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For The Worldbuilders Ep. 033

But…"I Don’t Know My Purpose": The Year of Childhood Curiosity

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Ayana Zaire Cotton
Jan 05, 2024
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Image description: A black and white film photo of me inside my apartment in Brooklyn, NY in 2019. I’m sitting in the bed wearing a headscarf and button down shirt with a film camera, books and clothes in the foreground. Sunlight streams in from the window hitting my plant, tea and shoulder as I look away from the camera with a pen in my hand and journal in my lap trying to imagine a world where black feminist poets survive and then some. Photography: Chukwudumebi Ezefili

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