{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Interview with kiki nicole","description":"In this episode, I spoke with poet kiki nicole about their manuscript, Autobiography of the boi Venus which not published (yet!), their embroidery work, film work, and current interests. kiki nicole is a Black, Queer, and Non-binary multimedia artist and poet based in Charlotte, North Carolina.. They\u2019ve received invitations to fellowships such as Pink Door Writing Retreat, The Watering Hole, and Winter Tangerine. kiki nicole is currently a reader for Muzzle Magazine. They work to explore a Black, queer, femme & genderless universe that un\/bodies, un\/genders, & re\/news, kiki hopes to lend a voice for the void in which Black femmes not only exist in plain view, but thrive. kiki\u2019s site kiki\u2019s instagram Donation link to support kiki Media, artists, books, etc mentioned in this episode: Winter Tangerine\u2019s fellowship program jayy dodd venus selenite  Tyrell Blacquemoss (TBN), who runs Cause Reign Find examples of kiki\u2019s textile and multimedia work here ariella tai ariella tai\u2019s "she's not going to get more dead" the first + the last, a experimental film\/video and new media arts project for Black femmes, women, and non-men that kiki and ariella co-curate Lil Uzi Vert Katherine McKittrick's Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle \u201cStitches in Time\u201d quilt exhibition, was not at the museum  M. Norbese Philips's Zong! Yoruba deity Oshun Yoruba deity Yemaya Yoruba deity Shango Roman deity Venus Gr\u00edma Wormtongue from The Lord of the Rings Shakespeare\u2019s Macbeth Toni Morrison\u2019s Beloved Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and Kindred Naked and Afraid reality series Xandria Phillips's HULL adrienne marie brown's Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy) Big Thief\u2019s "Not" Mitski noname\u2019s \u201cSong 33\u201d Noname Book Club Oluwatoyin \u201cToyin\u201d Salau kiki's syllabus \u201cInto a New Year.\u201d kiki notes \u201cThis is a syllabus of mine that I think ties a lot into what I was trying to convey near the end about preparing for a new world.\u201d kiki\u2019s pdf library \u201cblk thots~\u201d to decolonize your bookshelves! The sound of waves breaking is Sylvester's \u201cYou Make Me Feel (Mighty Real).\u201d This episode was edited and social media managed by Mitchel Davidovitz. Stay safe, everyone!! ","author_name":"Waves Breaking","author_url":"http:\/\/wavesbreaking.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"