The screenshot interrupts the flow, capturing a fleeting thought within the machinery of creation. It is a time stamp, a photograph, or an idea jotted down in a notebook. The act of capturing a thought gives a fleeting moment a platform to become something.
BlackFlash Magazine Posts
Each screenshot captures a moment of pause within the flow of making, a small act of noticing amid continuous motion.
How are our identities assembled, and what role do visual, historical, and ideological structures play in who we become? Diallo consistently raises questions that rebuff easy answers.
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42.3 – Patterns
BlackFlash Winter 2026 “This issue marks a transition for BlackFlash. We’re sunsetting thematic framing (for now) and moving toward a less categorical way of assembling each…
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Call for Pitches: “Patterns”
‘Traces’ Issue Launch / Saskatoon
‘Taste’ Issue Launch / Winnipeg
‘Taste’ Issue Launch / Saskatoon
From BlackFlash Expanded
Chukwudubem Ukaigwe responds to Carnation Zine’s most recent issue – Vol. 2: Pleasure – filled with artworks and writing by BIPOC creators centred around joy, desire, and intimacy.
From the archives
This series of poems germinates from Mercedes Eng and Cecily Nicholson’s volunteer work for Emma’s Acres during the pandemic. Poetry work is a necessary documenting and honouring practice in this place as we plant toward abolitionist futures.