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aal dehn wan wi di worry bout how i gain 16 lbs kud chat to mi bak. “i luk gud baby girl” id: picture of me from the back on a boat in a neon green bikini 📷: @kurvy_thingznmore (at Lazy Lizard) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdBl1eEOTTp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

id: Caye Caulker split in the distance https://www.instagram.com/p/CdBmGOKOfBM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

id: sea and cloud horizon https://www.instagram.com/p/CdBlg5yOOsC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Thanks @blak_outside for the invitation and the guidance. i see you my sister and i love you. @fatumakhaireh for weaving our audio together. @fourcornerse2 and @sldayfdn #Repost @sokaridouglascamp with @make_repost ・・・ Posted @withregram • @blak_outside Black Women Creating Audio Resistance is a collaboration between Carole Wright, Katie Numi Usher and Fatuma Khaireh Carole Wright Carole Wright is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes managing two community gardens, Peabody Blackfriars and Brookwood Triangle both in Southwark, London. In 2020 Carole initiated the three day festival and collective ‘Blak Outside’ as a form of resistance with residents on her social housing estate in South London. Blak Outside is a grassroots led, intergenerational, supportive of social housing residents, QTIBIPOC (queer, trans, intersex, Black, indigenous people of colour).It builds on existing work, particularly the thirty two years of community work of Carole to provide a long term legacy within the communities where she lives and works. Instagram/Twitter: @blak_outside Website: https://blakoutside.org Katie Numi Usher After studying the sciences in high school and various subjects in sixth form I decided to change my studies to art. I went to Mérida, Yucatán, México and studied at the Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán. From 2014 to 2017, I was part of the editorial team, the culture e-magazine BAFFU, an electronic magazine which offered a scan of the Belizean contemporary visual art and literature. I contributed poetry, art commentary, and visual art to thirteen issues. I organized the LAB, which was a collaborative effort with the Image Factory Art Foundation, an experimental space for creators to present work/proposals in a rapid fire style. Instagram: @katienumi Twitter: @kat_ush_kin Fatuma Khaireh Fatuma Khaireh is a Creative Producer working in Audio she is interested in stories from the black diaspora Instagram/Twitter: fatumakhaireh Black Women Creating Audio Resistance SoundCloud Link: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/LnM3iUxL8wWfKW489 #slday2022 #doreenlawrence #cecilenobriega https://www.instagram.com/p/CcsjvWBOTQC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#repost #slday2022 #doreenlawrence #cecilenobriega

so after researching so many of London Borough of Lambeth's big boys Tradescants, Tate, Bligh with so much ease, i mean literally there were monuments to some these guys even, i started to question where information about myself could be found. How the disruption of our lives, knowledge of our culture, history and ancestry which was colonisation/enslavement (those words are interchangeable) changed forever our ability to know these things and access that information. (hi British Library) Colonialism is misogynoir and as such Black women were, have been and continue to be erased, maligned and used as the ugly mirror to white supremacist ideas of beauty. Imagine there are no public monuments to Black women in Belize, says so much about how we still exist as a colonised place in spite of independence. it was a lot baybee. a whole lot, but thankfully my ancestors helped me manage it all. i asked @gasworkslondon to please purchase me a DNA kit from the materials budget and at least now, i know a little more about myself. id: screenshot of an email from ancestry which says my DNA results are in https://www.instagram.com/p/Cci8MC1OtN0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

share a little of my story, according to ancestry, with you. inviting you to contemplate who have access to their stories and histories and whose stories become capital H history and whose don't. slides 1 and 2: screenshot of percentages of my ethnicity slide 3: screenshot of Cameroon, Congo and Western Bantu People 22% info, slide 4: screenshot of Benin and Togo 18%, slide 5: screenshot of Caribbean roots info. To explore the percentages see link in my bio. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cci7_OSubEF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

so after researching so many of London Borough of Lambeth's big boys Tradescants, Tate, Bligh with so much ease, i mean literally there were monuments to some these guys even, i started to question where information about myself could be found. How the disruption of our lives, knowledge of our culture, history and ancestry which was colonisation/enslavement (those words are interchangeable) changed forever our ability to know these things and access that information. (hi British Library) Colonialism is misogynoir and as such Black women were, have been and continue to be erased, maligned and used as the ugly mirror to white supremacist ideas of beauty. Imagine there are no public monuments to Black women in Belize, says so much about how we still exist as a colonised place in spite of independence. it was a lot baybee. a whole lot, but thankfully my ancestors helped me manage it all. i asked @gasworkslondon to please purchase me a DNA kit from the materials budget and at least now, i know a little more about myself. id: screenshot of an email from ancestry which says my DNA results are in https://www.instagram.com/p/Cci6A7yu0jL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

id: view of the Belize river from the John Smith Road Bridge. trees line both sides the river, some clouds are scattered in the light blue sky. (at Ladyville, Belize) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cca72WZO3yq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

village backyard baddie. “Shey you no know say the thing wey you carry fit kill somebody” ~ Burna Boy outfit: #ME4L jewellery: @kajexpressions trainers purchased from: @kersha1984 id: slides 1, 2, 3 me in a bright yellow shorts and matching bright yellow crop top and bright yellow trainers, i am holding on to a clotheslines (at Ladyville, Belize) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cca5ujiO3Yx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#me4l

id: view of the Belize river from the John Smith Road Bridge. trees line both sides the river, some clouds are scattered in the light blue sky. (at Ladyville, Belize) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cca2cDTOm5K/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Belize City in full flower. #banana id: banana blossoms and banana leaves the blue cloudless sky is the and an electric are in the background. a bit of a coconut leaf is visible on the edge. (at Belize City, Belize) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcWF18-OPjF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#banana

i am speechless. so much gratitude to your class and you for the invite. thanks so much @clde_shield for this amazing poem. tenk yuh laik dis da di bes kaina tenk yuh. id: screenshot of poem by Christopher De Shield https://www.instagram.com/p/CcWFepWOPqZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Belize City in full flower. #banana id: banana blossoms and banana leaves the blue cloudless sky is the and an electric are in the background. (at Belize City, Belize) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcWCsVNOZJi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#banana

my work is disruptive and probably makes you very uncomfortable because it might be the first time you've had to listen to a Black woman speak, actually acknowledge a Black woman's existence. You may slink back into ignoring us after this but we Black women have to continue to live within the limitations misogynoir have set and that's forever until the world decolonises. id: 4 embroidered black viscose with gold polyester thread, each is embroidered with a phrase: left to right “i believe you” “your story is important history” “i see and hear you” “you are worthy of real love” ...............................................My initial proposal required research at, among other places, the British Library and the National Archive, possibly. After a not-so-nice encounter at the British Library, and correspondence of a similar nature, my approach to my proposal changed. The correspondence was printed and framed in Poundland gold colour frames, these will mirror four 26cm embroideries of affirmations. These are affirmations which I felt that I needed to be told after that encounter and any similar encounter with bureaucratic scenarios, micro-aggressions and navigating within a misogynistic world while a woman and Black. The embroideries are on thin black viscose material and are embroidered with gold metallic thread which are 100% polyester. Both materials are heavily chemicalised versions of their original plant source. The chemical nature makes polyester more resistant to damage than cotton but viscose less so, according to what I have read online. Each embroidered piece has two small gold rings attached to recall the gold hoops earrings which are both commonplace in Black women’s accessories and fashions as well as widely appropriated as Gen Z fashion, which seems to me visually nostalgic of 80s and 90s African American pop, hip hop and RnB artists. The technique (embroidery) commonly understood as craft and/or women’s work, as well as the material (the colours black and gold) are very important to mirror and deflect the white printed letter correspondence in the cheap, rigid, rectangular gold frames. (more info in bio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcLXr1NO0Ex/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

for context mis laydy shee is Kriol which would literally translate to miss lady she, it's usually used for women who are *troubling* to coloniality, that is to say, we're just trying to live our lives in softness, but coloniality sees that as too much of an ask from Black women id: screen capture of a tweet, my photo is in a small circle beside the circle my twitter name “mis laydy shee” and below my twitter handle “kat_ush_kin” and the tweet “My art is NOT for the art world. It doesn't give a fuck about me and i finally do NOT give a fuck about it. My art is for myself and all Black women everywhere. My work sees us, gives us space and writes us into History which is intent on our erasure. our stories are important!” https://www.instagram.com/p/CcLXU3HORcS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

my work is disruptive and probably makes you very uncomfortable because it might be the first time you've had to listen to a Black woman speak, actually acknowledge a Black woman's existence. You may slink back into ignoring us after this but we Black women have to continue to live within the limitations misogynoir have set and that's forever until the world decolonises. id: 4 embroidered black viscose with gold polyester thread, each is embroidered with a phrase: left to right “i believe you” “your story is important history” “i see and hear you” “you are worthy of real love” ...............................................My initial proposal required research at, among other places, the British Library and the National Archive, possibly. After a not-so-nice encounter at the British Library, and correspondence of a similar nature, my approach to my proposal changed. The correspondence was printed and framed in Poundland gold colour frames, these will mirror four 26cm embroideries of affirmations. These are affirmations which I felt that I needed to be told after that encounter and any similar encounter with bureaucratic scenarios, micro-aggressions and navigating within a misogynistic world while a woman and Black. The embroideries are on thin black viscose material and are embroidered with gold metallic thread which are 100% polyester. Both materials are heavily chemicalised versions of their original plant source. The chemical nature makes polyester more resistant to damage than cotton but viscose less so, according to what I have read online. Each embroidered piece has two small gold rings attached to recall the gold hoops earrings which are both commonplace in Black women’s accessories and fashions as well as widely appropriated as Gen Z fashion, which seems to me visually nostalgic of 80s and 90s African American pop, hip hop and RnB artists. The technique (embroidery) commonly understood as craft and/or women’s work, as well as the material (the colours black and gold) are very important to mirror and deflect the white printed letter correspondence in the cheap, rigid, rectangular gold frames. (more info in bio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcLWF_puEAp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

id: picture of mayflower tree blossoms. pink flowers on a tall tree with sparse leaves. sky in the background is light blue. (at Ladyville, Belize) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGU9LkOf1l/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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