About Love

As a queer Kenyan immigrant, I am constantly navigating the in-between — between cultures, between acceptance and rejection, between visibility and erasure. My lesbian collage series explores queerness in the African diaspora through themes of isolation, displacement, resilience, and transformation. Too often, Black lesbian love is treated as nonexistent or impossible. My work is a direct refusal of that narrative. It celebrates softness as power, tenderness as resistance, and dark skinned femmes loving one another in a world that attempts to deny them that right.

Through visual storytelling, I challenge who gets to be seen and how. Blending photography, collage, and mixed media, I construct spaces where queerness is not simply acknowledged but revered. Rather than centering struggle alone, my work insists on joy, intimacy, and the radical act of taking up space.

Creating these collages has profoundly impacted my mental health. They ground me in my identity and remind me that I can build the world I long to inhabit. Through this process, I reclaim parts of myself that once felt at risk of erasure due to queerness and displacement. Each piece becomes an act of self-affirmation, a refusal to shrink, fragment, or internalize shame.

As a queer person of color, isolation can feel inevitable. My collages interrupt that isolation by visualizing intimacy, ancestry, and love in ways often denied or distorted. In building these worlds, I am not only healing myself but extending an invitation to others to feel seen, held, and imagined beyond survival. This practice has become both sanctuary and resistance, nurturing my inner child, honoring my lineage, and affirming that my queerness is not a loss, but a site of beauty, complexity, and belonging.

Creativity itself is activism. By transforming personal history into collective storytelling, I reclaim legacy and imagine a future where Black queer love is not only possible, but necessary. This work is an invitation to witness, reflect, and reimagine belonging. It is self-acceptance.