storäe michele is a black queer, shape-shifting, non-binary femme who writes in their native tongue, poetry.

you can hear their words dance along the page in a rhythm that reunites their truth from the spaces that fade in-between.

you may also hear their prayers, tears & song reverberate through rapid fire loops, cyclical gestures, echo chambers & war cries of love.

but, are you listening?

storäe’s creative practice integrates intergenerational healing and flourishing of black femmes with a turn to intuitive, communal, informal, and speculative methods. they engage these strategies as tools towards building a present and embodied archive for black femme futures, enacting a process they name “a practice in black femme freedom-making.”

their art is in dialogue with black feminist philosophers, activists, and African disaporic folk & futurist writers, with whom they co-create blueprints for navigating black life and livelihood despite living in a state of perpetual and persistent precariousness, and yet: coping, surviving, and thriving.

storäe centers these subversive narratives as methods for divesting from flat images and caricatures, evoking rituals of self- love, cultivating accountability within community, and learning from black queer feminists who envision worlds beyond white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.

photography by Anne Hoilman + Elyse Ambrose.