Spirit Desire “Dlo sous lavi a”
I think of water and its significance to Blackness, to the Africas. The tens of thousands of enslaved women, men and children, thrown to the Atlantic; the thousands drowned in crossings, forced from their homes to die of hope in…
The exquisite corpse drinks the sweet wine: 1 – Time to the Lover : A Photographic Poem
[envira-gallery id=”3033″] What does love say to death with the touch of black leather When the writing hand breathes this too we want more Time to the lover becomes an anxiety of parting Not knowing where it can touch I…
Queer like the fearlessness to imagine
The importance of speech is not the age of the words but the truth they speak so here I choose the timeless words of Audre Lorde. In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my own mortality, and of what I wished…
My interview with Berlin photographer An Paenhuysen
“When I discovered the blog Black Looks by Sokari Ekine I was disappointed: I arrived too late. Black Looks stopped just a year ago, in August 2014, and had been going on since 2004. The damn thing about…
When machetes dance
On a recent trip to Jacmel I visited the lakou of Alfred Avril who is featured in the award winning documentary “Papa Machete.” The film documents the life of professor Avril, an aging farmer from the hills outside Jacmel, who…
Resignifications – Black Portraiture
ReSignifications represents the “Blackamoor” trope in Western culture”, an exhibition and series of panel discussions in Florence, Italy. This tradition of decorative art emerged at the intersection of cross-cultural encounters shaped by centuries of migration, exchange, conquest, servitude, and exile. Our…
Edinburgh & Livingstone
It was cold and wet but I had no expectations with this my first visit to Scotland. I had heard that Edinburgh was the most beautiful city in Scotland but also the most English by which I understood it to…
Not queer like gay, queer like……..
queer like, escaping definition “Not queer like gay. Queer like, escaping definition. Queer like some sort of fluidity and limitlessness at once. Queer like a freedom too strange to be conquered. Queer like the fearlessness to imagine what love can…
She speaks my voice
Lakou Badjo, Gonaïves: 2015 anniversary of the founding of the Lakou by Badjo Pady – Nago ceremony for Ogou Batagari © Sokari Ekine She speaks in silent voices, my love. Like the cardinal bird, kissing it’s own image. Li Pale…
Embracing dreams – 2015
When you grow up by the sea, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon. You wonder what on Earth the waves might bring – and where the sea might deposit you – until one day you…
The best selfies are mirrors of oneself!
Reflections of Me : Port-au-Prince, Miami, London, Guess which one is which! [envira-gallery id=”1731″] Will add to this as I find and make more mirrors of me!