Wonderful Blackiful People: Bay Area Changemakers A to Z

An Inspiring Celebration of Black Changemakers, Past and Present, from the San Francisco Bay Area

Wonderful Blackiful People shines a light on the indelible contributions made by 26 of the Bay Area's most influential Black individuals, whose work has moved society forward towards a more just, equitable, and interesting place.

Learn about the important lives of Black Panthers, poets, musicians, activists, artists, and workers while enjoying the unique interpretive portraits created by the Blackiful Collective's artists. Among those included are Betty Reid Soskin, who at the age of 100 was the oldest park ranger in the National Park Service; Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, better known as award-winning musician Fantastic Negrito; radical lesbian poet Pat Parker; and Black Panthers Ericka Huggins and Fredrika Newton.

The text in this book is set in Atkinson Hyperlegible, an award-winning typeface named for Braille Institute founder J. Robert Atkinson that makes written materials easier to read across the entire visual-ability spectrum, including readers who are living with dyslexia and its multiple variants.

Author: Blackiful Collective
Publisher: Manic D Press
Published: 08/01/2023
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781945665424

About the Author
The Blackiful Collective is a collective of Black neurodivergent artists who co-create Black social and aesthetic space at the Creativity Explored art studio and beyond. Through regular social gatherings (both virtual and in-person), workshops, exhibitions, and publications, Blackiful empowers its members to cultivate individual and collective self-determination. Current members include artists Adrianna Simeon, Alissa Bledsoe, Joseph "J.D." Green, Joseph Omolayole, Laron Bickerstaff, and Vincent Jackson.

d. Wright is interested in the limits of language. Through drawing, installation, and experiments in sound, d. explores what it is like, as subject, to be regarded as object. d. lives and works in Chicago, IL.