#AintIAWoman | staycreative

#AintIAwoman is a project about the multiplicity of identity. I began to think about the different elements of my identity and if any one is more important than the other.

I noticed that by embracing one label/ element of my identity I would feel forced to push the other aside. Do I wake up in the morning showcasing the same labels as I did yesterday ?

I view Identity as a fluid structure and I embrace each and every label that is given to me while refusing to let them restrict me. I will not be shy of these labels and I will not apologise for them.

#AintIAWoman started as a project celebrating black feminism and quickly grew to became a personal movement questioning identity and pride.

"I wake up with an apology already forming in my mouth, this is what it means to be a contradiction. Too black to be a woman but not man enough to be black" - Kai Davis, Aint I a woman 2015.

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again!" - Sojourner Truth, Aint I a woman 1851

#AintIAWoman.

January 2015 - unfinished