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Buseje Bailey. reasons why we have to disappear every once in a while. A Black Art History Project by Yaniya Lee

Buseje Bailey. reasons why we have to disappear every once in a while. A Black art history project by Yaniya Lee is a chapbook that collects a sample of documents, originally published between 1987 and 1993, related to the career of Black lesbian artist Buseje Bailey, documents which Yaniya Lee found in the Artexte documentary collection during her research residency. These are reprinted alongside a new interview with Buseje Bailey and a letter by artist Sandra Brewster. This is also a record of Yaniya Lee’s experimental approach to archival research which suggests a model for ways of study, curate, and write about Black Canadian art.

Hosted by the Black Studies Summer Seminar. The Black Studies Summer Seminar is a one-week, on-campus, research-intensive seminar that explores various themes in or connected to Black studies. It honours the field’s radical interdisciplinarity by centering collaboration, co-creation, and experiential learning. It brings together Black artists and scholars at the intersection of imagination and academic trajectories, necessitating alternative modalities of knowledge production and the intramural.

This year’s Black Studies Summer Seminar will take place in Kingston, Ontario, from June 9-13, 2025, featuring workshops, seminars, keynote lectures, and dedicated spaces for critical discussion, meaningful engagement, and gathering.