It’s (A Woman's Work) a group of people coming together to help us all think about something we should be thinking about, which is: How do we create altars in society for black female genius? And not just the women who are artists or authors. But the women who contained art and who were never afforded the space to express it. It’s not about me as a writer, it’s about: Who authored my life? It is fascinating how so many artists of color often feel as if we are a processional of legacy, and often we enter into these rarefied spaces of art through familial or localized bonds. And yet, outside our intimate memories, who knows the names of these women who made us? In my mind, the idea of bringing these stories into a space like MoMA is a glorious way of sealing a fissure, filling a lacuna, acknowledging the oversight and remedying and readying ourselves for a fuller, more luminous future where we refuse to leave those women behind.
‘Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah‘ by Chloe Wayne Sultan for Creative New York (April 2018)