Ford Kelly (they/them) is a BLAQALIEN (Queer Trans*) – creative – artistic dreamer based in Berlin.
A gender dissident seeking to explore the way our dream worlds and futuristic imaginings of Blackness can fuel our everyday being while creating portals into the expansiveness of what Blackness can mean and how it can be represented. For them Blackness is a limitless journey that extends beyond this realm. All explored within a multi diasporic Afrofuturist framework.
Their interests are within the areas of Afrofuturism and Dreamscapes and how this can be framed to centre Black lives in daily movements. Reimagining Joy, Play, Rage and Rest as powerful forms of Reparations.
They are the creator of The Afrofuturist Coloring Book series with editions that include: The Dreamscape, The Black Mystical and The Black AstroMagic. They love crafting works that celebrate magical worlds and the power of imagination. As well as the storybook Yeye Finds Magic All Around.
They have been and are involved in a number of community projects and events in Berlin over the years. Some of which are the Co-organising and Formation of CutieBIPOC festival. (A D.I.Y/ D.I.T festival for and by queer_ Trans_inter_Black Indigenous and People of Color) and Transformations. (A Trans* film festival based in Berlin) as well as Co facilitating a Feminist of Color dance and movement research space.
