Jasmine Renea Butler
(they/them) Alum, Mentee
Jasmine Butler is a queer southern writer, political educator, and afrofuturist-abolitionist dedicated to telling stories of the Black South. Jasmine’s fiction has appeared on Inherited Podcast and their nonfiction has appeared on Powershift Network Blog and Medium. Jasmine reads poetry for Chestnut Review Literary Magazine and is an Outreach Editor at Apogee Journal / Perigee. They've received support from Breadloaf Environmental Writers Conference, Young Black Climate Leaders, Writing As Ceremony, In Surreal Life, and Forge Journal. Jasmine is a full-time organizer and political educator working to skill up the youth climate justice movement. See more at Jasmine-Butler.com.
Artist‘s Statement
Jasmine is a black queer southern writer, political educator, cultural , and afrofuturist abolitionist, amongst other things. They’re a lover of black art and black resistance, and is growing as a movement educator and historian. They desire to use writing as a tool for turning the speculative into the possible, and for dreaming up new worlds beyond the limits of this realm. Their writing is an invitation for others to imagine alternatives and rediscover collectivity.