Elizabeth Salaam is a writer and artist whose mixed media work is featured in 'We are Women: Jean Cornwell Wheat and Elizabeth Salaam,' part of a dual-themed exhibition at the Mesa College Art Gallery March 18 to April 18.
There was a moment when writer and artist Elizabeth Salaam first moved to New York City and felt a glaring difference in her presence in a place. She was lost, standing on a street corner, and a car drove past as some young men leaned out of it to yell, “Hey shorty!” Sure, men usually notice most women they see in public, but it was such a stark contrast to the way she had been rendered nearly invisible growing up as a biracial child adopted into an all-White family in Idaho.
First, can you share a bit about what those conversations were about with those other Black women? A: I think what I meant by that is just having a similar language; not having to explain things, just walking into a room and knowing that there’s so many things you don’t have to say. For example, at a job, I might be asking myself, “Am I being too Black at work?” Or, I remember when I worked at this daycare in Boise one summer and I was so excited about this poet that I had been reading.
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