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Geometric red triangle symbol beside a single vertical slash against black space. This symbol represents Trans Learn Tings as transition, rupture, self-definition, nonlinear becoming, and frameworks for learning beyond imposed systems.
Bright green spiral snail with textured shell and soft glowing body resting against a pale background. This symbol represents Mbegu ya Ardhi, “Seed of the Earth” in Swahili, as the Bespokecurry blog space for slow growth, grounded learning, observation, embodied writing, and ideas unfolding over time through lived experience.
Yellow and red octopus with curling arms and textured detail. This symbol represents About Kiing Curry through intelligence, multiplicity, self-awareness, creative reach, and many forms moving from one body.
Bright green and deep red crab with raised claws and wide stance floating against black space. This symbol represents The Lab as sideways thinking, testing systems, experimentation, structural disruption, and unconventional pathways of knowledge.
Deep maroon fish with green and coral red markings, facing forward like a small signal moving through water. This symbol represents The Knewsletter as recurring messages, updates, and living transmissions from the Bespokecurry cosmos.
Flowing water lines beside a dark radiant starburst with grounding bar beneath it in earthy brown and green tones. This symbol represents Fungi Tings as layered ingestion, underground transformation, decomposition, fungal intelligence, and deep internal processing beneath the surface.
Small multicolored fish moving together in layered schools across open space. This symbol represents The Tings as interconnected categories, moving parts, collective knowledge systems, and many small ideas traveling together through the Bespokecurry waters.
Three deep red African masks grouped closely together with carved facial markings and elongated forms. This symbol represents the Bespokecurry Cosmos as multiplicity, ancestral signal, layered identities, collective memory, and interconnected creative worlds.
Three flowing wave lines in layered blue and green gradients floating against black space. This symbol represents the Six Waters and The Wata(ring) Whole as movement, emotional drift, embodiment, atmospheric flow, and interconnected states of being across the Bespokecurry cosmos.
Small green and deep red sea snail-like organism with a large eye and soft rounded body. This symbol represents The Exploration as wandering, adaptive learning, curiosity, experimentation, and movement through unknown waters.
Blue and green shell-slug form with ridged texture and a soft glowing outline. This symbol represents the Embodiment Diagram as structure, sensation, regulation, and inner movement held inside the body.
Circular afro-like form paired with flowing water lines in magenta, green, and violet tones. This symbol represents the Afroscape Field Guide as embodied Black knowledge, Afro theory, hair and body systems, texture, atmosphere, and living archives of the self.
Bright orange cephalopod with curling tentacles and glowing blue edges floating against black space. This symbol represents Litm(us) and Black Beauty School as transformation through chemistry, fluid identity, Black beauty knowledge, body experimentation, texture, color theory, and the constant reshaping of self through creative practice and embodiment.
Three flowing wave lines beside a radiant starburst symbol in purple and blue gradients. This symbol represents Six Waters Cannabis Field Notes as ingestion, altered sensing, embodiment, atmospheric expansion, and cannabis moving through the waters of the body.
Flowing water lines beside a radiant starburst partially surrounded by a soft blue cloud form. This symbol represents the Terpene Index as aromatic atmosphere, sensory mapping, vapor, plant chemistry, and environmental mood systems moving through the body.
Multicolored school of small fish moving together in layered rows. This symbol represents the Members Area through collective movement, shared direction, community rhythm, and many bodies traveling through the same current.

Bespokecurry Cosmos

Circular bracelet made of glowing multicolored cowrie shells and translucent beads arranged in a continuous loop. The bracelet represents adornment, material culture, ancestral connection, object-based storytelling, and wearable archives within Bead & Cowrie.
Green and red jellyfish with long trailing tendrils and a glowing outline. This symbol represents the Wata(ring) W(hole) through flow, depth, unseen systems, drift, sting, and water memory.
Deep red seahorse with curled tail and textured body floating in open space. This symbol represents the Bespokebook Portfolio as curated creative work, intentional display, archival storytelling, and carefully held artistic worlds.
Claymation-style Black scuba diver with bright orange curls floating underwater in colorful diving gear with bubbles rising beside them. This symbol represents the Bespokecurry Cosmos paid subscription space as deep exploration, immersive learning, protected creative worlds, and guided movement through the layered waters of embodiment, theory, art, and transformation.
Deep maroon and chocolate stingray with a long tail and glowing gold texture. This symbol represents BlaxkCurry Productions through grounded movement, quiet power, deep knowledge, and gliding creative force
Deep maroon and chocolate stingray with a long tail and glowing gold texture. This symbol represents BlaxkCurry Productions through grounded movement, quiet power, deep knowledge, and gliding creative force

On Support | Ten Years of Building the Bespokecurry Cosmos

Maybe people are reading.


Maybe they are watching.


Maybe they are learning something.


I honestly do not know.

The Bespokecurry Cosmos seal featuring a stylized mask at the center of a circular geometric pattern. The emblem is rendered in copper and earth tones with decorative triangular motifs surrounding the face. The words “The Bespokecurry Cosmos” arc above and below the seal.
Support is often spoken about as charity, generosity, or goodwill. The Cosmos understands support differently. Support is infrastructure. It is the water beneath the garden, the hands behind the gathering, the resources that allow ideas to become practices and practices to become worlds. Nothing in the Cosmos is built alone. Every essay, workshop, field guide, meal, altar, and offering exists because someone chose to help carry the weight of becoming.

On Support | Ten Years of Building the Bespokecurry Cosmos

For more than ten years I have been building.


Not for ten years as a hobby.


Not for ten years while waiting for permission.


For ten years I have been teaching, writing, designing, researching, making, rebuilding, and continuing.


Black Beauty School.


Afroscape.


The Afro ABCs.


The Bespokecurry Cosmos.


Workshops.


Essays.


Field guides.


Jewelry.


Food.


Years of labor.


Years of becoming.


Today there is finally a website that can hold much of that work.


And not finally.


This website has been here for 10 years.


It has just now arrived in its fully fleshed out form.


And I find myself confronting a difficult reality.


I need support.


Not because a marketing expert told me to ask.


Not because this is a clever campaign.


Because it is true.


I have spent years creating work and putting it into the world.


What I have not experienced is an abundance of support surrounding that work.


Not financial support.


Not community support.


Not much feedback.


Not much conversation.


Mostly I make the work and send it out.


And then there is silence.


Maybe people are reading.


Maybe they are watching.


Maybe they are learning something.


I honestly do not know.


Because most of the time I never hear about it.


What I do know is that building a world takes resources.


Time takes resources.


Research takes resources.


Websites take resources.


Workshops take resources.


Living takes resources.


I am tired of pretending that meaningful work exists outside of material reality.


It does not.


Artists need support.


Teachers need support.


Writers need support.


People building cultural work need support.


I need support.


I am not writing this because I have a triumphant success story to tell.


I am writing this because I am trying to be honest about where I am.


There is no guarantee that this work becomes financially sustainable.


There is no guarantee that people will suddenly subscribe.


There is no guarantee that asking for support will change anything.


But remaining silent about the need has not changed anything either.


So I am saying it plainly.


If you believe this work should continue, help me continue it.



Attend a workshop.



Share the website.



Commission work.


Recommend the Cosmos to someone else.


Support in whatever way is available to you.


Because for ten + years I have carried this work largely on my own.



A contemplative portrait representing the emotional weight of sustaining independent creative work, cultural labor, and the ongoing effort to build the Bespokecurry Cosmos without guaranteed support.

And I am at a point where I need the people who want this work to exist to help sustain it.


Cash App $thekiingcurry

Venmo @ Kiingcurry


 On Support | Ten Years of Building the Bespokecurry Cosmos

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