Studio Naz

Chai, picnic, snacks, board games, bougainvillea, marigolds, q***r🦚🦚💜. If I could choose, I would be making murals like this all year. I'll be sharing more about this new café soon as they're getting ready to open!

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Just two more days to go! On June 26, we’ll gather in Den Haag for the launch of Kala Pani: 1873–2023.

This is your final reminder to register via the link in bio of ***r. Join us for a wonderful program starting with a vegan Hindostani dinner, a Sarnámi language icebreaker by , genealogy workshop by Usha Marhé, a panel with Louise Autar, Priya Swamy and Pravini Baboeram, and spoken word by Smita James.

The Kala Pani publication, a collection of writing by women inspired by the art of , will be available for purchase at the event. This is the first opportunity to get your hands on a physical copy!

We look forward to welcoming you.

Date: 26 June
Time: 17:30 – 22:00
Location: Den Haag
Register via the link in bio of ***r

So cool to have gotten the opportunity to design this board game based on 30 seconds! This is a version called 3tenti with a focus on Surinamese culture and learning words in Sranantongo together with your friends and family. To find out how to get one go to !

For the Dutch translation of 'Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic' publisher ROSE Stories added Dutch black role models to the book. And so I created the portraits of DIPSAUS and Zaïre Krieger for this version!

I approached someone to share their reflections on this drawing. To me it's a depiction of a q***r utopian city built of influences from around the world.

This is what she came up with. How would you reflect on this?

"The world we made stopped earlier this year. Not the natural one of course. The sun still rose and set, dilligently trading places with the moon each day. And now it's like somebody's trying to kickstart the engine that is doing everything it can to turn over. Relics of the stopping are visible everywhere from advertisements for grand debuts scheduled for April 2020 that never happened or sidewalks spotted with face coverings. We've had the chance to reexamine not just our world but our very selves in this process. Accidentally showed ourselves that a new world might be possible. Of injustice not being allowed to hide after its failed more of us than we can count. Of time being something we actually have a lot more of. Of priorities and values allowed to be something communal rather than corporate. Of what essential actually means. If knowledge is power, what are we going to do with this? And if power brings with it responsibility, what will we do with that?" - Aparna Shrivastava