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New!!!!! Podcasts with Study Guides for your classroom, workhops, family, living room and life!

For an individual donation of $15 and an institutional donation of $35 get a digital copy of an information-filled audio lesson and a study guide with discussion questions and guides for activities to use in your session!

1979: Transforming the Meaning of Survival

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!)

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Meditate on the Rainbow: The Poetry of Sapphire

Filled with great music…rare and priceless poetry from Sapphire all presented in that quirky, interactive, meditative, writing workshop-esque Eternal Summer style! Based on Sapphire’s out of print seven movement poem “Meditations on the Rainbow” this podcast moves us through the colors of resistance and trasnformation.

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 or your paintbrush and listen.

The study-guide brings Sapphire’s poetic work into conversation with her book PUSH and the recent film Precious.

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In Your Hands: Mothering Ourselves

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, and the study guide will lead you through a process of communicating with and remembering insight from your own ancestors, spirit-guides and sheroes. For more about the “In Your Hands” project check out www.motherourselves.wordpress.com.

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Be Bold Be Red: Legacies of Response to Gendered Violence

In October 2007 women of color came together and transformed 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 by Apple Juice Kid.  With this piece which includes critical work on the work of the Combahee River Collective, and Toni Morrison’s Sula 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.

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A Revolutionary Act…: On the Legacy of Joseph Beam

In honor of this brilliant Black Gay literary genius ancestor and and the fact that both In the Life and Brother to Brother are back in print thanks to RedBone Press this podcast includes readings and reflections from Lisa Moore of RedBone Press, La Marr Jurelle, Darnell Moore, Justin Smith and a round the kitchen table conversation with some of Durham’s most inspiring Black queer visionary men:  Ashon Crawley, Sendolo Diaminah, Thaddeaus Edwards and Justin Robinson.  (Plus music, love and archival goodies from an ancestor obsessed devotee who you know much too well Informed by archival research in the Schomburg Black Gay and Lesbian Archive, this conversation will be particularly useful as you honor Black Gay History Herstory and discuss the transformative possibility of LOVE in queer community across gender.

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Anger is Useful!: On the Poetics of Rage

Who’s afraid of the Angry Black Woman? Well BE AFRAID because Angry Black Women are speaking our minds and transforming the world in the service of our vision.  Oppression beware the well-directed rage of Black feminism!

Enter the ANGRY BLACK WOMAN edition of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Podcast Series!  As always, we start with the brilliance of our ancestors…informed by Audre Lorde’s essay “Uses of Anger,” meditating on the poetic of rage in June Jordan’s angry letters to racist editors and including reflections from Nia Wilson, Mai’a Williams, Moya Bailey, Daria Bannerman and the young visionaries at New Horizon’s Alternative School…plus as always music that rocks (including a track from the genuis Jon Anonymous project by Durham’s own Shirlette Ammons!)

Be sure to write “Angry Black Woman Podcast and Study Guide” in the subject line with your donation of $15 or more!

“Coming Home”: The Legacy of the Salsa Soul Sisters

“because they were coming home.”-Carolyn Grey

On Saturday January 30th Harriet Alston and Carolyn Grey brought decades of memories and a Linda Tillery album that Harriet had spent days digitizing through the rare (and unplowed) North Carolina Snow to have a conversation with eager listeners at the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Potluck about their time in the Salsa Soul Sisters and the lessons they learned about building community.  Use this podcast as a precedent to your own community building projects or to recontextualize the history of Black feminist, 3rd World Women’s  and lesbian feminist organizations in the 1970′s.

Be sure to write “Salsa Soul Audio Documentary and Study Guide” in the subject line with your donation of $15 or more!

On Cancer and Survival: In Honor of June Jordan, Audre Lorde and Andria Hall

Cancer is a major factor in the lived experience of Black Feminist herstory and legacies.  How do we understand survival, the body, love and relationships as we survive and lose our loved ones to cancer?  This podcast includes the voices of survivors of cancer, and those who have survived their loved ones.  Investigating how life continues and how we can center our wellness, this podcast is memorial and salve, and a call of communication across every boundary, even our understandings of life and death.

Be sure to write “Cancer and Survival Podcast and Study Guide” in the subject line with your donation of $15 or more.

“The Best Way to Do it is to Do it”: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara

photo credit: ©1994, Susan J. Ross

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 created 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 and learn and teach about the work of this crucial Black feminist warrior!

Be sure to write “Toni Cade Bambara Podcast and Study Guide” in the subject line with your donation of 15 or more

The Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind DVD!!!!

And for your classroom, living room, workshops etc. get your own DVD of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Video Series (link for previews) for a donation of 20 bucks or more to the Eternal Summer Educational program.  Remember to put a note on your transaction that you want the DVD and be sure that your address is current!!!

While they last get the first book in the Little Black (Feminist) Book Series, Vol. 1 RAGE. Including an essay on the radical poetics of June Jordan’s letters to racist editors and some classic rants from www.thatlittleblackbook.blogspot.com this book is yours when you donate 15 bucks or more to the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Educational Programs.

Be sure to note that you want the RAGE book and be sure to include your correct mailing address. (Or just holler at me if you have the divine insight to live in Durham.)  There are only 20 so get yours soon