Sikiliza

If listening is a form of attention, and attention is a form of love, Bella Cox's Sikiliza presents itself as both an imperative and a promise for exploration of the bonds that tie the constituent elements of a self together.

A self woven from voices rooted in different continents.

A self both defined by and defying notions of what it means to be woman, sister, daughter, lover, loved, queer.

A self versed in the languages of scalpels and flowers.

A self that howls, soothes and sings off-key. A self that's unapologetically here, wherever here may be.