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Binta Yade

@bybintayade

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a poet, cultural producer & pro bono lawyer working where (remembrance + community + justice) meet
@nonamereads | @poeticunity | @thinkingblack_

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‘our nafs tethers us to a place’ 2026

~ dua tames the nafs / nafs tames the dunya ~

nafs being the self, the ego, the lower soul by @bybintayade

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oh to feel the love on your bday ! looove my ppl by @bybintayade

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Last month we were invited to share a creative response to ‘Un Dessert pour Constance’ by filmmaker Sarah Maldoror at BFI Southbank.

Here’s a round up of the evening, and a special thank you to everyone who joined us, shared words, sketches + laughter to celebrate Maldoror’s contribution to Black storytelling.

Thanks to the team at the BFI for the invite, to Annouchka + Henda for your presence throughout + to Maia Ardalla for letting us dream up something special with our program ++ Koice for capturing all the moments so beautifully

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Photographs: Anne ‘Koice’ Manuales @koice.media
Collage graphics: Lauren-Loïs taken in BFI Southbank by @bybintayade

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“My poetry is, first and foremost, telluric. It rose from the ground”
⁃ Aimé Césaire

3 films. 3 artists. 1 poet with a camera.

René Depestre, Haitian Poet
Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Colombian Painter
Papa Césaire, founding father of la Négritude

All by Sarah Maldoror

23 Sep, BFI Southbank

Poetry is political + poetic response by Binta Yade

23 sep. BFI Southbank. by @bybintayade

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On Tue 1 Sep from 18:00 we will be hosting a workshop + screening of ‘Un Dessert pour Constance’ by filmmaker Sarah Maldoror on at BFI Southbank, followed by a discussion with season curator Annouchka De Andrade.

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Maldoror once said, ‘I’m shrouded in black, in mystery’, and in this workshop we ask, what does it mean to be brought to light? What lenses can paint us in all the hues of our lived experiences? This creative workshop considers how colour grading and scripted narratives affect our reading of Black emotion, place and representation in front of the lens.

‘Colouring the Lens’ will be a drawing session on colour grading led by artist Lauren-Loïs. ‘Writing the lens’ will be a free-writing session led by poet Binta. The workshop will be one hour long and split in two parts.

Please sign up via the link in our bios to rsvp for the evening, we hope to see you there !

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Many thanks to the BFI for the invitation to engage with Maldoror’s work alongside Annouchka De Andrade. taken in BFI Southbank by @bybintayade

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2 months ago

nothing done in kindness is ever lost

by ‘i’ i mean ‘we’ ~ jumaa affirmation for u all <3 by @bybintayade

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Do labels help, or limit us?
Full episode+reference list on "Inherited Boxes: How We Learned to Divide" still available in the link in bio🫶🏽

#diasporadiaries #labels #binaries #colonialism #africa taken in London, United Kingdom by @bybintayade

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3 months ago

wrote this on my 25th birthday, and have been finding and losing and finding peace ever since

may peace find us all before d*ath! by @bybintayade

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What if some of our biggest assumptions about gender and sexuality in Africa are rooted in colonial history? Listen to the full conversation, link in bio 🎧

Some references for those curious to read more:

Buckle, L., 2022. African sexuality and the legacy of imported homophobia.

Epprecht, M., 2006. "Bisexuality" and the Politics of Normal in African Ethnography.
Anthropologica, 48(2).

Epprecht, M., 2013. Achebe, Nwando. The Female King of Colonial Nigeria. Cahiers d'études africaines, 53(209-210).

Human Rights Watch. 2008. 'Sodomy' Laws Show Survival of Colonial Injustice.

Mohammed Elnaiem. 2022. 'The “Deviant” African Genders That Colonialism Condemned.' JSTOR Daily.

Mehra, B., Lemieux, P. and Stophel, K., 2019. An Exploratory Journey of Cultural
Visual Literacy of “Non-Conforming” Gender Representations from Pre-Colonial Sub-
Saharan Africa. Open Information Science, 3(1).

Oyewumi, O., 1997. The Invention of Women: Making An African Sense Of Western
Gender Discourses. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Wilhelm, A., 2010. Tritiya-Prakriti: People of the Third Sex. Xlibris Corporation.

#colonisation #africa #division #gender #sexuality taken in London, United Kingdom by @bybintayade

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carte postale du bled

ngor/binta et son cours d’arabe

marché sandaga/daawuda

yenne/ngor

en route/rokhaya, the boys & capi

village soumbédioune/elhadji le bijoutier

pirogue à la 2e plage/les garçons

2e plage/extrait de ‘now I realise that everyone of us has a heaven inside’ par Joana Choumali taken in Senegal by @bybintayade

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Do you consider yourself part of a diaspora?
The answer may not be as straightforward.
We unpack what shapes our answers in the full episode 🎧

#diaspora #diasporadiaries #podcast #discover #heritage taken in London, United Kingdom by @bybintayade

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Poetic Unity on BBC Radio London 🗣️✨

Our team members @amaarahroze & @bybintayade were invited to BBC Radio last Friday to discuss our new 10-year vision and the work we have been doing in the community for the last 11 years 🖤

Thank you to everyone who locked in and to the BBC team for having us!

If you missed it go to the BBC site now to listen back and click link in our bio to watch our 10 year animation video/ read our 10 year vision in full 🎯

#BrixtonToTheWorld by @bybintayade

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