An 80’s baby born in New York and raised in the South, Taja Lindley is currently living in Hawaii and working remotely as the Managing Member of Colored Girls Hustle.
Lindley is a memory worker, healer and an activist. Through iterative and interdisciplinary practices, she creates socially engaged artwork that transforms audiences, shifts culture, and moves people to action. She uses movement, text, installation, ritual, burlesque, and multi-media to create immersive works that are concerned with freedom, healing and pleasure.
In addition to being an artist, Lindley is actively engaged in social movements as an artist, consultant, and facilitator. For over a decade she has worked with non-profits, research institutes and government on policies and programming that impact women and girls, communities of color, low/no/fixed-income families, queer people, youth, and immigrants. Most recently, she served as a Sexual and Reproductive Justice Consultant at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, co-facilitating a community driven process that created The New York City Standards for Respectful Care at Birth. She is a 2019 NYC Public Artist in Residence, a 2020 A Blade of Grass Fellow and the creator of the Birth Justice Podcast NYC. To learn more about her work visit TajaLindley.com. @tajalindley
With Poetic Theater Productions:
Featured Artist in A Feeling Good Ritual in Poetic License 2021
Featured Artist in Feeling Good: Pleasure As Ritual Resistance, presented with Musical Theatre Factory and Judson Arts Wednesdays