Good Reads. ‘Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives.’ by Nia King.

Nia King


Nia King is a queer mixed-race activist, artist, and writer. She also hosts and produces the podcast We Want the Airwaves.

Her book Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives is a collection of 16 engaging conversations conversations with queer and trans artists of color.

Nia discusses fat burlesque with Magnoliah Black, queer fashion with Kiam Marcelo Junio, interning at Playboy with Janet Mock, dating gay Latino Republicans with Julio Salgado, intellectual hazing with Kortney Ryan Ziegler, gay gentrification with Van Binfa, getting a book deal with Virgie Tovar, the politics of black drag with Micia Mosely, evading deportation with Yosimar Reyes, weird science with Ryka Aoki, gay public sex in Africa with Nick Mwaluko, thin privilege with Fabian Romero, the tyranny of “self-care” with Lovemme Corazón, “selling out” with Miss Persia and Daddie$ Pla$tik, the self-employed art activist hustle with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha, and much, much more. Welcome to the future of QPOC art activism.