About Me — Bee Wild

A black techie in Berlin

Bee Wild
4 min readJun 15, 2023
Picture made by Adam Khabibi on Fiverr

How do I start here? My real name is Robin Wild and I’m a bit like Pippi Longstocking. I’ve never done it before, so I think I can do it. Hihihi.

My aim for Medium is to support my arty, techie life. Stop driving the forklift. And build a good life for my daughter May (5). I live in Berlin. The coolest city on the planet.

It happens in Berlin big time!

Black is beautiful here. My mum is English and my dad Nigerian. I was impossible to handle at age 16, so I went to live with my uncle Oswald in Germany. He’s a cool astrophysicist. And I became a polymath in no time. Meeting astronauts in real life.

What’s a polymath?

Well, a clever person who knows a lot about science.

When I was young, I decided to KNOW everything. But school was boring. So, now I have a job racing forklift trucks in a distribution center. And being a techie, arty designer on the side. Trying my luck with NFTs.

And of course by writing. I’ve been published in the regular English press more often. Cosmopolitan. Your Cat (it was a phase…). And other women’s magazines. Fiction and non-fiction.

But now, I’m moving on to the serious bits. Medium. And perhaps New York Times. Forbes. Why not? Aim low and…

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Bee Wild

Robin Wild - ARTivist. I'm a mum-techie. Black Mums 4 President! Polymath.