In Homage, Derek Fordjour responds to society’s lack of protection for Black girlhood by creating an environment in which Black women are affirming themselves. The scene’s warmth evokes a safe space in which chorus line dancers from 1920s Harlem are depicted, not as performers for an audience, but in a quiet moment of intimacy in preparation for a performance. Fordjour’s title references lines from Lucille Clifton’s poem “homage to my hips”—“these hips are free hips . . . these hips have never been enslaved”—in recollection of the traumas associated with Black women’s bodies.