Fannie Sosa is an award-winning afro-sudaka mover and shaker, artist, and activist.
Currently finishing their PhD, titled Pleasure Against The Machine: Pleasurable Strategies for Anti-Colonial Survival during the Capitalocene, they have been creating and sharing pleasurable anti-colonial strategies and mixed-media knowledge packages for 10 years. Their work spans video/tutorials, consultations, sexual well-being workshops, movement practices, writing, and knowledge bundles. Sosa wrote A White Institutions Guide for Welcoming Artists of Color and their Audiences (WIGWACATA) in 2016. The guide has been utilized by over 200 cultural institutions around the world to better their equity practices. They live and work between Europe and South America.
Fannie Sosa | Marilou Poncin
COSMIC ASS, 2015. Video; color, sound; 15:17 min
In the educational video, COSMIC ASS (2015), Fannie Sosa analyzes the practice of twerking as a decolonial, open source, healing, and sexually autonomous practice which has deep- rooted connections within cosmology. Here they present their research and personal experiences using digital performance and curated digital media.
“As an afro-latinx, queer, migrant, self employed artist, my main goal with my work is to gather and share as much knowledge as possible around Black survival and thriving”