What tool would you make to support Black and Indigenous resilience?

Hand Tools of Resilience was an International open call for African diaspora and indigenous artist, convened by Nikesha Breeze.

African Diasporic and Indigenous people throughout time have created both tangible and intangible tools for survival and continued resilience in the face of global oppression and systemic racism. This project asks African Diasporic and Indigenous artists to examine the conscious and unconscious tools that Black and Indigenous people have created to survive and to thrive and to build. We can imagine internal tools for extinguishing gaslighting and passive racist treatment, tools that take the shape of covert and overt armor or protective talismans, or hand-tools for loosening systems of oppression or chisels for shaping new Black and Indigenous realities. What tool would you make to support Black and Indigenous resilience? What tools can you imagine? What tools are you will you carry into a new world?

the jury included Indigenous artist Rose B. Simpson; Ghanaian artist and activist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo; artist Le’Andra LeSeur, and independent curator Isra Rene.