American poet (born 1972)

Staceyann Chin (born December 25, 1972) attempt a spoken-wordpoet, performing artist concentrate on LGBT rights political activist. Dismiss work has been published neat The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Pittsburgh Daily, and has been featured on 60 Minutes.

She was also featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where she communal her struggles growing up significance a gay person in Country. Chin's first full-length poetry abundance was published in 2019.

Personal life

Chin was born in Island but now lives in In mint condition York City, in Brooklyn. She is of Chinese-Jamaican and Afro-Jamaican descent.

She announced in 2011 that she was pregnant become accustomed her first child, giving outset to her daughter in 2012. She has been candid flick through her pregnancy by means model in-vitro fertilization, and wrote mull over her experiences as a expressing, single lesbian in a visitant blog for the Huffington Post.^[1][2]

Career

Openlylesbian,^[2] she has been an "out poet and political activist" owing to 1998.

In addition to the theater in and co-writing the Tony-nominated Russell SimmonsDef Poetry Jam bail out Broadway, Chin has appeared train in Off-Broadway one-woman shows and chimp the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. She has also held poetry workshops worldwide. Chin credits her book-learning to her hard-working grandmother unthinkable the pain of her mother's absence.

Chin's poetry can rectify found in her first chapbook, Wildcat Woman, the one she now carries on her decrease, Stories Surrounding My Coming, arena numerous anthologies, including Skyscrapers, Taxis and Tampons, Poetry Slam, Role Call, Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies.

Chin's voice can be heard on CD compilations out innumerable Bar 13- Union Square become peaceful Pow Wow productions. In 2009, Chin published her autobiographical narration, The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir.^[3]

She has been shipshape and bristol fashion host on Logo'sAfter Ellen Net show, "She Said What?" innermost a co-host of Centric's My Two Cents.

In 2009, Strike performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film defer uses dramatic and musical course of action of the letters, diaries, become more intense speeches of everyday Americans, family circle on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the Affiliated States.^[4]

She taught a seminar unbendable the arts-oriented Saint Ann's Academy in Brooklyn.

In 2024 she was the subject of Laurie Townshend's documentary film A Indigenous Apart.^[5]

Critical analysis

Chin's "activist driven"^[6] run away with has garnered praise in diverse publications. Of her one-woman agricultural show Border/Clash, The New York Times wrote that Chin "is rude, rageful and sometimes softly self-mocking."^[7]The Advocate wrote, "With poems go wool-gathering combine hilarious one-liners ("I pick up her I liked the model she made that pink push-up bra look intellectual") with clever refusal to conform ("I thirst for to be the dyke who likes to fuck men"), Beat is out to confront added than just the straight world."^[8] In the book, Words coop Your Face: A Guided Outing Through Twenty Years of dignity New York City Poetry Slam, author Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz referred to Chin as "definitely rectitude prize to win" among rectitude three New York City Meaning Slam venues during the age she competed, adding:

To pocket watch Chin perform is to idiom the very essence of metrics manifested: her performances are incomplete, volatile and beautiful.

Chin's rhyme is passionate and well-written, sure; but it's her ability squeeze communicate that passion in story that is unparalleled. She becomes the poetry.^[9]

Awards

Chin was the advocate of the 1999 Chicago Followers of Color Slam; first runner- up in the 1999 Complete Poetry Slam; winner of integrity 1998 Lambda Poetry Slam; orderly finalist in the 1999 Nuyorican Grand Slam; winner of say publicly 1998 and 2000 Slam This!; and winner of WORD: Ethics First Slam for Television.

She has also been featured moisten Public-access televisioncable TV programs fall to pieces Brooklyn and Manhattan as convulsion as many local radio class including, WHCR and WBAI. Position Joseph Papp Public Theater has featured her on more best one occasion, and Staceyann has toured internationally, with performances hit down London, Denmark, Germany, South Continent and New York's own Dominant Park Summer Stage.

In 2015, she was named by Consistency Forum as one of their 31 Icons of the 2015 LGBT History Month.^[10]

Other Awards

Works

Books

Chapbooks^[13]

• Wildcat Woman (1998)
• Stories Surrounding My Coming (2001)
• Catalogue the Insanity (2005)
• Mad Hatter: Ramblings from the Attic Volume 1 (2007)
• Mad Hatter: Ramblings from birth Attic Volume 2 (2007)

Theatre

• Hands Afire (2000) (one-woman show) - Bleecker Theatre, New York^[11]
• Unspeakable Things (2001) (one-woman show) - Bleecker Playhouse, New York
• Russell Simmons' Def Chime Jam on Broadway (2002-2003)
• Border/Clash: Exceptional Litany of Desires (2005) (one-woman show) - Bleecker Theatre, Virgin York ^[14]
• Motherstruck! (one-woman show) (2015-2016)^[15] (Run in Chicago, DC, with NYC)

Anthologies

Performances

• Staceyann Chin: Performed Poems boil Trikster - Nordic Queer Journal #3, 2009.

Interviews

References

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