Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene is this month’s special guest at the art(is) shaman sessions…join her in groundings with d’bi.young anitafrika talking about the principle of SACREDNESS in the SORPLUSI METHOD…see you there!
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Oakland Based. New York Gully. Nigerian Soul. Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene is an Ijaw and Urhobo Nigerian dyke performance activist, poet, dancer, essayist, playwright, actress, video artist and mixed-media visual artist who was born with a mouth full of dynamite and sugarcane. Etaghene engages a radical vulnerability and candor in her artwork and uses storytelling to build authentic human connection through passionate artistic expression.
Etaghene has rocked stages and melted microphones internationally and has toured with both of her one-woman shows, Volcano’s Birthright{s} and GUAVA. She has produced four solo art exhibitions and also founded Sugarcane, an LGBTQ Of Color writing workshop series. Etaghene has written and directed 2 poem videos (“The First Time” [2010] and “i deserve somebody” [2011]) that marry film, poetry and music. Etaghene has self-published 3 chapbooks of poetry: afrocrown: fierce poetry (2000), write or die (2004) and tongue twisted transcontinental sista (2006.) She independently released an album of poetry and music entitled liberty avenue, nigeria, usa (2004.) She was interviewed by and was a contributing writer to None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa, a digital media project that collects the stories of LGBT Africans from the African Continent and the Diaspora.
Her second album of poetry, Nigerian Dyke Realness, drops in 2015. Etaghene’s first novel, For Sizakele, which addresses Queer African love, identity and inter-partner violence, will be published by RedBone Press July 2014. www.myloveisaverb.com, twitter.com/myloveisaverb
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