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.

Faith Davis Ruffins, historian at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History:

Memory, mythos, and history are each modes of interpreting and placing value. Memory emerges from personal experience, mythos emerges as the symbolic/spiritual/expressive experience produced by groups of people, and history emerges from the academic experience of professional historians and scholars.

From “Memory, Mythos, History”

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