Yaba Blay

Yaba Blay farfesa ce 'yar asalin ƙasar Ghana-Amurka, mai fafutukar kare haƙƙin mata, mai magana da yawun jama'a, ma'aikacin al'adu, kuma mai ba da shawara.      ] [      Asalinta 'yar asalin Ghana ce, Yammacin Afirka, kuma ta girma a New Orleans, Louisiana, Amurka . Karatunta na ilimi, aiki, da kuma aikinta ya mayar da hankali kan abubuwan da suka faru na mata da 'yan mata baƙaƙe, tare da mai da hankali kan siyasa ta asali da ayyukan kyau. Ta kasance mai fafutukar kare haƙƙin mata a shafukan sada zumunta, ta ƙaddamar da kamfen da dama a yanar gizo, ciki har da Locs of Love, #PrettyPeriod,  da #ProfessionalBlackGirl, a cikin al'ummarta ta dijital mai dandamali da yawa.

A shekarar 2012, Blay ta yi aiki a matsayin furodusa a shirin talabijin na CNN mai suna "Who is Black in America?". Tun daga lokacin an nada ta a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin manyan muryoyin Baƙar fata na yau ta hanyar 'The Root 100', da kuma 'Woke 100' na Essence Magazine. Ta fito a Good Morning America, CNN, BET, MSNBC, BBC, da NPR kuma an nuna ayyukanta a cikin The New York Times, EBONY, Essence, Fast Company, The Philadelphia Inquirer , ColorLines, da The Root .  Sharhinta ya fito a cikin A Changing America: 1968 da Beyond, wani shiri na dindindin da aka nuna a Gidan Tarihi na Tarihi da Al'adu na Afirka ta Amurka .

Ita ce kuma marubuciyar littafin One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race, wanda ya lashe kyautar. 

 Ilimi 
An haifi Blay kuma ta girma a New Orleans, Amurka, inda iyayenta 'yan Ghana suka ƙaura.  Ta sami digirinta na farko a fannin ilimin halayyar ɗan adam ( cum laude ) daga Jami'ar Jihar Salisbury, digirinta na biyu a fannin ba da shawara a fannin ilimin halayyar ɗan adam daga Jami'ar New Orleans, da digirin MA da na uku a fannin nazarin Afirka ta Kudu tare da takardar shaidar digiri a fannin nazarin mata daga Jami'ar Temple . Ta kuma koyar a fannonin Jami'ar Lehigh, Kwalejin Lafayette, da Jami'ar Drexel, inda ta yi aiki a matsayin darektan shirin Nazarin Afirka, kuma ta kasance tsohuwar Shugabar Kimiyyar Siyasa ta Dan Blue a Jami'ar Tsakiya ta North Carolina .

 Sana'a 
Blay ita ce marubucin littafin One Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race kuma daraktan fasaha na aikin One Drop. [1] A cikin One Drop, ta binciko bambance-bambancen da ke tsakanin siyasa ta launin fata da asalin launin fata, kuma ta ƙalubalanci fahimtar baƙi a matsayin asali da kuma ainihin rayuwa. A shekarar 2012, ta yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da shawara ga CNN Black in America - Wanene Baƙar fata a Amurka? - wani shirin talabijin da aka yi wahayi zuwa gare shi ta hanyar aikinta na One Drop. Ta kuma haɗu da shirya wani fim na transmedia ( So Young So Pretty So White ) wanda ya mayar da hankali kan al'adar yin bleeding fata ta duniya tare da darakta Terence Nance.

Duk da cewa manyan abubuwan da take sha'awa a kansu sun shafi kyawun al'adun Afirka, ayyukan kwalliya, da kuma al'adun shahararriyar Baƙar fata a duniya, takamaiman abubuwan da Blay ke sha'awa a kansu sun ta'allaka ne a cikin asalin Baƙar fata na duniya da kuma siyasar aiwatarwa, tare da mai da hankali musamman kan siyasar launin gashi da fata. Rubutunta na 2007, Yellow Fever: Skin Bleaching and the Politics of Skin Color in Ghana,  ya dogara ne akan hanyoyin mata na Afirka da na Afirka don bincika al'adar zamantakewa ta yin amfani da yin amfani da fata a Ghana . Nazarin al'adunta na launin fata da asalinta a New Orleans, mai taken "Pretty Color and Good Hair ," an nuna shi a matsayin wani ɓangare na littafin Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair/Body Politics in Africana Communities .

 Bincike da rubuce-rubucen da aka zaɓa 
Bincike

  Sau ɗaya: Canja wurin Ruwan tabarau akan Tseren Tseren Archived  , 2013. 
  "Zazzabin Rawaya: Bleaching na Fata da Siyasar Launin Fata a Ghana" Archived  
  "Kyakkyawan Launi da Gashi Mai Kyau" Archived  

Rubuce-rubucen da aka zaɓa

 "Mai son mulkin farar fata zai zama Baƙar fata a ƙarƙashin Dokar Sau ɗaya ta Amurka"
 "Ka gaya wa yarinya mai launin ruwan kasa cewa tana da kyau, dogayen gashi da sauransu"
  "Kala Ni Da Kyau: Yarinya Mai Duhu Ta Yi Tunani Kan 'Yan Mata Masu Duhu'" An Archived  
 "Soledad O'Brien: Wanene Baƙar fata a Amurka? Ni Ne"
  "Wane Baƙi ne, Wa Ba Shi Ba, Kuma Wa Ya Damu?" Archived  
 "Daga ɗaya"
 Mujallar Nazarin Pan African (juzu'i na 4, lamba ta 4) [Editan Baƙo ]
 "Edita: Bleaching na fata da kuma fifikon farin duniya"
 Jenda: Mujallar Al'adu da Nazarin Matan Afirka (lamba ta 14) [Editan Baƙo ]
 "'Ahɔɔfe Kasa!': Bleaching na fata da kuma aikin kyau a tsakanin matan Ghana"
 "Duk 'Yan Afirka' Maza ne, duk 'Yan Sistas' 'Yan Amurka ne,' amma Wasu Daga Cikinmu Sun Yi Hattara..."
 " Asamando " 
 "Alamar Launi"
 "Cromanti"

Rubuce-rubucen Talabijin

 Juneteenth: Bikin Duniya na 'Yanci (2022) (abokin rubutu) 

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Haihuwan 1974
Rukuni:Rayayyun mutane