“DO I INTIMIDATE?” started as an anthropology research question for my university classes. In a series of ten interviews, I asked elders and youths in my Yoruba Community how it felt to wear their traditional attire in public.
Articles
“In my mind, a potent image of my late father involves a computer. He’s staring at the blue-white glow of his CRT monitor, sitting in his wheelchair, turned away from me. The visual memory eclipses his face. In an uncanny parallel, I look at a screen whenever I want to remind myself of his features. In both circumstances, a digital display facilitates remembering.”
“This issue marks a transition in BlackFlash’s 40-year publishing history. Our fall 2023 issue is the last commissioned by our former managing editor Maxine Proctor in collaboration with our editorial committee. It is also (as transitions go) the first produced in collaboration with our new managing editor, Jasmin Fookes.”
“In these paintings, negative space is full of interpretive potential. Visual vacancies produce meaning and confirm that there is great substance in nothingness.”
“With a focus on the everyday lives of Black queer kin, “Audacity” plays with embodiments of masculinity and femininity within recognizable gestures and expressions of Black queerness.”
“Both John and myself had been orbiting around questions of Whiteness and White identity through our own independent research, and we came together to produce an exhibition that looks directly at the topic of White racial identity. […] The following conversation is one of the only occasions where we’ve been able to debrief about our experiences, reflecting on our own curatorial collaboration and the public reaction to the exhibition.”
“Hobot’s work creates a sense of being present in another place while standing right where you are. In the stark white of the gallery, even in the digitized white of a screen, she leads the viewer through a maze of coalescing propositions.”
“Glawson’s disregard is serious, intentional, lightly handled, and astutely queer.”
“The struggle for better labour conditions is precisely the struggle for better life conditions, because one cannot live on passion alone—despite how our passion for this work is operationalized against us, again and again.”
“…every day since the Women’s March. I would read about something and I would make a sign about it. It was about Trump, feminism, Indigenous rights. It was about the birds, disappearing nature. So, it was about broad topics and then the pandemic came into it. But it’s all very, very connected.” ~ Dawna Rose
“Last week we voted for a new name, next week we exchange washroom keys and in the weeks to come, Video Vérité and The Photographers Gallery will become one fast family. As of February 25th at 7:00 p.m Central Time, our two media-based galleries united under a paved banner.
Now… what are we going to do about it?”