Staceyann Chin

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Staceyann Chin
performance artist

Staceyann Chin (born December 25, 1972) is a

spoken-word poet, performing artist and LGBT rights political activist. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Pittsburgh Daily, and has been featured on 60 Minutes. She was also featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show
, where she shared her struggles growing up as a gay person in Jamaica. Chin's first full-length poetry collection was published in 2019.

Personal life

Chin was born in

Huffington Post.[1][2]

Career

Nuyorican Poets Cafe
. She has also held poetry workshops worldwide. Chin credits her accomplishments to her hard-working grandmother and the pain of her mother's absence.

Chin's poetry can be found in her first chapbook, Wildcat Woman, the one she now carries on her back, Stories Surrounding My Coming, and numerous

anthologies, including Skyscrapers, Taxis and Tampons, Poetry Slam, Role Call, Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies. Chin's voice can be heard on CD compilations out of Bar 13- Union Square and Pow Wow productions. In 2009, Chin published her autobiographical novel, The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir.[3]

She has been a host on

Logo's After Ellen Internet show, "She Said What?" and a co-host of Centric
's My Two Cents.

In 2009, Chin performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.[4]

She taught a seminar at the arts-oriented Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn.

Critical analysis

Chin's "activist driven"

Poetry Slam
venues during the years she competed, adding:

To watch Chin perform is to watch the very essence of poetry manifested: her performances are imperfect, volatile and beautiful. Chin's poetry is passionate and well-written, sure; but it's her ability to communicate that passion in performance that is unparalleled. She becomes the poetry.[8]

Awards

Chin was the winner of the 1999 Chicago People of Color Slam; first runner- up in the 1999 Outright

Public Theater has featured her on more than one occasion, and Staceyann has toured internationally, with performances in London, Denmark, Germany, South Africa and New York's own Central Park Summer Stage. In 2015, she was named by Equality Forum as one of their 31 Icons of the 2015 LGBT History Month.[9]

Other Awards

  • Drama Desk Award (2003)[10]
  • Center for Women and Gender at Dartmouth College for the Visionary-in-Residence Award (2007)[10]
  • Human Rights Campaign Power of the Voice Award (2007)[10]
  • Lesbian AIDS Project Honors (2008)[10]
  • Safe Haven Award from Immigration Equality (2008)[10]
  • New York State Senate Special Human Rights Award (2009)[10]
  • American Book Awards (2020)[11]

Works

Books

Chapbooks[12]

  • Wildcat Woman (1998)
  • Stories Surrounding My Coming (2001)
  • Catalogue the Insanity (2005)
  • Mad Hatter: Ramblings from the Attic Volume 1 (2007)
  • Mad Hatter: Ramblings from the Attic Volume 2 (2007)

Theatre

  • Hands Afire (2000) (one-woman show) - Bleecker Theatre, New York[10]
  • Unspeakable Things (2001) (one-woman show) - Bleecker Theatre, New York
  • Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway (2002-2003)
  • Border/Clash: A Litany of Desires (2005) (one-woman show) - Bleecker Theatre, New York [13]
  • Motherstruck! (one-woman show) (2015-2016)[14] (Run in Chicago, DC, and NYC)

Anthologies

  • "Authenticity", in Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness. Edited by
    Soft Skull Press, February 1, 2012)[15]

Performances

Interviews

References

  1. ^ Chin, Staceyann (November 22, 2011). "Coming Out Pregnant!". Huffington Post.
  2. ^ a b Boykin, Keith (October 3, 2006). "Staceyann Chin's Redemption Song". KeithBoykin.com. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-29.
  3. ISBN 978-0-7432-9290-0
    .
  4. ^ "Credits". The People Speak. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  5. ^ Corece, Mark (March 19, 2008). "Multifaceted: Staceyann Chin Talks". Windy City Times.
  6. ^ Lee, Felicia R. (July 17, 2005). "A Def Poetry Jam of Her Very Own". The New York Times.
  7. The Advocate. Archived from the original on April 11, 2013. Retrieved December 27, 2020.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link
    )
  8. ISBN 1-933368-82-9
    .
  9. ^ Malcolm Lazin (August 20, 2015). "Op-ed: Here Are the 31 Icons of 2015's Gay History Month". Advocate.com. Retrieved 2015-08-21.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g "Staceyann Chin". Soapbox, Inc. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  11. ^ The Associated Press (September 15, 2020). "George Takei, Ocean Vuong and more win American Book Awards". USA Today. Archived from the original on December 22, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  12. ^ "Staceyann Chin at the Baxter". Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  13. ^ "A Def Poetry Jam of Her Very Own". The New York Times. July 17, 2005. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  14. ^ Isherwood, Charles (December 14, 2015). "Review: In 'MotherStruck!' Staceyann Chin Chronicles Her Quest to Become Pregnant". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 27, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  15. ^ Staff (December 12, 2011). "Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness. Edited by Rebecca Walker.", Publishers Weekly.

External links

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