Upated: British Vogue EIC Edward Enninful sent a message to the Beyhive Thursday morning: B Ready: Beyoncé Is Poised For Her Next Evolution. AOC is thrilled to see Rafael Pavarotti [IG] behind the lens. And upstart designer Harris Reed styles the shoot — which adds an unexpected and inspired twist to the July issue story. The July 2022 issue of British Vogue drops Tuesday, June 21. / Hair by Jawara; makeup by Sir John; set design by Mary Howard

Beyoncé goes deep into herself and her music — always asking her inner spirit: ‘Why am I doing this song? What am I channeling with this new musical chapter in my personal metamorphosis? What does this action accomplish for my people? How does it nourish me and my closely-held beloveds?”

Enninful sets out to explore these high-impact questions for American culture in British Vogue’s July issue. The visual extravaganza is timed with the coming release of Beyoncé’s 16-track ‘Renaissance’ on July 29, 2022. ‘Renaissance will be Beyonce’s first solo studio album since ‘Lemonade’ in 2016. The album’s subtitle name is Act 1.

Beyonce as an 11-Alarm Fire Glamazon

Queen B wears a sleek, bodycon dress from Alaïa, her determined, forward-marching feet in stirrups and an extravagant black feather headpiece crowning her frontal lobe, cerebral cortex.

Alaïa’s new creative director Pieter Mulier will regret the day he ever told W Magazine that we no longer call women Glamzons — as it denotes an unattainable physical perfection.

AOC inquired who the heck is advising Mulier, because on this website glamazons are women like Beyonce, who is appropriately sitting on a horse for the British Vogue cover. The greatest warrior women in history rode horses.

As late as the 1980s, mostly-male historians and archaeologists argued that the Amazonian women were as imaginary as Aphrodite.

With more women researchers taking note of ancient artifacts, that script has been rewritten into an evolving, totally-new narrative in which the Amazonian warrior women were real and — like Beyonce — they absolutely rode horses into battle. And they won those battles again and again.

Unlike fashion world, AOC doesn’t give up such key concepts as glamazon, because certain women find the word to set too high a bar. That is rubbish! Is ‘Wonder Woman’ verbotin, too?

A glamazon is a woman who understands her own power — and yes, it can be attached in modern times to a confidence in her own sensual presence, as a core part of her personal identity. She embraces and loves the power of her sexuality and physicality and is not disempowered by patriarchal values that seek to reduce her to a Republican vision of a non-threatening woman whose uterus needs their constant legal attention.

Also, very nice women are glamazons. We just do not believe that men should run the world. Now this is complicated when young people want us all to be free-of-gender ‘its’. They may be correct, but reality is constantly reminding us of cultural, gender-based differences.

The Amazonian women are generally considered to have been bisexual and lesbians — but the research is constantly evolving. They lived in a historical time when women’s power was devolving.

Of importance today is that science generally agrees that the Amazonian women were for real and not the figment of over-active imaginations among second-wave feminists.

We love that Beyonce is wearing some very camp looks chosen by stylist/designer Harris Reed. If these images aren’t those of a glamazon, I don’t know what to call them.

Do today’s young women want such powerful, queenly images like these of Beyonce banned, as being damaging to women’s psyches? Why is that? Remember, my dears, you need some backbone in these very challenging times.

America is struggling to save the very nature of our country — our imperfect democracy — in the face of a Republican-Trump-led attempted coup. I say: “Send in the glamazons and librarians, the biker ladies and those wonderous, articulate mothers in Uvalde, Texas. We need women who know how to fight against the misogynistic, gun-toting, Trumper white nationalists.”

Kindly give Beyonce two horses, so she always has another one waiting, as she leads us into the good fight. And while you’re at it, can Beyonce please ask Rihanna to send in those fabulous Carmel Curves ladies from New Orleans? See how charming they are? Put me on their team. ~ Anne