Mikayla Purnell

Mikayla Purnell

She/Her

Swarthmore College

Mikayla Purnell

Project

Documenting the Vibrance of Black Joy

  • United Kingdom
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  • France
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  • Togo
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  • Senegal
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  • Barbados
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  • Panama
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  • Portugal
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  • Spain
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  • Iceland

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Afro heritage festivals are critical venues where Black communities express their identities and heritage. I explored how people continue to rejoice in these contexts, even as they process the past and current realities of anti-blackness.

Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation
Mikayla Purnell traveling with the Watson Foundation

Winter 2024 Fellows