a note for the comrades
By Bilphena Yahwon
Printed Matter Inc./Press Press, 2020
Risograph print, 13.5 x 10 in.
$40.00 (Unframed)
WPA Note:
Bilphena Yahwon was WPA's Artist-Organizer-in-Residence from June-September 2021.
Description:
This work was produced as part of Poetry for Persistence, an artist-driven print fundraiser and distribution initiative organized by Press Press and Printed Matter. The project aims to raise funds for organizations whose work and advocacy are especially crucial in this moment, with an emphasis on Baltimore-based groups.
About the Artist:
Bilphena Yahwon is a Baltimore-based writer, abolitionist and restorative practices specialist born in Liberia, West Africa. Yahwon is the author of ‘teaching gold-mah how to heal herself.’ the co-creator of For Black Girls Considering Womanism Because Feminism Is Not Enuf and a core member of Press Press. Her online library, The Womanist Reader, is dedicated to archiving free texts from Black women across the diaspora. Bilphena’s work uses a womanist approach and centers women’s health and well being, intersectionality and abolition. She writes of the immigrant experience, of blackness, and of healing.