“As a cultural worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.”
— Toni Cade Bambara
Artist + Educator + Curator + Collaborator
Raised by a village of working-class storytellers, doll makers, artists, spiritualists, hustlers and community organizers, Ra Malika Imhotep is invested in heartfelt, care-centered and holistic approaches to communal well-being, cultural production and Black liberation.
Currently living, practicing, and dreaming in Atlanta, Ga, Ra works across mediums to apply principles of disability justice and the eternal impulses of Black feminist world-making to collaborative efforts that “make revolution irresistible.”
Presently this work is rooted through my roles as: a writer, an educator [assistant professor] at Spelman College, co-convener of the spiritual-political education project The Church of Black feminist Thought, and member of The Black Aesthetic Curatorial Collective.
I make informal public offerings through my virtual diary “outta my cotton pickin’ mind” and TikTok (@tarbabydoll)
“…marvels of my own inventiveness.”
“In order for me to speak a truer word concerning myself, I must strip down through layers of attenuated meanings, made an excess in time, over time, assigned by a particular historical order, and there await whatever marvels of my own inventiveness. The personal pronouns are offered in the service of a collective function.”
– Hortense J. Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammer Book”
Reading Room exhibition @ Antenna Gallery, New Orleans
2022
The Cotton Patch
Performative Lecture anchored by Toni Morrison’s essay“The Site of Memory”
Hosted by The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s Black Life Series
July 20th 2019