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.

Congo/Women Portraits of War

(Photo from Congo/Women Portraits of War: The Democratic Republic of Congo)

South Kivu, 2008: A twelve year old girl stands in the Panzi hospital where she is being treated for fistula repair in South Kivu, eastern DRC. She was taken from her home by two soldiers and brought into the forest, where she was kicked to the ground and raped. She was eleven years old when it happened.

Please visit congowomen.org to read about the touring exhibitions, watch video, and to support their work

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