the Exploration
This exploration is an opportunity for Bespokecurry to find the communities where their gifts and knowledge can thrive.
This is the beginning of an exploration that centers connection via intention and care with African bodies across the diaspora.
There was a plan to begin this exploration in March. That did not come to pass. The ticket is still in hand, and time remains. But without intention, care, and support, movement means nothing. And in a world currently in upheaval—shaped and destabilized by colonial powers—movement without alignment becomes extraction. So the exploration pauses— not as retreat, but as discernment. Until I am in right relation with those who move beyond performance and colonial delusion.
First Stop Johannesburg South Africa 2026/2027
what is it?
The Exploration
The Exploration
(Beyond Time)
This is not a year.
It is a threshold.
What I once called the exploration year is an opening that extends far beyond a calendar. This launch marks my return to relational living—seeking the communities where my gifts are not extracted, but tended; where knowledge circulates with care; where embodiment is not theory but practice.
Over the next few years, my spouse and I will be preparing to leave the United States and settling abroad. This journey centers intentional connection with African bodies across the diaspora—connection rooted in care, accountability, and mutual becoming.
Nearly four years ago, ancestors and spirit spoke plainly: go home.
Home meant Africa.
I believed, in my impatience, that arrival should have been immediate. Instead, the delay became medicine. What unfolded was a depth of healing I could not have rushed—an initiation into a fullness of self I had never before inhabited. I arrive at this moment seated in myself, not searching for permission.
Through the support of a trans grant, this exploration now takes form. In 2026, I will travel to Johannesburg, South Africa for a month-long residency of collaboration with queer and Black South African creatives whose work intersects with mine—artists, healers, thinkers, and culture-makers shaping liberated futures in real time. Within that journey, I also intend to spend time in Senegal, collaborating with a hom(e)ie whose work carries shared lineage and vision.
This is not symbolic.
This is material.
This is a big deal.
If you plan to support this work, say so—out loud, with your voice, your resources, your reach. If you have ideas, connections, or capacity to help build the web of support that makes this possible, I invite you to reach out.
This journey will happen because of community. The work I do—returning African bodies to embodied, queer sovereignty; tending indigenous wildfire; refusing hollow performance—has always been communal labor. What has changed is my refusal to shrink, soften, or be palatable in spaces that fear conflict, accountability, and depth.
I am serious about this work.
I always have been.
Now, I am simply no longer interested in being cute while doing it.
Let the journey begin.
Let us create—intentionally, fiercely, together.
With deep love, care, and devotion,
Kiing Curry
Freedom
is
Coming
Tomorrow
How to Support
Support This Work
This journey is not funded by institutions alone.
It is carried by people.
If this work resonates with you—if you believe in the necessity of queer African sovereignty, diasporic connection rooted in care, and creative labor that refuses extraction—there are tangible ways to stand alongside it.
Support can look like:
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Financial contributions toward travel, lodging, food, and collaborative labor
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Connecting me with artists, organizers, cultural workers, and hosts in South Africa and Senegal
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Offering resources, skills, or infrastructure that support long-term diasporic movement
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Sharing this work with those who understand community as responsibility, not performance
This exploration will happen because community chooses to participate. I am not seeking passive spectatorship or hollow encouragement. I am calling in people who are willing to invest—in relationship, in accountability, and in the labor of building something real.
If you feel moved to support, reach out directly. Say it out loud. Signal your willingness. Community begins with presence.
This work is about returning African bodies—especially queer and trans bodies—to themselves. It is about tending indigenous wildfire and allowing it to warm, not destroy. It is about doing the work without apology.
If you are aligned, step forward.
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