BWMM is a Poetry Film debut by Spoken Word Artist and Creative Director Stella B. Produced by Ibuka Films. Starring: Elise Palmer Sapphire Mcintosh Naomi Minot Creatress YaYa Phoenix Martins Gabrielle Quaye Olivia May Isen Torera Fagbenle Deborah Ikiebe Sound Recorded by Blackmale Beats This three part moving image uses the spoken word of Stella B to talk about how Beauty has been constructed by the White men of Hollywood and sold to African women as an impossible idea. This thought provoking work questions the pseudo science that states African women are the most undesirable race. Yet in Italy thousands of African women have been trafficked for sex work in Europe with a clear demand for the dark fantasy. The work is not to be seen as sad or discouraging but as an empowerment tool as women wake up and recognise their strength which has been dormant for a long time.
I was moved to write the poem that is recited in the middle section of the poetry film ‘revelations’. Shot on a rainy and cold afternoon in September, the perfect imagery was chosen by Ray Price of Ibuka Films and myself to capture the messages of the poem. There is pseudo science out there that analyses beauty and places African women as the lowest ranking when it comes to commercial beauty globally. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388313/LSE-psychologist-Satoshi-Kanazawa-claims-black-women-attractive.html
Perhaps the justifying reason for extraditing us from the official stats of the market sales in the beauty industry. ‘So why are there Nigerian Sex Workers in Italy’? A bold and serious question to ask.
Black women are often stereo typed as agressive, but what do we have to be so mad about?
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