Spirit Companion: Sloths

Favorite Quote: “… poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.” ― Audre Lorde

Kedolwa has an interdisciplinary academic background stemming from arts, science and humanities, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature with a Math and Actuarial Science combined minor. They are a Nairobi based writer, dreamer, and believer in joyful, non-linear, collective feminist futures. Kedolwa has work experience in Research, Communications, Feminist Organising, Student Organising, and Program Coordination amongst other experiences that have added to their knowledge and capacities. She knits, crochets, reads poetry, and tends to their many house plants as a means of bending time in appreciation of gently moving processes. They are a forever student of radical social movements, their work lives at the intersection of social justice, art, and feminist politics, and is an emerging voice on histories of marginalisation, identity, statelessness, and digital justice. When she’s not staring at the sky, she is cursing despots and co-creating spaces of radical dreaming, mutual aid, care, and national and transnational solidarity for dispossessed trans and queer Africans with Trans and Queer Fund Kenya, where she is an organiser and founding team member. She is committed to realigning their realities with the circularity of time, space, connection, and presence as a means of dismantling the reach of cicheteropatriarchy and capitalism. She adores doggies, the beach and collecting journals. She speaks Kiswahili, English, Maragoli, and is keen on relearning Nubian or Kinubi