A lot of people have asked me to comment on the curatorial letter that Guggenheim curators released yesterday.

I am working on the revolution, of and with the people, where my work and loyalty have always been.

It's worth considering, the ppl who are now in my inbox, DMs, mentions wanting a comment from me: where were you when I said that I had been harmed & something was deeply wrong with the Guggenheim, last year?

Do you think that I owe you a statement?

It should be considered that this is now being taken seriously by the art press -- some of whom knew firsthand and intimately -- because a collective of White curators have decided to finally say something.

My words and experiences were always valid, with or without that.

They were able to speak up for themselves & for me because of the enormous, relentless work that I have done. I stood up and refused to stand down to one of the most powerful women in the art world & a global, institutional behemoth.

That is the center, full facts.

I created space for them and for others to speak up, and to erase that, and forget that, is harmful, disrespectful, erasing and ahistorical.

Put the respect on my work, my courage and my labor. I have more than earned it. Tell the truth.

Speaking of respect, do not disrespect me by repeating that made up title of "solo Black curator" or "solo exhibition". It is made up.

White curators are NEVER EVER described as such, and if it's not industry standard for them, it shouldn't be for me either. Full stop.

I am the first Black curator, the first Black woman curator, the first curator of Cuban descent, the youngest independent curator to EVER mount an exhibition at the Guggenheim, and the first Black author of a Guggenheim catalogue.

You are not "giving" me anything. I earned it.

I have tremendous respect for Okwui Enwezor's work & that has never EVER not been the case. I privately agitated for them to recognize his legacy, which the Guggenheim did not in any way publicly do so before 2019.

Okwui was a co-curator of his exhibition, and I was the curator of mine and those distinctions are historically different. Those are different jobs, completely. I am not erasing him to stand fully and proudly in a historical achievement that I earned, fair and square.

My job and my journey has been SO hard precisely b/c I *am* the first, and people have absolutely ignored that.

There is space and enough of everything to credit Okwui Enwezor as the first Black co-curator of the Guggenheim, and hold space for me as the first Black curator.

A lot of curators who have recently spoken up in the field have been able to do so b/c I stood on the front line and was called crazy, hysterical, jealous, delusional, imagining things and was ridiculed and ostracized in the process.

Respect me and give me my credit.

If you are not telling the story that the Guggenheim curators and others were able to do so b/c I stood bravely in my truth, often times alone while also experiencing an erasure of my historical achievement, do not reach out to me.

We have absolutely nothing to discuss.

I personally would like to know how you intend to use your platforms for reclamation. By ignoring this story & me & not challenging stories that many knew were untrue, you were complicit.

How will you use them to tell the truth & amplify me and my work?

I chose to create an exhibition for and about the people. My current work is for and about them now.

That is my center, my work and where you can find me. If you had been looking in the first place, you would know that I was always right there.

Many of you left me for dead, but I walk with God and the ancestors, and therefore, come with legion.

When you come for the queen, you had best not miss.