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My name is Rebekah Ubuntu. I am a multi-media performance artist, musician and recent graduate of the British Institute of Modern Music London. I have just completed two conceptual EPs slated for release in 2019/2020. I feel honoured to be Guest Editor for the August edition of Sound and Music’s blog ‘The Sampler’. Thank you for having me!
For me survival is the core of my creative practice. As a Black non-binary gender non-conforming queer person I make work that centers, visibilises and normalises who I am. When it came time to choose my interviewees I asked five contemporaries from within the queer and *QTIBPOC arts scene to participate and they kindly agreed. I wanted to explore with each of my siblings how their identities influenced their sound and music practices.
I hope you enjoy!
*You will find a helpful glossary of terms relevant to these interviews in a digital publication entitled ‘Women and Non-Binary Identities’ created by the educational platform Shades of Noir which is linked to at the bottom of each interview.
I interviewed the following practitioners
Ayesha Tan Jones aka YaYa Bones
Hannah Catherine Jones aka Foxy Moron
For accompanying interview audio see here
The questions I explored with these artists were:
URLs
Hannah Catherine Jones aka Foxy Moron
Ayesha Tan Jones aka YaYa Bones
http://www.ayeshatanjones.com/
Lorraine James
https://lorainejames.bandcamp.com/
Daniel Brathwaite Shirley
https://danielbs2211.wixsite.com/daniel
Jaca Freer
*Terminology Glossary (created by Shades of Noir)
https://issuu.com/shadesofnoir/docs/women___non_binary_identities/8