Posted by in THE AYA TALKS SERIES I really wanted the last episode of The AYA TALKS the podcast-formatted audio series produced by our communication consulting firm to end on a note that would resonate with creatives, especially Black women creatives because after all the aim of the series was to begin to sketch a / the world in which Black women…Read more »
Posted by in THE AYA TALKS SERIES The ‘funny’ thing to note about The AYA TALKS series is the interconnectedness of our experiences, the way our personal stories and professional journeys intertwine, join, align. A thriving community is one where its members know and celebrate each other in this time and the next, irrespective of the space(s) in which we get to…Read more »
Posted by in THE AYA TALKS SERIES The eighth episode of the audio series, THE AYA TALKS, has made one thing absolutely clear. Women are magical. I am not saying that to flatter or sound trendy. Women are endowed with powers that defy logic and reason. I recall how Prisca Munkeni Monnier, the sultry and enormously gifted photographer put it in our…Read more »
Posted by in THE AYA TALKS SERIES In Mousmée, the Diary of an Orchid Woman, an exploratory artistic piece that soulfully combines poetry, music, dance and language, Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette in tandem with Martinican musician Gérald Toto, talks about love, intimacy, sexuality in ways that reminded me of Edouard Glissant’s decolonial rendering of the process of creolisation as innately universal and intrinsically connected…Read more »
Posted by in THE AYA TALKS SERIES Plenty of us would find it hard to meet someone whom you could both describe as rebellious and soft-spoken until you meet (even over the phone), the fascinating Adeline Rapon. Parisian jeweller by trade, photographer and influencer by taste, Adeline sits atop seemingly contrasting worlds that she has been able to give meaning and voice…Read more »
Posted by in THE AYA TALKS SERIES The density and depth of this “AYA Talks’ still resonates. Audrey Warrington is a thinker, someone who ascribes “weight “ to the words she uses; she consistently enriches her answers by providing detailed context. When asked in what ways current feminist movements have tackled women’s sexuality for instance, she begins by asserting that the strides…Read more »
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