spiritual, mental, and embodied experience.