Radicalised by the inventiveness of groups such as the Harlem Renaissance, the LA-based musician is determined to reclaim the radical possibilities of culture in an age of institutional and algorithmic exploitation ... ....
“African people are surreal,” she says ... Her poems often speak to the struggles of minority ethnic people and she is clear about identifying as Black. “The police didn’t stop us, pull us over and say, ‘Oh, you’re Cuban.’ They saw Black people.