Posts filed under ‘AUDIO’
Indigo Days Podcast: Sacred Black Feminist Blues
Greetings loved ones,
Indigo Days a transformative gathering of warrior healers came to close this past Thursday. But the impact of warrior healers is ETERNAL so of course the impact of Indigo…Ntozake Shange’s visionary creation and of the work of black warrior healers does not end. For all of you who attended Indigo Days and blessed the space with your transformative love, and all those who wished they could have been there in body as well as spirit and all those who supported with food, transportation, space, donations and materials this brilliant podcast…created by the resident blues scholars and DJ of the Quirky Black Girls Movement is for YOU!!!!
Enjoy!!!!
Direct Link: http://brokenbeautiful.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/bbs-podcast.mp3
P.S. If you’d like to be part of the Indigo Days Conversation…post your brilliance here:
http://blueblackblessing.tumblr.com/submit
If you’d like to support the ongoing sacred work of eternal summer of the black feminist mind (including the Indigo Night School coming this Fall!!!) donate one time here:
or on a monthly basis at a rate that makes sense to you!
The PROUD Podcast: The Visionary HEAT of Black Queer Community
- Lex interviewing Glo at the 3rd Annual Queerky Black Girls Cookout in the Park! (photo by Moya Bailey)
It is officially Fall and the end of Gay Pride Season! The MobileHomecoming Project has allowed us to relate to PRIDE celebrations in the South with renewed intergenerational intentionality! I feel so present to my love for Black Queer community I hardly know what to do! Oh wait! Yes I do! Create a podcast and a new volume of the Little Black (Feminist) Book Series!
While you are folding laundry or recentering yourself for a revolutionary day take a listen to this podcast dedicated to our Black queer community and all of the complexity of our pride.
http://brokenbeautiful.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/proud-podcast-1.mp3
AND
To order your own copy of the beautiful bright orange booklet FIRE (picture soon!) which includes the poem “ShapeShift”, and the essay “Flamboyance” along with several other works inspired by my love for our brilliant black queer community email brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com or paypal 15 bucks (or more you if you can!) to brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com with the note FIRE! All proceeds benefit the ongoing work of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Educational movement in Durham including the Queer Black Sunday School Series!
*Special thanks to the amazing hip hop producer composers whose work is featured here. I strongly encourage you all to take a listen to Jett I Masstyr’s “Me and Phillis Forever” based on the beautiful voice of Phyllis Hyman and the Idle Warship Mixtape ad the Cali Fire Commission’s beat-tape and the Stuyvesent’s beat masterpiece all featured on this podcast.
Still Brave Podcast
Greetings loved ones!!!!!
This podcast is a graduation gift from me to you, from Black Women’s Studies to me and to a planet ready to be transformed by our bravery!!! Consider it a bravery infusion, listen to it when you need a supplement, or honor yourself by contextualizing your brilliance in the deep tradition of Black feminist intellectual bravery.
Despite the adversity (two different police officers in one county in Virginia pulled me over on my way) I was able to have the beautiful experience of attending the Still Brave Symposium at University of Maryland, a celebration of the impact of the classic anthology All the Women are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies and the contributors of the new collection Still Brave, published by the Feminist Press last year.
On this podcast you will hear Black feminist scholars Akasha Hull, Barbara Smith, Patricia Hill Collins, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Frances Foster Smith, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Cheryl Wall, Cheryl Clarke, Elsa Barkely Brown, Merle Collins, Renina Jarmon, Christin Taylor, Courtney Marshall, Monica A. Coleman, Faith Pennick, Nikki Lane, Sharon Hurley, and Althea Tate talking about what keeps them BRAVE. You will also hear music from Janelle Monae, Mahalia Jackson, Goapele, Mosadi Music, John Coltrane, Lykki Li, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Amanda Ray, The Lost Bois, Santigold and more!
The experience of making and editing this podcast affirms for me that tomorrow when I walk to get my PhD in English, African and African American Studies and Women’s Studies, I am participating in a long, deep, resonant walk with many fellow travelers. One of the blessings that keeps me brave is the vibrant, intergenerational community of Black feminist scholars, cultural workers and activists represented here.
Stay brave,
Alexis
direct link: http://brokenbeautiful.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/still-brave.mp3
Essex Hemphill Sunday School: The Podcast
You know I had to hook you up for Mother’s Day! To honor the nurturing work that queer Black folks have been doing in all of our communities for lifetimes….this podcast honors the prophet, poet, activist, ancestor Essex Hemphill. Documenting the Sunday School at the Inspiration Station celebrating Hemphill’s birthday in April, this podcast features the voices of Durham’s finest (and the Durham diaspora) reading Hemphill’s poetry and our own work inspired by his legacy, his visions of the afterlife, his love for community. Wake up new with the powerful voices of Yolanda Carrington, Ashon Crawley, Diane Beckett, Chelsea Earles, Beth Bruch, Jade Brooks, Elandria Williams, Ebony Noelle Golden, and get inspired with beautiful music from Yolo Akili, Meshell Ndegeocello, Duke Ellington, Raheem DeVaughn, Res, and Curtis Mayfield.
Contextualize your Sunday, mother yourself, listen with your mother!
(direct link: http://brokenbeautiful.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/essex-hemphill-sunday-school-podcast-1.mp3)
(and this time the levels are totally equal, but still a little quiet. So raise the praise and pump up the volume.)
Infinite love,
Alexis
Happy Birthday Toni Cade Bambara: New Podcast :)
Today in honor of Toni Cade Bambara’s 71st Birthday we present a podcast full of reflections, laughter, poetry, music and LOVE for the brilliant sister warrior mother writer, dancer, filmmaker, screenplay transformer, community organizer Toni Cade Bambara!
I create this podcast with much inspiration from Cheryll Y. Greene and with the priceless collaboration and words of Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Cara Page, Linda Janet Holmes, Kai Lumumba Barrow and Nikky Finney. Contextualize your day with the brilliant insights of these women and listen to music from Sarah Vaughn, King Pleasure, Erykah Badu, Amel Laurrieux, Cassandra Wilson, Abbey Lincoln and some of my favorite producers.
Direct link: http://brokenbeautiful.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/happy-birthday-toni-cade-2.mp3
If you are just learning about Toni Cade Bambara please get your hands on her beautiful fiction: Gorilla, My Love, The Seabird are Still Alive, The Salteaters, Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions, Those Bones Are Not My Child. Her groundbreaking 1970 anthology The Black Woman and definitely pick up the anthology about Bambara’s work created by Linda Janet Holmes and Cheryll Wall: Savoring the Salt.
Also, if you have the great fortune to live near or in Durham, North Carolina join us for Sunday school, this Sunday March 28th to praise the name of Toni Cade (more info here: http://blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/sunday-march-28th-sunday-school-sunday-dinner-for-the-devoted/)
Introduction Part 1: 1979
Greetings loved ones,
Bit by bit we keep it going. Here is part 1 of the introduction to my dissertation entitled 1979. This was also the basis of the first Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Podcast (with the same name) which you can listen to here. Thanks for everyone’s loving affirmation of the Prologue and the great conversations you all have blessed me with in the past week! Looking forward to more!
Here is the pdf: Introduction Part 1: 1979
(direct link: http://brokenbeautiful.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/introduction-part-1.pdf)
Here is the podcast version: 1979
Infinite love!
Lex
HappY Birthday Audre Lorde: Podcast on Survival
On this day 97 years ago…my grandfather Jeremiah Gumbs was born. Pop-pop was the person who taught me how a love for poetry could transform my life. It seems not mere coincidence that my favorite poet and chosen ancestor Audre Lorde was ALSO born on this day 76 years ago! This podcast, lovingly released on this birthday of two of my beloved ancestors who make their spirits known in my life on a daily basis is also dedicated to a new ancestor.
My godmother Aunt Andie (Andria Hall) died from breast cancer a little over a year and a month ago today. To honor Aunt Andie and Audre Lorde, and June Jordan, and my stepsister Kyla’s mom Diane and Mama Nayo Barbara Watkins and so many more beautiful ancestors who are so powerfully with us, my mom, my Aunti Akosua and the brilliant and inspiring Mary Anne Adams who is a breast cancer survivor collaborated on this podcast. May it be healing for you and may it be an invitation to the energy of all of your ancestors to fill your heart and kiss your face.
love always,
lex
http://brokenbeautiful.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/audre-lorde-survival-podcast.mp3
you can also find the recent podcast on itunes if you search “brokenbeautiful press”
And if you are in or near Durham don’t forget to come to the B-day Party this Saturday!!!!!!
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