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The Inside Story of Black British Queer Pioneer, Ajamu X CL Mayers has an audience with Ajamu X, the underground artist and archivist, who has an exhibition and book both around the corner February 08, 2021 Lead ImageAjamu X, Circus Master Series, 1997Courtesy the artist DICKPRINT editor, CL Mayers, spoke with Ajamu X for the magazine’s inaugural issue back in 2019. Published online for the very first time, with updates on his latest exhibition Ajamu: Archive Sensoria , he speaks with Ajamu X about founding the Black Perverts Network, kink and fetish within the Black queer community, and hi...

Featured in Ajamu on the Pleasures of the Darkroom In his home studio the artist explores pleasure, privilege and how ‘through our body, we bring our archives’ Ajamu is many things: photographer, archivist, sex activist, filmmaker, elder, Trekkie. Since the 1980s, he has sought to use sensuality and desire as methods to play with fixed notions of the self and bounded understandings of the body. ‘If people come and think Ajamu’s work is simply about identity and representation,’ he reflected in his studio in Brixton, south London, ‘then they haven’t engaged with...