THE #NOTWHITE COLLECTIVE IS A GROUP OF 13 WOMEN ARTISTS WHOSE MISSION IS TO USE NON-INDIVIDUALISTIC, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ART TO MAKE OUR STORIES VISIBLE AS WE RELATE, CONNECT AND BELONG TO THE GLOBAL MAJORITY.
WE ARE BI/MULTI-RACIAL/CULTURAL, IMMIGRANT OR DESCENDANTS OF IMMIGRANTS INVESTIGATING THE MANY WAYS WE ARE SEEN OR NOT SEEN, HOW WE SELF-IDENTIFY AND HOW WE SEEK LIBERATION THROUGH SHARING SPACE AND STORIES; RESEARCH AND ART-MAKING; DISCUSSING THE HISTORY OF IMPERIALISM AND ITS EFFECT ON US, ON THE WHOLE NON-WHITE WORLD. WE ACTIVELY REJECT COLONIALISM THROUGH OUR NON-HIERARCHICAL PROCESS.
THE #NOTWHITE COLLECTIVE EXPRESSES THE HYBRIDIZED AND MULTIFACETED ASPECTS OF SELF-DEFINED LIBERATION; WE ACCEPT CULTURAL FLUIDITY AS A MEANS OF SEEING AND BEING SEEN, EACH MEMBER DECLARING THEIR EXISTENCE, INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY, THROUGH OUR VOICES, BODIES AND ART.
EXCAVATING HISTORIES. EXPOSING REALITIES.
EXORCISING OPPRESSION.
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