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05 in (y)our words 



These quotes by iconic BIPoC artists and activists have been stripped for a few words and opened – not to erase their meaning, but to invite yours.

This is an invitation to reflect on authorship, and the shifting power of language in art and music. 

Your answers might say as much about the world as the originals did. But they might also in itself be an act of appropriation?


*These open quotes are also featured in the handmade notebook.
Check out the notebook here

notebook





I feel like I have a                                      
to use my                        
to                                        



If you are always trying to
you will never know          



An artist's duty is
in which we                        



I'm not                                    
I'm not                                    
I am something that you’ll never  







NYK—mag

0225 



Frontpage

This is culture...

Page 1. Opening poem

A poem about appropriation and gentrification  

Page 2. Artist Interviews

Reflections on Sound, Identity & Space

Page 3. Film recommendations

A documentary about Afro-house and a vampire fiction

Page 4. Merchandise

This isn’t a style. It’s a statement.

Page 5. In (y)our words

An invitation to reflect on authorship

Page 6. Closing remarks  

An ongoing process...