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Cocoa Butter and Dreams. A Collection of Poems, Paintings and Ponderings on (my) Blackness is the first book in English by Belgian author, columnist and theatre-maker Dalilla Hermans. This layered art book combines nearly ten years of poems, letters and essays — some originally written for the stage, many never published before. Hermans wrote them all in English, the language she instinctively turned to when giving shape to Blackness within a European context. The collection also features twenty original paintings, created especially for this project. With tenderness and colour, Hermans explores the emotional and cultural weight of Black womanhood: the joy, the doubt, the memory and becoming. Cocoa Butter and Dreams offers a quiet but vibrant journey — one that speaks to anyone navigating identity, memory and belonging.

Dalilla Hermans is schrijver, theatermaker, trajectcoördinator, podcasthost, publiek spreker, illustrator, curator en VUB-erefellow. Ze publiceerde zeven boeken. Sinds begin 2020 schrijft ze om de dag een cursiefje voor De Standaard.

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