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“I AM DELIBERATE AND AFRAID OF NOTHING”

BIO

Karia White, originally from New Jersey, is a scholar, poet, and mixed media artist that explores human/inhuman understandings of Black bodies and experience through Afropessimism and Black feminist epistemologies. She often interrogates the meaning of utopia, gratuitous violence and habitual torture among other lenses relevant to the unique experiences of the oppressed to put forth theories of possibilities. She obtained her Masters in Educational Foundations, Policy & Practice. She earned two Bachelor of Arts degrees in International Affairs and Ethnic Studies and a minor in Political Science from the University of Colorado-Boulder. She is one of the student Co-Founders of the Center for African and African American Studies.

Karia is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Previously the organizer of various art-based healing projects within the city as well as building national solidarity efforts through organizing. Karia was the Co-Founder of Shades of Honey, an open mic space centered around BIPOC stories and expression that ran for a span of five years in the greater Denver area. She is also the Founder of “Interludes”, a sonic book club examining hip hop bodies of work; and “Books for the Block'', a politically focused book club. She was also involved in the “Denver Freedom School” Project which facilitates political education within the city of Denver.

Currently, she co-facilitates Noname Bookclub with Maria Mims in Denver. She is working on building out international solidarity around educational resources to disrupt traditional education presentation and engagement. The project is in its infancy and is slated to be named “Undercommons”.

She is a theory, food, film and backgammon enthusiast. When not organizing or reading, you can find her cooking or competing somewhere out in the world!