As an artist of biracial heritage, I have been on a long journey of decolonising myself, my education, my body, and my intimate relationships. These days, I self-identify as a \u203awhite passing\u2039 brown woman. In the words of Tamela J. Gordon \u00bbWe can\u2019t all be black feminists. It\u2019s something you\u2019re born into, it isn\u2019t acquired. However, we can all and should all adopt a black feminist agenda. When black women win, mankind wins.\u00ab My alignment with this statement comes from an ongoing engagement with the theory of intersectional feminism. As a non-black woman of color I grew up in a completely white rural society, exposed to second wave (white) British feminism only as an art student (London) in the early 90\u2019s. Which I naturally felt didn\u2019t speak to any of my experiences growing up, of being racialised and experiencing institutional structural racism. As a young person I was personally politicised both socially and musically, through the subcultures of punk, and hip hop. To then ending up as a student in \u203awhite (art) school\u2039, where I was re-introduced to the practices of forced assimilation and \u203apassing\u2039. I did not have access to any black or brown women\u2019s voices, in any part of my education. So now as a woman in my sage\/wisdom years I am back to the place I was as an \u203aangry\u2039 rebellious teenager, self-educating myself, and undoing the unconscious bias of white (supremacy) colonial power.
\nI am thrilled to be invited as a guest curator at the Dortmund | Cologne IWFF and hope that my artistic choices will inspire the festival audience as much as they did me.
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