Press & Media
Video:
#QuizaNoTePegue- Zahira Kelly, TEDx Talk, Mexico City Women
WeAreMitu: Afrolatinas Are Not Confused By Cardi B’s Race
Zahira Kelly Discusses Accountability & Asserting Afrolatina Existence, AintILatina.com
AfroFusion TV: AfroLatino Fest 2107 Mash Up
Afrolatino Festival: Panel, Community Economics & Womens Entrepeunership at The Schomburg
AintILatina?: #AfroLatinasWhoRock Awards
@NOWyoungfems- #solidarityisforwhitewomen
Save Wiyabi- Decolonize Sexual Assault Awareness Movement
Weekly Summer School: #AbuserDynamics
Audio:
Ep 4: Healing is a Never Ending Project, (starts at 59:50), Sana Sana Podcast
Shouting From The Margins, an 8 Episode Micro-Podcast by Zahira Kelly
Interview, Ep #75 Diasporic Black Girls, Tea with Queen and J
Interview, Episode 7: Zahira Kelly, ChittuChattu.com
Discussion, La Hipersexualizacion de la Afrolatina, Beyond Borders, WRFG.org
Interview, Field Service Radio w/Sweetys at the ICA (begins at 3:54:50), wfmu.org
Art Shows:
Gallery Exhibition, Pitchwise Festival, Public Institution Center for Culture, Sarajevo, Bosnia, September 2017
The Scarlet Event, Bronx NY, July 2017
You Ruined Me/You Made Me Better, by Odiosas Bx- NYC, February 2017
Sweetys at the ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art – Boston, May 2015
The Itty Bitty Art Show, West End Tattoo and Art Gallery, Atlanta, 2009
Japafronese, West End Tattoo and Art Gallery, Atlanta, 2009
Community Economics & Womens Entrepeneurship, Afrolatino Festival, The Schomburg Center, NYC July 2017
The Scarlet Event, Bronx NY, July 2017
Artists in Action Forum: The Revolution, Sylvana’s, Harlem, NYC, May 2017
AfroLatina: Living as Embodied Myth, Western Washington University, Washington State, April 2017
Decolonizing Love, The KGB Bar, NYC February 2017
Healing Intergenerational Trauma in the Latin American Community, NorthWestern University, May 2016
#HowWeDisappear, Sarah Lawrence College, April 2016
Telenovelas: From Fiction to Reality, Davidson College, February 2016
Art, Chillin Island Multimedia Art Show, BabyCastles, February 2016
Being Afrolatina: Black History Month, Knox College, February 2016
The Crucible of Trauma, Naked Heart Fest, November 2015
SheWritesShe, Naked Heart Fest, November 2015
Building communities of resistance, BAM conference, The New School, April 2015
Toxic twitter, Sarah Lawrence College, April 2015
Disrupting the Digital Humanities, MLA conference, January 2015
AfroLatinx Erasure and Underground Libraries Formed Post-Tucson Ethnic Studies Ban, Depauw University, April 2014
PostColonial Feminism, Depauw University, April 2014
Afrolatina: Living as embodied myth, Depauw University, April 2014
Press:
- Activist Zahira Kelly Examines Eurocentric Beauty Standards and Body Representations, Louise Nessralla, BCgavel.com
- Zahira Kelly on Accountability & Asserting Afrolatina Existence in 2017, Janel Martinez, AintILatina.com
- Where Intersectional Realities Make Space for Justice, Armely Pichardo, ClarkU.Edu
- A Stroke of Beauty: Zahira Kelly’s Black Goddesses, Celeste, Vashtie.com
- Powerful Tribute to Diaspora Women at The Afrolatino Festival 2017, AfrofusionTV
- Yo Soy Afrolatina, Felice Leon, TheRoot.com
- #MpFrias Uplifts Women of Color At The Scarlet Event, Milena Toro, BET.com
- Who is the Real Kali Uchis?, Jaquira Diaz, TheFader.com
- “Bad Dominicana” Zahira Kelly is an Afrolatina You Should Know, Jamila Johnson, AlDiaNews.com
- Fuck Like A Fat Girl: Radical Self Love For Goddess Sex, Erin White, AfroPunk.com
- Hillary Clinton speaks out on workplace ‘indignities’ after Bill O’Reilly and Sean Spicer spark an uproar, Aine Cain, BusinessInsider.com
- This Afro-Latina Artist is Bluntly Bringing The Issues Of Black Women To The Forefront, AfroPunk.com
- This Afro-Latina’s Art is Therapy For Black Women Suffering From America, Zahara Hill, HuffingtonPost.com
- Meet Zahira Kelly, The Black Latina Artist Painting Black Women as Goddesses, Juliana Pache, TheFader.com
- This Instagram Account Captures The Beauty Of Afro-Latinas in San Juan, Yara Simon, Remezcla.com
- Young, Gifted and Black: 15 Artists, Activists and Creatives Repping For Afro-Latinidad, Yara Simon, Remezcla.com
- Dominican Artist Creates Black Madonna For AfroLatinas Everywhere, Marjua Estevez, Vibe.Com
- The Year That Was and Wasnt: 2016, The Morning News.Org
- 33 Phenomenal Gifts For The Badass Black Girl In Your Life, Hannah Giorgis & Bim Adewunmi, Buzzfeed.Com
- Lanzan Campaña #QuizaNoTePegue, SemMexico, Paginabierta.Mx
- #QuizaNoTePegue, Regina Kuri, El Universal-Mexico
- We Asked 20 People To Style Frida Kahlo-Inspired Looks And Heres What Happened, Daniela Cadena, Buzzfeed.Com
- Maybe He Doesnt Hit You But…, Heidi Stevens, ChicagoTribune.Com
- #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou The Domestic Violence Hashtag Making Its Way Into American Schools, Heidi Stevens, Sydney Morning Herald.Com
- #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou Raises Awareness of Different Kinds Of Abuse, Maggie Parker, Time.Com
- I Can Tell You About Lemonade, Laur M. Jackson, Complex.Com
- Afro-Latinos Don’t Fit Neatly In A Box, Janel Martinez, Vivala.Com
- 6 Lit Latinegra Sites You Need To Follow, Jelisa Jay Robinson, TeatroLatinegro.Com
- #GirlBoss: 15 (Mostly) Non-Celebrity Latinx Women You Should Follow On Social Media, Vibe Viva, Vibe.Com
- #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou Explores the Truths about Emotional Abuse, Veronica Wells, MadameNoire.com
- #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou, Five signs that you’re being emotionally abused, Megha Mohan, BBC.Com
- #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou Spotlights Relationship Violence That Isn’t Physical, Marie Solis, Mic.Com
- #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou Twitter hashtag shines a light on emotional abuse, Telegraph.co.uk
- #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou This hashtag shows how abuse is way more than physical, Brittney MacNamara, TeenVogue.com
- #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou Twitter hashtag reminds us that intimate partner violence isn’t always physical, Suzanna Weiss, Bustle.com
- 10 Standout Latinos Who Raised The Bar in 2015, Marjua Estevez, Vibe.Com
- Check Out This Adorable Breakfast-Themed Nail Art, Sandra Song, Paper Mag.Com
- 10 Things You Shouldnt Say To A Latina Feminist, Raquel Reichard, Latina.Com
- 3 Feminist Projects Reclaiming the Landscape, Kayla E, Nat Brut, Medium.com
- Quotes from AfroLatinas on Identity and Empowerment, Janel Martinez, Latina.Com
- Women Crush(ing Patriarchy) Wednesday: Zahira Kelly, Raquel Reichard, Latina.com
- “10 Inspiring Afro-Latina Bloggers You Should Follow”, Chantel Morel, Cosmopolitan.Com
- “11 Latinas You Should be Following on Twitter in 2015”, Alanna Nunez, Cosmopolitan.Com
- La Loca Magazïne – Cover & Centerfold, Issue 9, Winter 2015
- “BBCTrending: US black activists call Twitter protest”, Micah Luxen, BBC.com
- #ThisTweetCalledMyBack
- “A matter of death and death”: Confronting antiblack racism among Latinos”, Aura Bogado, Salon.com
- ”Tweeters of the world, Unite”, Julia Wong, TheNation.Com
- ”An Artist demands civility on the street with grit and buckets of paste”, Felicia Lee, NYTimes.Com
- “Selfies Are Art”, Noah Berlatsky, TheAtlantic.Com
- “Feminist selfies took over twitter and it was awesome”, Jamilah King, Colorlines.Com
- ”The semiotics of race, or: walks on the wild side”, Aamina Khan, Blackgirldangerous.com
- “Zahira Kelly: Afrolatina artist emerging with a mission”, Jim Linderman, ArtSlant.Com
