Conversation: "States of Visual Activism"
Channel: Brooklyn Museum
Date: 2015-05-07

South African artist and activist Zanele Muholi and Brooklyn-based poet and activist Staceyann Chin discuss Muholi’s photography and documentary films produced with and about black lesbians. Muholi urges all black queer and trans persons to document, revisualize, and rewrite their own her/histories for posterity, but most of all to be included and counted in national historical archives in order to educate current and future generations of their existence and resistance. Chin pulls from her Jamaican and American experiences in considering Muholi’s work, proposing that LGBTQI struggles across artificial global divides, constructed classes, and related barriers are at once completely different, and achingly the same. Includes a preview of the exhibition Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence. Moderated by visual artist and activist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh.

This event took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on April 30, 2015. Video courtesy Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.

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