Gabrielle A. Smith

Art Director + Collage Artist

[furidy 🇵🇷💫 @macheteada]

it just occurred to me that many people don't know the Digital Library of the Caribbean exists, but you really all should have it bookmarked! it has millions of papers, periodicals, transcripts and entire books from all over the region available for free:

https://t.co/KCHA6Rk0gy

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

"You want to celebrate our art, but you won't protect it." - Jayme Lawson calls out the #BAFTAs slip up at the #NAACPImageAwards

[Chungking Archive @chungking151994]

A collection (most films from @zainab_twt's African Cinema Essentials as of 28/12)
- 116 films (437 GB)
- Various qualities with English subs wherever found
https://t.co/JORIrDHB7a

[OLI @Oli_Ekun]

Let me tell you something about someone called Fela Kuti.

[Steph @StephanieYeboah]

Screaming.

[Ronke Lawal @ronkelawal]

The older I get the more I realise that the vast majority of people don't seem to want to face the truth.

They simply want to be reassured that whatever reality they've created for themselves will keep them safe and entertained.

[Gabrielle A. Smith @gsdotco]

@Caligraphist @RichieBrave this is so spot on!

[Richie Brave @RichieBrave]

Speak about this a lot and have real personal issues with it. Everything Black is positioned as “youth”. It’s like we don’t get older. It really affects a number of us in media because you see your non-Black peers ascending and there is an age related glass ceiling for you.

[Pink Stanley Cup @ASamantha]

My main takeaway from the Bible was that Jesus hung around w whores, scammers and the maladjusted and outcast because they were far more decent people than the so called righteous

[sofi 😊 @the_odditty]

I’ve been terrorizing my mum with “see your mates” because between the London bus mummy and the dj mummy she has no excuse not to be doing something with her life! Let me go stress her out again

[Marijana Pavlinić @marijanapav]

in 2020 i started recreating the stamps my grandpa collected, it was a small lockdown project that sort of grew into a digital collection of my own.

now, @rpavlini and I built an online philately experience where you can explore them and zooooom in like a true philatelist

[dj short @_DJShort]

D'Angelo and J Dilla's mother Maureen Yancey, 2015

[Grenada News 🇬🇩 @grenadanews]

78% of roofs restored as Carriacou and Petite Martinique rebuild after Hurricane Beryl  https://t.co/ZAIsiSUTwz

[Gabrielle A. Smith @gsdotco]

The way this is such a common practice throughout the creative and media industry…

[Ronke Lawal @ronkelawal]

The brand value and engagement experienced by Vogue because of a Black British woman writer hired as a freelancer and not a staffer is yet another example of how Black creatives are worth more than these media institutions pay them.

[ba sing slay 💅🏽 @kigutasheilaa]

My unsolicited advice:
Bring back the casual hang. Go run errands with your friends. It doesn’t need to be expensive to have community.

[dj short @_DJShort]

Lauryn Hill & D'Angelo for Trace Magazine No 21, 1999, featuring a dual interview by Claude Gruntizky
beyond excited to have officially gotten this scanned & preserved. thank you to thejournalistsinseer via IG for scanning his copy for me.
PDFs/transcript: https://t.co/S8vceRRJX6

[schrödinger's gender @brotherpaw_]

Transgender Jamaicans are often left out of relief efforts and are discriminated against when seeking access to care. If you can, pls consider donating to local relief efforts that prioritises the trans population: https://t.co/SaOZS3uxGc

[Nikhail🎗️|🇯🇲’n @NikhailW]

Imagine the country is going through a Category 5 hurricane and you expect the workers who are making minimum wage and at work instead of with their families to give you a 10/10 hotel experience are you people dumb?!!

[Ronke Lawal @ronkelawal]

To celebrate Black History Month Trust for London has created an interactive map, sharing the stories of different Black Londoners. Each of the people featured has helped shape the city’s culture, communities and politics over many centuries.
Check it out.
https://t.co/6bHuszeHax

[Gabrielle A. Smith @gsdotco]

@peopleofprint @peopleofprint can someone from your team get in touch. I’m still chasing up an order that was placed over 2 months ago that hasn’t arrived. I was told a replacement has been sent out that also never arrived. It’s really poor customer service.