A big part of my work is changing whose eyes we're experiencing the story through.
I'm interested in whose fear gets believed. Whose mistakes are forgiven. Whose love gets taken seriously. Whose anger is considered justified. Whose version of history becomes the version everyone else accepts.
Black women and Black queer people aren't on the edges of my stories watching everything happen.
We're the point of view.
Change the gaze and you change the story.
GAZE.CONTRADICTION.IMPOSSIBLE.CONSEQUENCE.
DIFFERENT STORIES. SAME DNA.
An Original Dejaujhn Black Picture.
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MEET THE STORYTELLER
DEJAUJHNBLACK
Dejaujhn Black is a Chicago born writer, director, and storyteller who believes Black stories deserve more than realism alone. Through magical realism and expansive worldbuilding, he creates space for Black people to be everything and anything they can imagine.