There is great power in representation. Phenomxnal Womxn works to reform the relationship between image-maker, image and subject by using visual art and storytelling as tools to collaborate with womxn from underrepresented communities and document their stories.
We create spaces for womxn to reclaim their narratives. Women and BIPOC communities have been pushed to the peripheries of photography, art and history for far too long. We are taking our narratives into our own hands by rewriting herstory – one photograph at a time.
Phenomxnal Womxn is a project that takes an intimate look into the lives of womxn through photography and storytelling.
We highlight the incredible strengths in overcoming adversities that womxn endure in everyday life while redefining what it means to be womxn.
2019 IPA Editorial/Press Award –
3rd Place
2020 CCA New/Early Career
Visual Arts Grant Recipient
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The term Womxn was created as an alternative and more inclusive term than the word women. It rejects the notion that woman is a subset of man, while encompassing the intersectional realities and histories lived by women as well as the racial, discriminatory and institutional barriers that they face. The genesis of the term Womxn roots itself in the systemic oppression of black and transgender communities, emancipates itself from patriarchal structures, and creates new spaces for womxn – with an emphasis on coloured and LGBTQ+ womxn – to manifest independently.
How can photography change and challenge the ways that we learn from womxn living in different contexts than our own? How can images be used to empower, elevate and celebrate womxn from around the world? These are the underlying questions that have driven the work behind Phenomxnal Womxn.
We hosted the Phenomxnal Womxn Community Exhibition to launch the first phase of the project that took place in Ghana. Check out the celebration.
Akwaaba!