Introduction

This project was created to tell the story of Nicole Breedlove. She defines herself as a “nerdy, masculine-identified published author and activist” and she feels as though her story has the right to be told. She describes her life and the various hardships of being black, female, and a lesbian, and even a combination of the three in her poetry from Aloud. While there is a record of these poems on paper in Aloud, her poems cannot be understood holistically because the performance aspect of it is lost when only presented with the words. There is only one clip of her actually performing, but it still does not do her justice because the performances of the other two poems are missing. In a way, only the people who have seen her perform at the Nuyorican Poets Café have truly experienced her work as a whole. This project allows everyone to experience her story in the most complete and effortless way possible.