Nova: A New Spelling of My Name
Nova: A New Spelling of My Name

Nova: A New Spelling of My Name

September 16, 2021 | 12 min

A young artist, born as Nicole, but renamed Nova, sets out on a healing journey on an indigenous Taino sanctuary in upstate New York. Accompanied by the Wild Darlings, a black + queer, healing arts collective, she transmutes the trauma of her past by performing in white-face as the male teacher that sexually abused her as a child.

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