Ọmọlará Williams McCallister

The first time that someone sent me books in the mail I didn’t know what to do with myself! Books have been an important part of my...

Before COVID hit, my plan for 2020 was to graduate from my MFA program; sell $10,000 worth of hats during derby/easter/mother’s...

My summer style profile could be described as: as close to naked as the law allows. As I have begun to feel more and more safe and my...

I finally made a Patreon! Patreon is an online platform that allows you to send me monthly donations of any amount. I am approaching...

I am preparing for my first solo show. As part of the exhibition I will be doing a 28 or 14 day performance. In the process I will be...

I used to covet clothes from anthropologie. They were too expensive. I rarely actually bought clothes from them. When I did have the...

My younger brother and I have always been close. When we were younger I took him everywhere that I could take him with me. To rehearsals...

In 2019 I was a part of a show entitled B_19, Best of 2019. All of the work was phenomenal. Except for one person all of the artist in...

I’ve been trying to find the saying, does anyone know it? It is about some sort of omen that happens either during pregnancy or at the...

I wish that we had a name for the specific feeling that comes with having the exact right tool for getting a task done. That feeling is a...

I had my first psychotic break in high school. I was cleaning my very mess room when I suddenly collapsed, crumpled to the ground and...

There are a lot of guns in the places that I live and have lived. There is a lot of gun violence. It has shaped the way that I move...

www.patreon.com/omolara I finally made a Patreon! Patreon is an online platform that allows you to send me monthly donations of any...

https://www.snap4freedom.org I regularly face transphobic misogynoir in my daily life. The two ways that it most often shows up are as...

I am deep in the heart of Dixie right now. I am at an amazing residency at Hambidge Center for the Arts which is in North Georgia,...

Ten years ago I went to yet another doctor expecting them to say the same thing that all the other doctors had said: “we don’t think that...

When we talk about alternative forms of public safety, I think about the forms that already exist in spoonie communities. Spoonie is a...

Living with an apprenticing herbalist is the most magical experience. I’ve been privileged to live with Arifa Awadallah from May through...

I don’t think that I can name a thing in my life that I do or have done by myself. There are so many people, even ones who are just...

On my 25th birthday I discovered, by happenstance, that I love having people read to me out loud. I had so many plans for that day. Me...