Mystory illustrates the risks Black feminists face in performing without support, emphasizing the need for institutional backing.
In this Black feminist graphic Mystory (Ulmer), I draw on Julia Jordan-Zachary's notion of “swamp” to illustrate a cautionary swamp tale about the risk of soul murder that Black feminists face when we desperately try to home Black feminist performance without institutional support. Inspired by Esther Ohito's method of “Black feminist memory work,” I consider how re-membering and reconnecting to my body through drawing invites me to mourn my own soul murder and grapple with disenfranchised grief. Throughout the embodied-reflexive drawing process, I explore Ohito's big question: what does it “mean and require to be human/e” in the academy?
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