Continuing our exposure of the of the “White Art Collective,” a group of white supremacist musical performers, writers and graphic artists, we present to you Olivia Banner Key, of Live Oak, California, a long-time, prolific singer and collaborator with the White Art Collective. Olivia started participating with the White Art Collective using her real name and plastering her face all over their social media, which is a good way to tell everyone in the world that she’s a white nationalist. For better or worse, the internet has a long memory. Maybe she’s realizing that wasn’t such a good idea!
Born on December 11, 1993, Olivia Banner Key is originally from Live Oak, California, but has been studying in the United Kingdom for the past three years for an academic degree in Italian language with the goal of becoming an interpreter or a translator. Now she is preparing for her move back to the United States, as we learned from a Give Send Go campaign she started to raise money for her move. It is perhaps no coincidence that Key has recently been scrubbing her online presence, removing and making private her social media accounts. But with such a history of racism, antisemitism and anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry attributed to her on the internet this won’t be easy for her. We will make it a little less easy by putting on record her history of white supremacist promotion.
A Star Is Born (not)
In streamed interviews with other WAC associates Donald Jackson (aka “Donald Kent”) and neo-Nazi yoga instructor Jody Swingler (aka “Jody Kay”) of the fascist “Patriotic Alternative” UK party, Olivia Key described her “red pill” origin story as stemming from living with her “progressive lesbian radical feminist” after her parents divorced when she was twelve years old. While studying for an associate degree in audio engineering at her California college she described herself as a “minority” at her California school, amongst people who spoke other languages, and how the art on the walls of the school was “just so grotesque” like “kindergarten art.” After composing and recording some “white positive” music, she messaged neo-Nazi Jason Koehne who played her songs on his “No White Guilt” platforms. which were well-received by No White Guilt’s Nazi audience, beginning her foray into the world of so-called “pro-white” music making.
Another song that was a “hit” among the Nazi creeps in her circle was called “My Blood.” Its lyrics make apparent Olivia Key’s enormous sense of entitlement and her anger about “white” people not being a privileged class:
My blood watered the nation
My blood
My blood through generations
My bloodWhat a harrowing time to witness what it means to be white
As our history’s taught, a guilt trip
God forbid you have prideAnd all this does is shake the bones
Awakening a rage that only grows
(echoing echoing echoing)
You will not replace us
You will not erase us
The circus will be overthrown
As patience dies and courage finds its home
(echoing echoing echoing)And nothing can take what my forefathers gave for me
Fight or flight up to the heavens with Sky King
I won’t be denied of my place in my own country
Light is my skin and I’ll live to tell its story
She described in the interviews her interest in genealogy which led her to a claim that she was a descendant of William Bradford, an English Puritan Separatist who governed the Plymouth colony during various times from 1621 through 1657. Key showed an enormous sense of entitlement at being “white” when she expressed dismay that she is not granted special privileges for being a “Mayflower American” and from descending from someone who “…literally built America. I’ve been here forever…My family has done so much for this country and it doesn’t matter anymore. No one cares.” [Historical aside, William Bradford appointed Myles Standish to be military commander. Standish subsequently used his position to massacre a group a Native Americans in cold blood after inviting them to a meal in what was later described in many history books as a “pre-emptive strike.”]
Olivia Key also learned that she had some Italian ancestry, as she explained in the interviews. Despite having only a small percentage of Italian ancestry, this spurred her on to spend considerable time and money to achieve dual Italian-American citizenship. She posted frequently in an Italian-American dual citizen Facebook group, but her fascist sympathy and superficial appropriation of Italian identity did not sit well with other members of the group. For some reason she decided to study Italian language in the United Kingdom instead of Italy (which would seem to be the obvious choice if one wanted to study the Italian language). There in the UK she met her boyfriend, a “based Slav” (in her words) named Oskar from Poland who is studying in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) field.
Key stated that she has estranged herself from her mother (who also happens to express trans-exclusionary radical feminist views) and three brothers who are “not on the same wavelength” with her self-proclaimed “super, super far right” views. She described her father as a “conservative” who listens to Tucker Carlson. Despite laughing off accusations from immediate family of being a Nazi, she happily told racist WAC illustrator Donald Jackson in the interview that she had Mein Kampf and books by Julius Evola on her nightstand.
On Twitter she posted under several different handles like “@n0t_0l1K3y,” “@n0t_0l1v1aK3y,” “A_castelvecchi,” “@love_europa,” “@areeuh1” and others in order to prevent her family members from finding her accounts, as she explained in the interviews. Her Twitter posts frequently expressed racist and antisemitic sentiments.
Since her white nationalist singing debut, Olivia Key has been a prominent performer of the White Art Collective, frequently appearing in their live streams. The fedora-wearing fascist Joshua Randle (who uses the moniker “Lord Wolfshield“) featured her songs in all three of his annual White Art Collective compilations. For a time she and Mandi Gillespie (aka “Hiraeth“) together hosted a regular podcast called “Ivory Hour,” which garnered some popularity amongst the WAC crowd.
Key explained in the interviews that her decision to use her real name and face instead of alias was to not “give anyone the power to dox” her. Lately, however, she seems to have had second thoughts since she has deleted much of her online presence, including her Facebook profile, Instagram profile, YouTube channel and Gab accounts. Her music on Soundcloud has been removed and her Twitter account, “@Liv_Bascherini,” is now made private. Many references to her association with the White Art Collective have also been removed, but considering how active she was, it would be impossible to erase all mentions of her history of racist associations. A “mini-interview” conducted by WAC alt-right and anti-choice activist Julie Green (aka “Mama P“) remains on archive sites, as well as reposted episodes of the “Ivory Hour” podcast, like one in which she and Gillespie discuss the astrological chart of neo-fascist ideologue Julius Evola with Jaenelle Antas (aka “PhilosophistiCat”), a virulent racist who acted as Holocaust denier David Irving’s personal assistant.
Coming To America
As mentioned earlier, Olivia Key has suddenly decided to delete or make private much of her internet presence. When a “fan” inquired about her absence in neo-Nazi Telegram chats others replied that “she was talking a break.” We sort of suspect, though, that this attempt to scrub her associations with white nationalism had something to do with our exposé of WAC’s founder “Jeff Winston” as Benjamin Arvin and WAC singer “Hiraeth” as Mandi Gillespie in real life. Also, it may be due to her intent to move back to the United States soon, for which she has started a GiveSendGo campaign to raise funds. Worrying about openly promoting white supremacy under her real name has obviously been in the back of her mind, since she has anticipated a legal name change after her intended marriage to her significant other. In a now-deleted Facebook post, Key asked for advice on post-marriage name changes, mentioning that if she returned to the United States she would like to take his last name, making her surname “Siwierski” or “Siwierska.”
Before joining the white nationalist Gong Show that we know as the “White Art Collective,” Olivia Key was somewhat of a paranormal buff, even going to ghost investigations with a local paranormal investigation enthusiast group. She has claimed on occasion to be psychic.
We do not condone body-shaming at all, but Olivia Key apparently doesn’t feel the same way. She’s made numerous posts on Twitter ridiculing other people’s body shape, despite her own issues with body image. Olivia Key’s sense of entitlement as a white American and lack of empathy towards people of other cultures and origins extends to people of different body types, which just makes her a very mean, petty person.
Though she described her “red pilling” as stemming from her family like and time studying at her California community college, she attempted “normie” music before her decision to break into the white nationalist market, as in a self-produced 2014 album we found on Pandora.
American Idle
Being a white nationalist is never a good look. And seeking white nationalist stardom among neo-Nazis and online fascists is a fine way to waste one’s life. Perhaps Olivia Banner Key is just now realizing that this mark in her personal history is something she will never be able to live down. A poor choice it was, but it’s a choice she made herself when she decided to openly promote white supremacy.
Our coverage of the White Art Collective will continue!
In the meantime, check out our previous reporting on the White Art Collective through these links:
- “Jeff Winston” and “Hiraeth” of the White Art Collective Revealed: Ben Arvin and Mandi Gillespie of Bloomington, Indiana
- White Nationalist Comic Illustrator “Donald Kent” aka “American Zarathustra” revealed as Donald Jackson of West Seneca, New York
- Meet “Mama P” of the Alt-Right Folk Duo “The Mamas and the Pepes”: Julie “Jewels” Green of Wallingford, Pennsylvania
- Neo-Nazi Comic Illustrator “JinjerZilla”: Joshua Thayer LeGoff of Cranston, Rhode Island
- White Supremacist Graphic Artist “J. LaDarc”: Jessica LaFlamme, of Marietta, Georgia
- White Art Collective Musician “James Ryan” Revealed: Jamie Ryan Troutman of Harpers Ferry, WV
- Neo-Nazi Creep and White Art Collective Sound Guy Brandon Troutman, aka “ManWithTheHand”
- White Art Collective Neo-Nazi Dirtbag DJ: Joseph Shellabarger Jr, aka “Modernity Leave” / “Boxkhar”
- White Art Collective’s Fedora-Wearing Fascist “Lord Wolfshield”: Joshua Randle of Grand Rapids, Minnesota
- Neo-Nazi White Art Collective Performer “Alma Lahar”: Zachary Kaczmarek of Puyallup, Washington
We would like to say “Vi ringrazio tanto!” to our compagni anonimi for their contributions to this article. You know who you are!