Season 3, Episode 5: Black Imagination
Season 3, Episode 5: Black Imagination
In this episode, edna bonhomme spoke with Natasha Marin, curator of Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures (2020, McSweeney’s). In addition to discussing Black Imagination, which is in its third printing, Marin emphasizes that the work related to this project is ongoing and is an open invitation to continue to share stories.
Marin is currently inviting Diasporic Black folks to share their first experiences on the African continent and continental Africans to share their experiences of going to different countries.
To share your story, contact Marin directly at:
nonwhiteworks (at) gmail.com
Biography
Natasha Marin
Links: Black Imagination ; NONWHITEWORKS
Contact: nonwhiteworks (at) gmail.com
Natasha Marin
Natasha Marin (NONWHITEWORKS) is an antiracism consultant based in Seattle, specializing in communications, community building, and digital engagement. Marin is also the curator of Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures (McSweeney’s, 2020) and a conceptual artist whose people-centered projects have circled the globe since 2012 and have been recognized and acknowledged by Artforum, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the LA Times, NBC, Al Jazeera, Vice, PBS, and others. BLACK IMAGINATION—a series of conceptual exhibitions amplifying, centering, and holding sacred a diverse sample of voices including LGBTQIA+ black youth, incarcerated black women, black folks with disabilities, unsheltered black folks, and black children is her bravest work thus far. Her viral web-based project, Reparations, engaged a quarter of a million people worldwide in the practice of “leveraging privilege,” and earned Marin, a mother of two, death threats by the dozens. Find more online: Black-Imagination.com
Current Projects
King County Untold Stories Project: exposing on the job experiences of racism
WATCH CUT - Keep It 100: Black in America
Black Imagination: Sites of Power, a staged adaptation of the book with Jay O’Leary Woods, Scotland
Bibliography
Marin, Natasha (curator). Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Futures (2020, McSweeney’s).
Show Credits
Interview and Post-production
edna bonhomme
Images
Courtesy of Natasha Marin
music
All other music is from Freesounds.org (Creative Commons)
Thank you
A special thanks to Natasha Marin and to the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.