Writing

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Writing ✦

My writing explores themes of race, family and adoption while highlighting the connection between gender and Blackness.

Published Works

Projects

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Projects 〰️

Painting Peace

Laundromat Fellow (2024)

As a 2024 Create Change Fellow with The Laundromat Project, I collaborated with Divine Times Collective to design Painting Peace, a free public program that explored love, inner-child healing, and community care through art.

Guided by Divine Times Collective's mission to reconnect individuals with nature and each other, we created a space for meditation, heartfelt conversations, and painting as a tool for healing and creative expression. Painting Peace was designed as a third space of rest, play, and creativity, centering Black and queer individuals across the diaspora.

This project reflects my larger artistic practice—creating collaborative art spaces that cultivate connection, joy, and transformation.

And We Write!

Independent Resource Center Artist in Residence (2023)

As part of my residency with the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC), I developed and led And We Write!, a creative writing workshop series for Black, queer, and transgender adoptees. This space was designed for writers and non-writers alike to explore storytelling, self-expression, and community building through creative writing.

Each session followed the themes of the moon cycles, guiding participants through writing prompts about shadows, projections, and mirrors—a way to explore identity and the ways we see ourselves. To commemorate each gathering, I designed and printed risograph posters as a time capsule of our shared words and experiences, while keeping participants anonymous.

This series reinforced my commitment to storytelling as a tool for self-discovery, community care, and collective memory. If you’re looking for an artist to create a writing-based community project, let’s connect.

Transcendance

2727 California Artist Residence (2022)

My artistic practice centers Black transgender and gender-nonconforming experiences, using storytelling as a tool for visibility, healing, and community-building. As an Artist in Residence at 2727 California Street (2022), I created Transcendence, an interview series amplifying the voices of Black TGNC people who have had top surgery.

Through interviews across London, NYC, Portland, CDMX, Philly, and the Bay Area, Transcendence captures the emotional and physical realities of top surgery—before, during, and after the procedure.

The project serves as both a living archive and a practical resource, offering guidance, solidarity, and representation for those considering their own journey.

Educator in Residence

Caldera Arts (2022)

Caldera Arts gets its name from a natural phenomenon—a volcano caving in on itself, leaving behind something vast and open. That metaphor stayed with me during my time as an Educator & Artist in Residence at Caldera (2022).

As an Educator in Residence, I led students in exploring the land beneath their feet—learning how calderas form, how rocks hold history, and how to find geological clues in the world around them. Through observation and storytelling, we explored the connections between land, time, and creativity.

As an Artist in Residence, I turned my own attention to these same questions. How does place shape creative practice? How do we witness transformation in both nature and ourselves? My time at Caldera gave me space to experiment, reflect, and build on my practice of integrating land-based learning with artistic expression. This experience reinforced my belief that art is deeply tied to place, history, and community.

I’d love to bring my work into your space or community.