Thread by @heavencrawley

On Monday 14th Sept we will be launching #theartistandtheprof, an artistic collaboration between myself and @LauraNyahuye @maokwo exploring themes of #migration #identity #belonging and what it means to be boxed in and categorised as #migrants #women #mothers #wives...(1/?)

Funded by @covcampus @warwickuni as part of @Coventry2021 this collaboration has been undertaken entirely online during the #COVID19 #lockdown It's been a powerful and challenging experience for many different reasons. We've laughed and cried, written and woven... (2/?)

For both of us this is the first time that we've had an opportunity to #stop #breathe #pause and reflect on the ways in which our own and societal expectations of gendered and racialized roles and responsibilities have shaped our lives #morethanalabel #beyondcategories (3/?)

By sharing our experiences – often in very frank and explicit ways – we want to highlight ways in which, as #women, we can come together to push against categories that limit individual and collective possibilities for change. Our experiences make us who we are #crackednotbroken

The challenge to all of us – and one that has been reflected in so many of my conversations with @LauraNyahuye during this collaboration – is how to do things differently, how to see the #connections, build new partnerships, new forms of #solidarity (5/?)

Many of us care passionately about the #injustices we see around us but find ourselves working alone, becoming increasingly frustrated/exhausted by the struggle to change anything
#theartistandtheprof has taught us is that we have #moreincommon than we ever imagined (6/?)

We hope you will like our work but more than anything we hope you will want to connect with us, share your own reflections on what it means to be a #woman #migrant #artist #prof and how we can #buildconnections and #solidarity together, how we can find the #dappledlight (7/?)

More on Monday! In the meantime you can follow us on Instagram at the_artist_and_the_prof or send us an email [e-mail] We don't know where this is going yet but we do know we don't want it to end here! #dontboxme #iammanythings (8/?)

Finally, big thanks to the team at #coventrycreates who are currently pulling together our work and that of 17 other collaborations into a digital exhibition which to be launched later this month. We can't wait to see what everyone else has come up and build new connections (9/9)