AFROPUNKING!

“It's a forum to have our own space and to be able to exist. To be our most creative and open selves and everyone is accepted.”

-Elyse Hines.

Why is Afropunk so important to blacker America? because as an experience, it symbolizes everything the African race has been fighting for, for hundreds of years: the power of Self-definition. The ability to see, describe and express ourselves in a manner unique to us. No history lesson is required to understand that identity has constantly been either torn from, or imposed on us for more than 'a while' now, Afropunk is that space where black bodies reach within and blossom in different forms. This Pixel Tour unravels this powerful phenomenon through imagery.

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