Jameisha Artis
Jameisha Artis
This. Is. What. I. Want.
This. Is. What. I. Want.
I want to display blackness/black bodies in a celebratory way.
I want to discuss the problems and difficulties that black people face in their own community and in the media.
I want to discuss things like blackness using history and my own experience as a young black woman.
I want to talk about what makes me proud about black culture.
I want to critique black culture.
I want to have my work be provocative.
I don’t want to be nice or the angry black girl.
I want to show that I have passion and emotions for black culture.
I want to show this by the language I use.
I want to show how America systemically disenfranchises black people.
I want to show how the government or white people are worried about black people and see them as dangerous.
I want to talk about education.
I want to talk about anti-blackness in the black community.