Black women create a space for freedom through the Baby Doll Mardi Gras masking tradition.

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You Can’t Stop Spirit
centers the Baby Doll Mardi Gras masking tradition: a group of self-liberated Black women who created an alternative social space where they are encouraged to be free.

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“I became intrigued by the dolls while studying at Xavier University of Louisiana, by how this group of women gave themselves permission to be free. They were fierce and unapologetic in their self-liberation, challenging how they were expected to exist in society. Their rich personal stories also contained wisdom about how to thrive and live a life of purpose and about what is possible when people of the African diaspora claim full permission to take on a different identity. Masking traditions like these are a way of setting oneself free in the hope of coming closer to one’s most authentic self.”

-Vashni Korin, Filmmaker
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