Be Bold Be Re(a)d

3 years ago women of color came together and transformed what it meant to transform terror on Halloween, declaring October 31st Be Bold Be Red Day, a day for women of color and allies to speak out against violence against women. And 30 years ago women of color came together to respond to violence in the same critical and poetic spirit.

Towards the world the we all deserve, fully transformed from the misogyny and internalized racism we face in popular music to the frightening expendability of the lives and bodies of women of color this podcast places the brave voices of women telling the truth about gendered violence over the remixed sounds of Miles Davis. This year we take every sound back, starting with our own voices and the background that seeks to silence them.

Listen with your community, your class, your friends, your study group, your church, your crew, pass the link on or listen by yourself and see, hear and wear red.

listen here

or download here: http://brokenbeautiful.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/real-be-bold-be-red-podcast.mp3

Pauli Murray: Gendered Impossibility

pauli murray as "the imp!"

This November, in honor of the 99th birthday of Durham’s own Black Feminist, Civil Rights Lawyer, Radical Preacher Pauli Murray Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist, Southerners on New Ground and the Pauli Murray Project present:

Gendered Im(p)ossibility: A Conversation Through Photographs

Drawing on a number of photographs of Pauli Murray from the Schelsinger Library and featuring audio from an interview with Pauli Murray, this promises to be a rich conversation.

Please join us on Monday November 2nd

at 6pm

at Lex’s Inspiration Station

and please bring a dish to share!

See you there!

love,

Lex

Eternal Summer Sunday Morning Podcast!: In Your Hands

Because it takes a whole month to prepare for the day of the dead. Because some of us have to create eclectic Sunday morning rituals to hear our own truth. Because I want you to have this for when you need it. This podcast is based on letters from my black feminist ancestors. For more about the “In Your Hands” project check out www.motherourselves.wordpress.com.

I hope this piece grounds you and reminds you where you are from. You can save it for Sunday or you can listen right now.

Much love,

Lex

in your hands podcast

p.s.

You can also see video of the In Your Hands Project at Beloved the Mangos with Chili Day of the Dead celebration on November 7th in the San Francisco Bay Area and participate in an installation at the conference of Ford Fellows in Newport Beach California this coming weekend!

Mentorship: June Jordan <3 Fannie Lou Hamer

Greetings loved ones!

It’s that time again! It’s always that time!  The Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind is ETERNAL!   In honor of the birthday of amazing civil rights icon and black feminist mentor Fannie Lou Hamer this

October 6th at 6pm

at Lex’s Inspiration Station

we will be reading this poem fannie lou june jordan which June Jordan published in the New York Times in honor of Fannie Lou Hamer’s life.   Did you know Fannie Lou Hamer was June Jordan’s mentor?  Couldn’t you kind of tell?  Fierceness gets passed along generations! We will also be looking at my special beloved copy of the children’s book that June Jordan wrote about Fannie Lou.

AND because so many of us have the amazing blessing of fierce and fabulous mentors we will be talking about what mentorship means with in the context of black feminism and within our communities in general.

Please come thru with food to share and bring your kids, your mentors and your mentees if you can!

love always,

lex

Eye to Eye: Lex Speaks @ Bennett College

Audre Lorde Lives! The Bennett Belles said it with me this morning. This is the first LGBTQ Schoolwide program ever at Bennett College for Women in Greensboro. I was proud to participate! Check it out!

more about “Bennett College for Women- live strea…“, posted with vodpod

“Meditations on the Rainbow”: Eternal Summer Podcast II

Filled with great music…rare and priceless poetry from Sapphire all presented in that quirky, interactive, meditative, writing workshop-esque Eternal Summer style!

(this is Sapphire…but this time it’s actually Lex reading Sapphire’s juicy poetic set)

This podcast is dedicated to all of us, but especially to Tyli’a Nana Boo Mack, a black transwoman made early ancestor in a brutal act of violence in Washington DC.

Get your pen and your paintbrush and listen here:

Eternal Summer Podcast Two!!!!

(If you listen to the end you’ll hear Lex singing the blues!)

*Sapphire is not a particularly PG poet so this podcast is for grown folks and the folks they can be accountable for sharing it with.

First Ever Eternal Summer Podcast!!!!!

Check out our FIRST EVER PODCAST as part of the BrokenBeautiful Press educational campaign “Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind.” Black Feminism LIVES by every means necessary.

What does it take to survive a year like 1979?

This first podcast is about the year 1979 and how the world, and black feminism began and ended in some crucial ways that year. With the election of Ronald Reagan, the Boston Murders, the Atlanta Child Murders and the Greensboro Massacre all attacking the the lives, minds and spirits of black women 1979 was a crucial year. This podcast focuses on how Audre Lorde, Alexis DeVeaux, June Jordan and Barbara Smith reach(ed) across time and space to transform the meaning of survival. (And there is some good period appropriate and anachronistic music too!)

download to your itunes here:
http://brokenbeautiful.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/1979.m4a

Please leave comments here!

p.s. Sorry about the moments of outburst distortion. A sista is clearly super exuberantly excited about black feminism and promises to stay a little further away from the mic on podcast number two!

Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Educational Videos!

Watch, share, enjoy, repost!  If you’d like to order a DVD with these videos and more to use in your classroom (and to support the MobileHomeComing Community Documentation and Education Project) make a donation of $15 or more to the MobileHomeComing  Project!

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Here is the listing!

And some previews!

Black Feminist Summer Poetry: Nikky Finney Brunch!

Loved ones!   It is that time again to gather with goodies and goodness and each other in the name of Black Feminism. (Praise the Lorde!)   This month we will be reading the poem Understudies by Nikky Finney…for a few reasons

1.  Some say (biased though they may be) that Nikky Finney is the greatest poet of her generation.  Others (or maybe the same biased person) say that her work because it is accountable…specifically to black women across  generations is a model for black feminism alive.

2.  Nikky Finney has through her example and her generosity seeded the ground for at least two Durham poets, the esteemed Shirlette Ammons and the initiate Alexis Pauline Gumbs

AND

3.  Understudies specifically continues and nurtures and frames and holds up the work that UBUNTU members began at the “Searching for Our Mother’s Garden” potluck at the end of July (in particular Dannette’s important poetic project “This Ain’t No Poem”

So…read the poem Understudies by Nikky Finney and be there!

Sunday August 16th

1pm

Lex’s porch and living rooom

bring goodies and kids!

Eternal Summer Warrior Film Series: Ida B. Wells

Greetings All!    Happy Summer to everyone! In celebration of the birthday of warrior genuis publisher anti-lynching and anti-rape shero Ida B. Wells I am excited to invite you to the first Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind film screening and discussion:

Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (California Newsreel)

on Tuesday July 14th (two days before Mz. Wells-Barnett’s official b-day)

at 6pm in Lex’s living room…

I’ll have popcorn, feel free to bring snacks you want to share!