Rhoda Adum Boateng is a writer and archivist, she writes under the moniker trusting mechanics to think through possibilities in maintenance and metabolization. Rhoda is in the current cohort of the Griot’s Well Poetry Development Programme and is a member of BORN::FREE writer’s collective. She works as Project Archivist for the McKenzie Heritage Picture Archive, a large-scale collection of Black and Asian photography at Black Cultural Archives. Recent workshops and readings include speculative planning & the shared city (2023) at LARC, Rear View (2023) at Biblioteka and a world without you is not a world: reading & writing black feminist futures (2021) at Glasgow Zine Library.
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