Ofrenda

Ofrenda para las ancestras is a poetic ritual reconciling the crossroads of identities that compose Edwaujonte’s bloodline — African, Indigenous, and European.  “what is the price of discovering your roots? is it the $79 cheek swab?  plantation tours of the floors your family scrubbed? a walk through hedges fertilized with your DNA?” This offering explores the price of discovering one’s heritage as a child of the Afro-Indigenous Diaspora, set against the composite backdrops of genealog