The Dynamic Cosmos & Black Trans Liberation with Ni’Ja Whitson

The Queer Spirit

Ni’Ja Whitson is a multi award-winning Queer Trans NB artist and futurist, a wound and medicine worker, noted by Brooklyn Magazine as a culture influencer. They are a United States Artist Fellow, Creative Capital and two-time "Bessie" Awardee who engages transdisciplinarity through a critical intersection of the sacred and conceptual in Black, Queer, and Transembodiedness.

Episode Highlights

• Ni’Ja shares about their artistic and spiritual origins, as well as their emergence from a lineage of dreamers.
• They discuss their current project, The Illumination Catalogue, a ceremony project honoring Black, trans, and gender nonconforming lives and communities across Turtle Island (U.S.).
• We learn about their transformative experience in Tanzania and the meaning of their name.
• Ni’Ja talks about what they call a Black Trans Cosmic Map, an aspect of the Illumination Catalogue that is a compilation of life stories, cosmology, and ancestral connection of Black trans people across the country.
• We explore the astrological connections between the movement of laws in the United States and how they affect the lives of the queer community.
• Nick & Ni'Ja discuss the importance of creating sacred, intimate space in which to share stories and the journeys of people in the Black trans and gender nonconforming community.

Web links

• Find them online at NijaWhitson.com
• And follow them on Instagram @illuminationcatalogue & @thenwaproject, and on Twitter

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