With all the things happening in our world, it became easy for me to lose a lot of passion for things. Watching films was an easy way for me to escape and to feel happy but, for a while, I had completely stopped watching them. These last two months I’ve thankfully been able to pick myself up a bit and started revisiting that passion for film.
Read MoreAsian women’s bodies are always contextualized into colonial, historical meanings. Preconceptions of our race as either overtly sexual or submissive places our bodies as objects. They erase our actual human experiences. The two tropes I explore in this photo series are binaries that demonize and idealize Asian women’s bodies into a fantasy that empowers the White man. The Lotus Blossom and the Dragon Lady reveal how Asian women are exoticized and reduced into Othering objects for a White man’s desire.
Read MoreYou begin to see yourself on a page that physically looks nothing like you. When things feel impossible, art never is.
Read MoreThis is a portrait project, named “Luiza”, in which I captured aspects of the day to day life of Luiza, in her home in the countryside of Brazil. I wanted to explore the daily occurrences of being a gender non-conforming woman, in a country poisoned by LGBTQ+phobia/queerphobia and toxic theology.
Read MoreMy mixed media piece, titled ‘Angels of Colour’ was a product of inspiration birthed after watching this interview which ends with a very important question pertaining to why blankets of whiteness seem to drape over every institution – even those such as religion.
Read MoreThe shoot’s idea came from when I began to look into old magazines for inspiration. However, rather than finding inspiration, I found discomfort. Most of the models were white and whenever women of colour were included they were surrounded by stereotypical props.
Read MoreIckeres Gee (she/her) is a Haitian American self-taught artist hailing from Queens, NY. She creates art that comes to her in dreams and has interwoven her battles as a black woman, with her spiritual self and life.
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