Dominique Christina

Poet/Author/Educator/Cultural Historian

Words make worlds...listen.

Bio

Who she is...

Dominique Christina is an an award-winning poet, author, educator, and activist. She holds five national poetry slam titles in four years, including the 2014 & 2012 Women of the World Slam Champion and 2011 National Poetry Slam Champion. Her work is greatly influenced by her family's legacy in the Civil Rights Movement. Her aunt Carlotta was one of nine students to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas and is a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Dominique is the author of four books. Her third book, "This Is Woman's Work", published by SoundsTrue Publishing, is the radical exploration of 20 archetypal incarnations of womanness and the creative process. Her fourth book "Anarcha Speaks" won the National Poetry Series award in 2017. https://nationalpoetryseries.org/author/dominique-christina/

She is a writer and actor for the HBO series High Maintenance, does branding and marketing for Under Armour, and was a featured performer at the Tribeca Film Festival NYC 2021.

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Video Links

Ted Talk: "Ascension"

The Period Poem

Karma

Mothers of Murdered Sons

Ted Talk: Revolution is Your Heart Beating

"When they ask you who you are...tell them you are many mountains moving. Tell them you are wind song. Tell them they should not have to ask. Tell them you do not have to answer."