peace, i am BOBBI KINDRED
Bobbi Kindred, Cierra Green, writer, artist, and storyteller, is a Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Ph.D. student at the University of Washington, Seattle, and have recently graduated with their B.A. in Africana Studies from San Francisco State University. Bobbi’s research and artivism praxis is rooted in Black Feminist Theory and centers the experiences of Black women, queer and trans folk whose lived experiences intersect with navigating substance addiction within a system that perpetually criminalizes and stigmatizes folk on this particular axis. Their current book, “This (Boi)yant Body” argues the importance of nuanced accounts of Black trans narrative as self-definition, despite the violence of the literary archive of recovery subverting these voices.
They have been a performing art’s resident of the Destiny Arts Center's Queer Emerging Artist Residency in Oakland, CA., as well as slammed at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI 2016) in Austin Texas. They have done contracted acting work for the Berkeley Reparatory Theater's Young Writers of Color Collective and have been in a touring production of Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf". They are also the newest member of poetry collective, Pr3ssplay Poets, whose stage production "The State of Black Bodies", produced by Mona Webb, was featured at the National Queer Arts Festival, Oakland, 2018. They are currently working on the manuscript to their first stage play that features monologues of Black folk’s experiences with addiction and recovery.
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