The Sunflowerfolk Jukebox
As of 2023. I have been in charge of the Sunflower Girl Collective for years. I have been in higher education for twice that long. I have been a lover of music all my life. I called the group “the girls” not because of the way gender applies to anyone involved with the collective currently, but to honor the girlhood and inner child we hold within us all in the style of Morrison. bell hooks, and related scholars.
The space is a stride towards centering Black girls (both youthful and femme, including my inner self) in literary, artistic and narrative research and play. Storytelling, artistry and personal narrative usage can allow us to practice exposing evidence often neglected by ethnocentrism.
Musical events in the DMV such as gogo and Moechella, both local and national, have proven to garner a strong cultural platform in the area where the collective/movement was formed, the way musical events around Jersey club music has proven to garner a strong cultural platform in the area where the founder of the movement is from.
The space is a stride towards centering Black girls (both youthful and femme, including my inner self) in literary, artistic and narrative research and play. Storytelling, artistry and personal narrative usage can allow us to practice exposing evidence often neglected by ethnocentrism.
Musical events in the DMV such as gogo and Moechella, both local and national, have proven to garner a strong cultural platform in the area where the collective/movement was formed, the way musical events around Jersey club music has proven to garner a strong cultural platform in the area where the founder of the movement is from.