Art by @llapen 🇧🇧🎨🔥 Queering Cane, "Hello, My Love." "Coming from a reality where our oppression was ineluctably linked to our bodies — that we had for centuries no rights to our bodies, and that all of the traditional pleasures, and that all of the traditional freedoms of human agency were forbidden to those of us of African descent in the New World for a long period of time — the body, in such a murderous regime, under such nightmarish conditions becomes chapel, cathedral, dogma; it becomes nearly everything. So certainly it took a bunch of work for Western theologians to create intellectual, and to argue the philosophical bridge between mind and body, or between the sacred and the material. But in the New World for those of us of African descent, we were living centuries ahead in our bodies. We were philosophizing centuries ahead of how bodies exist with, through and alongside the luminous. I have to tell you, for people like us, for people who came out of the African Diaspora in the New World, simply to fall in love when you have historically been denied love, the right to just connect to the body which you have chosen and that has chosen you, means that an act of love is not only revolutionary, it is not only transcendent, but it is the deific, it is godlike, it is a taste of the omnipotent." Juno Diaz, Radical Hope is Our Best Weapon, from On Being podcast interview. #llanoralleyne #queeringcane #collage #mixedmedia #collageart #barbados #blackart #qpoc #visibilitymatters #representationmatters #artlove #bajanart #caribbeanart #collagework #collageartwork #cutandpaste #brooklynart
