In this second collection of poetry from d'bi.young.anitafrika, over 40 new works in rivers... show the complexities of a powerful womban her passion, tenderness, intelligence, militance and jubilation written on every page.
OYA is d'bi.young anitafrika's 3rd collection of writing. The book traverses current socio-political world realities from a very intimate and personal lens. Inspired by and dedicated to Oya, Orisha Goddess of Transformation and Defender of Womxn, anitafrika continues to ask potent questions and insists that r/evolutionary change is an ongoing personal practice that mushrooms into […]
The collection broaches a wide range of themes and theories including Anti-Black Racism, Biomythography, Black Feminist Thought, Childhood Sexual Trauma, Critical Race Theory, Depression, Dub Theatre, Emancipation, Gender and Sexuality, Homophobia, Jamaican Diaspora Experience, Love, the Maroons, Motherhood, Misogyny, Pan Africanism, Post-Colonial Theory, Post-Traumatic Stress, Queer Theory, Social Change, Revolution, Self-Love, Self-Recovery, Spirituality, and Suicide.
blood.claat is a full-length one-woman play by d'bi.young.anitafrika, which is presented in both English and Spanish (sangre with translation by queen nzinga maxwell edwards. It tells the coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Mudgu SanKofa, a girl in Kingston, Jamaica. Mudgu encounters her reggae-loving boyfriend, a machete-wielding stranger and her religious aunty as she bridges the gap between innocence and maturity.
d'bi.young anitafrika's first collection of poetry published by Women's Press in 2006.
Powerful yet serene, The Conception of Winter is about women, their friendships, loyalties, and pain. But most of all it about physical, mental, and spiritual healing.
She is a complex novel in poetry and prose poetry, crafted with visual form and eloquent language. Penelope-Marie Lancet, an immigrant from Trinidad who lives in Calgary, yearns for a child to the point of obsession. She sees a child as her salvation. Her fervour results in a false pregnancy and in her denial she forms […]