
Finally playing in Helsinki
Thanks to the amazing folks I met at the Afro European Conference in Tampere early this month, I'm now showing my documentary in Helsinki this Saturday . #multiracial #Biracial #Nigerian #Finnish #Multicultural #Identity #PBS #Documentary #Nordic #Afroeuropean #Helsinki #Finland

March Madness: 3 Events+International Women's Day+My Birthday!
Hot off the Associated Writing Programs Conference & Bookfair in DC and my stint as Clayton B Ofstad Visiting Writer in Missouri (which included a multimedia reading in a planetarium), comes March! TUESDAY MARCH 7 Headlining the 9th Sweetwater Session at Impact Hub 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Impact Hub, 2323 Broadway, Oakland Omi Gallery at Impact Hub Oakland is honored to host Faith Adiele for “Finding my Black Family (with Detours through Buddhism and Fibroids)” at The Sweetwater Se

Book Trailer for my first vlog post
I thought I'd share the book trailer-in-progress for my memoir-in-progress, TWINS: AN AFRO-VIKING EPIC. In preparation for the graduate seminar in Digital Storytelling I'm teaching at California College of the Arts, I took a weekend workshop at StoryCenter (formerly the Center for Digital Storytelling) in Berkeley; this was my homework. It was created on WeVideo, an open-source platform similar to Final Cut, but clunkier. It does interface super-easily with Google Classroom a

First blog post on revamped website, first Rumpus essay!
I'm super excited to announce that my long-awaited essay about our 25-year courtship and wacky, cross-cultural marriage - which grew out of Facebook posts liked by ALL OF YOU - was published in The Rumpus Wednesday! The illustrations come from a shorter, PowerPoint version - which, coincidentally, I'd performed for the Radar Queer Reading Series (established by Michelle Tea at the San Francisco Public Library) - the night before. And you'll see from the slide below that I was