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Tag: liberation

Photo of two women draped in white fabric rolling down the stairs of Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
1Eiko Otake and Chitra Vairavan rehearsing in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine during an exhibit on the divine feminine, November 26, 2016. Photo: Wm Johnston.

Deep Listening: Creating from Memories and Speaking through Dance

Chitra Vairavan

Dancer and choreographer Chitra Vairavan offers a blueprint for the decolonized spiritual, as a movement towards reflection, presence, and memory.

Tags: decolonizationliberationlisteningprocessspirituality
Photo from the back of a movie theater with ornate chandeliers, many people in seats and Arabic writing against a landscape on the screen.
1Solidarity Evening for Palestine at the Heights Theater. Courtesy Mizna. Photo: Makeen Osman.
Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
9-24-2024

Practicing Solidarity, Living Values: A Conversation with Mizna

Aegor Ray
TV on white wall showing film of ambiguous shapes in water
1Rindon Johnson, May the moon meet us apart, may the sun meet us together, 2021. Courtesy the artist.
Literature Moving Image Visual Art
1-16-2024

Glitching the Glass Wall: Formidable Static

Juleana Enright
Illustration of stand-up comic with dark skin and glasses playing keyboard in front of audience, bathed in purple light.
1Talthau Lo, 2022.
Performing Arts
10-3-2022

Ha!: On Comedy, Performance, and Laughing for the Right Reasons

Devohn Bland
Person stands on dirt path and leans back underneath tall street lamp at night.
Literature
9-7-2022

Amir Locke from the View of a Kaleidoscope: A Prayer

Tikkun Bambara
Person with dark skin performs duck walk on runway, with crowd and purple lighting behind them.
1Vogue Night, Walker Art Center, 2018. Photo: Bobby Rogers.
Literature Moving Image Performing Arts
4-25-2022

You Can’t Have One Without Giving Side Eye to the Other: On the Entanglement of Gender and Genre

George Hoagland
Silhouette of a person with fist raised, with fire glowing in background.
1Photo: Adja Gildersleve.
Performing Arts
8-2-2021

The Aftermath of Performative Allyship: A Century Comparison

Malick Ceesay
Photo of two women draped in white fabric rolling down the stairs of Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
1Eiko Otake and Chitra Vairavan rehearsing in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine during an exhibit on the divine feminine, November 26, 2016. Photo: Wm Johnston.
Performing Arts
1-20-2021

Deep Listening: Creating from Memories and Speaking through Dance

Chitra Vairavan
An intersection with a memorial for George Floyd at the center that has a large sculpture of a fist in the air. Signs and flowers are arranged in a circle around the memorial, and people can seen standing on the outside looking in
1"Memorial for George Floyd - 38th and Chicago Avenue - South Minneapolis" by Tony Webster is licensed with CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Literature Visual Art
1-15-2021

Poly-fugitivity: Utopian Relations in Dystopian Structures

Tikkun Bambara
A collage featuring three tarot cards in the left corner: the Four of Pentacles, Five of Cups and the Wheel of Fortune. In the right corner there is light-skinned black femme with teary eyes and the words "The EARTH inside you was stolen from me" written across their forehead. The bottom of the collage is various types of foliage and a path surrounded by trees. In the bottom right the phrase "i still say your name when i pray" is repeated three times.
1Image courtesy of the author.
Literature Performing Arts
10-14-2020

In the face of Black death, I perpetually find myself slipping into an alternate dimension

Teighlor McGee
A painting of the George Floyd mural remade with a white figure in the center and text reading "THE BLACK EXPERIENCE VIA THE WHITE GAZE". Additional text reads, “Centering white voices around Black trauma does not allow for the accurate representation of our experiences or the accurate documentation of our history.”
1Maiya Lea Hartman, The Black Experience via the White Gaze (2020).
Visual Art
9-14-2020

The Black Experience via the White Gaze

Maiya Hartman
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1Amoke Kubat’s Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Chair assembly and build workshop, in partnership with the Women’s Woodshop and the Water Bar, June 2019.
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
7-24-2020

REST: A Transatlantic Reflection

Ain Bailey, Sayge Carroll, Zenzele Isoke, Amoke Kubat, Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, and Rehana Zaman
Eric Avery letter 2
1Photo courtesy of Eric Avery.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
10-4-2019

Getting Out Letter 5: To my collaborators, colleagues, and friends; past, present, and future; near, far, and all over:

Eric Avery

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