Meet the Podcaster: An Interview with Nia King

3/21/2013

Zinester, drummer, cartoonist, filmmaker, and now podcaster? Meet Nia King, the woman behind We Want the Airwaves: QPOC Artists on the Rise, as well as Angry Black-White Girl, The Craigslist Chronicles, and QTPOC Comics. In this episode, Nia's boyfriend - the talented musician Myles - helps her overcome her fear of microphones to find out:

what it's like growing up mixed-race in a black nationalist household,
how anarcho-punk prepared her for life as an art-entrepreneur, and
why she dropped out of art school. HINT: The answer is racism!

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We Want the Airwaves: QPOC Artists on the Rise

Nia King's trying to figure out if her dream of making a living as an art activist is beyond reach. In this podcast, she seeks advice from other political queer artists, trans artists, and artists of color who seem to have figured out how to make art and make rent without compromising their values.