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Facilitated Collaboration for Black Lives Matter
Read Alexandra Brown’s texts reflecting on what it means to collaborate and respond to each other’s art and words. Featuring art by Marisa Mark.
Welcome to an honouring of the sensation and expression of Pain in the Neurodivergent experience of Womanhood
Magical Women have been exploring the power in holding spaces for Neurodivergent women, In Solidarity poets and Magical Women allies who can come together and make art, share experience and create!
The Neurodivergent experience is so often to “Act!” and whilst we are in Lockdown and many of us are working remotely or have lost employment and lead uncertain futures, we invited freelance writer, poet and academic Alexandra Brown to share a piece of writing and other Neurodivergent women responded to her words through their art-making practice.
“What is the difference between
’absence’ and ‘loss’? ”
— ALEXANDRA BROWN
All paintings and drawings by autistic artist Marisa Mack
“What if in your attempt to articulate both,
they become synonymous?”
— ALEXANDRA BROWN
“What if you are in a
state of sorrow and lament
for something that was never yours”
— ALEXANDRA BROWN
by autistic artist, Marisa Mack
Self Portrait by Elinor Rowlands, 2017
Self Portrait by ER, 2017
Self Portrait by Elinor Rowlands, 2017
“What if you are in a
state of sorrow and lament
for something that was never yours”
— ALEXANDRA BROWN
Necessary Chaos by autistic artist Marisa Mack
Pain within the Sublime by Pascale Gourlay
“Yet
not having it plagues you
with a sense of anguish and a deep
feeling that you are not whole?”
— ALEXANDRA BROWN
Maggie by Patricia Homersham
“What if your screams of
pain and torment are so loud
that it transcends the limited
capacity of the human ear….
and dwells in the terrain of the divine”
— ALEXANDRA BROWN
by autistic artist Marisa Mack
by Intuitive Oils’ artist Anna Dyson
by Intuitive Oils’ artist Anna Dyson
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Sore Wings, Muted Call, by Elinor Rowlands
Wisdom in Travail by Marisa Mack
Divine Melodies by Elinor Rowlands
“into soothing melodies
that connect us with our Creator.”
— ALEXANDRA BROWN
Alexandra’s words transformed during the experience of the shared space to attend to her writing practice.
“I am burning with desire
for a place I can call my own”
— ALEXANDRA BROWN
by Marisa Mack
“Where I can immerse myself
within the richness and fullness
of my very essence”
— ALEXANDRA BROWN
“A place where the multitudes of worlds
in which I dwell can collide and its impact
is one of vibrancy, acceptance and wholeness”
— ALEXANDRA BROWN
by Marisa Mack
by autistic artist Marisa Mack
“A place where the multitudes of worlds
in which I dwell can collide and its impact
is one of vibrancy, acceptance and wholeness”
— ALEXANDRA BROWN
“In this place I can turn water into wine
And love in my language”
— ALEXANDRA BROWN
by Aimee Grant
by Aimee Grant
“In this place, I am no longer consumed
by the pain that once devoured me”
— ALEXANDRA BROWN
About the Writer
Alexandra Brown, is an Oxford (PGCE) graduate teaching RE, Philosophy and Ethics. She studied non-western Christian and Womanist theology. Specialist subjects include Social Justice; race, class, gender, and critical pedagogy. Brown is a freelance writer, poet and academic. She is British born of African-Caribbean (Ghanaian and Jamaican) heritage.
Learn more about Alexandra’s journey from her first prose to the the second after writing in a shared space.
Experience transformation through her reflections.
Photograph by autistic artist Marisa Mack