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BlackInk Issue 5 explores the theme of Black Women: Invisible Power, celebrating and championing the voices and stories of Black women who have navigated the paradox of invisibility/hypervisibility to empower others and make positive change.  This issue features contributors from the founder of the Black Female Academics’ Network, the Co-Director of Black Females in Architecture and the first Black female freediving instructor in South Africa, amongst a collective of writers from the emerging to the established.

Editor’s Welcome – Pawlet Brookes

 

Insight: Carnival

The Power is in the MAS – Clary Salandy

Junkanoo/Junka(new): The History and Aesthetic Contributions of a Bahamian Cultural Performance – A’Keitha Carey

The Hip as a Weapon: Further Reflections – Sonja Dumas

Brazilian Carnivals: Festivity, Transgression and Revolution – Cláudia Nwabasili and Roges Doglas

Derby Carnival: A Personal Reflection – Nezrine Hudson

 

Launchpad

Black Women; Standing Up For All Of Us – Zita Holbourne

Afro Hair Portraits and History – Precious Seronga

How Much Is Too Much? – Samantha M Thompson

 

Forgotten Histories

Black Female Academics’ Health and Psychological Markers: The Impact of Serenity’ – Lisa-Dionne Morris and Ricardo Anderson

Black Women:  Shaping Success on a White Canvas – Victoria Showunmi

Searching for Christena – Tasmin Evans

The Eroticised Gaze – Hafsa Hirsi

 

Arts and Culture

L’Antech’s Tendvalou: DECOLONISATION of the spirit, mind and body through DAAANCE – L’Antoinette Stines

Hidden Dance Vocabularies: An Act of Cultural Illiteracy – Thomas Talawa Prestø

Familiarity with trauma does not make it acceptable – Quentin Sledge

Coming to Voice through Capoeira: Black Woman Embody A History – Ana Paz

 

AfroManifesto

Black Manifesto! Aftermaths – nora chipaumire

Dreaming of Joy – Caroline Johnson

Black Women’s Technologies of Imagination and Interiority – Francesca Sobande

The Unspoken Truth: Black Femicide – Maya Brookes

 

Space and Place

Claiming Space – Jamie J Thompson

Water is Political – Zandile Ndhlovu

Socially Responsible Design – Selasi Setufe

Black Women in Architecture and Design: Pioneering Change and Innovation – Tara Gbolade

Building Stronger Communities – Nicholas Okwulu

 

BlackInk New Writing Competition

Mek Sense – Aphra Le Levier-Bennett

Hush Child! – Michelle Mother Hubbard

 

Spotlight: 100 Black Women Who Have Made A Mark

2024 In Numbers

Calendar Highlights

Coming Soon

The Interview – Baroness Lola Young

 

Cover Images:

Geraldine’s Joy, portrait of Geraldine Connor and The First Muse, portrait of Fanny Eaton by Valerie Asiimwe Amani.
Strive for Justice, portrait of Dorothy Kuyu and An Ode to Leonora, portrait of Leonora Stapleton by Yvadney Davis.
Joy of the Carnival Queen, portrait of Carmen Beckford and Raceophillia, portrait of Annie Yellowe Palma by Gayle Ebose.
The Unknown Suffragette, portrait of Jessie M Soga and Beyond Containment, portrait of Claudia Jones by Grace Lee.
Five-Finger Boogie, portrait of Winifred Atwell and Voice of the Voiceless, portrait of Una Marson, by Lauryn Pinard.