Extra: Rixy, Ja’Hari, Wavy Wednesday

We are often told that we are too extra. Melissa Harris-Perry writes, “Shamed for being fast, womanly, or too damn grown, Black girls are encouraged to stop doing so much or being extra.” But what if the gallery space became a proxy for our truest expression of ourselves, embrace all of our strengths, weaknesses, and quirks, and transcend white supremacist capitalist patriarchy/machismo?

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