TAYLLOR JOHNSON IS AN ARTIST, performer, and educator. A published poet, she has been writing and performing her own poetry and plays for over ten years. She is committed to using art to give voice to the world's unspoken needs and guides children to discover and speak their truth. She is pursuing an interdisciplinary master's degree in poetry, psychology, and education at NYU, which she will use to bring performance poetry curriculum and programming into educational communities.
In 2014, she launched her own brand, #ImNotYourEnemy Apparel, which started with one T-shirt in hopes to begin action-oriented conversations about how women of color can begin to look within to define sisterhood and live it as a truth not a trend. What was one T-shirt is now a business: Sisterhood(verb), an all inclusive hub for embracing collaboration, healing, creativity, and abundance amongst each other. Sisterhood(verb) is a re-imagining of a young woman's mission. What was the #ImNotYourEnemy Movement is now a much bigger, larger hub for all things sisterhood and all things that can be sisterhood. Sisterhood(verb) is about embracing COLLABORATION, HEALING, CREATIVITY, and ABUNDANCE with each other.
Sisterhood(verb) is not only about apparel. Sisterhood(verb) is about curating opportunities for women to come together and to continually question: Are we DOING sisterhood or just saying it? What does sisterhood mean? How can we sustainably manifest more sisterhood in today's world? If you find yourself on this page, you may be on your own journey in the discovery of sisterhood and what that means. You may be wanting to create, nourish, and explore sisterhood for your community and looking for a place to start. You may have a thriving definition of sisterhood and looking to build, teach, and grow. You are among friends and kin here. Reach out. Support. Spread the word. Start the conversation and together, we can manifest the community, safety, and revolution we long for...
Currently, Tayllor Johnson lives in New York City continuing to learn, read, write, perform, and teach in one of the most artistic hubs in the world. In all she has done, is doing, and will do she embodies her mission: Find new ways poetry can empower the voiceless, soothe the wounded, and disturb the status quo, setting us all on a path to freedom
In 2014, she launched her own brand, #ImNotYourEnemy Apparel, which started with one T-shirt in hopes to begin action-oriented conversations about how women of color can begin to look within to define sisterhood and live it as a truth not a trend. What was one T-shirt is now a business: Sisterhood(verb), an all inclusive hub for embracing collaboration, healing, creativity, and abundance amongst each other. Sisterhood(verb) is a re-imagining of a young woman's mission. What was the #ImNotYourEnemy Movement is now a much bigger, larger hub for all things sisterhood and all things that can be sisterhood. Sisterhood(verb) is about embracing COLLABORATION, HEALING, CREATIVITY, and ABUNDANCE with each other.
Sisterhood(verb) is not only about apparel. Sisterhood(verb) is about curating opportunities for women to come together and to continually question: Are we DOING sisterhood or just saying it? What does sisterhood mean? How can we sustainably manifest more sisterhood in today's world? If you find yourself on this page, you may be on your own journey in the discovery of sisterhood and what that means. You may be wanting to create, nourish, and explore sisterhood for your community and looking for a place to start. You may have a thriving definition of sisterhood and looking to build, teach, and grow. You are among friends and kin here. Reach out. Support. Spread the word. Start the conversation and together, we can manifest the community, safety, and revolution we long for...
Currently, Tayllor Johnson lives in New York City continuing to learn, read, write, perform, and teach in one of the most artistic hubs in the world. In all she has done, is doing, and will do she embodies her mission: Find new ways poetry can empower the voiceless, soothe the wounded, and disturb the status quo, setting us all on a path to freedom
TESTIMONIALS
Tayllor is truly a rising star. She is a phenomenal artist, with depth and insight and a raw wisdom beyond her years. Her work is both thoughtful and thought-provoking. Tayllor is also a passion and gifted educator, capable of inspiring anyone who has the chance to interact with her.
- Marcella Hall, Mount Holyoke College, Author and Educator
Tayllor has the rare combination of qualities that include both artistic creativity and the ability to execute. She has a firm grasp on the implementation of vision and invoking emotive expression from her students. It was a pleasure to have a truly talented artist like Taylor work with our middle school youth.
- Melany Mendoza, Mass Mentoring Partnership, Manager of Targeted Communities
Tayllor Johnson has an extraordinary gift for combining her sparkling talents for speaking truth and painting visions of humanity through poetry, with her compassion and enthusiasm for working with youth and enduring devotion to a socially just world. I have watched both middle-school and college students alike marvel in the joy and intensity Tayllor brings to spoken word performance, and walk away as I have myself from seeing and hearing her inspired to join and organize with others to make the world a better place.
- Alan Bloomgarden, Director of Community Engagement, Adjunct Lecturer in Education
I want to thank you so much for filling our space and reviving our spirits with your poetry, your story, your family. We were truly inspired. This day was exactly what so many of my students (and I), in this, too often - system of painfully flat academic rigor-- needed to get through the next two months. Thank you so much for taking time to share yourself with us. We will not forget this day.
- Jenny Grove, Park Rose Middle School, Educator