Speaking Justice is a space for students, staff, and community members to unite our powerful voices as spoken art performers and social justice community members inspired by the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Speaking Justice 2019 will host Kavi Ade, an activist, arts educator and nationally recognized spoken word poet of Afro & Indigenous Caribbean descent. 

Kavi Ade’s poetry is a lamentation, a leaning in to what haunts the spirit of a Black Trans Queer body. With poems that are deeply personal while inescapably political Ade’s work grapples with being set at the throne of violence. Using art as resistance they create transformative dialogue that aims to combat supremacist powers and heal communities that have been relegated to the margins of society. Through poetry and performance Kavi speaks on race, gender, sexuality, and social justice, chronicling despair, grasping at hope, and exploring the ways a body can learn to survive.