Baby’s first Bluesky announcement ❤️

Gwendolyn Brooks Permissions for named me a Gwendolyn Brooks Living Legacy Honoree in the company of Black women whose work made mine possible and some sister friends ❤️‍🔥

Hey Bluesky friends ❤️ I’m a conceptual artist and theologian who works through poetry, visual art, performance, and audio. Here’s a poem I wrote about watching my mother give birth ❤️

Introduce yourself with 4 albums

My great-grandmother Dorothy’s mink was my first installation. Visitors could sit with it, put on headphones, and listen to me interview her during her final months of life battling cancer. We talked about raising daughters and what she wished she knew before marrying, and her love for travel.

If you told me 3 years ago that not only would I be a curator and visual artist with a whole solo exhibition but that my work would be featured on @PBS and @hulu I would have called you a liar but here’s to surprising myself.

Here I talk about working as a Black archivist ❤️

My chapbook, BLOOD-FLEX, is about (Black) mother daughter relationships, Black girlhood, and coming of age. It debuts Spring 2025 ❤️ here’s a poem from it