Episode 7: Sankofa Backwards-Looking Prophetess: Dear Truth Guardian

January 22, 2021 00:36:11
Episode 7: Sankofa Backwards-Looking Prophetess: Dear Truth Guardian
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Episode 7: Sankofa Backwards-Looking Prophetess: Dear Truth Guardian

Jan 22 2021 | 00:36:11

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Show Notes

“Sankofa Backwards-Looking Prophetess is a seer, attuned to a different, sometimes pained, sometimes glorious wavelength. Sankofa's work and Sankofa's story display a tremendous amount of courage and clarity in the face of adversity. -Bobby Bermea 

ARTIST BIO  Sankofa Backwards-Looking Prophetess is a Black and mixed poly, queer, trans and gender-transcending possessed and shapeshifting survivor and prophet who writes from traditional, ancestral and unceded ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Stz’uminus and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories, where Sankofa resides. Sankofa knows that art is key to decolonization and a better world. Sankofa’s pronoun is Sankofa’s name.

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