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Victorian Jamaica, published by Duke University Press, is out! Congratulations and thank you Tim Barringer and Wayne Modest for patiently seeing this through to the end! I was so honoured to be asked to contribute an essay on photography and South Asian indentured labor.

In June I travelled to Sicily to attend Resignifications: Black Mediterranean, a conference held at the University of Palermo from June 6-9. Making the most of the geography of Sicily and its physical and conceptual proximity to the African continent, the conference brought a unique community of artists, activists and scholars together to discuss, collaborate and dream.

Returning home to Perth is always a pleasure. This August I’ll be heading back to Western Australia (after a couple of lectures and talks at the University of Sydney and Deakin University in Melbourne), to deliver a public lecture and teach a Masterclass at my beautiful alma mater, the University of Western Australia.

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African diasporic artists inhabited complex aesthetic and social worlds, and this new book will illuminate the complex historical conditions of being a Black diasporic artist during this period and bring attention to how such conditions informed the work these artists produced.