I have been calling it the exploration year but it will span beyond a year. This launch is an opportunity for me to find the communities where my gifts and knowledge can thrive. In the next 2-3 years myself and my spouse will be leaving the states and settling abroad. This is the beginning of an exploration that centers connection via intention and care with African bodies across the diaspora. 

 

Almost 4 years ago now, ancestors and spirit told me to go home, and by home they meant Africa. It has been a process that I have been focused on from the moment I had the realization and in my impatience I had hoped it would happen before now. I am also grateful that it is happening as it has, there was deep healing i needed to undergo, now being seated in the fullness of me that I have never known. 

 

Thanks to a trans grant that I received, I am able to launch my exploration. I was able to purchase my ticket to Johannesburg, South Africa for January of 2026. During that month-long trip I will collaborate with queer and other Black South African creatives whose work intersects with mine. 

 

Work I am hoping to connect and collaborate around: 

• Theatre Folx - I hold a BS(MTSU) and a MFA(UCI) in theatre. I am looking for folx interested in Black guerilla theatre and innovative connections in using Afro hair and theatre. 

• Litm(us) and Black Beauty School - decolonized courseworks around Afro hair and the African body. 

• Healing and Plant Medicine ( Fungi, Cannabis, African Plants)

• Modeling and movement 

• Creative and Art Direction for shots, stage, and film

• Food - connecting American African and South African indigenous foodways

• Bead and Cowrie - handmade adornment for embodiment

• Riotous Deathscapes -I deeply need to discuss this book in queer community. 

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Potential ZA Collaborators  

• Bukhosi House 

• Chef Nonhlanhla (Noni) Moroenyane

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Within that trip I also hope to be able to take a small trip to Senegal to collaborate with a hom(e)ie there as well. 

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I still need to secure housing and additional funds for the trip. I will be launching a fundraising effort with a Zoom coursework of Litm(us) and Black Beauty School where the Dom(free) Afro ABC's, a visual flash card set and discussion tool that centers decolonized care of the African body will be discussed in global afro community. 

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The zoom will be ticketed and will happen on November 1, 2025. Tickets and link will be announced with the ABC’s via IG in early October. This event will also give folx looking to collaborate or connect with me a chance to see a bit of my working style. 

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I am asking folx who are willing to support and share consistently the work via social media, I am creating leading up to this event. In the past I have sought to share  my work with communities that were looking to take advantage, it is imperative that my work be connected with a caliber of folx who move via intention, care, innovation, and tech(know)logy.   

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I will also be pushing Bead and Cowrie consistently through the end of the year.  Please consider a custom order or purchasing from the website with friends and family as a means to support this endeavor. 

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I have a fundraising goal of $3500 by January 1, 2026. 

 

I am simultaneously excited and a bit overwhelmed with this trip and will need support. This will be my first legit legit time out in the world after 3 years of deep healing and restoration after enduring countless harms. 

 

My last time travelling internationally overseas was in 1998 when I went to Zama,Japan on student exchange as an eighth grader. 

 

So this is a big deal. 

 

If you plan to support me on this trip please let me know, like actually, speak up. 

 

If you have ideas or can help with finding folx to support please reach out. 

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If you do not like me, please leave me alone and go on your way. 

 

This trip is about community and is going to happen as a result of community support. The work I do is deeply important for African communities across the diaspora, and it's time I actually found my place and those folx who aren’t afraid of conflict and putting in the work. This is always the work I have been doing, I just no longer need to be cute and in the midst of hollow company. 

 

I am very serious about the work of indigenous wildfire and returning African bodies to their full queer sovereignty. 

 

Let the journey begin, let's create ya’ll. 

 

With the deepest love, intention, and care, 

Kiing Curry 

 

P.S. Please take the time to explore bespokecurry.com. If anything is unclear let me know. Sometimes you will need to be patient and hit refresh. I will be doing updates into the month of October. My Portfolio is currently under new construction.