Sistah Friends Project

Sistah Friends is an international arts initiative that recognizes and celebrates that the African diaspora spans the world. Using contemporary art practices, we form bonds and communities with our sistahs at home and abroad. Through self-portraiture and oral narrative projects, Sistah Friends creates a multimedia platform for honest and autonomous productions and reproductions of black women. The aim is to collaboratively reimagine, repoliticize, and recontextualize the black female form in order to salvage a complex history and to strengthen connectivity.
We will be holding Self Portraiture Workshops June 2nd, June 9th, and June 16th.  e-mail: sistahfriendsproject@gmail.com to sign up and be sure to give date of of preference.  We will reply with confirmation and address. Workshops will take place at the Sistah Friends’ Brownstone | 139th St. @ Adam Clayton Blvd.

We will be holding Self Portraiture Workshops June 2nd, June 9th, and June 16th. 

e-mail: sistahfriendsproject@gmail.com to sign up and be sure to give date of of preference.  We will reply with confirmation and address.

Workshops will take place at the Sistah Friends’ Brownstone | 139th St. @ Adam Clayton Blvd.

Read this powerful interview with filmmaker Nijla Mu’min about her upcoming film, Deluge, “a short film that explores African American’s relationships to water, informed by such traumas as The Middle Passage, the BP Oil spill, and Hurricane Katrina, through the lens of main character Tiana, and her introduction to an aquatic underworld. After witnessing the mass drowning of her friends and struggling with the decision not to jump in, 14-year old Tiana must decide if she will join the order of black mermaids that protect the oil-drenched waters of Lake Pontchartrain where her friends rest. This film is inspired by the 2010 mass drowning of six black teens in a Shreveport, Louisiana sinkhole. None of them could swim. The film blends coming of age drama, magical realism, and psychological suspense to explore traumatic memory in a post- BP oil spill New Orleans.” Kameelah Rasheed conducted the interview, and has new work in a group show opening in Brooklyn this weekend, “Everything is Index, Nothing is History,” peep details here props to the sistah akeema for sharing this interview, can’t wait to see the film! -sonia Image Credit: Kenyatta AC Hinkle

Read this powerful interview with filmmaker Nijla Mu’min about her upcoming film, Deluge,

“a short film that explores African American’s relationships to water, informed by such traumas as The Middle Passage, the BP Oil spill, and Hurricane Katrina, through the lens of main character Tiana, and her introduction to an aquatic underworld. After witnessing the mass drowning of her friends and struggling with the decision not to jump in, 14-year old Tiana must decide if she will join the order of black mermaids that protect the oil-drenched waters of Lake Pontchartrain where her friends rest. This film is inspired by the 2010 mass drowning of six black teens in a Shreveport, Louisiana sinkhole. None of them could swim. The film blends coming of age drama, magical realism, and psychological suspense to explore traumatic memory in a post- BP oil spill New Orleans.”

Kameelah Rasheed conducted the interview, and has new work in a group show opening in Brooklyn this weekend, “Everything is Index, Nothing is History,” peep details here

props to the sistah akeema for sharing this interview, can’t wait to see the film!

-sonia

Image Credit: Kenyatta AC Hinkle

coolchicksfromhistory: Patsy Mink (1927-2002) -The first woman of color in the US Congress -The first Asian American to run for president (1972 Democratic primaries) -Represented Hawaii for 12 terms -Authored Title IX -Served as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs under Carter -As a student at the University of Nebraska, mobilized a coalition to end segregated student housing -Mother of social justice advocate Gwendolyn (Wendy) Mink

coolchicksfromhistory:

Patsy Mink (1927-2002)

-The first woman of color in the US Congress

-The first Asian American to run for president (1972 Democratic primaries)

-Represented Hawaii for 12 terms

-Authored Title IX

-Served as Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs under Carter

-As a student at the University of Nebraska, mobilized a coalition to end segregated student housing

-Mother of social justice advocate Gwendolyn (Wendy) Mink

(via thebrownggrrlzproject)

Yvonne Muinde

Kenyan-born artist Yvonne Muinde explores her own identity as a woman and African in these hauntingly beautiful matte paintings. You might have already come across Muinde’s work in a film or two. She’s painted backgrounds for Avatar, The Lovely Bones, Star Wars and the list goes on.

For more info, please check out her website: http://www.yvonnemuinde.com/

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theotherblack: South african artist Adesa Abeba via africandigitalart.com

theotherblack:

South african artist Adesa Abeba via africandigitalart.com

Women Win | Addressing Gender-based violence through sport

beautiful strategies for addressing violence against women and girls around the world 

“Girls and women in conflict and post conflict regions around the world are faced with one of the greatest human rights violations: gender-based violence. In these same regions, girls and women are creating spaces to emotionally and physically cope with trauma and build community. This space is being created through sport.”

Women Win Organization

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