NIEMA LIGHTSEED

she/her

Niema Lightseed (she/her) belongs to poetry, to painting, to music, to the soil of art. To the tall trees and still-wild rivers, to the dandelion, lavender, mycelium, and salmon. To the wisdom of the healing body and the relationship between touch, movement, and wellbeing. To the brilliance of her womanist ancestors and to a liberated, creative, and interconnected future.

Niema is a Black, fat, queer, cis-woman originally from the lands of the Neshnabé people in what is now called Chicago, Illinois. Since 2013 Niema has been a grateful guest in the lands of the Chinook, Multnomah, and Kalapuya people in so-called Portland, Oregon.

Her offerings are distilled from an irrepressible inquiry into the marrow of life. She wants to meet the rock that becomes the paint that flows from brush, literally and metaphorically in all we create. Niema is a lifelong student of liberation in an ever-deepening process of learning how to transform internalized white supremacist heteropatriarchal oppression, dismantle capitalism, and serve our collective evolution towards a restored and regenerative world, guided by creativity and radical imagination.