Episode 4: How to Be a Black Tomboy with Jasmine Marie

Jasmine Marie is a prolific photographer/filmmaker, conceptual artist, poet, fiction writer, and so much more. 

She’s currently exploring her queer identity, creating an experimental documentary about being a Black tomboy (in which she plans to cut archive footage, interviews, conceptual imagery, and an interview with herself) and even writing her own myths, masterfully mixing and weaving mediums together to make a richly authentic body of storytelling work.

We go in depth about the meaning behind her first solo exhibit “Offerings/Please Save the Baby,” how the hums and buzzes of Memphis inspire her work, That’s So Raven and Naruto fanfiction, continuing the family tradition of creative expression, how she came out to her parents as queer in a poetry performance, the exploration of migration and African traditional religions and archetypes in the media, the idea of making her own music one day, what she would do without external pressures, and her dream of hosting an artist residency.

Find Jasmine Marie on Instagram: @jasthemarie and her website jasthemarie.com