Description
On October 10, 2023, The Sanctuary for Independent Media presented a book talk and panel discussion featuring "Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation" editors Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago (co-creators of Women Picturing Revolution), and local photographer and doula Jayana LaFountaine.
"Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation" (Leuven University Press, 2022) questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her body and that of her maternal ancestors. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly inquiry and contemporary art, this book addresses these misconceptions and fills in the gaps that exist in the photographic representation of Black motherhood, mothering, and mutual care within Black communities. This visual exploration of Black motherhood through pictures made by Black woman–identifying photographers thus serves as a reflection of the past and a portal to the future and contributes to recent scholarship on the complexity of Black life and Black joy."