Chaotic, Flawed, Broken, and overall Wonkadory.
Chaotic, Flawed, Broken, and overall Wonkadory.
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You know the old rhetoric we black people tell ourselves: write what you know/don't know, and the truth hurts. I was taught to write about authentic perspectives outside my world to see the caste of misogynoir. And you will read and be read The Black Mirror.
Photo credits to April D. Taylor
Maya Anderson
Maya Anderson
They published a book, C.L.A.W.S., the prequel, at the age of 13. They have participated in organizations like the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) 2021 Young Scholars Program: Art, Activism, and Advocacy!, and Black Writers Collective, which taught them how to write authentically using intersectionality. They collaborated with a group, We Too Art!, and researched how art in predominantly black schools is taught and how black femme artists identify their craft. They also collaborated with Tamara D. Anderson in a multimodal project, “The Erasure of Black Women”, an article in Beautiful Experiments! Vol. 3, Issue 1.
Most of their works comprise writing and art, and multimedia pieces inspired by a variety of genres. They also run a business called Portraits by Maya, which commissions portraits. They say their inspirations lie in the knowledge deserts, areas of BIPOC femme experience they wish to know about. It also lies in their racing mind.
Their region is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“My world did not shrink because I was a Black female writer. It just got bigger.” (Interview with The New York Times, 1987)
I bring the chaos under a magnifying glass and then embrace it. My authenticity comes from sharp emotional intelligence. Therein lies my power to break down caricatures and stereotypes internalized and to reveal the societal cage we constructed.
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