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In the Black Fantastic

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Hayward Gallery: in the Black Fantastic | How as an artist do you make sense of a world in which at times you are made to feel invisible? That has been an ongoing challenge for black artists throughout the African diaspora.

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Black Queer Voices

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Brave Beauties shot from 2014 onwards consist of a series of portraits of Trans women, gender non-conforming and non-binary. Many of the women photographed are also beauty pageant contestants. They enter these pageants in order to change the mind set of those present. Those who are often happy to persecute trans-women. So, these images challenge transphobic stereotypes and stigmas.

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