BLOGS
LETTER WRITING REVIVAL Blog featuring a community-based letter-writing project inspired by the manifesto for slow communication and the power of the hand-written letter, a collaboration with Evan Plummer and Martiza Mosquera in Chicago.
MANENO (WORD) POETRY SERIES Blog featuring writing produced during Maneno poetry reading series in Stone Town, Zanzibar.
CONTRARY: THE JOURNAL OF POPULAR DISCONTENT
Contributing writer to a literary blog featuring "Dispatches from Zanzibar" monthly essays about life on the island of Zanzibar, Tanzania, East Africa.
TENDER POLITIC
Site created for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago as lead facilitator for the teachers' summer institute Personal Manifestos, Public Contradictions, based on the work of Jenny Holzer. Teachers examined the power of text as image to create art interventions. This site was updated as a live curricular document.
STANZAZBREAK
This site shared compelling poetry and participatory poetics residencies and projects with young people in Chicago and beyond. It was an ongoing exploration of why poetry and imaginative writing as a catalyst for school change & transformation.
ZANZIFAR
This was a private diary blog I kept between 2010-2013 to document my daily life in Zanzibar, including the politics and poetics of everyday life.
LETTER WRITING REVIVAL Blog featuring a community-based letter-writing project inspired by the manifesto for slow communication and the power of the hand-written letter, a collaboration with Evan Plummer and Martiza Mosquera in Chicago.
MANENO (WORD) POETRY SERIES Blog featuring writing produced during Maneno poetry reading series in Stone Town, Zanzibar.
CONTRARY: THE JOURNAL OF POPULAR DISCONTENT
Contributing writer to a literary blog featuring "Dispatches from Zanzibar" monthly essays about life on the island of Zanzibar, Tanzania, East Africa.
TENDER POLITIC
Site created for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago as lead facilitator for the teachers' summer institute Personal Manifestos, Public Contradictions, based on the work of Jenny Holzer. Teachers examined the power of text as image to create art interventions. This site was updated as a live curricular document.
STANZAZBREAK
This site shared compelling poetry and participatory poetics residencies and projects with young people in Chicago and beyond. It was an ongoing exploration of why poetry and imaginative writing as a catalyst for school change & transformation.
ZANZIFAR
This was a private diary blog I kept between 2010-2013 to document my daily life in Zanzibar, including the politics and poetics of everyday life.
SOCIAL MEDIA
I manage social media content for arts and culture accounts to share relevant news and information and build and engage community:
Current: The Kanga Book
Past:
Busara Promotions
Break Arts: International Arts & Education Collaborative
Long Live the Girls
Mustapha's Place
TaraJazz
I manage social media content for arts and culture accounts to share relevant news and information and build and engage community:
Current: The Kanga Book
Past:
Busara Promotions
Break Arts: International Arts & Education Collaborative
Long Live the Girls
Mustapha's Place
TaraJazz