Tim’m T. West

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tim'm T. West
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Jul 6, 1972(1972-07-06)
Age	52
Birthplace	Cincinnati
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Cancer

Tim'm T. West Biography

Tim'm T. West is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on July 6, 1972 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

West enrolled at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, and used an opportunity while at Duke, to attend Howard University in his senior year to experience and study at a historical black college. He returned to complete his studies at Duke, and graduated in 1994, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy, with a concentration in women’s studies and pre-law. After a few years working as a college admissions officer at Duke, he moved to New York City to attend The New School for Social Research where he earned a Masters of Arts degree in liberal studies and philosophy in 1998, while immersing himself in the spoken word and poetry scene in Brooklyn and Manhattan. He later earned a master’s in modern thought and literature from Stanford University.

West traveled to the west coast, enrolling in a Ph.D. program in interdisciplinary modern thought and literature at Stanford University. Shortly thereafter in 1999, he discovered that he had AIDS, so he took an academic break to focus on his health and options for his future. It was during this time that he started youth advocacy work and joined forces in early 2000 with Juba Kalamka, and Phillip Atiba Goff to form the black and queer hip-hop group Deep Dickollective (DDC). West believes the Bay Area, with San Francisco’s AIDS activism, and Oakland’s Black Panthers, was one of the few settings where DDC could emerge. The “idea of pan-Africanism and black nationalism is also kind of working against progay [causes]. It’s one of the few places were those two identities converge.” DDC was one of the first groups of their kind. They were formed, in part, as a response to the pandemic of HIV/AIDS among queer black men. Curator William Jones booked them as part of his “Black Gay Male Radical Performances” series at the Black Dot Café in Oakland, California. Their debut recording “BourgieBohoPostPomoAfroHomo” surprised hip hop and spoken word communities, with a fresh approach to the political and social issues, from a perspective of an increasingly vocal black and queer community. What started as a parodic exercise became an underground, and critical success. West continues to educate on homophobia in hip hop. West coined the term homohop but feels that the term should be replaced. At first it helped organize LGBTQI hip hop artists, but he feels now it serves to separate artists who are fundamentally just hip hop artists.

Tim'm T. West Net Worth

Tim'm T. West is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tim'm T. West 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Timothy Terrell West (born in July 6, 1972), better known as Tim’m T. West, is an American educator and multi-discipline performance artist, author, hip hop recording artist, poet, activist, and youth advocate. Humboldt State University notes West as a Renaissance man who has achieved success as a performer, activist, author, teacher, and poet. He has been featured in many documentaries about hip hop culture, in addition to his books, he is widely anthologized, and has produced nine hip hop albums including with Deep Dickollective. West has been interviewed by an array of media outlets from Newsweek to the New York Times. He was awarded a “2013 Esteem Award”, and in 2015 was named an LGBTQ icon.

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In May 2011, West relocated to Chicago, Illinois, where his daughter, Shannon Rose Matesky, a recent DePaul University graduate and well known poet, spoken word artist and performer, lives. He started MyWritingProfessor.com where he serves as the owner and principal consultant, and remains a longstanding advocate for youth. In December 2012, he accepted a position at the Center on Halsted where he was swiftly promoted to serve as the director of youth services through May 2014. Tim’m’s desire to have a broader impact on LGBTQ youth and young adults led his interest in Teach For America, who’d just launched its LGBTQ Initiative and was seeking a Managing Director. Given the trajectory of his own struggles as a queer black male in the South and even a suicide attempt at sixteen, Tim’m proudly accepted this position with Teach For America in July 2014; a position he feels bridges his work as an educator with his long-standing commitment to LGBTQ youth advocacy. He relocated from Washington, DC to Atlanta, GA where he serves on the Atlanta-based Programming Board for the LGBT Institute. Tim’m was promoted to Senior Managing Director of Teach For America’s LGBTQ Community Initiative and continues to do work nationally to advance safer and braver classrooms for LGBTQ kids and educators.

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