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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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Vol. 40, How Old Are You?
Posted on 6 February 2004
Brooklyn, NY Recently, I was reading over a statement I wrote for admission into graduate school and I noticed a mistake that revealed a larger issue of faulty artist self-definition. The first three lines of the statement read: “My writer self is 12 years old. I emerged as a writer in 1991 when I wrote… »
BlogKIS.listcatcalling // community // compromise // conversations // date rape // dissertation // how writing heals // interviews // Kalamu ya Salaam // Kiini Ibura Salaam // KIS.list // muscling women // Navigating to No // no // performance // Ph.D. // publishing // Radio // rape // rape culture // seduction // self defense // sharing // solitary // Spelman // submissions // support // Tayari kwa Salaam // television // The Black Collegian // the writing life // victimization // yes
Vol. 11, I/We
Posted on 9 November 2001
Phone Conversations with My Mother Baton Rouge, LA and Brooklyn, NY Writing is a very solitary act. Yet it, like many other art forms, is only fulfilled in community. It lives when it is read by others. Some artists don’t like to be influenced by others while developing their work, but I find a large… »
BlogKIS.listbeing open // Clarion West // coincidences // Colonize This! // community // giving and receiving // Kiini Ibura Salaam // KIS.list // magazine writing // Ms. magazine // putting yourself out there // rape // rejection // rejection/acceptance o'meter // seduction // self presentation // serendipity // sharing wisdom // taking a chance // volunteering // writing life
Vol. 10, The Universe’s Ripple Effects
Posted on 2 November 2001
A Ms. Magazine Intern’s Apartment New York, NY My parents brought me and my siblings up with a reverence for ancestors and a thankfulness for life, but with no real religious structure. They never set out to define God for us, nor did they even suggest to us that there was a God. Religion just… »