féi hernandez

Lives and works in Inglewood, CA, USA

Artist statement

My work is devoted to breaking down borders within and without. By understanding the nuanced minutia of what makes the beast move, I can remold a chimera of my own creating that bites, that purs at a soft touch, and/or takes flight higher than any cloud because it is possible. My vision is to start building the new world with the poetry I create today, and today being everyday I’m alive, that centers the theme of possibility. My writings are loud, soft, and have smart ass moments that are too nihilistic for themselves. How couldn’t they be. The forefront of my work confronts race, the place of being deemed illegal when I’m on my predecessor’s native lands, the expansive spectrum of transness, and the liminality of being a third generation indigenous diasporic alien-person within and without the bounds of Mexico. The back end of my work is the spiritual and speculative that holds the aforementioned complexity of being. My motivation is to name what is, critically, so that there can be room to sit on Mars or any other wild undiscovered live-able planet and play. My work is in direct dialogue with writers like Natalie Diaz, Patricia Smith, Tommy Pico, Danez Smith, and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo which all dable with the political state of the world we live in, yet bring to center stage our myriad experiences and specific communities, experiences, futures, centering an aliveness that can’t be stripped from us. My next poetry collection is focused on the possibility of a...

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