Sydney G. James

Through utter shock, through grief, through disgust, through fear, through ANGER, through heartbreak -- through it all, we work. Through this chaos, we work. For our families, our communities, our sanctuaries, we work. Through exhaustion, we work. Through a pandemic, we are working.

We work to fill voids. In our minds, we work to fill the "Void," but we often don’t recognize the "voids" that that very work creates. The chaos surrounds us, yet we push through the heavy weight of all the woes of the hamster wheel of days.

"Watch Me Work" is a celebration of Black Women who get it done! From the Event Planning Zoom Mommy to the USPS mail lady, we work. The world watches and we work. The world turns away, we work.

Even those of us who sit around all day and manage to make it to the next day safely, it took work. Through the daily attacks on the pigmented people of the world, we work. We work. We work. I work.

– Sydney G. James, 2020