Current Projects
The Gloomy Girl Variety Show:
The Gloomy Girl Variety Show takes you through the journey of a first-generation African woman obsessed with “House Hunters,” “WrestleMania,” and other forms of pop culture as she navigates the intersections of illness, race, and gender in America. In this hybrid memoir, the speaker uses critical theorists and dark humor to comment on everything from terrible interviews, to psych wards, to bad sex, to “Teletubbies.” This is a book that examines (and laughs in the corner about) the experience of being caught between two locations—the United States and Nigeria—never feeling enough for both.
Like if David Sedaris was a depressed African woman with recorded episodes of everything on HGTV and also an academic.
The Black American Tree Project
The Black American Tree Project is a collaborative participatory history lesson/immersive performance experience. It is developed in collaboration with African-American educators, artists, writers, and non-profit professionals. The project was created in response to the Kairos Blanket Exercise by indigenous Canadian leaders, the Starfire String Exercise by dis/ability experts, and the New York Times 1619 project. The project is a 90-minute interactive workshop that educates audiences about the legacies of slavery in modern American society--especially in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area--and its after-effects in housing, the medical establishment, prison system, schooling, and other areas in which Black Americans are affected. This experience is designed to evoke a sense of reckoning during this 400th anniversary since black Africans were brought to America.
The Gloomy Girl Variety Show takes you through the journey of a first-generation African woman obsessed with “House Hunters,” “WrestleMania,” and other forms of pop culture as she navigates the intersections of illness, race, and gender in America. In this hybrid memoir, the speaker uses critical theorists and dark humor to comment on everything from terrible interviews, to psych wards, to bad sex, to “Teletubbies.” This is a book that examines (and laughs in the corner about) the experience of being caught between two locations—the United States and Nigeria—never feeling enough for both.
Like if David Sedaris was a depressed African woman with recorded episodes of everything on HGTV and also an academic.
The Black American Tree Project
The Black American Tree Project is a collaborative participatory history lesson/immersive performance experience. It is developed in collaboration with African-American educators, artists, writers, and non-profit professionals. The project was created in response to the Kairos Blanket Exercise by indigenous Canadian leaders, the Starfire String Exercise by dis/ability experts, and the New York Times 1619 project. The project is a 90-minute interactive workshop that educates audiences about the legacies of slavery in modern American society--especially in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area--and its after-effects in housing, the medical establishment, prison system, schooling, and other areas in which Black Americans are affected. This experience is designed to evoke a sense of reckoning during this 400th anniversary since black Africans were brought to America.