Word / Stage / Multimedia

Writer & Poet

Aimy is a storyteller who thrives when working across mediums and genres. Much of their practice engages a story or topic in multiple contexts whether it’s collaborating with visual artists on her poetry or turning an essay into live performance. Her writing approach is part unapologetic bluntness and lyrical grace, offering specific insights with universal implications.

Essays, Poetry & Podcasts

Audio / Digital / Print

Five Steps, Luminarts Cultural Foundation
Moments of Silence, Manifest-Station
Melanin Queen, Wirehouse Co
Speaking of…A Risk I’m Willing To Take, Team Resonate
seeing is believing, 2nd Story
for the love of goats, Sundog Lit next in line, SLAYSIAN
#30DaysOfLovePoems, IGTV
Fortune Favors The Cook, 2nd Story
The Fisherman from Ghosts on the Bloomingdale Trail, Free Street Theater

The Queer Joy Project

Multimedia Performance & Poetry / Essay Collection

The Queer Joy Project is a series of essays, narratives, and poetry based on Aimy’s own experience as well as those of hundreds of LGBTQIA+ folx interviewed by them. These pieces celebrating our joys, our daily lived experiences, will also become multimedia pieces and live performances, all accessible digitally.

They are currently still accepting interview subjects for the project. Please reach out and share.

Visual Poetics

Up Next

PErformance

Performances postponed - check back for updates.

You may have seen her…

Storyteller / POet

2nd Story, Links Hall, COLLABORACTION, FEMelanin, The Dojo, One Minute Play Fest, You’re Being Ridiculous at Steppenwolf, The Right Swipe: The Lituation, Poerotica, OUTspoken, Haymarket Pub and Brewery, SINtegrate, Nightside, The Front, Lezfest, Open Dyke Night, Canvas, UIC’s Gender & Sexuality Center & Luminarts Cultural Foundation

Teaching Artist / Facilitator / Producer

2nd Story, WCIU’s The Jam, Leadership Greater Chicago at the Bronzeville Incubator, CIBC, About Face Theatre, Fenton High School, Lawrence Hall, UIC’s Gender and Sexuality Center, This Northwestern Life, STORYTELLERS at Columbia College, Creating Change, Roosevelt High School, Jefferson Pinder’s Red Summer Road Trip, Take Talks, Women of The Now, Theater on the Lake, Pride Action Tank & Pivot Arts

ARtist in residence / Workshops

Luminarts Cultural Foundation, Free Street Theater: Performance for Direct Action, Voices of our Nation 2018, Silk Road Rising, The Op Ed Project & SWARM Artist Residency