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Newsletter Archive

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October 2025

It took an unfortunate version of cornbread to break the spell.

 

Hey y'all,

I have been struggling to move past the barrier of my mind. I have a lot of run-on sentences moving through me, but getting them to a place to share has been unusually (and comically) difficult.

March 2025

What do you do when something you thought was dead is alive?

 

“And the boi said to me,

“I do believe that we have purposes. That love is part of an ecology. It is not random, it’s entanglement. Love is proof of the quantum experience. In the beginning there was consciousness…and then, there was love.”

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January 2025

I’ve been trying to figure out what to write about. I want to have a deep reflection for the end/beginning of the year, I want to have more to report, more on what I’m thinking about. I want to have some sort of creative manifestation of that thought, but honestly, I don’t feel like I really know what I’m thinking about right now.

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September 2024

swag surfin in the corner I confirm the waters I’m in are the river and I stand in the gap wading and wading and walking out to see if I drown how does a nigga that can’t swim cross a river and stay alive maybe crossing maybe alive isn’t the point at all maybe to be with this water is to give up everything we think we know about living

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May 2024

It has been longer than usual since my last newsletter. I have been so busy and mobile since the year began I just didn’t have much to say other than “ahhhhh!! I feel like I’m losing my grip!”.

 

I was in LA performing with Meg Foley’s "Blood Baby: Carpet Womb", which will be performed again in Philly June 13-16th. I took a short and generative retreat with a dear friend and collaborator in Blowing Rock,

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January 2024

As we have officially crossed into a new year according to the Gregorian calendar, I have been reflecting. I ended 2023 with the passing of my grandmother. I have had the unexpected experience to be an usher on the journey between worlds for both of my grandparents and my relationship to sound has been such an integral part of that experience.

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November 2023

I'm thinking of crawling out of my skin

 

and leaving it right here for you.

This is the rest of something

I meant to leave for you

incase I become a woman in my sleep.

 

I've been sleeping with Whales for months now,

and calling your name in my dreams.

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August 2023

Hey y'all!

I hope you're all doing well as we deepen in this summer heatwave here in North Carolina (drink water!). I'm writing as I am coming out of my second week of residency in Saxapahaw, NC at Culture Mill. The team here has been so supportive and is engaged in some amazing work, I encourage you to use the link above to learn more about them.

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April 2023

Hey y’all,

 

It’s been a minute since my last newsletter. Much has happened (it’s always happening). Quick fill-ins: I have officially moved back to my hometown; Durham, NC. I’m working on a new project, riot space: a performance-installation using digital media to explore the intersectionality of Black and queer culture in The South;

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October 2022

Ain’t the body where we make the world?

Daddy? Daddy? Sweet Daddy?

The lifeguard who let me drown, ain’t the body where we make the world?

 

What do you know about darkness?

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August 2022

Hey y'all, 

First, I want to say thank you. I put out a call and you responded. You actually signed up! It means the world to me so thank you, thank you, thank you.

 

I have been trying to write to you all for months. It's taken me a while because there's a lot going on in my life personally. 

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March 2022

My new work, the space between the riot and i, premiers April 15th & 16th at 7:30pm at New York Live Arts. So soon! It has come upon me quicker than I could have imagined, but I am so excited to share this work with my community and the public. I have been deep in rehearsals and sound making for the project.

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