As an educator who was radicalized by Black feminist and womanist literature, I have always been clear that that was my goal for SISTORIES--to provide the grounds for Black women and nonbinary femmes to adopt a politic to address the root cause of the social issues that cause them harm by seeing and writing themselves into the historical narrative of Black femmehood.
Read moreRevisiting Scrapmettle's living archive: 'Survival Stories'
On-stage documentation of Survival Stories. Images of play courtesy of Scrapmettle Entertainment and The Shaw Photography Group.
Greensboro, NC based Scrapmettle Entertainment Group took a breast cancer awareness event in a historically Black neighborhood as an opportunity to explore this subject on stage.
Read moreArt: Jessica Moss talks curating Chris Watts’ “Blahk on Blahk on Blak” on HappeningsCLT
Image courtesy of Chris Watts.
“Through a process that begins with the artist exposing himself to the footage from body cameras, public surveillance tapes and pedestrian iphone footage, Watts experiments with creating visual representations of suspended historicity and trauma.”
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