So pleased to drop the FIRST conversation for our segment with BIPOC creatives on Colonialism, Nationalism, and [the harmful illusion of] White Supremacy. These issues are so pervasive—they seep into almost every area of our lives in one form or another, so much so, that many don’t even question the grievous harm that upholding these ideals causes. While most people who identify as “white” ignore their effects, it is beyond time for us to take on these burdens, and eradicate them.
This segment is not an attempt to obtain our guests’ labor for “solving” these issues—that’s on us white folx. These episodes are just conversations with amazing creatives, who have very different lives from one another, but all have to deal with societal marginalization(s) based on these three ideals on a daily basis. Although the three ideologies are titular, the conversational focus is on our guests’ lives and work.
Our first conversation is with Adero Knott, an emerging curator, inventor, and Founder of AK Prosthetics, an AdaptiveTech startup that makes customized prosthetics and adaptive wear accessible and inclusive. Her first foray into curating was with the show "Disability and Perspective", one of four exhibitions from the Commons Artist Project by Norman Teague and Fo Wilson, which debuted at MCA Chicago, about making art and life more accessible, how we might expand sensory experiences at museums and art galleries, her road to becoming an entrepreneur, being a dark-skinned, Black woman in the tech world, how to invest in her accessible prosthetics app, and her highly varied experiences with racism around the world.
