Arts & Culture Projects
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Translation
Currently translating stories written by African descendant women from Italian to English.
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Backstories: Afro-Italian Women Writers, Words Without Borders, July/August 2021
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Translating Italy, Translating Blackness, Public Books, December 2020
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"The Marathon Continues" by Addes Tesfamariam, La Macchina Sognante, December 2019
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Virtual Salons: Discourses on Black Italia
In partnership with NYU's Casa Italiana Zerilli - Marimò, I co-curated a year-long webinar series about race, identity, and citizenship alongside professor Angelica Pesarini. Check out any of the episodes below.
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"Brava Gente:" Italian Colonial Legacies and Historical Constructions of Race
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Narration of the Nation: Storytelling Through Art and Journalism
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Future: Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi
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Citizenship Now! Activism and the Battle for State Recognition
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Reimagining the Archives & Centering Black Histories
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Black Lives Matter in Italy: Movements & Mobilizations
Cinema Impero in Asmara, Eritrea. Wikipedia.
Afro Pop Up Shop Milano in 2017. Photo Credit Tatiana Benedetti Fotografa.
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Public Scholarship
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The African Italian Female Voice, Italics, CUNYTV, March 2020
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Leaning away from racial evaporations in Italy, The Dreaming Machine, November 2017
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Race, culture and colonial legacy in today’s Italian citizenship struggles, Kheiro Magazine, June 2017
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Breaking ground for emerging designers: Milan's first Afro Pop Up Shop Milano, Women Change Africa, June 2017
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Book Reviews
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Ladri di Denti (Tooth Thieves) by Djarah Kan, The Dreaming Machine, November 2020
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Future – a window into the diversity of Black Italian women’s experiences, The Dreaming Machine, November 2019
Future. Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi. effequ.