Afropunk 2018: Happy Monstah Has Black Women Flourishing on Shirts You Need in Your Life

I came to Afropunk 2018 for two things and two things only. To see Jamilla Woods perform (which was incredible) and to find a shirt that’s Black AF, with art that’s hard AF, with a Black woman or woman of color at the center of it. Lemme run that back, I feel like I that may have been too middle of the book for yall. I love t-shirts. Each one has a story or tells a unique story. For me, t-shirts are my version of having a collection of Jordans and my collection goes very hard. However, it can be better. I decided to make my collection better by getting even more art that’s celebrating Black women and women of color. Now, it gets a bit tiring wading through the internet for what you think you’re looking for. So what better place to hopefully find such a shirt than Afropunk szn in NYC? I mean, Afropunk is literally “In the parties where it be so packed // And that atmosphere be so Black.” Surely, amongst this festival celebrating Blackness across the arts, I could find a shirt that captured me. Surely, here amongst the village of my peoples/mans and dem, I could find something, right? YOU BAST DAMN RIGHT Man, I was walking and minding my own damn business when I saw the MVP of sarcasm Daria Morgendorffer drawn Black with the weeping willow hair? I had to take a knee and put my hands in the 6 god prayer formation. My search had ended. *church organs start playing* I said, I was lost Lord but now I am found, now that I’ve found this booth. I looked up for the name of the company …