Live reading performance
Duration: 22 mins

The Mary Prince Narratives Part III (2024) was a live reading performing excerpts from The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave. Related by Herself (1831). Prince is the first known Black woman to relate a narrative about the experience of being enslaved, published in England.

The goal of this reading performance is not just to recite archival material; it aims to embody it,  reanimating the voice of an enslaved Black woman to life through my own presence. It constitutes an act of temporal collapse, folding colonial history into the contemporary Black British body as both witness and reinterpreter.

This event was part of the Black Voices public programme proposed by transfeminisms co-curator Christine Eyene and took place at Mimosa House on 31 July 2024. The reading was accompanied by London-based Estonian cellist and improviser Kirke Gross