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 British queer 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: 4th Biennale of... 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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By Sokari Ekine —

Black Joy With 360Fit

By Sokari Ekine / New Orleans, Louisiana — 360 Fit New Orleans is a group of Black womyn who come together every weekday morning and evening to elevate..

Jul 25, 2020

The Bridge: Black Spaces for Action

By Sokari Ekine / New Orleans — Over the past three weeks, I have been posting short essay pieces on Altars in my home from home, New..

Jun 20, 2020

We create altars

By Sokari Ekine — We are Black Queer, GNC, and Trans. We Create Altars. That's What We Do. Over the past three..

Jun 16, 2020

Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells and Rich Milton

By Sokari Ekine — Two Black Trans Women, Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells and Rich Milton, were murdered this week...

Jun 13, 2020

The Bridge: What Does It Take For Whiteness To See?

By Sokari Ekine & Alexis De Veaux / New Orleans — When I arrive In you I am the deeper Color heartwood And decay Resistant Call me cypress In this city I am..

Jun 12, 2020

Offerings for Black Life

By Sokari Ekine — Coming from a place of healing and self-care is a political act that guides us to be focused and to move as..

Jun 3, 2020

Black Ecologies of the Spirit

By Sokari Ekine

Apr 1, 2020

Alexis

By Sokari Ekine — Alexis De Veaux : the first in the series Queer as in Fearlessness. This is the story my..

Jan 24, 2020

Max

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

Jan 23, 2020

Alexis and Sangodare

By Sokari Ekine — Julia Sangodare Roxanne Wallace and Alexis Pauline Gumbs – the fourth in the series transformation of..

Jan 23, 2020

Blessol

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

Jan 23, 2020

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

By Sokari Ekine / Gonaïves, Haiti

Oct 26, 2019

Haiti, People

By Sokari Ekine / Haiti

Oct 25, 2019

Spirit Desire Vodou Shorts: 1 - Spirit Practice

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

Sep 11, 2019

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,..

Aug 9, 2019

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