BespokeCurry-The NeoAfro

Hairstylist. Coiffure Curator. MFA. Denver. Nashville. Recovering Undercover Overlover.Body Love.Plush. Mad Creative. Be Rad. Black Girl Magic. Creative Director Lucy Bell Hair Studio. The NeoAfro.

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What’s the number 1 commodity in this country? The thing that y’all consume the most? That without it yt America wouldn’t even exist. It’s not a thing but a who. America’s number 1 commodity is Black folx. . . . Hey y’all I’m Kiing Curry they/them pronouns exclusively and this is my little corner of the gram and we abide my things a bit differently over here. My community guidelines are non negotiable Instagrams are, and they serve to benefit the least marginalized and most mediocre on this app. . . . I got some new followers in order to be in this place and space with me. In order to learn from me because you will (Though I am not your mammy and these nipples are off limits). You will need to move with intention and care. Frivolous consumption of me , my Blackness, my queerness and my other intersections is not allowed. Being here in this space means you are committed to help get me to equity. The ways you can do that are as follows. 1. Engage deeply with my posts I never just post a photo or a reel. That means slowing down. Reading my captions and responding in kindness and care. I am a whole human who deserves to be honored and treated as such. 2. For those of you who like to use education as a qualifier for good folx. Stop that shit. My undergraduate is from MTSU and my MFA is fro UCI. All this means is that I went to school and had my Blackness stripped from me violently and it was replaced with Ytness and their violent imaginations so I could become a good agent for the state. 3. Follow directions. This is specifically for vanilla ice thrice (yt folx this is y’all) and the beige brigade. If you are light skinned or mixed raced, you don’t get to figure out and experiment with your “supposed” Black identity here. You are not important here. You will not be place on a pedestal. Act up and find out. I’m not arguing with ignorance you will be blocked. 4. Over here we center the most marginalized among us. So if it’s about, Black (dark skin), queer, trans, disabled , neuro dynamic community etc WE LOVE IT. If you don’t go away. Don’t follow me. (The rule continued in the comments) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChKaD9iLUgH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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What is life? Ion even know. Yeah I’m here. We here. Like that’s all I got. One day at a time. Still dodgin COVID. Let’s add MP to the list and the further demonization of the gay community which ain’t got nada to do with it. If you had chicken pox growing up then you know how this works. Groceries are at an all time high but no worries there a surplus of caucasity and performative privilege to last a life time. They servin in sandwich bags at the pharmacy I will never shame a street pharmacist again. But how y’all doin? You ain’t gotta be ok cause I can’t pretend. I guess it’s the weekend y’all 😬😂🤷🏾 #thefatBlackblock #fataesthetics #fatmodel #fatvibes #lgbtqia #queer #earthisghettoiwannaleave #whatislife #twilightzone #nonbinary#fatsummer #summertime #thekiingcurry #trans #testosterone #fatwords #bespokecurry #pnw #westcoast #losangeles #aplmodels https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg4ZR4Zrrk7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Stay with me in yellow 🐱🐥🌻🌞🍋🧽📒💛🟡🟨 #fataesthetics #fatvibes #fatfashion #yellow #amarillo #fatmodel #queer #nonbinary #lgbtqia #aplmodels #cobaltsudiospdx #blksft #westcoast #losangeles #seattle #pdx #theweekend https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgo_uidLG9M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The week in review - This is the first week where I have worked with my autism instead of against it in order To create a work flow that works for me. I was productive this week but in a way that works for me outside grind and hustle culture . . . The Fat Black Block is here. This is my subscriptions space via my website. I will cover all of the things near and dear to my heart but first we start with writing. In 2010 I stopped writing after receiving my MFA because whenever I wrote I heard a voice that wasn’t mine but instead the voice of someone who had been indoctrinated to academic and yt culture. My voice is finally back and I’ve got plenty to say. My goal if 25 subscribers at the bronze level $25 a month for 3 months. Once I reach goal I will release Fat Black Block Silver. At the bronze level you will get to hear my thoughts on topics from non-binary to fear as capital in Black bodies and more. Link in bio . . . I am looking for individual and entities who are bold understand the importance of Black Beauty School and the ways in which it is directly linked to shifting standards of Black beauty and hair. I am also looking to take this program out of the country and into Black communities that could benefit the most abroad. This program is revolutionary and moves beyond just trying to make profit off of others and seeks to fundamentally change the way cosmetology programs operate and more all the way up the chain. Please do not waste my time with performative inquiries. . . . I am seeking brands and persons who are looking to hire my talent via APL Models. So many of you claim you want to work with me and support me as a professional model. But you’re only looking to do that as long as you can underpay me. That’s not the name of the game. Value my talent and craft and book me. #fatvibes #fataesthetics #fatfolx #fatfashion #myparade #fatmodel #fatfashion #lgbtqia #queer #nonbinary #thekiingcurry #thefatBlackblock #writing #BBS #BlackBeautySchool #aplmodels #bespokecurry #yitty #pnw #losangeles #westcoast #seattle #pdx https://www.instagram.com/p/CgmaKJXrdgp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Headed to my hostess shift at the Pink. P Valley A Cosplay - your respectability politics say way more about you than me. I love P Valley but said that bodies ain’t a reflection of the true culture. @Parade Roar Two Piece Set. Be sure to use my promo BESPOKECURRY for a discount on your next order. #fatvibes #fataesthetics #fatfolx #fatfashion #myparade #yourparade #pvalley #cosplay #thepink #chucalissasfinest #fatmodel #fatfashion #lgbtqia #queer #nonbinary #thekiingcurry #bespokecurry (at The Pynk - Chucalissa, Mississippi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CghVpQHLeFc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I want to ask the world to have a big imagination for me. I want to ask you to believe me the first time when I’ve named harm. I am asking you to pause with intention for those with dark skin. Not the intention of slave master and mistress or of his children, but with the intention that you pour into your beige babies. Bring me your Beyoncé energy. Allow me to be full and complete. Allow me to exist outside of the space of nourishing and educating y’all to life and myself to an early grave. Love me for the mundane. Stay for my creative genius. Like this post just as much as y’all like a post where I’m holding someone accountable for wrongdoing. Y’all only believe I am important as long as I am enraged. My rage is valid. But it’s one small part of me. I keep asking to be seen in my whole humanity. I keep asking to be seen as a model. As an entertainer. As a speaker. I keep asking to be seen as someone who has deep understanding of beauty and aesthetics. I keep asking to be seen as an artistic director, a wardrobe stylist, as someone who has a deep knowledge of fat bodies and clothing. As someone who is leading and innovating Black hair. I am asking. I am telling you. I have almost 8000 posts on this app. I have lived many lives and for most of you that just means I’m fat, Black, and irrelevant because I won’t wear these tropes and stereotypes as y’all believe I should. I am asking you to have a big imagination for me because I am my ancestors wildest dreams. Not just words on a page but a full fucking vibrant 360 degree whole as human. Honor my humanity. #fataesthetics #fatmodel #fatvibes #lgbtqia #queer #nonbinary #fatfolx #pnw #westcoast #lax #asd #Blackhumanity #thekiingcurry #bespokecurry #aplmodels https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfy2SgkLk6o/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Fat Aesthetics. Midweek mood. #fat #fatmodel #nonbinary #lgbtqia #queer #fatfolx #fatclothes #bawdy #aplmodels #plussizemodel #westcoast #pnw #LAX https://www.instagram.com/p/CfrU-jLFmEt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Summer has finally arrived in the PNW. If I’m being honest I will probably be inside for the rest of the season. It doesn’t feel pride. Y’all keep saying it was a riot and yet all I am seeing is more ⚪️ folx and tenderqueers taking up space and appropriating the culture. Juneteenth is a joke. Black queer and cis femmes act like you’re somehow under attack because I’m non binary. Like I haven’t and don’t continue to fight for yall without fail. I keep having to quell my Blackness in order to accommodate the violent identities of beige folx. I keep delivering on the mastery of my artistry and somehow end up stuck back in Aunt Jemima’s thick suffocating syrup meant to nourish and educate with no end in sight for my big, tired bones. I am censored, shadowbanned, and hypersexualized by this app for no reason other than the fact that I am fat Black and loud. But I’m supposed to keep my mouth shut. Pretend like the rest of the MFers on this app who are happy to make money off your back look the other way. I am disposable to 90% of y’all. I’ve been working and promoting for brands that behind the scene don’t care about me. I’ve spent a year being deadnamed, and lied to by one specific company and their response was we hear you and take this seriously which means they don’t. This is a rant from a person who keeps trying to step away from frustration but is placed there at every turn by a society who is content to gaslight me to failure. #pride #nonbinary #lgbtqia #queer #asd #thekiingcurry #bespokecurry https://www.instagram.com/p/CfReGs-LUli/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Black christianity and generational trauma. If there’s a war moving inside of you and you are fighting between trusting your instinct and trusting some entity that doesn’t exist. Don’t be afraid to move through that war because it’s happening for a reason. You can have your religious freedom but if you cannot recognize the role that christianity and specifically that Black christianity is playing in continuing to harm the Black community and their many intersections. You are a part of the problem. We are living in hell on earth. There is no heaven cause you were some how a better person and christian. If your kid is telling you that something is off believe them but also know that the game of Christianity is to make you think kids are property and you know best. Tap into the many times that we felt that way as a child and believe them. While it is hard to lose familiar relationships it is even harder to gain back the trust of your child you betrayed. Heal your inner child. Trust yourself and trust them. Not Jesus. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CfPai2LoBGP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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the collective delusion that is america is killing us. Black folx know this. some Black folx know this. what does it mean when you no longer feel safe leaving your home? even though it has never been safe. ive heard stories, had my own to add to the list. all of them warnings. all of them involving proximity to ⚪️ness. ⚪️ supremacy. all of them signaling that we are beyond our life matters as the world the world is pushing to prove the exact opposite. bey just told y’all to look the other way while our bodies are slaughtered and y’all are doing it. it’s not that deep you say. when will it be? i want to run. i feel my ancestors bubbling just beneath the surface. but to where? this body is mine. is it? planning with mine. Safe space, refuge, lawyers. wtf is my life. y’all ain’t left no legacy. a chaotic mess at best. ain’t no Black delegation. cause we have been scattered and confused. disconnected from ourselves. i am scared. overly aware. trying to soothe a broken heart with missing pieces. the collective delusion that is america is killing us. #fataesthetics #fatmodel #fatwords #lgbtqia #queer #nonbinary #pridewasariot #pride #mybodymyrules #Black #pnw #pdx #westcoast #LA #thekiingcurry #bespkecurry https://www.instagram.com/p/CfO_Dn6FQ43/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Throwback to summer because it’s anything but in the PNW. 🌞💫☀️✨ #pride #lgbtqia #queer #nonbinary #summertime #fataesthetics #fatfolx #fatfashion #fatswim #fatmodel #plussizemodel #swimwear #pnw #westcoast #LAX #thekiingcurry #bespokecurry https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce3t0rIFlZf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🌈🌈PRIDE🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Happy Weekend y’all! Pick ya fav. #fataesthetics #lgbtqia #queer #nonbinary #pride #pridewasariot #fatmodel #pnw #westcoast #LAX #plussizemodel #aplmodels #thekiingcurry #bespokecurry https://www.instagram.com/p/Ceqv5vLrH8N/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A reminder of just how rad I am. This time last summer we were on the road for our west coast tour. Being Black, queer, fat, outspoken means being your biggest fan, your own management, your own marketing, your own accountant, the list goes on. There were no sponsors. But last summer I didn’t do it alone. I had @thysiircole. Last summer showed me the value in partnership and community. The value in connecting, in exploring, the value in living life everyday. I made plenty of mistakes, got baptized by fire in some cases and in other times I was the fire. Plenty of y’all have demonized me, I was diversity clout for some of y’all. Learned some hard lessons and this summer I’m proud to say I’ve changed and evolved and little more. I recognize me. But this me is a bit more grounded as grounded as an Aries can be. Constantly reminding myself to return the focus to me. Cause if there’s no me what the purpose for community if I’m not kneeling at the altar of me first? #pride #lgbtqia #queer #nonbinary #tbt #fataesthetics #fatfolxclothes #Blackandgay #fattrans #thekiingcurry #bespokecurry #pnw #pdx #LAX https://www.instagram.com/p/CelpGWZlhyQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A lil photo dump. It’s PRIDE Y’all 🌈🏳️‍🌈🌈Halfway thru the year. Me and mercury retrograde did a lovely dance this season, but bye now you dusty ho. Catch me this Tuesday chatting with @blackandgay1 6pm PST. There’s new jewelry over @beadandcowriejewels. Shop Black and Queer and support me directly, not just this month but every month. $thekiingcurry @ kiingcurry. Shooting tomorrow with @cobaltstudiospdx and @event_cosmetics. Stay tuned for some new goodness. #pride #Blackpride #lgbtqia #queer #Blacktrans #fataesthetics #Blackstyle #model #plussize #fatfolx #portraitslam #bespokecurry #thekiingcurry #Blackandgay https://www.instagram.com/p/CeWMQy3rFfE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Lilac Tea Parties #pride #queer #lgbtqia #nonbinary #fataesthetics #90sfashion #thekiingcurry #bespokecurry #psx #pnw #westcoast #LA https://www.instagram.com/p/CeTrbOsLBMh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Week in review. Pick ya fav 💫☁️🌞🌱🤎 (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc8J59VLU1b/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I haven’t taken a picture of my full body in a couple of months. I’ve been thinking a lot about clothes since most of my favs were stolen. I honestly haven’t wanted to get dressed. The deeper I get into my transition the more my thoughts around fashion and creative drive to dress has shifted. I’ve been thinking about what would it look like to revamp my style. To connect my non-binary and me. A couple months engaging less on this app and socials and I realize my options for this body are either hyper feminine or boring or that’s it. I’ve been wearing mens clothes since I was a teenager and their isn’t much there either. I’m not interested in completely masculine look. The plus-size fashion industry lacks vision and innovation. It’s deeply gendered and poorly constructed. I have no ideas where I go next from here. Why keep supporting brands that tell you they are fighting for change but keep delivering the same thing. I’m not interested in clamoring with with folx who who think their privates have something to do with dressing well. Who think that beigness is next to godliness. Still looking and wondering when will clothes be made well for every one and not just some ones. #fatfolx #fatfolxclothes #plussize #plussizeindustry #fashion #nonbinary #lgbtqia #thekiingcurry #bespokecurry #transstyle #fattrans #style (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc5kxCYLr8w/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=