BLM Sweatshirt for Ogemdi

$49.00 AUD - $50.00 AUD

Ogemdi Ude is a talented movement artist, educator, and doula. She graciously enabled me to paint some portraits of her dancing so that I could design this shirt and raise money for Black Women for Wellness, a group committed to the health and well-being of Black women and girls through health education, empowerment, and advocacy. In October, over $500 was raised from this shirt which was donated to Black Women for Wellness, you can read more about their organisation here - https://www.bwwla.org/

New profits will go to AfroPeach, an upcoming series of free virtual and in person dance workshops for Black postpartum people created by Ogemdi Ude and Rochelle Jamila Wilbun. AfroPeach is based in New York City, where Black birthing people are 12 times more likely than white birthing people to die. Structural racism plays a key role in this maternal health disparity. AfroPeach aims to decrease the Black maternal mortality disparity by fostering a supportive wellness space for Black postpartum people. Rochelle and Ogemdi uniquely blend movement healing practices and doula care to support Black families in thriving in the year following birth.
Sale profits will go directly towards AfroPeach's start up costs.

From Ogemdi
'Dance is deadass the best thing that has ever happened to me. I used to dread it - class made me anxious, the environments were often racist, classist, and abusive. It wasn't my own. But now I know dance is my community, my culture, my futurity, my beautiful black femme friends, my transforming body, my stillness and my speed. I love making it doing it watching it reading about it talking about it making friends because of it going places because of it. Because of dance, I know my body and others' more intimately; I know how to love people deeper, in their fleshiness, in their permanence and impermanence.'

Because this shirt is made to order, no exchanges can be given.

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