katienumi · 5 years ago
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27 + 37 = 28 written July 9, 2014 #poetry #belizeanliterature a segment of a three page poem. One day i hope to publish a collection. 2014, 2015, 2016 (ages 27 - 30) were very challenging years, during which i produced very little art, but wrote, sketched, traveled and collaborated a lot. These were learning years. Traumatic years. i look back at the pain of those years and can hardly recognise myself. Maybe some can grow and produce and become without pain. i just used art to survive losing myself, being questioned, rejected, overlooked etc. Go and grow, and try and fail and stop, breathe and try again. i promise you, you'll make it. https://www.instagram.com/p/ByR28bKFeqy/?igshid=1v0k3vrfpey6w
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katienumi · 6 years ago
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ayer, los reyes mago y rosca de reyes que quise, pero pequeña mucho más pequeña, y solo si lo puedo compartir con toda la banda, pero solo si lo quieran, y con chocolate abuelita, pero ya no estoy en 2006, y no me tocó el muñeco, y no entendí lo del la tamaliza, la candelaria, un mes después. sí gracias a google, dando tiempo al tiempo e idioma. entiendo. entiendo. entiendo. #poetry #antiart #blackfemalecreative #belizeanliterature (at Chetumal, Quintana Roo) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsUrPhJFNiJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=id3lgzd50mec
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katienumi · 5 years ago
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pengereng launch by @ivorykellywriter #belizeanliterature #kriollanguage (at Image Factory Art Foundation) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0lmNgtAD02/?igshid=1kw0x6xmg1ove
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katienumi · 5 years ago
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#belizeanliterature i read Belizeans. The culture only thrives if you support it. just sayin' https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz4RLuPFdGm/?igshid=12m0epwibv58d
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katienumi · 5 years ago
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¿Alguna vez me has visto? Pero verme tal como soy, sin las gafas estereotipadas, sin Mickey Mouse, sin Memín Pinguín, dos caras, la misma moneda. véame, aquí 'toy. Soy una maravilla de hecho, tal vez algo que jamas habías visto, todo esto verías si te quitarías esas gafas. Un mamey maravilloso. Tres semillas o más. Ideas sin fin, corazón destrozado pero que late aún, sin embargo abierto. ¡imagínatelo! Aquí 'toy nene, quítate las gafas, please. #poetry #belizeanliterature #blackfemalecreative https://www.instagram.com/p/BzwhSaplm8y/?igshid=g9wh4mmzkpes
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katienumi · 5 years ago
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#FBF rejection is a part of the story. As a Black female creative from Belize, (? Belize? Where's that? Believe it or not a lot of people still ask me that) uneducated (i did pursue a licenciatura, an equivalent to a Bachelor's degree, in Mérida, Yucatán, México at the ESAY Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatan 2005 - 2008 but being the only Black student in the whole school for 3 1/2 years proved too much for my spirit and mental health, so after a bad breakup i left, i did try to go back 2 1/2 years later to continue my studies but the director told me the way only would be if i started all over, they couldn't even find my files, talk about erasure) i just share to show that i put a lot of work in, setting up one of these is a ton of work, from getting recommendations, writing a proposal, application letter etcetera, all things i tried to do while making art, explaining why i am to should also be considered a Belizean contemporary artist, creating space for myself and other creatives (and being called selfish, controlling, ranting self-serving bitch for the LAB, oh well just a regular day in the life of a Black woman) Hang in there Black womxn, you're going to make it. #blackfemalecreative #belizeancontemporary #belizeanliterature https://www.instagram.com/p/BzQ09LoFPJ_/?igshid=14nsgey3xk5q0
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katienumi · 5 years ago
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#TBT art tings #belizeancontemporary #belizeanliterature https://www.instagram.com/p/BzOOUTZFZg5/?igshid=1sh0tl7dfaja9
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katienumi · 5 years ago
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#TBT arttings #belizeancontemporary #belizeanliterature #blackfemalecreative https://www.instagram.com/p/BzONDbHFIve/?igshid=esfxyqsx6zgz
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katienumi · 5 years ago
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Also i lost one of a favourite pair of @kajexpressions earrings (look her up, her jewellery is so beautiful) and just lost it last night (June 22, 2019) But was inspired to write this poem after @poetjasminemans "Footnotes for Kanye" #poetry #belizeanliterature #internalisedfatphobia #finddatfit https://www.instagram.com/p/BzGbT6sFZC_/?igshid=1q0xkseaoj0ac
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katienumi · 5 years ago
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That's "Cotton" i wrote in 2018 to present as part of a poetry suite called Black Girl(in') the (Art) World as the 2018 recipient of the Bridget Jones Travel Award and which i read the 42nd Conference of Society for Caribbean Studies Thanks Mark Harris for the invitation to participate in Songs the Plants Taught Us at Anytime Dept. @anytimedept https://www.anytimedept.com/songs-the-plants-taught-us-mark-harris #blackfemalecreative #poetry #belizeanliterature #belizeancontemporary https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx5zQG2Fx7l/?igshid=1ok8u9o1fhwat
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katienumi · 6 years ago
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#LondonPapers last year i was there for a conference. It was incredible!! i read my poems, to some academics (am a college drop-out so that was big for me) it was a month before my 32nd birthday. It was having a captive audience, comment and ask questions about my work. It was also not having a credit card and not being able to book accommodations. A lady slid into my dm on wa gud gud Holy Satiday with a hot mess of stereotypical nonesense, i made an active decision to dedicate none of my energy to her or that. (Hard to do when you have anxiety. When your brain actually stores traumatic or stressful or painful experiences to warn and protect you for future). Reading amazing black poets, what my Easter holiday was. Filling myself to the brim with blackgirlmagick. i may often be sought after by "people trying to help" only to be told "they tried and they have no choice because of how i am but to give up." and these i will survive by doing my work and fortifying myself with example after stellar example by black womxn who have done it before. #poetry #blackfemalecreatives #belizeanliterature https://www.instagram.com/p/BwlaRt4lbH3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1titzsa6ppz8o
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katienumi · 6 years ago
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an edited version of my poem la fin (written on december 9, 2018, my original text is slightly different than the edit version on this website. considering printing a small run of a chapbook) on duaapaapa.com #blackgirlmagic and some of the amazing black womxn here and ancestors who gave me strength and inspiration for 2018 #antiart #blackgirlmagic #blackfemaleartist #poetry #belizeanliterature @iamcardib @beyonce @badgalriri @bad_dominicana @theslumflower @sassy_latte @hermusicofficial @nittyscottmc @seinabosey @dajah_glamor @nayyirah.waheed @ihartericka https://www.instagram.com/p/BsBj_DiFCC0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7295vccyg4in
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