Jacinda Bullie
A Muslima, with Choctaw lineage, Jacinda is a Chicago creative, writer, spoken word, and Hip Hop Theater practitioner who finds freedom in remembering that she is a spiritual being simply having an earthly experience. Additionally, Jacinda has a passion for Birth Work, and is currently a 2nd year Midwifery student. For over two decades, Jacinda has worked alongside Kuumba Lynx, a collective of artists and educators utilizing radical play, and community wellness anchored in creative expression toward liberation. Her commitment to inspire and transform Chicago communities has been through engaging youth and their families in a critical pedagogy and creative process that acknowledges racial equity through a radical healing lens.
Jacinda is a 2022-23 IMAN Sacred Cypher Creative, featured through a year long fellowship that includes an Artist-Community Residency and Annual Retreat for artist working at the intersection of culture, social justice, and community.
Jacinda is a Co- Founder of the community based-arts education and youth development Hip Hop organization, Kuumba Lynx. Her work as a creative arts producer, art maker, classroom facilitator, curriculum creator, and community activist prepares the next generation of young Chicago change makers.
As a guest lecturer for Columbia College Chicago’s Hip Hop studies Minor, she has developed and implemented social justice oriented curricular designs and culturally relevant instructional practices, facilitated citywide conversations and offered commentary on issues of arts, race, culture and inequalities in education.
As the Artistic Director of the Chicago Hip Hop Theater Fest, Jacinda has produced culturally relevant, highly critical, theatrical works, and facilitated professional development sessions for students, teachers, administrators, and other education stakeholders.
Jacinda’s main education research is dedicated to examining the wellness practices in schools and communities across Chicago with a specific concentration on the role of arts acquisition, and creative space making, investments of school counselors, Restorative Justice coaches, and those “working” in the emotional and mental health of students. She is interested in devising a learning & community wellness model that is sustainable through long term school to community relationships that support the implementation of proven strategies.
Allah is beautiful and loves beauty
Is a piece inspired by moments of gratitude I have for all of the amazing colors that fill up our world and the way we get to reciprocate those same energies in our behaviors toward others. I started to be mindful of the responsibility to be reciprocal during a flower meditation.
Gettin ALLAH up
Is a graffiti letter style work I'm developing as I seek to both learn to write arabic while working to develop my own graffiti letter style. When we throw up a tag of our name in a public spaces we say we are " getting up", hence gettin Allah Up is the mission for this work.
Hijabi
Is a visual ode to an unfortunate experience I had at the DMV. I was refused a photo ID due to not wanting to remove my hijab for the photo, and subsequently handcuffed, then later received an apology from the secretary of state and issued the ID afterall.