Jess X Chen articles

Jess X Chen is a Chinese American multi-disciplinary poet, artist/activist and filmmaker, and the author of chapbook, From the Earthworm To The Night. Her work intimately exposes narratives of ecological and colonial trauma, Asian-American diaspora, often from the perspective of the Earth itself. She is a member of Justseeds, a collective of socially-engaged artists. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and currently is working on writing and directing her first feature film under the production house, LoveHoldLetGo. Her films have been recognized by Asian-American International Film Festival, Yale Environmental Film Festival, her visual art has been exhibited by the Wingluke Museum and she has completed three national tours of spoken word poetry across the USA and Canada. She is one of the founding facilitators of Artists Against Police Violence, an online blog of graphic and arts resources for communities who fight against anti-Black police violence.