Creatives Making Moves: Episode 2
Creatives Making Moves podcast spotlights passionate black women artists and creatives who are making bold moves as entrepreneurs.
April 28, 2020 by Victoria
#2: A Trading Card Game For Blackness
What are you deeply interested in exploring right now? Is it a social issue? Is it how to twerk without breaking your back? Whatever it is, your next big creative idea is probably in that exploration.
On this week's episode, I interviewed the lovely Kenyatta Forbes. She is a native Chicagoan who uses humor and her own experience as a black woman to have challenging conversations about race and identity. She’s a multi-talented creative who does it all from macrame, film, performance, game design, consulting, and community activations.
She’s also the founder of her widely successful brain child Trading Races, a trading card game for blackness.
The idea for Trading Races was sparked from Kenyatta’s interest to have conversations about the complexities of being a black person. She knew that there were three access points to have these conversations; with self, with your community, and folks outside your community. She thought about a tool to visually present the complexity of race that would be accessible in all three spaces, and the rest is history.
Kenyatta shows that a great starting point for your next big idea, that can lead to a thriving business, starts with your deep need to know more about something.
Here’s what we discussed in this episode:
What Kenyatta does for a work life balance that allows her to show up fully.
Why Kenyatta created Trading Races, and how she knew instinctively when it was the right time to bring it out into the world.
How Kenyatta facilitates safe space in Trading Races in order to have real conversations about race with a diverse crowd.
Why open dialogue about race and identity must be had, and why it's important for people to get it wrong.
Kenyatta’s greatest accomplishment, that has nothing to do with her work or a product.
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