Black Diasporic Publishing Practices
This conversation brings together writers, editors, and cultural producers who challenge conventional modes of publishing to imagine new editorial and narrative possibilities within Black diasporic thought. Reflecting on their own practices, the speakers will explore how experimental writing, multilingual expression, and artist-led collaboration can nurture Black discourse. The discussion will examine how editors and authors sustain spaces for creative risk and experimentation across the Black Atlantic.
This activity is part of the symposium Black Atlantic Networks: Heritage, Knowledge and Solidarity, taking place in Montréal from November 18 to 22, 2025. The symposium fosters transnational dialogue and creates a space for the co-construction of knowledge.
Speakers
Afi Venessa Appiah
Ethel Tawe
James Oscar
Information
Free activity in English, presented in hybrid format at the Goethe-Institut on Wednesday, November 19, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: Goethe-Institut Montreal, 1626 Boulevard Saint-Laurent
About the Panelists
Ethel Tawe
Ethel-Ruth Tawe (b. Yaoundé, Cameroon) is an antidisciplinary artist and creative researcher exploring memory in Africa and its diaspora. Image-making, storytelling, and time-travelling compose the framework of her inquiry. From photography, collage, and text, to moving image, installation and other time-based media, Tawe examines culture and technology often from a speculative lens. Her burgeoning curatorial practice took form in an inaugural exhibition titled 'African Ancient Futures', and continues to expand in a myriad of audiovisual experiments. She is currently Editor-in-Chief at the arts and culture platform Contemporary And (C&) Magazine.
Photo © courtesy of the artist
Afi Venessa Appiah (Afi/ Anteism Books/ NYU Tisch)
I am a 29-year-old theorist who can remember being a 10-year old writer and who expects to someday be an 80-year old writer. I’m also comfortably reclusive – a hermit butterfly in the middle of New York – a latent sojourner, a reluctant cynic when I’m not careful, a questioning feminist, a Black African; an oil-and-water combination of zeal, lull, insecurity, certainty, and intensity.
Photo © Guillaume Medar
This activity is presented in collaboration with the RIDM
