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. 2024 Dec;38(4):434-444.
doi: 10.1111/maq.12742. Epub 2023 May 12.

curating #blackgirlquarantine

Reelaviolette Botts-Ward  1
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curating #blackgirlquarantine

Reelaviolette Botts-Ward. Med Anthropol Q. 2024 Dec.

Abstract

This autoethnographic visual essay narrates a Black feminist praxis of ancestral collage-making within my curation of #blackgirlquarantine: an exhibition of blackwomxnhealing in the wake of 20201 (BGQ). I detail my spiritual, affective, and embodied journey of stretching collage art to make room for memorializing the lives of Black womxn and girls who are no longer here to tell their stories. I write at the intersection of healing, memory, and mourning, and merge a Methodology for the Black Feminist Sacred2 with visual anthropology and digital humanities to read creative rituals of digital altar work as text.

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