Platform is pleased to present a dual panel discussion following the current exhibiton: AIN'T I A WOMAN. The panel will be focusing on shifting the narratives of black women from margin to center.

February 10, 2017: 7-9 p.m.

Moderated by Bilphena Yahwon

Featuring:
Jermaine T. Bell
Adam Jackson
Breya Monaye
Tamisha J. Ponder
Lisa Snowden-McCray
Charles Xavier

Bilphena Yahwon is a baltimore based writer + social justice advocate born in Liberia, west africa and raised in Danané, Côte d'Ivoire. Yahwon is the owner + curator of goldwomyn.com, the author of ‘teaching gold-mah how to heal herself.’and the creative director at broken english co. She writes of the immigrant experience, of blackness, of healing, of african women made from flowers breathing fragility. When she is not writing or in the classroom, Bilphena enjoys wandering through spaces of foods, people(s), colors + lessons.

More about AIN'T I A WOMAN:

Platform Gallery is pleased to present AIN’T I A WOMAN, on view at 116 W Mulberry Street. AIN’T I A WOMAN is a solo, multi-disciplinary exhibition of works by SHAN, an artist and activist who creates work with her local communities in Baltimore. AIN’T I A WOMAN is a new body of work by SHAN that is complete with programming throughout the month of the exhibition.

AIN’T I A WOMAN serves to bring black women onto the center stage with hopes to eradicate the many negative stereotypes with photography, installations, and open discussions that reclaim and explore the life and times of black women. This exhibition goes beyond praising black women for their accomplishments, but focuses on the ordinary black girl or woman living her life, loving her family, working to survive, fighting for her people, and expressing her individuality.

SHAN is an award-winning photographer, writer, and freedom fighter from East Baltimore. Merging her journalism degree from Bowie State University with her love for photography, SHAN's work focuses on the experiences, identities and struggles of black life.