May 2012
53 posts
listening to "Soul II Soul - Keep On Moving" →
Dedicated to the new graduates of the Brilliance Remastered Eye to Eye Webinar! Keep on movin’!!! http://tinyurl.com/7dcf7fl
Making Something out of Anything: Insight from the...
Last night was the last session of the Brilliance Remastered Webinar Eye to Eye: Radical Collaboration for Community Accountable Scholars! I know that I’ll be missing the weekly webinar wavelength sharing love exchange until the next unit of the webinar (Beyond the Feel Good based on Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic) starts in July. But I also know that we created something powerful and I have a...
“I am clearing out deadlines. Rearranging everything so poetry comes first....”
– Alexis Pauline Gumbs in Michele Berger’s blog on Spring Cleaning for Writers: http://micheleberger.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/spring-cleaning-for-your-writing-life-part-2/
Tishana and L (Mobile Homecoming fam) featured on... →
WatchAfter carrying Alexis and Julia across the country and back for Mobile Homecoming south and southwest tour, Sojourner’s engine could go no further. In this video Jeffrey McCune gives a Black Baptist style eulogy for Sojourner on the first day of our residency at the University of Maryland, College Park, which brought life to the situation in unimaginable ways. Now, we are embarking on a Spiritual...
Just Saying/See You There: Love Languages for...
Yesterday was our third Eye to Eye Webinar session on love, faith, difference and communication entitled “The Only Language I Know.” We shared our poetic clarity about how we communicate differently based on our experiences, our approaches, our fears and our longings and how sometimes words seem to fail us all together. Our group poem represents our visioning process of creating a space where...
“Our skins are empty
They have been vacated by the spirits
who are angered by...”
– Audre Lorde (Solstice)
Starting THIS SUNDAY the Eternal Summer Potluck...
By popular demand we bring you back the series that started it all…the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Potluck series!
The Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Potluck Series is a never-ending series of delicious gatherings celebrating, lifting up, studying and utilizing the legacy of Black feminist thought to save our lives and transform our communities in Durham, NC (and in...
listening to "Beyoncé SLAYING 1 1 in Idol dressing... →
Backstage prayers & hugs to Kai and Analena! Honoring your diligent preparation & presence! Towards a Black feminist androgyny! http://bit.ly/KHRqvR
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then...”
– Audre Lorde (via nomames)
I can never read this too much.
“Self-care includes holding each other accountable because we are interconnected....”
– Alexis Pauline Gumbs, quoted by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in a transformative justice workshop at Hampshire earlier this year.
Stuff I’m finding as I “clean” my room.
(via verbalprivilege)
This, basically. I’m trying to figure out how to do this.
(via liquornspice)
Be Like: A Poetic Vision of Collaboration
Yesterday was the second session of the Brilliance Remastered Eye to Eye Webinar on Radical Collaboration for Community Accountable Scholars. We talked about what is at stake our collaborations, nothing less than the world we want to live in and create together. We supported each other in holding ourselves to a standard where our collaborations themselves embody the values we have for our...
Black Feminist Film School (The Website) is...
Spring is thoroughly SPRUNG and collaborators Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ph.D. and Julia Roxanne Wallace, M.Div. are proud to present their newest dream come true: Black Feminist Film School!!!
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Read our founding document Create Anew: Black Feminist Filmmaking as Spiritual Leadership by Julia Roxanne Wallace!
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Read about our first superstar public event on Black Feminist Filmmaking featuring...
listening to "Mos Def-Love(Instrumental)" →
Dedicated 2 @ssidescholar! “i start to think and then i sink into the paper like i was ink.” But this is the instrumental so float on your own words!
listening to "The Marvelettes - Please Mr.Postman... →
To my Eye to Eye Webinarians writing their “Dear and Dangerous” letters about collaborating across internalized oppression! http://tinyurl.com/7dcf7fl
Indigo Night School Session #4 (and Final!): ...
Friday May, 18
6pm
Inspiration Station 2, Durham, NC (email brokenbeautifulpress@gmail.com for directions)
Inspired by Ntozake Shange’s brilliant novel Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo, I present to you INDIGO NIGHT SCHOOL (aka night-time is the right time). We will be convening on the Fridays closest to this season’s new moons into Spring for evening long rituals based on the magical remedies,...
“You could sometimes scream from the weight of the hatred our lives must...”
– June Jordan “SOME GOOD NEWS about the bad news or A Dialectical Perspective on Our Struggle for Democracy Today” (July 1987)
N. Paradoxa International Feminist Art Journal... →
Are you writing about African-diasporic women and their visual art about migration. Show us what you got!
Brilliance Remastered Presents…The Summer of...
Hey there Bright Thunder!
You already know! THIS is the summer to get your mind and your spirit aligned in a transformative process of community accountable brilliance. You are making major decisions this summer, preparing for incredible shifts, actually doing things you’ve been dreaming about for years. This is a summer that the historians will talk about when they are explaining how you...
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Ain’t grad school peculiar? Get a consultation for one-on-one coaching for visionary under-represented grad students! http://tinyurl.com/dxzbq5t
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For my Eye2Eye webinar participants, ready to get off the clock of capitalism and into the time of collaboration and love! http://tinyurl.com/7rz486x
Not Meant to Be Alone: Towards Collaboration
from Brilliance Remastered
Yesterday was the first session of the webinar Eye to Eye: Radical Collaboration for Community Accountable Scholars! We gathered to talk about my VERY favorite essay by Audre Lorde and how we can create the collaborations we dream of beyond the individualism, tokenization and internalized oppression that often gets in the way of the collaborations we most urgently...
In other words, June Jordan says vote against...
i wrote this poem for myself and now i'm ready to...
after “the light that came to lucille clifton”
the sight that came to alexis pauline
came through some shit unasked for
the fright of seeing those fondest shoulders
slam suddenly into pavement. it was the summer
she knew that she did not know
where she was going
and how. punctuated by the vehicle trash crashing
and then it got to be she was not mistress
of even the most simple...
Tiara Miles Redux is good for your constitution. ... →
Grooves for my morning dance. shaking amendment one off my constitution. Moves so slick hate can’t stick. Betta dance over to early voting NC!!!
“Do you believe history can be a type of salvation?”
– Kai M. Green
http://road2darkness.blogspot.com/2012/05/history-time-questions.html
Yes. I do believe that.
“[T]he Reagan/Bush administrations also realized that racializing welfare by...”
– Patricia Hill Collins, “Get Your Freak On” (via wretchedoftheearth)
“There is a syntax in dreams that I’m trying to get at in my poetry.”
– Pulitzer Prize winning poet Tracy K. Smith in a Cave Canem conversation on poets and craft at the New School.
(Me too. And this is going to be what I say to myself if I start to feel guilty for taking a nap :) 