Sacred Black Ecologies

Image credit: Plantain trees (Musa x paradisiaca) growing by a waterfall with two women resting beneath them. Coloured lithograph by J.B.Kidd, c.1840 (Wellcome Collection) ‘Sacred Black Ecologies,’  (a concept I coined), is a transoceanic framework, drawing on community co-production and artistic and scholarly collaboration which positions land, water, and plant life as living archives, temporal…

Who does the work, whilst white people think about race?

The below piece of writing was originally intended as an email to my academic supervisors, but it is now a reflective essay about the impacts of whiteness within the academic and cultural sector .  Dear _____, _______ and ______, I have now entered the last year of my PhD program and my future beholds! During this…