Aperture #259 2025 - Liberated Threads curating making it a perfect ingredient

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this engaging and accessible book is structured as a dramatic story that traces the contours of Appia’s life—his personal circumstances

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and cultural memory

Plus: Kayode Ojo

Aperture #259 2025 - Liberated Threads curating making it a perfect ingredientExploring fashion and style as a political language and tool of resistance in the African diaspora. Apertures Summer issue highlights image makers around the world who are exploring style and fashion as a language of Black resistance, refusal, and joy. Guest edited by the writer and researcher Tanisha C. Ford and titled after her 2015 book, Liberated Threads, this edition features photographers, stylists, and filmmakers who remix, reimagine, and in