Kiyan Williams is a Black trans artist whose art primarily explores issues of home, uprooting, survival, and self-transformation. In a detailed conversation with Darnell Moore at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Williams discusses the journey from Newark ("Brick City") through university, creative, and protest communities across the United States. Williams elaborates on a childhood shaped by the family's struggle and strength, on their experience of gender nonconformity and community exclusion, and on the eye-opening impact of receiving an education at institutions such as Stanford and Columbia. The talk touches on the repercussions of gentrification, the importance of queer community spaces, and the ongoing process of figuring out identity and belonging as a Black trans person. With the help of art, activism, and community, Williams takes back and fantasizes about the materials, bricks, dirt, and discarded objects as if they were the new tools to turn the loss into sites of memorialization and healing. Their art is, therefore, a living testament to survival, delight, and the empowering force of witnessing and self-determination for Black trans and gender nonconforming communities.