Kiyémis

thumb|Kiyémis (2019) Kiyémis (born 1993) is a militant French Afro-feminist, poet and lecturer. The name she uses is a pseudonym, combining the first name of her mother with that of her grandmother. Realizing during the 2005 French riots that the police were treating Black people differently from the native French, she became interested in supporting their rights. In 2012, while at university she began to contribute to Twitter and two years later launched her popular blog Les Bavardages de Kiyémis (Chat by Kiyémis). Her collection of poetry, À nos humanités révoltées (To Our Outraged Kinsfolk)