witnessing words
Charlotte Henay is a Bahamian diasporic storyteller, poet, and spiritworker.
Her work is rooted in restorative craft, story as relationality, Black feminist spiritwork, and the tending of grief. She listens to the plants and studies dreamwork, shamanic pathways for healing and divination, and ancestral technologies into memory, knowledge keeping, and shape shifting.
Her practice moves fluidly between poetry, multidisciplinary making, and scholarship, often returning to the work of speaking with the dead as a way to transform absence into remembrance and healing.
current work | All of My People’s Bones Are Here
art | @chancemutuku
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creative and scholarly work
Charlotte Henay’s creative and scholarly work moves fluidly between poetry, multidisciplinary making, and scholarship, often returning to the work of speaking with the dead as a way to transform absence into remembrance and healing.
Charlotte holds a PhD from York University and has trained as a death doula, restorative practice practitioner, and community herbalist. Her writing has appeared in literary and academic journals, and her creative work has been exhibited in the Bahamas, Canada, and internationally.
All of My People’s Bones Are Here - recent work by Charlotte Henay
salt. For the preservation of Black diasporic visual histories — Charlotte Henay's work featured in a special issue of RACAR: The Journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada
Charlotte Henay's work featured in NAGB's National Exhibition 8 Offsite showcase
I’ve Had to Go Back Into Therapy by Charlotte Henay - still from film project
Note from the Road by Charlotte Henay - still from film project
Genogram by Charlotte Henay - still from film project
Genogram by Charlotte Henay - still from film project
Storyteller. Poet. Spiritworker.
About Charlotte
Charlotte Henay is a Bahamian diasporic storyteller, poet, and spiritworker. In her work, plants, dreams, ancestors, and creative practice become pathways for tending grief, memory, and transformation.