Jay. 22. artist.afrosurrealist.shiftingself.
“you can never tell what type of person you are and whether it was good or bad until your soul shifts a bit, and youre able to see the shadow you left”
teaching the babies
Saturday I held a screen printing workshop to promote The Peoples Theatre (which is located on 129th and lenox) it was great to see people excited for this amazing project. If you’re in ny you should definitely check out the peoples theatre and rate the films playing.
(This summer, the Clean Rite Center is home toThe People’s Laundromat Theater, with independent films screening 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Check out the films playing in the laundromat and leave comments for the filmmakers and Shani Peters, 2013)
I’m still in a trance from An Oversimplification of Her Beauty but when I have time and all my thoughts collected I will further articulate what made this movie so real, visually captivating and well produced/written. Until then I really do recommend you try to see this movie in your local theatre or figure out a way to get it in your theatre
Is it bad that I’m excited for Sunday so I can go to the movies alone and cry my heart out?
(Source: Spotify)
I will be holding a screen-printing workshop in ny on the 15th part of the laundromat project for the peoples theatre :) (i know no other details at this moment lol)
Tonight I debuted my documentary “Why Do All The Black Girls Sit Together?”
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” ― Audre Lorde
Aesthetics continues to be an essential basis by which we are judged, looked at, and ultimately defined as women. This space is an attempt to curate and document all the ways in which as Women of Colour we navigate, understand and own the embodiment of our narratives and experiences. At the heart of this journey, we seek to uncover how our bodies belong to ourselves.
In collecting a diverse range of women of colour’s voices (across race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, geographic location, able-bodiedness and gender queer identities) and mediums, we hope to create a restorative body of work spiritually, emotionally, physically, and intellectually that heals.
Using articles, interviews, essays, love notes, poetry, prose, art, photography, film, and discussion both online and offline we attempt to map these journeys.Follow us! Support us! Get in touch if you would like to get more involved or have something you’d like to share/contribute either by the Submission or Ask box or email us: thebodynarratives@gmail.com
P.S. check out Jay Katelansky’s work she’s contributed to make our banner and part of our logo - doesn’t that get you excited?
check out my new web project ‘the body narratives’. follow now and look out for stuff by me, Jay Katelansky, Safia El Hillo, Kameelah Rasheed, Emerald Carter, Belinda Zhawi, Sarah Francois and many more!
I’m such a dork but this project needs all you beloveds.
we need all the love and support we can get, this is the space!
URBANdictionary - GHETTO, (POSTracial Screen-Captured Series), 2013
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- do you want to smoke?
- My brother is heartbroken, it’s hard looking in a mirror. He tells me everything that is wrong and I see him drowning in this townhouse in white suburbia, or hanging from the fan. He told me he stopped seeing his therapist, and we both agree he should go back. His girlfriend said she was leaving, they both have slept with new bodies since then. It’s hard looking into a mirror.
- the music business is really the same as the art business. You have to go feet first, there is no such thing as waiting. It has to suffocate and become all that you know. I dont think he has it, he is just sitting, waiting and drowning slowly. and I am leaving and never coming back
- Everyone should experience what it’s like to walk to school in a blizzard. Salt residue on shoes, limbs too numb to actually realize they are still moving.
- how can you call it living if you never jumped into a pile of leaves, and been completely satisfied.
- on the car ride home I tell my father that it’s weird that I have only met my grandparents once on his side and never on my mother side
- “it’s kindof weird”
- there are so many holes that I fear I’ll become a hole, just hallow.
- it’s hard looking into a mirror.
I just want to spend my summer doing artsy things, reading, soaking up the sun, and dancing on rooftops
B Steady- EXfriends
(Source: strugglingtobeheard, via oureyesmightmeet)
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.” ― Audre Lorde
Aesthetics continues to be an essential basis by which we are judged, looked at, and ultimately defined as women. This space is an attempt to curate and document all the ways in which as Women of Colour we navigate, understand and own the embodiment of our narratives and experiences. At the heart of this journey, we seek to uncover how our bodies belong to ourselves.
In collecting a diverse range of women of colour’s voices (across race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, geographic location, able-bodiedness and gender queer identities) and mediums, we hope to create a restorative body of work spiritually, emotionally, physically, and intellectually that heals.
Using articles, interviews, essays, love notes, poetry, prose, art, photography, film, and discussion both online and offline we attempt to map these journeys.Follow us! Support us! Get in touch if you would like to get more involved or have something you’d like to share/contribute either by the Submission or Ask box or email us: thebodynarratives@gmail.com
P.S. check out Jay Katelansky’s work she’s contributed to make our banner and part of our logo - doesn’t that get you excited?
Excited is not even the word!!
Like I said before I have some amazing friends doing amazing things check it out !!
