ezibota: Mwasi Collective: Afrofeminist Resistance in France | Clementine Burnley The confident
ezibota: Mwasi Collective: Afrofeminist Resistance in France | Clementine Burnley The confident prints and colours at the Afropunk Festival this weekend in Paris lifted my heart. For my generation, to wear anything “African” was to risk being identified with Africa and treated accordingly. Many of us shied away from that experience. The young people at Afropunk seem different from their parents and grandparents. Their homes are in Africa as well as in Europe, North America, Australia. Their concerns and understanding of their Blackness is probably different from mine. But we share a common experience of discrimination. There are people who assume that as time goes by and hipsters grow facial hair, discrimination fades away. Instead, the attitudes of the past find new expression with each generation and so Black consciousness is remade in each new generation. I caught up with the Mwasi Collective, a black feminist organization active in France. Read more on Ezibota.com Connect with us: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Google + | Youtube -- source link
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