Robin Reid Drake (she/they) is a Chicago based writer, artist and educator originally from Greensboro, North Carolina. White, trans, nonbinary & queer, Drake combines somatic abolitionism, creative practice and popular education to reckon with lineages of supremacy in herself and her communities.
photo by Diana Solís, 2022
Artist Statement
I am committed to writing as a lifelong practice of collective accumulation & repair.
My interdisciplinary practice is rooted in poetry and wrestles through the mud with themes of whiteness, trans embodiment, horror, ecology and control. Influenced by the practices of artists and writers such as Genesis P-Orridge & M. NourbeSe Philip, I utilize intuitive research & collage which demand I give myself to the world exactly as I sit in it, find light in my immediate surroundings and ask the pen to be a listening organ.