Daughters of the Dust Q&A with Sarah-Tai Black

Q&A with Sarah-Tai Black from our screening of Daughters of the Dust, part of the series Reimagining the Black Diaspora: Spirituality, Mythology and Collective Memory.
About Reimagining the Black Diaspora:
Understanding what it means to encompass various parts of our identity through the act of remembering is one that is often complicated by the loss of generational knowledge. This consciousness is often passed down by ancestors but can be removed or erased from certain communities. The prioritization of western ways of mythology for the Black diaspora is asking of us to reanalyze what it means for the diaspora to have access to their autonomy of self-actualization of spirituality. The films in this series examine what it means to recollect histories and the ways we can conceptualize mythology.
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Sarah-Tai Black bio:
Sarah-Tai is a film programmer, arts curator, and critic who was born and (mostly) raised in Treaty 13 Territory/Toronto. They are a non-binary femme of Afro-Brazilian, Chinese, and European settler ancestry whose creative efforts work to center embodied Black, queer, trans, and crip futurities. They are interested in art and space making that inspires immediate, all-encompassing feeling, speaks back to conventional ways of seeing and being seen, and experiments counter to presupposed boundaries of form and structure. Sarah-Tai regularly contributes film criticism to The Globe and Mail and The Los Angeles Times and has written for platforms such as Berlinale Forum, Cinema Scope, MUBI Notebook, and CBC Arts, as well as alongside several artist projects. They currently work as International Mid-Length Programmer at Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival; they are also a selected participant in McMaster Museum of Art’s 2022-2023 Curatorial Mentorship Program working under the guidance of curator Pamela Edmonds with support from Canadian Heritage.