HER WORD AS WITNESS:

HER
WORD
AS
WITNESS:
PORTRAITS OF WOMEN WRITERS OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
Photography by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
Photography by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
Opening Reception
December 1, 2011 | 6 pm - 8 pm
Public Programs
Saturday, December 10, 2011 | 9 am: Youth Workshop*
Sunday, December 11, 2011 | 3 pm: “deep in your best reflection,”
a reading and book signing with Danny Simmons
*Visit our website for other 2012 public programs
“Her Word As Witness” is a personal and intimate photography
exhibition featuring a diverse group of women writers. The exhibition
is agent for their ability to incite our imagination, to expand our vision,
to investigate and to document. Novelists, poets, journalists, and
songwriters, these women of letters are also daughters of the Diaspora;
cocoa, crimson, amber, ginger-toned. Their stories are born in tongues
of Kreyòl, English, patois, Spanish, Twi, Gullah/Geechee. They use
the pen and performance to witness for their lives and the lives of
those around them.
The Writers
Malaika Adero • Elizabeth Alexander • Tomika Anderson • asha bandele •
Kristal Brent Zook • Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond • Raquel Cepeda •
Kandia Crazy Horse • Edwidge Danticat • Tananarive Due • Coco Fusco •
Carolina Gonzalez • Karen Good Marable • Farah Jasmine Griffin •
Tayari Jones • Juleyka Lantigua-Williams • Demetria L. Lucas • Dominga
Martin • Kierna Mayo • Bernice L. McFadden • Nekesa Moody • jessica
Care moore • Joan Morgan • Jill Nelson • Liza Jessie Peterson •
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts • Sonia Sanchez • Danyel Smith • Akiba Solomon •
Esperanza Spalding • Mecca Jamilah Sullivan • Susan L. Taylor • Terrie
Williams • Ibi Aanu Zoboi • Nana Camille Yarbrough
Skylight Gallery
1368 Fulton Street (between Brooklyn and New York Avenues)
Brooklyn, New York 11216
For more information or group visits, please call (718) 636-6949
Directions A/C Subway to Nostrand Avenue
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Presented with The Institute for Research in African-American Studies of Columbia
University (IRAAS)/Towards An Intellectual History of Black Women Project