[1] Cousins writes performance art scores that encourage black audiences to explore their parallel histories and diverse aesthetics.

Through her work Cousins encourages audiences and participants to explores ideas around beauty and the changes taking place in black communities.

She worked with local hairdressers to braid 15-foot-long cornrows, which were used as a double Dutch ropes that were connected to the heads of black women.

[9] Cousins performed Diva Dutch on the streets of Bed-Stuy (Brooklyn), Brixton (London) and Barbès-Rochechouart (Paris).

Cousins used African tailors in her Brooklyn neighborhood, to create skirts and dresses that she wore every day for the first year of his presidency.

It was composed by artist Aisha Cousins in response to the Census Bureau's decision to lump black folks of all backgrounds (Afro-American, Caribbean, and African) into a single checkbox.

In 2014, Cousins spoke at University of Delaware about ideas of beauty and changes taking place in students' worlds.