Hi, I’m Amirio (any pronouns).
I’m an essayist, interviewer, and editor.
I write about Blackness, queerness, and plants.
NEW
WORK
NEW WORK
Are.na Annual Vol. 7 (Editing)
Are.na, 2025
IMAGES: Respective publications
An Invitation of Many Kinds: Conversation with Amirio Freeman and MaKshya Tolbert (Interview)
Loam, 2025
Black Liberation and the Cosmos: An Incomplete History (Essay)
Chutney Magazine (Issue 4), 2025
PLANTCRAFT
PLANTCRAFT
PLANTCRAFT LOGO: Sela
PLANTCRAFT
PLANTCRAFT is a slow newsletter about finding the vegetal in the human, and the human in the vegetal. In each monthly missive, or broadcast, readers will find long-form interviews with artists, activists, thinkers, and more unearthing how we can’t understand human life without bringing plants into the conversation.
RESPLENDENTLY
CITATIONAL
RESPLENDENTLY CITATIONAL
Resplendently Citational
Inspired by a footnote in poet Ross Gay’s Inciting Joy, Resplendently Citational is a conversation series that invites collaborators to reflect on how their art-making is joyfully interwoven, interdependent, citational, and even derivative.
In collaboration with Kate Weiner
DOWN
TO
EARTH
DECK
DOWN TO EARTH DECK
IMAGES (non-animated): Krystal Frame
Down to Earth Deck
In response to a call for a collective homecoming to deep relationality of all kinds, the Down to Earth Deck is a set of 40 conversation cards created to spark discussion about how each of us might connect back to ourselves, our communities, and the earth to nurture healing and take action toward building new worlds.
In collaboration with Loam