Nydia Swaby

Nydia Swaby, is a black feminist artist-researcher, writer, and curator. Her works examines and celebrates the life of Amy Ashwood Garvey, a Pan-Africanist activist who co-founded Negro World and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Quotes I viewed Amy Ashwood Garvey as someone who understood the significant politics of her life and the landscape in which she operated. She had an understanding of herself and how her politics were connected to these different but overlapping transnational, Pan-African, feminist struggles Archiving the Life of Amy Ashwood Garvey: An Interview with Nydia A. Swaby have found it helpful to engage the kinds of things that she collected, observed, and wrote about other projects and people. And also, the way in which she wrote in her letters about her politics, her passions, her relationships, her internal world. Archiving the Life of Amy Ashwood Garvey: An Interview with Nydia A. Swaby