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Timothy Terrell West (born in July 6, 1972), better known as Tim’m T. West, is an educator and multi-discipline performance artist, author, hip hop recording artist, poet, activist and youth advocate.〔Wilson, D. Mark. "Post-pomo hip-hop homos: hip-hop art, gay rappers, and social change." Social Justice 34.1 (107 (2007): 117-140.〕〔Penney, Joel. "“We Don't Wear Tight Clothes”: Gay Panic and Queer Style in Contemporary Hip Hop." Popular Music and Society 35.3 (2012): 321-332.〕〔Fleetwood, Nicole Rachelle. Documenting" the Real": youth, race, and the discourse of realness in visual culture. Stanford University, 2001.〕〔Flores, Maria Ruth A. Knowledge Morena and Literacies de Colores: Toward the Embodiment of Life Giving Knowledges in the Arts, Poetry and Song. ProQuest, 2006.〕〔Bailey, Marlon M. "Performance as Intravention." Black Genders and Sexualities: 211.〕〔Accomando, Christina. "Social Justice, Action, and Teaching: The Legacies of Eric Rofes." Issue 34-Social Justice Action, Teaching, and Research: 9.〕 Humboldt State University notes West as a Renaissance man who has achieved success as a performer, activist, author, teacher, and poet.〔(Tim'm West: Reading & Q&A )〕〔(Doug Cooper-Spencer: The View From Here: Tim’m West, Hip Hop Renaissance Man )〕 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” in July 2013 in Chicago.〔(PrideIndex.com )〕 ==Early life and education== West was born with a speech impediment that caused him to stutter and repeat the ‘M’ on his first name.〔(stutter )〕〔 His family began calling him “Tim’m” which has remained his moniker.〔(The One Loved Best, An Interview with Tim’M West | Prideindex )〕 He is the second son of nine children, born into a musical family in Cincinnati, Ohio to Charles Edward, a minister, and his mother, Irma Pearl Stinson, who served at various times as an administrative assistant and nurse.〔(One-on-One With Tim'm West - TheBody.com )〕 He counts his mother as one of the biggest influences on his life, showing him how to be thankful, loving, forgiving, and gracious.〔 His early influences besides his family were reggae, rap and house music.〔(Tim'm West: Rhymes with homo side | Music Feature | Creative Loafing Atlanta )〕 He says his dad was more of a storefront preacher with mixed success, but it did offer the first times West recalls being a poet, and performing.〔 West grew up primarily in Little Rock, Arkansas and later Taylor, Arkansas in extreme poverty, where he attended Taylor High School.〔〔 He served as captain of his high school basketball team and president of his school’s chapter of Future Farmers of America. He participated in Upward Bound at Southern Arkansas University and competed in the National Science Competitions where he was twice selected to represent his state at the National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. He met then-Governor Bill Clinton and traveled to The United States Military Academy at West Point to compete. He was interviewed by West Point recruiters, but after revealing he had same-sex interests, he was dropped as a potential recruit. West is now openly gay.〔〔(NewBlackMan (in Exile): DeepDickollective Co-Founder Tim'm West on Frank Ocean )〕 His activity as a Boy Scout led him to join the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) which sponsored his troop. He began attending LDS Church functions at the age of twelve. While being considered for a Mormon mission, he came out to his Bishop, which heightened his existing feelings of rejection and shame. This was a difficult for him, and he contemplated his future, as well as suicide. He struggled with depression and anxiety. He decided to move on to attend college, accept himself, even if uncertain. 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.〔("The Deliberate Revolutionary," ) ''Washington Blade'', April 29, 2005. (archive at ())〕 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 counselor, 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tim'm T. West」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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