Nubia Yasin: Leaning Into the Strange, Speaking Louder Than Ever

Nubia Yasin: Leaning Into the Strange, Speaking Louder Than Ever

If you ask Nubia Yasin to sum herself up, she’ll tell you she’s a multidisciplinary artist, primarily a writer, but also a filmmaker, singer, and performer. What she might not tell you right away is that her creative engine runs on a mix of cultural influences (a Somali mother, a father from Chicago) and the singularly peculiar flavor of Memphis itself. “This is a strange place,” she says. “It produces very strange people, …