About me



Aliyah is an Afro-Caribbean editor, zine maker, DJ, and writer/researcher based in New York. She received her M.A. in International Affairs with a concentration in Media and Culture from The New School in 2019.

Through their research and art making, Aliyah engages with the multi-dimensional threads, narratives, and histories that run through Caribbean and Black Diasporic experiences seeking to deepen her understanding of how our modes and forms of cultural production foster spaces of resistance and recovery.

Themes of Caribbean cosmology, queerness, ancestral memory as spirituality, history, identity, and place are central to her work.

Her work has shown at Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair, soundsaboutriso (by Lucky Risograph), and Lichen (commision by Essential Herbs). Her zine “Why do you wake up before the sun?” is currently available at Colby College library.  And they were the assistant teacher for a course on zine making at SFPC with Neta Bomani in Fall 2023.

She was the former Communications Manager at Maysles Documentary Center.

She’s currently a Digital Writer and Strategist. And she’s the founder/lead for Bright Spots Zine, a zine project that maps Black Caribbean Diasporic history through free printed material.


Pronouns

[she/her or they/them]

Email

aliyahblackmore16@gmail.com