Photo Book - "Spirit Desire: – Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Vodounâ€
"Spirit Desire: – Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Vodoun”, is a celebration of Haitian Vodoun as a site of resistance, decolonization, and community. The series which includes images of everyday living, ritual, and ceremony, aims to shift the gaze from representations that depict Vodoun as negative and instead present a decolonizing narrative: one in which voduizɑ̃n engage with a consciousness and spirituality that celebrates our humanity rather than focusing on a set of prescribed normative identities.
Sokari Ekine is a Queer Nigerian British Feminist, diasporic nomad, visual scholar, and activist, writer, educator seeking out new possibilities and ways of being beyond the normative and hegemony of whiteness, heterosexuality and native informers.