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.

poem | safiya henderson-holmes

for us muscle women, when the bench press gets depressing


we muscle women

do not only lift weights

we lift bottom


pull up the root

pop the nerve of it

and them


strip bottom raw and sour

snap guts like some

snap beans


stink from the slaughter

until nobody wants us

except ourselves


thank god



from Madness and a Bit of Hope


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