About me
(she/her or they/them)aliyahblackmore16@gmail.com
Who they are
Aliyah is a queer Afro-Caribbean editor, zine maker, DJ, and writer/researcher based in New York.
Their work
Through her research and art making, Aliyah engages with the multi-dimensional threads, narratives, and histories that run through Caribbean and Black Diasporic histories. She seeks to deepen her understanding of how our modes of cultural production foster spaces of resistance and recovery against systems of violence.
Themes of Caribbean cosmology, queerness, ancestral memory, history, and refusal are central to her work.
Her work has been shown at:
- Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair
- soundsaboutriso (by Lucky Risograph)
- Lichen (commision by Essential Herbs)
- REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater)
Other things
She was the former Communications Manager at Maysles Documentary Center. And she was a teaching assistant for Reading, Writing, & Compiling Zines at SFPC with Neta Bomani (Fall 2023).
She’s currently a Content Strategist. And she’s the founder and lead for Bright Spots Zine, a zine project that maps Black Caribbean Diasporic history through free printed material.
Here’s what she’s read, listened to, or donated to last month