Kristiana Rae Colón (born April 16, 1986) is an American poet, playwright, actor, educator, Cave Canem Fellow, creator of #BlackSexMatters and co-founder of the #LetUsBreathe Collective.
Kristiana's writing, producing, and organizing work to radically reimagine power structures, our complicity in them, and visions for liberation.
[5] Let Us Breath Collective protested in July 2016, marching and chaining their bodies together to block the entrance of the Chicago Police Department's Homan Square facility.
[6] Florissant & Canfield tells a vivid epic about Ferguson, in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement, a newly formed alliance of protesters are forced to put their nascent ideologies to the test in the quest for new visions of justice.
[9] This production was inspired by the Ferguson protesters along with the Let Us Breathe Collective and Lost Voices, and it was featured on the 2016 Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival.
"[12] One Week in Spring, [13] laced with hip hop and poetry, bursts with preconceptions about taboos such as women's sexuality, and concepts of consent that have been shaped and re-shaped by millennial social media.