PROTODISPATCH

PROTODISPATCH

A monthly digital publication of artists’ dispatches on the life conditions that necessitate their work.

MAYRA SANTOS-FEBRES 




JANUARY 23, 2024

INTEGRATIONIST RACISM AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN PUERTO RICO IN THE WAKE OF BLACK LIVES MATTER

Mayra Santos-Febres

Poet and writer Mayra Santos Febres contextualizes the survival of Afro-Borinquen artmaking within legacies of colonialism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, highlighting liberatory methodologies and refusals to be unseen.