Mwende Katwiwa, who performs under the nameFreeQuency, is a Kenyan-Americanslam poet, community organizer, and activist.[1][2] Their poems address issues of identity, emotion, racism, colonialism, andpolice brutality in the United States. They live inNew Orleans.[3]
Katwiwa graduated fromTulane University in 2014.[4][5] They self-published a book of poetry,Becoming//Black, in 2015. They have also been touring the U.S. to performspoken word poems since 2011.[3] They gave aTED Talk in 2017 called "Black life at the intersection of birth and death."[1] They work for Women with a Vision, a nonprofit based in New Orleans.[5] They also work with slam poetry and open mic organizations in New Orleans.[3]
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^Oliviero, Katie (2018).Vulnerability Politics: The Uses and Abuses of Precarity in Political Debate. NYU Press. pp. 276–277.ISBN9781479838677.
^Hogan, Wesley C. (2019). "The Movement for Black Lives".On the Freedom Side : How Five Decades of Youth Activists Have Remixed American History. JSTOR: Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. p. 134.ISBN9781469652474.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
^McTighe, Laura (June 2020). "Theory on the Ground: Ethnography, Religio-Racial Study, and the Spiritual Work of Building Otherwise".Journal of the American Academy of Religion.88 (2). Oxford University Press:428–429.doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfaa014.
