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Black Light is a column by Governor General Award-winning writer Amanda Parris that spotlights, champions and challenges art and popular culture that is created by Black people and/or centres Black people. While Amanda is away on maternity leave, a different writer will be featured in a guest edition of the column each month. This month s edition is an essay by writer, filmmaker and musician Matthew Progress.
I m a Black storyteller who has been shaped by the stories that were told to me. I was gifted Pan Africanism from my Garveyite elders, Black abstraction from my contemporary art mentors, and unconditional self-love from my grandmother. But learning about the powerful complexities of my culture has never been an endeavour that mainstream film and television could help me with even amidst a new wave of Black representation.