art on this page is from Dreaming Liberatory Ancestral Futures a collaboration between Ani Ganzala & Taya Mâ which was a cover feature of the Interdisciplinary Journal for Partnership Studies, fostering cultural transformation from domination to partnership & prioritizing the advancement of human rights and nonviolence, gender and racial equity, and the adoption of new metrics rendering visible the economic value of care. Ani’s piece Aruanda (above, acrylic) highlights the relationship between the Black Diaspora and botanical technologies for physical and spiritual healing, and their piece No mundo aquático dos peixes e réptais, nós sonhamos / In the aquatic world of fish and reptiles, we dream (below, acrylic) depicts physical and spiritual connection through black and queer love.

Ani Ganzala is an Afro-Indigenous visual artist, activist and mother whose work revolves around the love and spirituality of black women and LBTQIAPN and the honoring of nature and the ecosystem in which we live. Taya Mâ Shere is a ritual artist embracing embodied, earth-reverent devotion as liberatory spiritual practice. Ani & Taya Mâ first connected on the sacred shores of Bahia, Brasil almost two decades ago. Their creative work is rooted in ancestral dreaming, earth reverence and spiritual activism.

Taya Mâ’s piece Solidarity (below, work-in-progress) is a lovesong for liberation, an invocation of interdependence, and a call for collective care across realms, born from making ritual and offering prayersong for a free Palestine.