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Juba Kalamka
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| Born | July 12, 1970 Chicago, Illinois |
| Origin | Chicago, Illinois |
| Genres | Rap, Electronic, LGBT music, music, |
| Instruments | Voice, drum machine, sampler |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Labels | sugartruck recordings
Agitprop! Records Kill Rock Stars |
| Associated acts | Deep Dickollective, Katastrophe, Lynn Breedlove , Tim'm West, Sini Anderson COMMANDO |
Juba Kalamka (born July 12, 1970) is an African American artist and activist.
Kalamka's work centers on dialogues on the convergences and conflicts of race, identity, gender and class in pop culture. He has written and illustrated several articles for pop culture magazines and journals.
He has been a speaker, panelist, and curator for numerous organizations and conferences, including Hip Hop as a Movement at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In November 2005, Kalamka received a Creating Change Award for his activist work in queer music community.
In December 2006, Kalamka completed the MFA program in Poetics (minoring in Queer and Activist Performance through the schools Experimental Performance Institute) at New College of California in San Francisco.
Kalamka's first poetry collection Son of Byford was released by Nomadic Press in July, 2022.
