Past Resident

Lexus Phillips

Lexus Phillips is a writer, curator, and cultural worker finding home within herself in her hometown of Memphis, TN. She writes to disrupt social silences and enjoys putting words to the unspoken tensions of human experience. Her goal is to create spaces for the truth to be heard and held. Within this goal are her intentions to shed light on the gaps within the ahistoric, to name wounds that need airing, to dissect the means and methods of the harms, to speak life over the present, and to weave words that under-gird us with vision for the futures we desire to create. 

Her experience of life as Black, as a woman, as queer, as Southern-blooded, and as a believer in a force greater than human form are all the working matter that she uses to meet her goals. Her work honors the lineage of Black women writers before her, living and past, whom she believes know the semantic truth that our words, and how we use them, determine everything, including what this world has been and has the potential force to be, if we allow it.