Art is in My DNAIt's by no chance that poetess, author and activist jus'BEA, became one of the founding members of the popular safe sex collective The Punany Poets, who achieved International noterietry on HBO Real Sex 24, 26, BET, Playboy, Cinemax and London 5 just to name a few. At the age of 15, she watched her father a 230 lb man, wither away to 82 lbs. She watched him die from full blown AIDS. She continues to spread her raw messages of safe sex through various art forms, the most recognized being Erotica and doing outreach to people in her community by passing out codoms,literature, and producing artistic events that promote HIV/AIDS awareness."I deem yself an ARTreprenuer- taking poetry beyond the pen and the page.Although I like to lyrically assisnate people at an open-mic from time to time, I also do obesity prevention workshops for teens to teach them to have responsibilty for thier health, so they don't end up like I did ;a fat, unhealthy adult via a project I created called Scared Into Shape. If they can program an IPOD, they're smart enough to know that if you consume fast food everyday, that won't produce quality results. So, I hope my experiences will help them.I've written books from: being cheated on, to living large and losing everything post 9-11-01... to getting fat and losing 230 pounds.They are many dimensions to my art. To know them all is to know ME. People often ask what I do in my "spare" time. I reply, "I live and breathe my art...there's not much seperation between the two."
Just messing around at a little open mic called The Starry Plough in Berkeley
