Sokari Ekine

Photographer, Visual Artist

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Lived Experience: Delphine Diallo's powerful portraits of LGBTQ+ people aged over 50 by Sokari Ekine

Lived Experience: Delphine Diallo's powerful portraits of LGBTQ+ people aged over 50 by Sokari Ekine

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Lived Experience: Delphine Diallo's powerful portraits of LGBTQ+ people aged over 50

sokari ekine

Jul 25, 2020

Location: New York City

I am pleased to announce the publication of Lived Experience and that I and my spouse, Alexis De Veaux are featured in the book. The book is groundbreaking as Evolving LGBTIQ and Gender Non-Conforming, Non-Binary queer folks, especially Black folks, are largely erased from cultural spaces and news media. Its as if the only queer folk are all under 40 at best if not 30. Amongst my own community of radical feminist queer-identified people, we are intergenerational and interable but this is not necessarily the case everywhere. So thank you for the publishers and Delphine Diallo for creating this body of work.

Lived Experience: Delphine Diallo's powerful portraits of LGBTQ+ people aged over 50
Even with the extraordinary strides the LGBTQ+ movement has made in civil rights, acceptance, and visibility over the past half-century, a growing portion of the community remains largely invisible, its...

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