Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald | Portrait of a Black feminist Kpelle woman on Massacoe land | I took this portrait during the summer of 2019. I had just returned to Massacoe ancestral lands (known by settlers as Connecticut), after spending 6-months in the West African territory known today as Liberia. This was a time of deep reconnection with my Kpelle ancestry, through dance, food, clothes, storytelling, and just being. The self-portrait reflects my re-entering Western society, after being totally bathed in my African roots. // As the title of the work says, I am a Black feminist, which feels important to name today and always. I find peace in the words of Black feminists (bell hooks, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Combahee River Collective, etc.) who I consider to be architects of our map towards liberation. Somehow my self-portrait is part of that map; my body is part of that map. I am building and re-building myself as a liberated, autonomous, indigenous, African, Black, femme, feminist, ancestral body. I am simultaneously an architect and a part of the construction of a possible new world; one that is rooted in Black feminism.