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 March 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