Asantewaa is the Daughter of Valerie Boykin and the Granddaughter of Bertha Brandy and Gladys Boykin. She is a poet, mother, freedom fighter, and registered nurse. Asantewaa is also Co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, based in Oakland California. She currently resides in Sacramento California where she founded Mental Health First and completed her first full-length collection of poetry titled, "Love, Lyric, and Liberation"
Ghia Larkins fell in love with photography at the age of 12 while spending time in the darkroom with her father. She found solace among the aroma of the developer and the meditative silence the darkroom offered. Ghia cherishes the creative process and sharing space with people who want to be seen.
These pieces re-imagines, re-configures, and re-remembers one of our oldest traditions, the spoken word.
Reconnect (Collaboration with Ghia Larkins-photographer)
Reconnect ancient terms/numbers/imagery that represents "god" and reimagines them with urban vernacular and feminist lenses.
Mama (Collaboration with Ghia Larkins photographer)
This piece was created shortly aft the George Floyd rebellions. She is a mother who has accepted the conditions and is committed to fighting willing to fight.
Spaceships
this poem was inspired by the thought of "repetition" and how sometimes its harder to recognize cycles because they look different. In this poem, I tried to re-imagine what the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Black Liberation Movements would look like in the time of space travel.
