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It's episode 17 of A View from the Box - The Podcast and I am speaking to the sage and sensational d’bi.young anitafrika.

d’bi.young is an internationally acclaimed visionary dub poet, playwright-performer, director-dramaturge, and activist-scholar, who creates, embodies, and teaches critical dub pedagogy. Culminating their PhD in Black womyn’s theatre at London South Bank University, their research centers on the epistemological, ontological, cosmological, ethical, aesthetic, and somatic emancipation of the oppressed self through theatre-making. d’bi.young developed the Anitafrika Method—a nurturant Black-queer-feminist pedagogy of transformation—offering arts practitioners globally, an intersectional framework of knowing, doing, and being. A widely anthologized Siminovitch Playwright Prize finalist, three-time Dora award winner, and founding Artistic Director of Watah Theatre, Spolrusie Press, and Ubuntu Decolonial Arts Centre in Costa Rica, d’bi.young has authored twelve plays, seven albums, and four poetry collections. d’bi.young currently serves as lead faculty in the training programs of Soulpepper and Obsidian theatre companies. Having recently completed a sessional term at UVic’s Theatre Department, their current initiatives include leading the Black Womxn Theatre Digital Archive project, launching Watah Theatre’s new Black Theatre School, and preparing for the 20th-anniversary production of their multi-ward-winning Sankofa Trilogy.

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