Joselia Rebekah Hughes (b.1988, New York, NY) is a disabled Afro-Caribbean writer and self-taught artist. Her mediums of practice include fiction and poetry, performance, drawing, painting, photography, zine-making and fiber work. Joselia’s practice seeks to untangle languages of finitude, instrument abstractions to surface conditions of disabled Blackness, and interrogate reclamation through play as a means to examine societal perceptions and values around ability, chronic illness and disability. She’s performed at bookstores and art centers around New York City including The Strand, Bronx Art Space, Participant Inc, and National Sawdust and the Poetry Project. Some of her writing has appeared in Apogee Journal and Ocean State Review. She has finished her full length poetry manuscript, Blackable: A Nopem.
Readings & Performances
2020
Microcosmos: A Zoom Reading Series, Everywhere the Internet Touches, April 5
Audre Lorde: A Celebration of a Black Lesbian Mother Warrior Poet at Cult Party, Brooklyn, NY, February 23
2019
heartbeats.exe :: abstract [body] at Peninsula Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, November 8
Poetry at the Baumann IX, Brooklyn, NY, October 18
Stage Garden Rumba at Taqwa Community Farm, Bronx, NY, August 24
Absolute Love at PARTICIPANT INC, New York, NY, July 21
Kitchen Islands for Happy Family Night Market, New York, NY, July 13
Baby Universe (co-curator) at Footlight Bar, Queens, NY, April 19
Sparkle Nation Book Club at Larrie Gallery, New York, NY, April 18
L'Rain Residency at National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY, April 5
Book Row, Brooklyn, NY, April 4
A Love Letter Reading 7 at POWRPLNT, Brooklyn, NY, February 14
Sincere Hate Zine Release at Baby Castles, New York, NY, January 16
2018
Molasses Books, Brooklyn, NY, October 19 & November 15
Crush Curatorial, New York, NY, October 13
Final Fantasy at Friends and Lovers, Brooklyn, NY, September 25
Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY, September 15
Shoestring Studio, Brooklyn, NY, July 14
The Strand, New York, NY, July 11
New Women Space Open Mic, Brooklyn, NY, June 1
Odiosas Open Mic at Bronx Art Space; Bronx, NY, April 20
Art Books, Interviews & Publications
2021
Poem: JAW[N]BONE SOUP, The Hard Work of Hope, Mass Poetry
Two poems: EATING AT ANOTHER TABLE BLACK_SPACE’D (BORON) & EATING AT ANOTHER TABLE (BERYLLIUM), Apogee Journal: 15
Interview: Leste Magazine: Issue 10, Dan Shapiro and HOLEPLAY
2020
Poem: JAW[N]BONE SOUP, Poems and Texts, The Poetry Project
Newsletter: Black_Space'd , self-published, digital
2019
Micro essay: Ten Women Weight In On What They Learned About Love in Their Twenties, Madamenoire, digital, December 13
Poem: "An Abstract to Solange" in Ocean State Review, print
Zine: Vitamin See, self-published, 59 print copies, July 21
Zine: For Lovers Who Need More Than They Get, self-published, 15 print copies, Jul 21
Interview: Five Questions Interview, digital, May 25
https://fivequestions.club/post/184987067512/joselia-hughes
2018
Art Book: Traumagrams: A Book of Abstractions, self-made, August-November
Zine: Heartbeats But No Air, self-published, 85 print copies & digital edition , July 11
2012
Zine: HbSC, self-published, digital edition
2011
Micro essay: "Concealed Revealed: In The Bedroom", Jewish Currents: Summer & Autumn, print
Zine: An Unraveling, self-published, digital edition
Group Exhibitions
2020
TO BE ANNOUNCED
2019
"My Body Is A House That We Live In" curated by Ezra Benus at Gibney Dance Studio
September 25-October 10