Black Europe zine

(2025)

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This zine highlights and celebrates 6 Black European multidisciplinary creatives. The zine is a collection of collages and interviews with 6 Black European creatives who reflect on their Afropean identity, their practices, and contributions to the community. In this zine, I explore what the European ideal of racelessness does to Black cultural production. ​​European racelessness shapes Black cultural production by compelling individuals to define themselves in a context that refuses to acknowledge their racial reality.  In this way, Black cultural production in Europe becomes an exploration and reflection of one’s Blackness—a preservation of cultural ties while simultaneously forging something new. It is an act of resistance, a site of reflection, and a means of self-definition. This is the first edition of the zine, that is a continuous project.

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Cover image by fashiondesigner Zhané Smit

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