2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam - FreeQuency "The Gospel of Colonization"

Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa is a 26 year old Kenyan, Immigrant, Queer Womyn speaker and performer. A 2017 TEDWomen speaker and ranked 3rd at the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam, FreeQuency is an internationally touring author, host, youth-worker, social-justice lecturer, teaching artist and workshop leader who has spent her life at the intersection of arts, education and activism. An award-winning poet/speaker, she and/or her work in Reproductive Justice, #BlackLivesMatter organizing, LGBTQ+ advocacy and poetry have been featured on Upworthy, OkayAfrica, TEDx, the New York Times, For Harriet, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, Everyday Feminism, & other outlets. View her work at www.FreeQuencySpeaks.com. FreeQuency is a founding member of the New Orleans chapter of the Black Youth Project 100, a founding committee member of the New Orleans Youth Open Mic (NOYOM), festival coordinator for the New Orleans Youth Poetry Festival a blogger with the AfroFashion and Culture Blog Noirlinians and a member of Wildseeds: The New Orleans Octavia Butler Emergent Strategy Collective. She currently works as a community organizer at Women With A Vision, as well as running the Young Women With A Vision program.

[@RaRa-vf3zx]

“In what language did God listen”👌🏽👌🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@ellawylynko6490]

this has got to be the best slam poem I have ever seen
incredible

[@mishatheewriter]

"Aint it funny how they used their God to justify the taking of what ours has blessed us with for centuries?" Absolutely AMAZING!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 FreeQuency is Phenomenal💛

[@B1Zambrano]

🔥🔥That’s real right there! I’m a believer in the Bible to the core, but it definitely has been used to advance agendas that go against everything that is written in the book.🔥🔥

[@sjone086]

SHE KILLLLLLLT THIS! FACTS ALL DAY!

[@Absurdist1968]

FreeQuency is no joke.

[@thepoeticgenius1986]

Wow....wow....wow. So amazing. So powerful. So real.

[@myaroze19]

FreeQuency is one of my FAVORITES! Her delivery is sooooooo Demanding & Amazing!

[@beautybyraven6353]

katwiwa we are proud of you tuwakilishe sisi wakenya

[@nancyongom3274]

Waooh... U really nailed it. So interesting and at the same time realistic.

[@deseangibir4764]

Facts!!!! We need more of the truth. There white Jesus has been our downfall.

[@emymaldonado3432]

Amazing omg. Gave me chills

[@joshuar529]

Damn. That was HOT!!! Speak the truth!!

[@ASWilson2017]

Amazing.

[@dennismugambi1038]

On replay

[@kijo_ojik4597]

WOW

[@royal3880]

Powerful. Keep your mayonnaise in a jar and your tap shoes off of the floor if you don't like this ugly truth.

[@zanelebiyela5738]

I wish I could triple like this

[@anotheranimator7944]

Oh hi