Sokari Ekine

Documentary Photographer, Visual Scholar, Abolitionist

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Location: New Orleans

Nationality: Nigerian British

Biography: Sokari Ekine, Photography Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian Black British genderqueer feminist and abolitionist who has lived and worked in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States. Their work has been exhibited in such venues as the 4th... read on

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Credits: sokari ekine

Date of Work: 01/14/20 - Ongoing

Updated: 05/09/20

Archived as: Abstract, Black and White, Creative, Photography

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Alexis

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Jan 24, 2020

Max

By Sokari Ekine — QUEER LIKE THE FEARLESSNESS TO IMAGINE "In becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my own..

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By Sokari Ekine — Blessol Gathoni, a Queer Social Rights Activist. In conversation with Gathoni they talked..

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Steven

By Sokari Ekine — Steven Fullwood is an archivist and queer activist. In 1999 whilst working at the Schomburg in New..

Jan 22, 2020

Salt: The Persistence of Blackness

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Haiti, People

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Oct 25, 2019

Spirit Desire Vodou Shorts: 1 - Spirit Practice

By Sokari Ekine / Haiti — “SPIRIT DESIRE: - RESISTANCE, IMAGINATION & SACRED MEMORIES IN HAITIAN VODOUN” “Spirit..

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Takasa: Rescuing our truths through cleansing & consciousness

By Sokari Ekine / Kilifi, Kenya — May/June 2017 I visited the coastal region of Kenya in a joint collaboration with Kenyan QLGBTI activist,..

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