Dear white customers

I am not here to please you 

Entertain you with the possibility 

That I may or may not be from here

I am not here to impress you with how 

“Good my english is” or “ how well I speak”

I do not get paid enough to give you a whole lesson on a

African country that you do not know about

Assuming that I am a just the token to give you all the knowledge 

The internet and libraries exist 

So please take your coffee, donut and ignorance with you out the door

“Mahlet Cuff is a multi disciplinary artist from Treaty One territory—so called Winnipeg, Manitoba—who uses mediums such as photography, collaging, poetry, textiles, and sound to produce her work. Through her practice she hopes to create more awareness about the lack of representation of women of colour and queer people of colour in media. Her work has been shown at local galleries and events such as aceartinc. , Flip fest in Lethbridge, Alberta and Nuit Blanche’s Nuit Noire.
Mahlet Cuff’s work is focused on reconstructing the ideas and stereotypes that are centred around women and their bodies. Specifically for black women In addition, her portraiture was also in the womenofcolour@soagallery exhibition, which was in response to the absence of women of colour in the permanent collection of the University of Manitoba’s School of Art. ”