B.O.O.K Building.Our.Own.Knowledge Melissandre Varin Black women and genderqueer beings have been systematically under-privileged or constrained to perform within de-limited roles within the creative industry. This is part of the ruins on which we are growing B.O.O.K. Building. Our. Own. Knowledge (B.O.O.K) is a co-created cloud for interrogating, finding, making, and sharing experiences and knowledge emanating from Black artists in particular. The communal project is an invitation to re-think and re-make knowledge and culture on our own terms. B.O.O.K (r)evolves through radical sharing, caring, and disrupting by using and developing non-extractive collective mechanisms for reinventing the everyday as a political space for collective healing and liberation. The soft infrastructure of B.O.O.K is supported by a self-organised working group composed of 9 Black artists, writers, researchers, facilitators and curators including: Antonio Roberts Mojere Ajayi-Egunjobi Jae Tallawah Samiir Saunders Sym Mendez Last Mafuba Hannah Adereti Ayesha Jones and myself - Melissandre Varin
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