Kiki Nicole is an agender poet and antidisciplinary artist born and raised around Baltimore, MD. Through poetry, new media, and textiles, they archive, prioritize, and nurture the realms of the Black Interior.

Their work has been published in Scalawag Magazine, The Studio Museum in Harlem, beestung mag, Shade Literary Arts, and more. Kiki’s visual works have appeared in SKEW magazine, VAE Raleigh, Goodyear Arts, PCC Cascade Paragon Arts Gallery, and Advent Coworking. Kiki is the co-founder of the new media/film archival project and screening series, The First and the Last, specializing in uplifting work by Black trans and queer new media artists often overlooked in traditional art spaces. In 2021, they served as the Citizen Literary Fellow at Graywolf Press.

Kiki is currently a poetry editor at Muzzle Magazine and a member of North Carolina-based art collectives, Goodyear Arts and Saltwater Sojourn.

They live in Charlotte, NC.

www.kikinicole.com
www.thefirstandthelast.squarespace.com

You can support Kiki via:

Venmo: @kiki-nicole
Cash App: $kikiledbetter
Paypal
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Video: negro faerie, or the Unbearable Whiteness of Dreaming

In "negro faerie..." the artist revisits their inner childhood without the burden of internalized antiblackness.

Equipped with their current toolbox of Black femme media and a discerning eye, Kiki interrupt the unbearably white landscape of fantasy that their childself—piscean, unacknowledged autistic—took refuge in, in an attempt to further complement the magic and beauty of Black film and music by pushing white fantasy scenes into the background.

This found video project incorporates appropriated media and sounds credited at the end of the film along with the artist's personal webcam videos.