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In conversation with their mother, emerging filmmaker Ra’anaa Yaminah Ekundayo compares both their lives at 29, in 1996 and 2025 respectively. An exploration of Black motherhood, queerness, and identity, “Twenty-Nine” shares a warm and witty intergenerational heart-to-heart in the face of an ever-changing socio-political landscape.
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In conversation with their mother, emerging filmmaker Ra’anaa Yaminah Ekundayo compares both their lives at 29, in 1996 and 2025 respectively. An exploration of Black motherhood, queerness, and identity, “Twenty-Nine” shares a warm and witty intergenerational heart-to-heart in the face of an ever-changing socio-political landscape.
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Ra’anaa Yaminah Ekundayo is an emerging multimedia visual activist scholar whose work explores the intersection of art and activism, particularly the entanglement of Black identity, community, and futurity. Co-founder and Chair of Black Lives Matter Sudbury, they are a cultural curator with a master’s in architecture, currently pursuing their PhD.
