Aliyah Blackmore (she/they) is an Afro-Caribbean (copy) editor, DJ,and writer/zine maker/researcher based in New York. She received her M.A. in International Affairs with a concentration in Media and Culture from the School of Public Engagement.
- Why do you wake up before the sun?? was written between 2019 and 2020, in Barbados and New York. The words are a collage of thoughts/dreams/imaginations that are a reflection on the meaning of rest as a Black queer woman. Disjointed and strung together in places, the writing serves as an unearthing of how constructions of self and rest may be unbound from the histories of enslavement, colonialism and white supremacy. Rest in: duppy visits, in refusals, in ritual, in a journey towards growing new inner gardens.
This book is housed by The New School Archives, with our special collections. This item is not available for use at this time.
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