Contributing Artists
Tati Rodriguez
(Discussing Divinity Episode)
Tati Rodriguez, creatively known as Honeyshot, is an Afro-Latina writer and performance artist from Chicago. Her professional background includes network television screenwriting, independent film programming, editorial work, and magazine publishing. She is currently an Editor for @pestcontrolmag , an independent arts and literary publication she co-founded this past August. She will complete her BA in Communication from the University of Illinois at Chicago in December 2020. A well-rounded storyteller, her work consistently centers queerness, Blackness, and Afro-Latinx identities through a joyfully nonlinear and spiritually resistant lens.
Zullay Orozco
(Clothed in Righteousness and Divine Short Film)
Zullay Orozco (she/they) is a queer, non-binary, latinx, multi-disciplinary artist from Chicago. As a photographer, with a B.A. in Fashion Photography from Columbia College Chicago, they are now focusing on photo projects that are close to their heart and figuring out what that looks like everyday. Watching their mother, a beautician, come up with looks before work and also attend school for fashion design is what drove their love for fashion as a child. Whether it’s putting together color combinations or the pattern clashing they fuse into their everyday style choices, Zullay is always gonna dress. Inspired by their mom, their queer community, and babies, they hope to encourage others to take risks in fashion and style themselves however they see fit.
Zullay also co-owns @shopbabymilk where they create your favorite kitschy earrings to top off your look!
Jasmine Barber
(Community Tarot Reading & Manifesto Writing Workshop)
Jasmine A Barber, also known as the rapper J Bambii, is an artist, educator, tarot reader, and cartoon-lover from the Southside of Chicago. She is the founder and creator of The Brown Skin Lady Show & the community healing initiative called “Come Together”. Jasmine has also released a tape called “RETROGRADE” under her alias. She is currently working on another body of music & more community focused events.
Talia K. Wright
(Altar Building Workshop + Divine Short Film)
Talia K. Wright (they/she) was born and raised on the Southside of Chicago. They are a poetry/prose writer and 2019 Pink Door Fellow. Their work is informed by blackness, the great migration, and spending summer afternoons dancing under their grandparents’ Mulberry tree. Talia spends most of their time bookselling, hanging out with other people’s pets, practicing textile art, and generally being a Virgo.
Mariah Emerson from hrblgy
(Intro to Ethical Herbology)
Mariah Emerson is a multi-hyphenate healer who’s allowing Spirit to move through her. She utilizes her spiritual gifts and nerdy interests to fuel her as an herbalist, ethnobotanist, oracle, writer, and certified sound healer. Mariah is manifesting this work with her team at Hrblgy — an apothecary and wellness initiative with a mission to bring wellness back home through personal healing, education, and community care.
Hrblgy is an apothecary and wellness brand on a mission to bring wellness back home. This mission is rooted in access, alignment, and reclamation as we cultivate space for the Collective’s conscious remembering. Here, you will find information, services, and stories around plant medicine, wellness, healing, and holistic spiritual care meant to ground you from root to crown.
Monique Marshaun
(Divine Short Film)
Monique Marshaun is an actor and writer who was born and raised on the Southside of Chicago. Monique’s work is influenced by magical realism and fairy tales, her own healing journey and discovery of Self, and the complexities of existing as a Black woman in spaces that are both threatened and enchanted by her presence. Monique is fascinated with reclaiming and embodying the whimsical and the fantastical. She intends to tell stories that center Black lives in everyday epics of love and adventure, in tales that assert Black people as their own saviors as they embody their innate magic and holiness.
Front Porch Oracles
(Divine Short Film)
The Front Porch Oracles is a performance duo dedicated to staging stories that honor our cultures and histories with integrity, equity, and love. They aim to transform our relationship with performance to one of healing, in a place where we take care of ourselves, our actors, and our audiences. They see our untapped potential in everything that we do and commit themselves to unleashing our collective magic.
Kenyetta Johnson
(Divine Short Film)
Kenyetta Johnson is a Freelance Creative Producer and Writer with a passion for storytelling! As a black, bisexual woman from the southside of Chicago, she believes it is crucial to tell the stories of the people often forgotten by mainstream and popular media. Currently, she is one of the Creative Producers for the MANIFOLD Docuseries, a series that explores the stories of Black LGBTQ+ folks across Chicago. Kenyetta’s overall goal is to make content that matters to her community and to help those around her meet their full potential, both creatively and personally.
Sommer Arielle Rodriguez
(Divine Short Film)
Bio coming soon
Dev Michael
(Divine Short Film)
Dev is a Chicago based educator and a writer. Coming from a religious (ish) family, they aim to explore and create their own traditions as they explore their own spirituality. Dev’s writing is often inspired by understanding their own identity and its unique intersectionalities, their complicated relationship with religion and spirituality, the relationship they have to their small Midwestern hometown, and their relationship with the city of Chicago. Their work often explores themes of mindfulness, existentialism, queerness, and mental health.
Zola Chatman
(Divine Short Film)
Bio Coming Soon
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