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Kiini Ibura Salaam is a writer, painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. The middle child of five, she grew up in a hardscrabble neighborhood with oak and fig trees, locusts and mosquitoes, cousins and neighbors. Kiini's work delves into spheres of human liberation, human connection, and evolution. She employs speculative fiction and creative nonfiction to take readers through mind-bending journeys into the transcendent, the mystical, and the fantastic.
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BlogKIS.listartmaking // creativity // inspiration // taking risks // The Salt Eaters // Toni Cade Bambara // writing
Vol. 94: Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters
Posted on 7 June 2013
When I was younger, my mother’s bookshelf was my library. It was home to many novels that are central to Black woman’s literature. I could grasp plots that featured grown-up experiences, but much of the subtext and external references escaped me. This didn’t stop me from voraciously consuming everything I could get my hands on… »
BlogKIS.listartmaking // creativity // Elizabeth Gilbert // Khalil Gibran // Ruth Stone // self-criticism // self-respect // TED talk // The Prophet // writer's block
Vol. 65, Following Your Ideas
Posted on 16 May 2009
As human beings, we do a lot of damage to ourselves. Sometimes the most heinous damage we do to ourselves may seem the most benign. It is impossible to tell the toll of those voices—those internal voices that we have running through our minds on continuous loop—the voices that say we aren’t good enough, funny… »
BlogKIS.listartistic process // artmaking // fear of change // jumping in // visual art
Vol. 63, Strokes of Life
Posted on 23 March 2009
Art is a powerful, personal, mysterious force. It can be a modality for healing, an agent of change, a recorder of history, a means for confronting and exploring emotions, and so much more. In my constant search for an artistic expression I can do in my infinitesimal moments of free time, an artistic expression that… »
