Growing up in the midwest, when I told people I wanted to move to go to New York for college they always replied back inquisitively,"You look like you would live in New York." I took it as a compliment then and happily take it as one now having made Brooklyn my home the last three or so years. What I didn't get is what was meant by that until recently: I'm a lifelong member of the Alt. Black (Gay) Agenda. Living in proximity to this community in Brooklyn feels like an honor, which is why meeting fellow members of my tribe–brown, queer, multi-talented, intellectual, adventurous, rooted friends like KiKi–is so damn special to me. It's the thing that makes you never want to leave. After a year of communing in my living room weekly, today I finally get to interview my friend about the things we've been conversing about for over a year: Chloe + Halle's immaculate loc-do's, locally-sourced rolling papers and her one-of-a-kind job as the Admin for several extremely talented black, femme tattoo artists in the city. I could probably talk about tattoos and equity all day, but I broke it up into two episodes where I'll be interviewing a queer black artist I had the privilege of being yatted by earlier this year. 

BUT we'll save that exciting conversation for next week! In the meantime, please enjoy my lifted chat with Kiki ;)