Mwende Katwiwa, who performs under the name FreeQuency, is a Kenyan-American
slam poet, community organizer, and activist.[1][2] Their poems address issues of identity, emotion, racism, colonialism, and
police brutality in the United States. They live in
New Orleans.[3]
Katwiwa graduated from
Tulane 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 perform
spoken word poems since 2011.[3] They gave a
TED 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.
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^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.
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^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.