Black Womxn Theatre: Personhood, Practice, & Pedagogy by Dr. d'bi.young anitafrika is a Black queer transfeminist dubography of Black womyn theatremakers in Tkarónto, North Turtle Island. Part memoir, part monograph, part herstory, the book emerges from Dr. anitafrika's twenty-five-year journey as a dub poet, theatremaker, pedagogue, and institution-builder, and six years of doctoral research into how Black womyn decoliberate personhood, practice, and pedagogy within concentric kinship circles of femtorship.

Drawing on forty-one interviews with Black womyn theatre practitioners, survey and archival research, Black feminist epistemologies, Ubuntu philosophy, and practice-as-research, anitafrika traces a lineage of Canadian theatre history. She examines the colonial, systemic, and psychoemotional harms Black womyn practitioners navigate while asking a more urgent question: how do Black womyn use theatre to metabolise oppression, rupture colonial constructs, and build other worlds?

At the centre of the book is the Anitafrika Dub Praxis, anitafrika's arts-based pedagogical technology integrating the Anitafrika Method, Critical Dub Pedagogy, the Three R Process, and Dubography. Alongside other frameworks originated by Black womyn, the praxis offers ways of rethinking theatre-making, training, pedagogy, cultural stewardship, and the relationship between artistic practice and liberation.

Moving between personal memory and collective herstory, archive and embodiment, theory and practice, Black Womxn Theatre argues that Black womyn's theatre is a body of plays and performances. Is a way of being. Is a way of surthriving. Is a way of teaching. At its heart, Black Womxn Theatre is an Ubuntu proposition: I am because you because we are.