About.

SublimeLuv’s work embodies the theme of the “personal as political.” She exists in this world as a Black Queer woman with a mental illness. Her life and experiences living in her body often fuel her poems. She changed her artist name to SublimeLuv in 2012 when she began to perform more often.

Sublime means “supreme, outstanding.” She chose to spell l-o-v-e as l-u-v because she views Luv as a revolutionary tool. Luv signifies Black love, love for the oppressed, queer love, trans love, and disabled love. When we practice Luv, we fiercely love ourselves and each other no matter how worthy or unworthy we are deemed by society. Luv is activism and resistance. We need revolutionary Luv today.

SublimeLuv (aka Sublime) is a powerful spoken word and teaching artist, author, curator, facilitator, public speaker, and social justice advocate. She is a product of private and public local school systems; and became an activist through words at an early age due to her contrasting experiences in those institutions. She has a fierce passion for combating systemic inequality, which disproportionately affects disadvantaged populations and people of the global majority. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Simmons University.

She has performed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where she opened for Grammy-nominated artist Maimouna Youssef, the Museum of Fine Arts, the city of Quincy's first Pride celebration, and she was one of the local and national artists selected for the inPublic Festival 2021 (a showcase that occurred at the Downtown Crossing Amphitheater and Plaza in Boston). She is currently living in South Florida. She has performed at various events including the 15th annual Miami Beach Pride Festival and South Florida’s Black Pride Arts and Music Festival.

Through her art and future endeavors, she aims to empower womxn, queer, and gender non-conforming people of the global majority to impact visibility and positive global change.