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Photoville 2021
Exhibition
Malikah: Building Power and Safety for Our Communities
18 Sep 2021 – 30 Mar 2022
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Address
- New York City Building
- Flushing Meadows Corona Park
- New York
New York - 11368
- United States
The Queens Museum is excited to partner with Photoville 2021 on the presentation of two outdoor photography exhibitions.
About
Malikah: Building Power and Safety for Our Communities aims to capture the love, strength, and joy within our community as we collectively use self-defense and healing as a tool to build power and safety for all women. Malikah was founded by Astoria native Rana Abdelhamid, to build community and share resources with people impacted by hate and gender-based violence in a post-9/11 New York City. This series highlights the beauty and importance of our individual and collective journeys as we work towards a more just world.
The images were taken in August of 2021, during a public self-defense workshop in Astoria Park organized by Malikah and facilitated by Rana Abdelhamid. In the workshop, participants were introduced to techniques in physical de-escalation, bystander intervention, and verbal de-escalation. Documented by photographer Zynab Cewalam, the workshop was open to all women and gender-expansive people, and intentionally centered the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
