#writeonbefree

[vanillelavendernotes]

this news two days before my birthday & on André 3K’s birthday is ✨🙌🏿🔥🔥🔥. Semifinalist shit. That’s wassup @screen_craft , thank you. 🙏🏿3/3 #writeonbefree #iwrite #IgboLanding #blackfilmmaker #indiefilmmaking #featurefilmscript #blackqueermagic #phillyfilmmakers https://www.instagram.com/p/CAs-u7zH8qH/?igshid=n5h6ioeweyff

[vanillelavendernotes]

new poem. a good day. do i upload the audio on soundcloud or ressurct my bandcamp artist page? i think i want to record it. . . . #iwrite #blackboyjoy #blackqueermagic #writeonbefree #poet #KingV

[vanillelavendernotes]

My short #SeeMyDreamsComeTrue is LIVE!!! S/O to #thenewengagement for the dope write up, and for featuring this film in their Issue No. 5 -- LINK IN BIO. Making film is hard, but It's super kewl to have completed this thing in May, work on a project in September, film another thing & paint some walls in October, help around a Film set, then shoot my own shit during a weekend in November, and then turn around to release this jawn. Super grateful for the work. You gotta keep working, keep creating shit. #NYC: Hit me up for #screening & #workshop details - let's do this for the youngers! The film is out, but the experience ain't over. . . . for you, especially you Black child, are a meeting point, a dream realized, of your ancestors. . . . #filmedu #KingV #blackqueermagic #blackfilmmakers #WriteOnBeFree #SeeMyDreams

[vanillelavendernotes]

got three #haikus #published in @muses.at.muhlenberg! dope moment - especially because sometimes I feel like a better "writer" than "poet", so I guess some folks feel different? Lol. S/O to @lenabethschneider for pushing me to submit! <3 #IWrite #jecris #writeonbefree #poetry #Blackcreative

[vanillelavendernotes]

Reading James Baldwin, and he notes that “the black painter Beauford Delany...Painters have often taught writers how to see”. This took me back to something I wrote last summer...

“In my younger years I use to draw. I remember buying charcoal pencils, sketch pads, and all kinds of wacky supplies; no tool - regardless of my media of choice - has sustained me like the Pen. Even when I was drawing I preferred a deep black ink to the bordering black graphite. Recently I've been using a Fine Line ink pen to write with, after loosing a favorite steel pen - taking notes with this new pen is mad nice. And using this pen took me back to my drawing days...so today I went into an art store and bought some (visual art) pens. I identify strongly as a writer these days, yet even as I write I want my words to carry sights, sounds and feelings - I still want you to see something. I want to write like a visual artist. As a writer I am (still) making visual art. I use words, but I AM a visual artist.”