Baker Artist Portfolios

Felicia A. Henry is a Black/Afro-Caribbean, chronically-disabled advocate and scholar-artivist. Her work as a poet engages with themes of injustice, oppression, humanity, grief, and joy. Her poetry questions, critiques, and challenges, and allows the reader or listener to locate their humanity and, in essence, find themselves within the pieces. Felicia's work is targeted mainly toward those who cannot comprehend the daily reckoning of oppression within the lives of Black people in the U.S., yet draws in Black communities as witnesses at the same time. She sees her role as offering hope and resistance, going beyond creativity in the artistic sense to creativity as an intentional strategy for resisting the narratives of Black personhood ingrained with social institutions in the U.S.