Junauda
Petrus

ICM Partners
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Junauda Petrus is a creative activist, writer, playwright, and multi-dimensional performance artist who is Minneapolis-born, West-Indian descended, and African-sourced. She is also the co-founder with Erin Sharkey of Free Black Dirt, an experimental arts production company. She is currently writing and directing, Sweetness of Wild an experimental and poetic episodic film series about Blackness, queerness, biking, resistance, love and coming of age in Minneapolis as well as writing her first young adult novel. Her work centers around Black wildness, Afro-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, spectacle and shimmer.