Black women
SFU celebrates Black womanhood through art
March 13, 2021Written by: Linda Kanyamuna, SFU Student Since November of 2020, Vancouverites have been consuming the resilience, energy, and beauty of Black womanhood through visual art in the form of a 240 foot photo-poetic art installation un/settled. The piece, which resides at the intersection of West Hastings and Richards Street occupying SFU Belzberg Library’s large windows, embodies Blackness and everything that celebrates Black creativity. The artwork features stunning poetry written by writer and academic Dr. Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, and portrait imagery of artist-educator Chantal Gibson. On February 10, both Black creatives, along with SFU Belzberg head librarian Ebony Magnus, shared…
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Coming Up at SFU: February 24–March 1
February 24, 2020Written by: Harvin Bhathal, News Writer Thank You Black Women for Saving America February 24 | 12 p.m.–2 p.m. | AQ 6106, Burnaby | Free Guest speaker Nadia E. Brown, professor at Purdue University, will be speaking on the role…
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Where are Black women in SFU politics?
July 21, 2019[25/07/19]: This story was corrected from an older version. Corbett Gildersleeve was identified as an SFU alumnus and a co-organizer of the event. Gildersleeve is an SFU alumnus who attended the event to show his support. By: Ana Staskevich, Staff Writer…
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