tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84323545936451820562024-03-12T18:00:34.633-07:00Quirky Black GirlsBecause Audre Lorde looks different in every picture ever taken of her. Because Octavia Butler didn't care. Because Erykah Badu is a patternmaster. Because Macy Gray pimped it and Janelle Monáe was ready.
Resolved. Quirky black girls wake up ready to wear a tattered society new on our bodies, to hold fragments of art, culture and trend in our hands like weapons against conformity, to walk on cracks instead of breaking our backs to fit in the mold.
We're here, We're Quirky, Get used to it!lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.comBlogger3591125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432354593645182056.post-6227421739461476022015-07-22T10:30:00.001-07:002015-07-22T10:30:21.505-07:00When We Free World Premiere: August 1st at Full Frame Theater in Durham, NC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When We Free: A Meditation on Faith and Liberation</div>
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Saturday August 1, 2015 4pm-7pm</div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.0545444488525px;">We are proud to present the world premiere of When We Free a meditation on faith and liberation written and directed by </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=2615360&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/julia.r.wallace.3" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.0545444488525px; text-decoration: none;">Julia Sangodare Roxanne Wallace</a><span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.0545444488525px;"> and produced by Black Feminist Film School and our whole community!!! I can't wait to see you all at the world premiere of When We Free at the Full Frame Theater in Durham, NC on August 1st. Reserve your FREE tickets here: </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/when-we-free-premier-tickets-17639119080" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.0545444488525px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>www.eventbrite.com/e/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>when-we-free-premier-ticket<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>s-17639119080</a></div>
lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432354593645182056.post-25478720825876651542014-12-07T11:25:00.003-08:002014-12-07T11:25:40.046-08:00C(h)ant. Breathe: Coming Back to Breath in Honor of Eric Garner and Many More<div style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 0.825em;">
Yesterday I had the honor of bringing <a data-mce-href="http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com" href="http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration: none;">Black Feminist Breathing</a> to the BOLD National Gathering which took place on a reclaimed plantation here in North Carolina. Sister-Comrade Genius Facilitator Adrienne Maree Brown describes BOLD as the current Black Power Movement and beautifully contextualizes yesterday's miracles here: <a data-mce-href="http://adriennemareebrown.net/blog/2014/12/06/black-love-as-a-radical-commitment/" href="http://adriennemareebrown.net/blog/2014/12/06/black-love-as-a-radical-commitment/" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration: none;">http://adriennemareebrown.net/blog/2014/12/06/black-love-as-a-radical-commitment/</a></div>
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In preparation for the paradoxical and necessary task of bringing Black Feminist Breathing into a moment where as Black folks we are collectively remembering and struggling with Eric Garner's last words "I can't breathe," I offered myself and the participants this meditation. Maybe it can be a healing part of your journey back to breath.</div>
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<em style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">Dedicated to Eric Garner</em></div>
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<em style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">And to <a data-mce-href="http://www.blackpast.org/aah/margaret-garner-incident-1856" href="http://www.blackpast.org/aah/margaret-garner-incident-1856" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration: none;">Margaret Garner’s Daughter</a></em></div>
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*take a deep breath everywhere you see a star </div>
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return to the place</div>
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where you learned</div>
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how to breathe</div>
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where night washed itself</div>
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into your dreams</div>
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return</div>
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to the place</div>
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where you learned</div>
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breathing was bigger</div>
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than you</div>
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or your fears of</div>
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dogs bats and sea creatures</div>
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and would continue</div>
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all night long</div>
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without you trying</div>
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to keep it going</div>
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human freedom is like that</div>
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unstoppable</div>
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as the ocean at night</div>
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sometimes the crashing is just louder</div>
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like right now</div>
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ii.</div>
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we are feeling it in our chests</div>
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right now</div>
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the underwater knowing</div>
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of upside down justice</div>
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that has to right itself</div>
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that hasn’t righted itself</div>
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the sinking feeling</div>
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that the chokehold of the state</div>
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is more persistent than the ocean</div>
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it is not</div>
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iii.</div>
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if I could</div>
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I would bring all our people</div>
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right next to the ocean</div>
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to just sit</div>
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and breathe with the ancestors</div>
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just listen</div>
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knowing all this sand</div>
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was bone</div>
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and the stars</div>
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are just us</div>
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reflected</div>
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across the black history</div>
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of the universe</div>
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i want every last breath</div>
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to be a tide going out</div>
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so we can imagine</div>
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some baby somewhere</div>
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gasping into time</div>
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with an unbroken custody</div>
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of air</div>
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i don’t want the choking struggle</div>
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the staccato of bullets</div>
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shattering the song</div>
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of what we know</div>
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but sometimes</div>
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even as the ocean</div>
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slaps the sand</div>
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it sounds shocked to me</div>
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shoreline shaping impact</div>
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this is happening</div>
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again</div>
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v.</div>
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I imagine</div>
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Eric Garner</div>
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becoming the ocean</div>
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like Margaret Garner’s baby</div>
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awakening stream</div>
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how all blood flows back</div>
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to the salt in this water</div>
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how something</div>
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unstoppable</div>
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screams</div>
lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432354593645182056.post-53373980228986375362014-12-05T06:01:00.001-08:002014-12-05T06:01:26.408-08:00It Will Not Always Be This Way: Prophecy Poem or Impermanence After Phillis<div class="mceTemp" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 24.375px;">
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Last night after laying our bodies in the street in protest, while advocating and praying for our comrades who had been arrested, while grieving and grieving the loss of black lives, the audacity of state violence, while remembering the police murder of Fred Hampton and honoring the resilience of our beautiful communities, 5 black women gathered in the name of <a data-mce-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered/2014/11/01/bright-black-broadcast-3-phillis-wheatley/" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered/2014/11/01/bright-black-broadcast-3-phillis-wheatley/" style="color: #1b8be0; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; text-decoration: none;" title="Bright Black Broadcast #3: Phillis Wheatley">Phillis Wheatley</a>. 230 years ago today Phillis Wheatley/Peters the first Black person to publish a collection of poems in the United States, witness to the American Revolution, acquaintance of a Queen and a President, died free, cold and poor somewhere in Boston.</div>
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Our conversation, blessed by the literary and historical expertise of Dr. Tara Bynum, ranged from the possibility of "ordinary" Black life in a context where just being a live and Black is framed as not just extraordinary but abnormal, to speculations of the layered and syncretic spiritual cosmologies present in Wheatley's work and her correspondence with her friend Obour Tanner, to Morissonian (as in Toni) reflections on the normalcy of evil, to raw honesty about slave-funded academic institutions that continue to enslave black scholars, to just wondering where our friends are and if they are okay.</div>
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Inspired by Wheatley's invocation of the sacred nine in her poetry, we mused a while and generated resources of laughter, love, epic realness, star-knowledge, movement, history, tragedy, song and hymns to share with each other as a reminder that the institutions that harm us are not our only sources of power, we are resources for each other. Finally we created this poem together out of our outrage at this moment and our faith that our lives and our world can be different. This is a prophecy poem offering on the date of Phillis Wheatley's ascension. May all of our ancestors receive it and join us in transforming life on earth.</div>
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<strong style="color: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.625;">Prophecy Poem (impermanence after Phillis)</strong></div>
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<em style="color: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625;">by the participants in Bright Black Broadcast #3: Phillis Wheatley</em></div>
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black bodies disappearing into death, state-sanctioned choke-holds.</div>
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it will not always be this way</div>
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the impossibility of breathing.</div>
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it will not always be this way.</div>
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I listen to my ancestors when they say</div>
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it will not always be this way</div>
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to steady my steps I have to pray</div>
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it will not always be this way</div>
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it cannot always be this way</div>
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it will not always be this way</div>
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it will not always be this way,</div>
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i will continue to say</div>
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it will not always be this way,</div>
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as I smile remembering what's gone is for yesterday</div>
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liberation is possible - perhaps not today.</div>
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it will not always be this way</div>
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hasten the change, no more lives should pay.</div>
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it will not always be this way.</div>
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y’all must got me f—d up</div>
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it will not always be this way</div>
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you must not know who taught me to pray</div>
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it will not always be this way</div>
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trickster teacher chaos clay</div>
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it will not always be this way</div>
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i’m gonna be here anyway</div>
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it will not always be this way</div>
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it will not always be this way</div>
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there is more than one way</div>
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gather the children and tell them</div>
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it will not always be this way</div>
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remind each other that</div>
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it will not always be this way</div>
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the ancestors promise</div>
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we make joy</div>
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because it will not always be this way</div>
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i was born to love and play</div>
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we will dance into the black light of a brand new day,</div>
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Last night was the first <a data-mce-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered/webinars/" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered/webinars/" style="color: #1b8be0; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; text-decoration: none;" title="Webinars">Brilliance Remastered</a> Bright Black Broadcast and it was miraculous. Guided by the brilliance of Benjamin Banneker, and some of his enduring texts we engaged the rhetoric of our integrity, the equations of our freedom, the core beliefs that inform our problem solving, the locations of the planets and the trajectories of our own orbits in relationship to creativity, freedom, institutions, work, family and everything else. At the end of our time together we created our own three part group poem in response to Benjamin Banneker's "A Mathematical Problem in Verse" a beautiful poem about some drunk people who have plenty of confidence and specificity (take that respectability politics!) as a way of reflecting on the dimensions of our freedom. </div>
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by the participants in Bright Black Broadcast #1: Benjamin Banneker</div>
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(after Benjamin Banneker’s <a data-mce-href="allpoetry.com/A-Mathematical-Problem-In-Verse" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered/wp-admin/allpoetry.com/A-Mathematical-Problem-In-Verse" style="color: #1b8be0; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; text-decoration: none;">“A Mathematical Problem in Verse”</a>)</div>
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i. the diametrical proportions of freedom</div>
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seven answers for every one question</div>
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three loves for every one life</div>
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one breath for every thousand years</div>
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one thousand heartbeats for every one connection</div>
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one circle for one change</div>
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one thousand stars for every one night sky</div>
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ii. the depth of freedom</div>
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deep enough to fill sound</div>
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deep enough to dance in technicolor</div>
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deep enough to invite the whole family and community in</div>
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deep enough to get baptized in every single day</div>
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deep enough to hold our energy</div>
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iii. freedom capacity</div>
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it can hold my imperfections</div>
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it can hold our pain</div>
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it can hold our hands</div>
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it can hold our dreams</div>
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it can hold the past and the future at the same time</div>
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it can hold heart</div>
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it can hold space</div>
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it can hold light</div>
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<i>from <a href="http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered/2014/10/03/the-spill-intensive-exceeding-the-boundaries-of-the-university-system-october/">Brilliance Remastered</a></i></div>
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Coming out of the <a data-mce-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered/2014/09/18/sounds-like-a-promise-from-the-shape-of-my-impact-webinar/" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered/2014/09/18/sounds-like-a-promise-from-the-shape-of-my-impact-webinar/" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; text-decoration: none;" title="Sounds Like a Promise: From the Shape of My Impact Webinar">insights </a>of the recent <em style="color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered/2014/09/13/back-to-school-broadcast-discussing-the-shape-of-my-impact/" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered/2014/09/13/back-to-school-broadcast-discussing-the-shape-of-my-impact/" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; text-decoration: none;" title="The Shape of My Impact: Virtual Conversation about Survival and the Academic Industrial Complex">Shape of My Impact</a> </em>back to school webinar, <strong style="color: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.625;">The Spill Intensive</strong> is an experimental space for those visionaries who want to honor the ways their inspiration, spiritual imperatives and accountability to oppressed communities EXCEED the boundaries of the University system.</div>
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Using an innovative curriculum based on Sista Docta Alexis Pauline's decade of work on the brilliant excess of the language practice of black feminist literary critic Hortense Spillers, <strong style="color: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.625;">the Spill Intensive</strong> invites 9 webinar participants to</div>
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The intensive will meet online every night for 1 hour and 30 minutes at 9pm EST Oct 20th-24th. Fee: $200 Reserve your spot with an email to brillianceremastered@gmail.com explaining what you hope to get out of the course and your $50 deposit:</div>
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lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432354593645182056.post-36557741818047546132014-09-29T10:53:00.001-07:002014-09-29T10:53:35.829-07:00Register Now for the Juneteenth Freedom Academy for Facilitators, Nov. 1-2 in Durham, NC<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
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How can we achieve <span data-mce-style="color: #0000ff;" style="color: blue;"><span data-mce-style="color: #339966;" style="color: #339966;"><strong>more than the packaging of oppression and the production of cute funding digestible deliverables</strong></span>?</span> What is<span data-mce-style="color: #0000ff;" style="color: blue;"> <strong>the spiritual work of holding space for visionary encounters</strong></span>, those sacred spaces where what it is possible imagine shifts, <span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>where we become real to each other and spoken into history</strong>?</span></div>
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As June Jordan developed the Poetry for the People curriculum she and her community of poet-facilitators practiced the technology of what they called an <span data-mce-style="color: #ff00ff;" style="color: magenta;">"<strong>experimental and hopeful community"</strong></span> that was "safe enough" for the transformative process of the truth to happen. Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter teaches that after humanism <span data-mce-style="color: #993366;" style="color: #993366;"><strong>"the ceremony must be found"</strong></span> for how we human/dehumanized beings relate to each other<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"> <strong>as we dismantle the oppressive logics that have been holding us back.</strong></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #b30af4;" style="color: #b30af4;"><strong>The Juneteenth Freedom Academy for Facilitators</strong> </span>offers the proposition that we, the facilitators are the experimental hopeful people, making ceremony for a love that has not been spoken yet and for a triumph that is not supposed to exist.</div>
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And since <span data-mce-style="color: #0000ff;" style="color: blue;"><strong>we are designing the rituals to reclaim our lives</strong></span>, since we are continually creating site specific breathing installation invitations<span data-mce-style="color: #c511ed;" style="color: #c511ed;"><strong> for ancestors and future to speak</strong></span>, since we are accountable to the anarchic potential of what it will mean when this particular, irreplaceable set of beings in this particular space, on this particular day, <span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>face the possibility of our collective freedom</strong></span>, the <em>Juneteenth Freedom Academy for Facilitators</em> is a space to support the work of facilitation as spiritual and creative work and to provide the necessary forms of sacred sustenance that makes the practices of</div>
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The Juneteenth Freedom Academy for Facilitators is dedicated to facilitating the possibility of freedom in all of our interactions and relationships and in the matrix of our daily lives.</div>
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We believe that powerful facilitation is not based on charisma, mirco-management, fancy machines or a dazzling show. We believe that the power of facilitation and the accountability of the facilitator is to:</div>
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If you are available to participate in the weekend training:</div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #ff00ff;" style="color: magenta;">Alexis P. Gumbs is the facilitator you've been waiting for. Her generosity of spirit, thought, and action creates a circle around you which allows you to grow into your own potential as a leader and visionary. If you believe another world is possible, but you wish someone would take you by the hand and help you get to the threshold, Alexis is the person who can help guide you to the place where your own feet will begin to take hold. I have been fortunate enough to watch Alexis facilitate hundreds of meetings, workshops, and groups over the last fifteen years and with each passing year I am aware that she grows more into herself and more into connection with all of us. I wish that everyone would have the opportunity to sit in a room with Alexis and have her reflect their light back to them. I can think of no better gift you can give yourself or your team than to spend some time learning and growing with her!</span></strong></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Sister Dr. Alexis is the most insightful, creative, and compassionate workshop facilitator I have ever witnessed, and collaborating with her was soul inspiring, joy filled, and transformative for me in so many ways. Alexis gives herself so fully to the responsibility of transformative facilitating that her every action within it is a meditation; a master class in the practice and rewards of pedagogies of presence, love, truth and justice, elevating every one and every thing around her to higher ground.</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #b21de1;" style="color: #b21de1;">What a profound experience it has been for me to have access to the unique and inspirited works of Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs! Through her imaginative, thoughtful, loving, critical and layered facilitation ; Dr. Gumbs is able to : spark, engage, replenish and centralize black genius audiences by honoring a well of multi- disciplined black genius innovators/creative's. Black on Black Love! It is an ancestral reunion and a shapeshiffting love praxis to participate in any of her workshops. You will be changed and will be charged to share the love work! Go and get it!</span></strong></div>
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-Soraya Jean-Louis McElroy, Ancestral Alchemist and guest facilitator and participant in the <em>Black Feminist Breathing Retreat</em></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs teaches from—and with—her heart. She uses space, sound, movement, and meditation(s) to create liberative learning spaces that inspire creativity and social change. Her love for black people and her commitment to </strong><strong>love-filled queer black feminist politics have inspired the ways I think about, and practice, liberation work. Any opportunity to co-learn with Dr. Gumbs is definitely a privilege and a blessing. I wholeheartedly recommend the Juneteenth Freedom Academy for Facilitators!</strong></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #b021dd;" style="color: #b021dd;"><strong>I recently began to look at facilitation as an arts practice. There's a aesthetic in moving people to action and reflection. Facilitators are vessels, magicians, coaches and mirrors, sometimes all at once. I have been fortunate enough to not only have been facilitated through processes by Dr. Gumbs but I have also felt the ripples of her work in my direct communitiy in Washington, DC. Just this past weekend at a board meeting I attended in New York City, we opened the meeting with a black feminist breathing meditation recording by Dr. Gumbs. Her recorded words facilitated a rich conversation about voice and sense of agency in black girls.</strong></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #b021dd;" style="color: #b021dd;"><strong>Dr. Gumbs' practice is deliberate love-filled and tested. Anyone looking to deepen their practice and praxis should be a part of Juneteenth Freedom Academy for Facilitators!</strong></span>-Jessica Solomon, director of Art in Praxis, participant in <em>Indigo Days</em></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #0000ff;" style="color: blue;"><strong>Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a gifted educator and healer, with a contagious belief in the possibility of other ways to be. Her capacity for unconditional love is an inspiration, and she is truly a pillar of transformation both within and outside of the academic community. Sista Docta Lex is an alchemist who turns fear into faith through her exceptional workshops and one-on-one offerings. Alexis has been an incredibly generous friend and mentor in my life, and her divine example has helped me learn how to activate my own magic. </strong></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #339966;" style="color: #339966;"><strong>I always feel more grounded when I leave a space that Alexis has facilitated. She has an ability to tap into my deepest creativity; I emerge having tapped into my own wisdom and knowing. I am very excited about this opportunity for our community.</strong></span></div>
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<b><span data-mce-style="color: #9900ff;" style="color: #9900ff;"> </span></b><span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;">-Tema Okun, Durham based educator and activist, author of <em>The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching About Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know</em> and participant in the <em>Finding Poems Retreats</em></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Working in a small group of survivors with Alexis on Lucille Clifton's Shape Shifter poems changed my life: I stepped into the name "poet" with a trust in my own authority that was part me, part Clifton, and a large part Alexis' faith in my authority to transform the materials of my life. I know Alexis approached the work with our group with great intentionality. A couple of years later, when I wanted to learn more about working as a poet, but wanted to learn in community, rather than in a traditional one-on-one mentorship, after speaking with me and others and after reflecting upon her own creative work, Alexis designed a six-session series, "Finding Poetry," which influences me half a year after the last session. In that series, as always with Alexis' work, I grew both as a poet and as a community member.</strong></span></div>
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-Faith Holseart, poet, activist and former member of SNCC, participant in <em>Finding Poems, ShapeShifter Survival School and School of Our Lorde</em></div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #7b4fb0;" style="color: #7b4fb0;">When preparing to lead or co-lead a workshop I often find myself wondering, 'How can I be as calm, generous, and dynamic as Lex is when she's facilitating?' No joke. I really think this to myself. Regularly. That Dr. Gumbs is finding a way to actually share this practice with others is a great opportunity for all of us who seek to be transformative facilitators.</span></strong></div>
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-R.J. Maccani, community organizer, co-founder of Regeneracion Childcare Collective, co-facilitator of <em>Embodying Abolition at the Allied Media Conference</em></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff9900;" style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>Alexis Pauline Gumbs facilitates by formulating questions that invite groups to think deeply about ways to live into their values and connect personal commitment to social action. The activities and exercises she designs reflect her belief that our inner brilliance will show us the way when we open to its voice.</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #00ff00;" style="color: lime;">A few years ago, I had the blessing of sitting in a circle of changemakers and creative workers at the Critical Ethnic Studies Conference - we gathered to celebrate the work of novelist Octavia Butler. i expected a lively, enriching conversation, but got so much more! Alexis conjured a space of transformative sharing and collective creativity. From drawing images of our girlhoods, to experiencing live performances and writing poetry of our own, that conference 'workshop' became a sacred space. Sista Docta Lex is more than a facilitator - she is a bonafide Healer.</span></strong></div>
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-Savannah Shange, educator, board member at June Jordan School for Equity, co-facilitator of <em>All Black Everything: A Workshop on Afro-Pessimism at the Allied Media Conference</em></div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #8e06f8;" style="color: #8e06f8;">I have been a part of many meetings, workshops, and gatherings facilitated by Alexis Pauline Gumbs; she also designed and facilitated a one-of-a-kind after school program for my daughter and other girls her age. Alexis brings, above everything else, love to the spaces she creates for people to learn. She shapes interactions that deeply connect people. She shares the wisdom, art, and guidance of those who came before, and insodoing, offers a context in which we can place ourselves and our work now. In a sense, Alexis holds up an ancestral mirror and allows us to see ourselves more clearly. Through careful listening, she validates her participants' experiences and truths. The activities Alexis facilitates allow people to acknowledge what they are bringing into the room, manifest creativity, and learn from one another. I have learned so much and watched my daughter grow so much as a result of Alexis' facilitation practices, and without hesitation I would recommend to anyone that they take the opportunity to engage in one of Alexis' workshops.</span></strong></div>
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-Emily Chavez, writer, activist, <em>parent of an afterschool participant in the Indigo Genius Afterschool Program</em></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>Born from the Brilliance Remastered arm of Alexis' Black feminist (well)spring of sustenance, "Need: Cyber Performance Ritual," was a webinar named after the performance-prompting poetry of Audre Lorde in which I was fortunate to participate in early 2013. Whether embodying what love feels like or co-creating a group poem speaking to what we need or our own kind </strong><strong>of open, in that online space I felt whole, held, safe, and soul-nourished. </strong><strong>Under Alexis' guidance, I learned about the plethora of possibility that can sprout from the seeds of Black feminist truth, both in- and outside the dance studio. I</strong><strong>n just a week's time, a</strong><strong> handful of brilliant individuals from all over the continent had come together to carve out a little piece of community on my computer screen, wrapped up in only the finest of radical love.</strong></span></div>
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-Cantrice Penn, choreographer, <em>guest facilitator for the Indigo Afterschool program, participant in the Need Webinar</em></div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #993300;" style="color: #993300;">Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs moderated a panel on April 21,2012 at the Durham County Library as part of the Humanities Programming Series. The program was called “Coming Out In the South.” Dr. Gumbs was brilliant in her wisdom and sensitivities, beginning the program with a moment of silence--which had never happened at a library—to remind all that this was a topic that could be painful and to encourage the space to become a safe one for all. She kept that spirit present during the entire hour and half long program. The evaluations of the program mentioned time and again how much they appreciated Dr. Gumbs skillful handling of the people and topics involved. Dr. Gumbs is moderating and helping to organize a panel of young organizers for our largest program of the year, Durham Reads Together. Her panel will be called “We Who Believe in Freedom: The Next Civil Rights Generation”. She is bringing together youth to talk about their work and lives. Dr. Gumbs is a joy to work with and the Durham County Library is always honored when she brings her gifts to one of our programs.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;">Alexis Gumbs values everybody and takes mess off of nobody, creating spaces for all to participate, and none to dominate. She listens carefully and skillfully and synthesizes sentiments where others lack the diction. Alexis's presence looms large in a room, though she always uses that space to open and help people get where they need to go.</span></strong></div>
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-Bryan Proffit, community organizer and history teacher at Hillside High School (Durham's last remaining historically black high school), <em>presenter for Juneteenth Freedom Academy on Palestine</em></div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #339966;" style="color: #339966;">Excellent facilitators are a rarity. They must be supremely knowledgeable, possessing keen insight and emotional mastery- enough to carry any room. Most importantly, one must be facile in a shamanic role – to move into uncertainty, take inspired risks and create magic. Quite simply, Alexis has the gift. </span></strong></div>
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-Lisa Powell, Co-Founder Black Lesbians United (BLU)</div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #33cccc;" style="color: #33cccc;">Alexis Pauline Gumbs has given birth to an oracle which mandates the immediate summons and awakening of freedom within the black soul. We are blessed that the oracle has visited upon us. </span></strong></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">-Queen Hollins, Principal Steward, </span><span data-mce-style="font-family: Georgia;" style="font-family: Georgia;">Earthlodge Center for Transformation / Nu Legacy Project </span><span data-mce-style="font-family: Georgia;" style="font-family: Georgia;">Long Beach, California, Co-facilitator of <em>The Fullness: Erotic Power, Spiritual Wellness and Sexual Liberation</em> and participant in <em>The Lorde Concordance</em><em> </em></span></div>
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This <strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">Back to School <a data-mce-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/brillianceremastered" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration: none;">Brilliance Remastered</a> Webinar</strong> is an opportunity for community accountable scholars to support each other and access resources designed to helps us all activate our brilliance in collaboration with the communities we love. This discussion will center on Brilliance Remastered founder Alexis Pauline Gumbs's article on survival and the academic industrial complex entitled "The Shape of My Impact" and published at The Feminist Wire in October 2012. "The Shape of My Impact" has circulated over the past two years and has resonated with many community accountable scholars. Recently, several community accountable scholars have reached out about a space to discuss the issues that the article raises. This is that space!</div>
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Join online or via phone to talk about how draw on the insights of earlier generations of community accountable scholars to navigate the academic industrial complex and how to support each other as we deal with the realities of the neoliberalization of the university. This dialogue will be facilitated by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and is the perfect place for anyone who is interested in building subversive intellectual community and talking about strategies for living the dream. Register for free or with a donation at eventbrite here: <a data-mce-href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brilliance-remastered-broadcast-the-shape-of-my-impact-tickets-13111269159" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brilliance-remastered-broadcast-the-shape-of-my-impact-tickets-13111269159" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration: none;">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brilliance-remastered-broadcast-the-shape-of-my-impact-tickets-13111269159</a></div>
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Essex Hemphill "For My Own Protection"</div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/104801876">Black Love Oracle Day #3: Power #whateverwhenever #blacklivesmatter</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1580195">Alexis Pauline Gumbs</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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The #whateverwhenever oracle is Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind's offering to the #blacklivesmatter ride, a national movement in solidarity with young black people in Ferguson, Missouri with a vision towards a just society within which black life is cherished. Today's poem is Audre Lorde's 1973 poem "Power" which she wrote about her nightmares and outrage over the police murder of ten year old Clifford Glover. I offer it today because y/our presence in Ferguson reminds me what power actually means. </div>
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To activate the oracle, choose a letter of the alphabet (your initials? the initials of a loved one? a letter that is speaking to you..) and read the poem for that letter aloud to yourself. If you happen to choose a letter that has no words in the original poem you get to make your own poem using only words that begin with that letter of the alphabet. </div>
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<strong>A</strong></div>
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am</div>
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and</div>
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a</div>
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am</div>
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and</div>
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and</div>
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approval</div>
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and</div>
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as</div>
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and</div>
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a</div>
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a</div>
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are</div>
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between</div>
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being</div>
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black</div>
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blood</div>
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blood</div>
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bleach</div>
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bones</div>
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boy</div>
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blood</div>
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by</div>
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Black</div>
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Black</div>
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been</div>
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but</div>
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between</div>
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beat</div>
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bed</div>
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beasts</div>
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children</div>
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child</div>
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cheeks</div>
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churns</div>
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cop</div>
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childish</div>
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color</div>
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convinced</div>
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coals</div>
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centuries</div>
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cement</div>
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children</div>
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corrupt</div>
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connect</div>
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chorus</div>
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difference</div>
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desert</div>
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dead</div>
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dragging</div>
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dry</div>
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desert</div>
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destruction</div>
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dying</div>
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down</div>
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die</div>
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defense</div>
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didn’t</div>
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done</div>
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dragged</div>
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destruction</div>
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difference</div>
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day</div>
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<strong>E</strong></div>
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edge</div>
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else</div>
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eleven</div>
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ever</div>
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85</div>
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face</div>
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for</div>
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for</div>
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forcing</div>
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free</div>
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frame</div>
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four</div>
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first</div>
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for</div>
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gunshot</div>
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go</div>
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graveyard</div>
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greek</div>
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his</div>
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his</div>
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his</div>
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hatred</div>
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heal</div>
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his</div>
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his</div>
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his</div>
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had</div>
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had</div>
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her</div>
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hot</div>
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had</div>
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her</div>
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have</div>
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her</div>
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her</div>
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hurt</div>
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</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<strong>I</strong></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
is</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
instead</div>
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I</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
is</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
imagined</div>
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into</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
it</div>
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into</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
I</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
imagery</div>
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in</div>
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in</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
it</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
in</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
I</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
I</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
I</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
I</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
it</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
is</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
I</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
in</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<strong>J</strong></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
justice</div>
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</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<strong>K</strong></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
kill</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
kisses</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<strong>L</strong></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
liquid</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
lips</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
loyalty</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
lost</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
little</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
let</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
lined</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
learn</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
lie</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
limp</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<strong>M</strong></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
my</div>
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miles</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
my</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
my</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
mouth</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
magic</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
make</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
my</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
motherfucker</div>
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man</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
men</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
me</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
meaning</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
male</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
make</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
me</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
my</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
mold</div>
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my</div>
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mother</div>
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</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<strong>N</strong></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
notice</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
nor</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
nothing</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
not</div>
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nearest</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<strong>O</strong></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
of</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
on</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
of</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
off</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
of</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
only</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
or</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
of</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
if</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
ir</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
out</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
of</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
only</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
old</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
over</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
own</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
only</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
old</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
of</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
one</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
over</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
of</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
of</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
our</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
or</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
one</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
old</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<strong>P</strong></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
power</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
poetry</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
punctured</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
power</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
policeman</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
prove</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
prove</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
police</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
power</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
poetry</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
power</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
poisonous</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
plug</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
poor</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<strong>Q</strong></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
quicker</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
Queens</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<strong>R</strong></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
rhetoric</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
ready</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
raw</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
reason</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
real</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
rhetoric</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
run</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
raping</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
<strong>S</strong></div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
shattered</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
shoulders</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
stomach</div>
<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
splits</div>
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shot</div>
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stood</div>
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shoes</div>
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she</div>
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senseless</div>
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set</div>
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singing</div>
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she</div>
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tapes</div>
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tapes</div>
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touch</div>
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too</div>
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take</div>
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teenaged</div>
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torch</div>
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to</div>
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they</div>
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until</div>
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unless</div>
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useless</div>
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unconnected</div>
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voice</div>
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wounds</div>
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while</div>
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without</div>
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wetness</div>
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whiteness</div>
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where</div>
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without</div>
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with</div>
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will</div>
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who</div>
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with</div>
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white</div>
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with</div>
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was</div>
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white</div>
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who</div>
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were</div>
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Woman</div>
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who</div>
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white</div>
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womb</div>
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with</div>
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within</div>
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will</div>
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will</div>
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who</div>
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what</div>
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yourself</div>
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year</div>
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year</div>
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years</div>
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lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432354593645182056.post-6493292078191128322014-08-29T06:17:00.001-07:002014-08-29T06:17:56.340-07:00#whateverwhenever #blacklivesmatter Black Love Oracle Day #2: For My Own Protection<div style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.7999992370605px; margin-bottom: 0.825em;">
"All I want to know<br />
for my own protection<br />
is are we capable<br />
of whatever<br />
whenever."</div>
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Essex Hemphill "For My Own Protection"</div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/104711427">#whateverwhenever #blacklivesmatter oracle day #2: For My Own Protection</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1580195">Alexis Pauline Gumbs</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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The #whateverwhenever oracle is <a data-mce-href="http://blackfeministmind.wordpress.com" href="http://blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration: none;">Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind'</a>s offering to the #blacklivesmatter ride, a national movement in solidarity with young black people in Ferguson, Missouri with a vision towards a just society within which black life is cherished. Today's poem is "For My Own Protection" by Essex Hemphill from the revolutionary anthology In the Life edited by Joseph Beam. </div>
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To activate the oracle, choose a letter of the alphabet (your initials? the initials of a loved one? a letter that is speaking to you..) and read the poem for that letter aloud to yourself. If you happen to choose a letter that has no words in the original poem you get to make your own poem using only words that begin with that letter of the alphabet. </div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">A</strong></div>
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and</div>
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are</div>
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and</div>
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able</div>
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a</div>
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are</div>
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almost</div>
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and</div>
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a</div>
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around</div>
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around</div>
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Anacostia</div>
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are</div>
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and</div>
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and</div>
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any</div>
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a</div>
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about</div>
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attire</div>
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a</div>
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all</div>
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are</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">B</strong></div>
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be</div>
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Black</div>
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be</div>
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be</div>
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Black</div>
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be</div>
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Black</div>
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blood</div>
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bush</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">C</strong></div>
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cats</div>
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Chrysler</div>
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can</div>
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can</div>
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chain</div>
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can</div>
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can</div>
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chains</div>
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curls</div>
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conkaline</div>
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concerned</div>
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capable</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">D</strong></div>
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dogs</div>
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don’t</div>
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don’t</div>
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dead</div>
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drugs</div>
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do</div>
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dreadlocks</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">E</strong></div>
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each</div>
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extinct</div>
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each</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">F</strong></div>
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for</div>
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for</div>
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Foundation</div>
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formed</div>
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form</div>
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for</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">G</strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">H</strong></div>
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Heritage</div>
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human</div>
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human</div>
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Harlem</div>
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Hollywood</div>
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have</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">I</strong></div>
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I</div>
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if</div>
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I</div>
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I</div>
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if</div>
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if</div>
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I’m</div>
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I</div>
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is</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">J</strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">K</strong></div>
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know</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">L</strong></div>
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life</div>
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lives</div>
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living</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">M</strong></div>
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my</div>
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my</div>
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men</div>
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missile</div>
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men</div>
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make</div>
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more</div>
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my</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">N</strong></div>
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Nixon</div>
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Nuclear</div>
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not</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">O</strong></div>
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own</div>
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organization</div>
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other</div>
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other</div>
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our</div>
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or</div>
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of</div>
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own</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">P</strong></div>
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protection</div>
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priceless</div>
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people</div>
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pacified</div>
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phillies</div>
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protection</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">Q</strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">R</strong></div>
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release</div>
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rock-n-roll</div>
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ready</div>
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ready</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">S</strong></div>
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start</div>
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save</div>
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snails</div>
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saved</div>
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saved</div>
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should</div>
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save</div>
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study</div>
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saying</div>
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sex</div>
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sites</div>
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surely</div>
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South Africa</div>
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s</div>
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soldier</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">T</strong></div>
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to</div>
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to</div>
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the</div>
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to</div>
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to</div>
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the</div>
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to</div>
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to</div>
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the</div>
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then</div>
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to</div>
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take</div>
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tomorrow</div>
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than</div>
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the</div>
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to</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">U</strong></div>
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us</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">V</strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">W</strong></div>
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want</div>
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whales</div>
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we</div>
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want</div>
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wait</div>
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want</div>
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Wall Street</div>
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lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432354593645182056.post-16652765581371584962014-08-28T07:50:00.001-07:002014-08-28T07:50:32.625-07:00#blacklivesmatter #whateverwhenever Oracle Day 1: We Need a God Who Bleeds Now<div style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.799999237060547px; margin-bottom: 0.825em;">
"All I want to know<br />
for my own protection<br />
is are we capable<br />
of whatever<br />
whenever."</div>
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Essex Hemphill "For My Own Protection"</div>
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The #whateverwhenever oracle is <a href="http://blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/">Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind</a>'s offering to the #blacklivesmatter ride, a national movement in solidarity with young black people in Ferguson, Missouri with a vision towards a just society within which black life is cherished. Today's poem is "We Need a God Who Bleeds Now" from Ntozake Shange's 1983 collection <em style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">A Daughter's Geography</em>. </div>
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To activate the oracle, choose a letter of the alphabet (your initials? the initials of a loved one? a letter that is speaking to you..) and read the poem for that letter aloud to yourself. If you happen to choose a letter that has no words in the original poem you get to make your own poem using only words that begin with that letter of the alphabet. </div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">M</strong> </div>
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male</div>
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marrow</div>
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mothers</div>
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mothers</div>
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mourning</div>
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moon</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">N</strong> </div>
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need</div>
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now</div>
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need now</div>
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not</div>
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need</div>
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not</div>
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need</div>
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now</div>
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not</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">O</strong> </div>
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of</div>
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of</div>
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of</div>
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our</div>
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open</div>
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our</div>
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open</div>
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our</div>
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our</div>
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of</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">P</strong> </div>
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pitiful</div>
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place</div>
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planet</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">Q</strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">R</strong></div>
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<br data-mce-bogus="1" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" /></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">S</strong> </div>
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some</div>
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small</div>
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some</div>
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swept</div>
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spreads</div>
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showers</div>
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shades</div>
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scarlet</div>
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seas</div>
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swelling</div>
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<br data-mce-bogus="1" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7;" /></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">T</strong> </div>
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to</div>
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the</div>
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thick</div>
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the</div>
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tearing</div>
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to</div>
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this</div>
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the</div>
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the</div>
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tugs</div>
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the</div>
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to</div>
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to</div>
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to</div>
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the</div>
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<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration: underline;"></span><strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">U</strong> </div>
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us</div>
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us</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">V </strong></div>
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vengeance</div>
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vulva</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">W</strong> </div>
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we</div>
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who</div>
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we</div>
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who</div>
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whose</div>
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wounds</div>
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with</div>
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we</div>
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who</div>
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warm</div>
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wounded</div>
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we</div>
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who</div>
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whose</div>
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wounds</div>
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X</div>
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Y</div>
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It is Ida B. Wells Day!!!</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">Shield. </strong>For Ida B. Wells by Alexis P. Gumbs. </div>
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In honor of Ida B. Wells Day (July 16th), here is an encore presentation of a meditation comes from this warrior for the transformative light of truth. I see you bright thunder!</div>
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Listen to the meditation here: <a data-mce-href="http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/88260018735/todays-meditation-comes-from-the-great-ida-b" href="http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/88260018735/todays-meditation-comes-from-the-great-ida-b" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration: none;">http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/88260018735/todays-meditation-comes-from-the-great-ida-b</a> </div>
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If you want to get access to all of the meditations streaming find out how here: <a data-mce-href="http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/about" href="http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/about" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration: none;">http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/about</a> </div>
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Also get your limited edition copy of the collage “Shield” for Ida B. Wells this week in celebration with a donation of $35 or more. (Only 20 copies exist!)</div>
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Ida B. Wells funded her revolutionary investigative journalistic publications Southern Horrors and A Red Record about the next steps for freedom after emancipation through the supportive fundraiser of Black Women’s Clubs in the early 1900s. Now, we too are funding When We Free our revolutionary independent film about spiritual freedom after emancipation by reaching out to our most aligned and devoted community!!! YOU! Celebrate Ida B. Wells, independent media and the possibility of our collective freedom by donating and spreading the word!!! <a data-mce-href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gofundme.com%2Fba5bqg&h=GAQG6eUar&enc=AZNKssWKd-JOUCG9OqT5r3rLHLiZ2X36sEKAjmsAq9fKBs-nMp8jEH_ZA9iVU91xuJycK_zxYNaV0kSJeHcGj_hZyTu6qIPzmWGgVvZqQuo4bvfdLLRFTn3vwQswlEcTZpo&s=1" href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gofundme.com%2Fba5bqg&h=GAQG6eUar&enc=AZNKssWKd-JOUCG9OqT5r3rLHLiZ2X36sEKAjmsAq9fKBs-nMp8jEH_ZA9iVU91xuJycK_zxYNaV0kSJeHcGj_hZyTu6qIPzmWGgVvZqQuo4bvfdLLRFTn3vwQswlEcTZpo&s=1" style="color: #1b8be0; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.gofundme.com/ba5bqg</a></div>
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lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432354593645182056.post-59787549404045516552014-07-11T06:42:00.001-07:002014-07-11T06:42:36.456-07:00Raise a Hand and Wave a Fan: Online Revival for the When We Free Filming Fund<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We making a film. (So) We passing the hat! Check out this online revival and get some soul-stirring perks when you donate towards cast, crew, location, costumes and food for When We Free's upcoming filming weekend!!!!<br />
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<strong style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">When We Free</strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;"> is a short film about Rose Hill, a recently freed black community’s first camp meeting since emancipation. They search for balance between the spiritual traditions they have brought across the Atlantic and those they learned in bondage. </span><strong style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">When We Free</strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;"> engages the various choices free Black folks made in Rose Hill concerning spirituality and religion when “Master” was no longer directly in charge or involved.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;">To find out more about the film visit: </span><a href="http://whenwefree.jroxmedia.com/current-projects/when-we-free-the-film/" style="color: #705391; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a><a class="txt1" href="http://whenwefree.jroxmedia.com/current-projects/when-we-free-the-film/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #705391; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://whenwefree.jroxmedia.com/current-projects/when-we-free-the-film/</a><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;">This film is the Omiero (the holy water infused with herbs in “New World” Ifa/Yoruba/African spiritual practice) preparation internally and externally for Africans in diaspora to consider the Earth based spiritual practices of their ancestors. What do we need to break and to draw; to keep and to relinquish so that the Holy Spirit, the divine, can fully be present? What chains need to be broken and what needs to be awakened so that Africans in diaspora can have access to unbound spirit? How can even the religions of the colonizers and enslavers be reconnected to their own Earth based roots? When We Free is a cleansing and clarifying ritual that questions the source and sustenance of our freedom and spiritual roots.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;">The filming of </span><strong style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">When We Free</strong><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;"> will be a transformative community ritual that uplifts our ancestors and contributes to the conversation about what spiritual practices our freedom requires in the current moment. 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lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432354593645182056.post-65297110349055065362014-07-09T03:05:00.000-07:002014-07-09T03:05:58.012-07:00Happy Birthday June Jordan!: Meditation and Collage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Birthday June Jordan!!!!</div>
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In honor of June Jordan's Birthday (July 9th) Here is an encore release of our first meditation is based on June Jordan's "Poem for South African Women." This is available for 24 hours!!! Share with your friends and loved ones! Remember the multitudes that breathe through you. (And if you listen to the VERY end you will actually hear June Jordan laugh!)</div>
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Listen here : <a data-mce-href="http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/86567549445/our-first-meditation-is-based-on-june-jordans" href="http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/86567549445/our-first-meditation-is-based-on-june-jordans" style="color: #444444;">http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/86567549445/our-first-meditation-is-based-on-june-jordans</a></div>
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If you want to get access to all of the meditations streaming find out how here: <a data-mce-href="http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/about" href="http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/about" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank">http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/about</a> </div>
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Also get your limited edition copy of the collage "Wholehearted" for June Jordan today in celebration and support of the <a href="http://blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/">Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind</a> with a donation of $35 or more. (Only 20 copies exist!)</div>
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lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432354593645182056.post-68073572912705475062014-07-07T14:45:00.002-07:002014-07-07T14:46:06.774-07:00Calling experienced and emerging QBG actors! When We Free!!!<h1 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #642d91; font-family: 'Open Sans', HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
When We Free – Casting Call</h1>
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30 minute Narrative (Short) Independent film, Non-Union</h6>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Production Location:</strong> Durham, NC<br />
<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Director:</strong> Julia Roxanne Wallace / Sangodare Akinwale<br />
<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Producer:</strong> Alexis Pauline Gumbs<br />
<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Format:</strong> 16:9 HD<br />
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5pm Tuesday – July 15, 2014</div>
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Friday – July 18 and 25, 2014 at 6pm<br />
Sunday – July 20 and 27, 2014 at 1:30pm</div>
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August 1-3, 2014 (Friday – Sunday)<br />
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Please contact us via email to schedule your audition. Please send an image and relevant resume. If you don’t have a resume for acting or performance please just send a description of any relevant experience or interest in acting and performing. Please come to the audition prepared to sing a song of your choice, sing in a group and to do a scene. Scripts and lyrics will be available when you arrive. Please be prepared to stay at least 1 hour.</div>
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<a href="mailto:info@whenwefree.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">info@whenwefree.com</a><br />
<a href="tel:%28919%29%20666-7274" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+19196667274">(919) 666-7274</a></div>
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Ida is a curious teenager coming of age just after emancipation. She is searching for a connection to her African roots and pride in a community where some are only seeking survival and validation from whites. She is fully self-expressed. She sings, dances and pays attention to everything.<br />
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Deacon is magically middle-aged, tall and slender in his collage-looking suits. As a skilled farmer and medicine man, he is a leader in his community. His favorite place to be is the forest and his favorite thing to do is make music. He is working to heal himself and his community from the traumas of slavery and ongoing oppression.</div>
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Pastor is a quiet and playful carpenter and welder who avoids conflict and the expectations placed on him by others because of his size and skill.</div>
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Harriet is a strong-willed and sweet matriarch in her community. She holds and shares the stories and ritual memory. Not everyone agrees with her practices but everyone respects her.</div>
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Sojo is a humble and skilled laborer and well educated relative to those in her community. She revels in her ability to where pants whenever she chooses, not just while working, now that she has her freedom.</div>
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Nat is a passionate teenager who works hard and looks for work everywhere he can as a means to achieve independence and gain respect.</div>
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Congregation members are recently freed folks from all walks of life – laborers, educators, domestic workers, etc. They have journeyed from far and wide seeking healing, home, family & friends, work and salvation. The local congregants already have their own preferences about belief and service style; while the new comers eagerly explore the services. Many of them are powerful singers and spiritually attuned in their own right.</div>
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NOTE: The Congregation actively participates in various church services on the camp site. Some of the services are conservative with little emotion, others are very emotional and ecstatic. Congregants will be expected to play multiple roles and participate fully in multiple services and rituals.</div>
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Please contact us via email to schedule your audition. Please send an image and relevant resume. If you don’t have a resume for acting or performance please just send a description of any relevant experience or interest in acting and performing. Please come to the audition prepared to sing a song of your choice, sing in a group and to do a scene. Scripts and lyrics will be available when you arrive. Please be prepared to stay at least 1 hour.</div>
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<a href="mailto:info@whenwefree.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">info@whenwefree.com</a><br />
<a href="tel:%28919%29%20666-7274" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+19196667274">(919) 666-7274</a></div>
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1. The first step is to schedule your audition as described above AND tentatively set aside any dates listed for rehearsal and filming.</div>
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2. Prepare for your audition based on the description of the role and any other information and directions given by the casting coordinators.</div>
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3. Arrive a little early/on time to have as much time as possible to prepare using any material provided.</div>
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4. You will likely find out if you have been cast within a week.</div>
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From the <a data-mce-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/">Black Feminist Breathing Retreat</a></div>
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50 years ago Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker were making sure all eyes were on Mississippi. They were standing up in Mississippi churches that racists were threatening to firebomb talking about how the July 2nd signing of the Voting Rights Act meant nothing if the people in Mississippi did not have control of land and educational institutions. They were touring the United States with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party demonstrating how different at political party based around equality and freedom would look from the mainstream Democratic Party. They were organizing the logistics and challenging the ideology of the thousands of students who came to Mississippi to bring attention to the racist violence and disenfranchisement that black people experienced on a daily basis in that state and in the rural United States in general.</div>
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50 years ago Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer and the thousands they mentored were breathing in Mississippi. And some were not breathing. 50 years ago the body of James Cheney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were found buried in Mississippi where they had been fighting for Civil Rights and investigating the firebombing of just the type of church Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer were filling with vision and song.</div>
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50 years ago Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer and everyone in the revolutionary radius of their earshot was clear about the significance of Mississippi and the possibility of a Mississippi where black people and everyone who believed in freedom could vote and breathe, and explore their brilliance, and breathe, and feed their families, and breathe, and walk the land day or night in safety. Where visionaries could go to sleep and wake up not firebombed but breathing. Where visionaries could walk a dirt road and reach their destination breathing, not dragged to death.</div>
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I offer this historical context as a reminder that the <a data-mce-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/">Black Feminist Breathing Retreat</a> coming up on July 4-6th in Magnolia, Mississippi occurs in a tradition of revolutionary breathing in Mississippi. We will be filling sacred space with songs, prayers and freedom mantras from the mouths of Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker and other foremothers. We will be acknowledging what is still at stake while breathing in the deep south. We will be channeling our energy towards a future, already envisioned, but not yet achieved where the dignity of all people, to eat, to learn, to breath, to be safe in our different and irreplaceable bodies is guaranteed by the robust love of an interconnected community.</div>
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In honor of this connection I want to</div>
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1. Extend the opportunity for any black freedom loving queer affirming folks living in the deep south or with roots there to attend the Black Feminist Breathing Retreat. Sign up information is here: <a data-mce-href="//www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" href="https://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/"> http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/ </a> Any contribution you can make is perfect. Just come.</div>
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2. Invite you all to spread the word to you loved one in and from the deep south to come to the retreat! (You can post this link on all your social media and email your fam! <a data-mce-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/">http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/</a></div>
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3. Invite you to donate to the Black Feminist Breathing Retreat Scholarship Fund (share this link too!) <a data-mce-href="//www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/cause-view/support-black-feminist-breathing/" href="https://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/cause-view/support-black-feminist-breathing/"> http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/cause-view/support-black-feminist-breathing/</a></div>
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<strong>And in celebration </strong>while the 21 days of the Black Feminist Breathing Chorus are over, the meditations inspired by Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker will be available for free on the site until July 4th (in case your mind lights on freedom!) Share the meditations with your friends!</div>
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"Nobody's Free Until Everybody's Free"-<strong>Fannie Lou Hamer</strong> <a data-mce-href="http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/88493354740/on-day-21-aka-my-birthday-fannie-lou-hamer" href="http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/88493354740/on-day-21-aka-my-birthday-fannie-lou-hamer">http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/88493354740/on-day-21-aka-my-birthday-fannie-lou-hamer</a></div>
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"Give Light and People Will Find the Way" -<strong>Ella Baker</strong> <a data-mce-href="http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/88362488770/i-love-seeing-these-powerhouses-together-this" href="http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/88362488770/i-love-seeing-these-powerhouses-together-this">http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/88362488770/i-love-seeing-these-powerhouses-together-this</a></div>
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The meditation series ended on June 12th. If you want to be notified about future meditation experiences you can join the email list <strong><a data-mce-href="http://alexispauline.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=216ed320a31897242f0397628&id=91a5b0ffe3" href="http://alexispauline.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=216ed320a31897242f0397628&id=91a5b0ffe3" target="_blank">here. </a></strong></div>
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If you would like to get <strong>eternal access</strong> to the 22 meditations streaming and downloaded to use for your personal upliftment or to share with your organization or students you can become a monthly sustainer of the Eternal Summer of Black Feminist Mind at a level that feels generously sustainable to you.</div>
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Or if you want to move the meditation magic forward you can make a donation towards the scholarship fund for the Black Feminist Breathing Retreat (see more below). Donations of $25-100 give you eternal access to the streaming meditations on the site and donations of 101 or more give you access to streaming AND downloads of the meditations as audio files.</div>
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If breathing in chorus through this virtual experience feels great, imagine what it would feel like to breathe together in person!!! On July 4th weekend 2014 we will be gathering for the <a data-mce-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" target="_blank">Black Feminist Breathing Retreat</a> in Magnolia, Mississippi at the Flowering Lotus Meditation Center.</div>
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Here is a video that includes some of the power of our breathing together at last year’s Combahee Pilgrimage Retreat:</div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/91758508">Combahee Pilgrimage Trailer</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user382634">J. Roxanne</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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We hope to see you this Freedom Summer!!!!</div>
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Join Black Feminist Film School Summer Session for our opening screening at Center for Documentary Studies! This screening is open to our entire community and will give you an opportunity to to meet the Black Feminist Film School 2014 Summer Fellows, see some of Black Feminist Film School's films in process and celebrate the legacy and livelihood of Black Feminist Film practices. We look forward to your feedback on our films in process and your warm welcome of our Summer Fellows. </div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">Combahee Pilgrimage </strong>is a documentary in process about the life-changing journey of 21 Black feminists to the Combahee River to commemorate both the 150th anniversary of Harriet Tubman's 1863 uprising during which at least 750 enslaved people in South Carolina burned down 35 plantation buildings, flooded the rice fields and stole themselves to freedom and the origin story of the 1974 founding of the Black lesbian socialist feminist Combahee River Collective. </div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">Ile Ori: Tradition Returned</strong> (working title) is a film about a unique Ifa community in the United States. Building on African traditions in the new world diaspora and a sankofa (go back and fetch it; looking back to move forward) approach to Yoruba culture and spirituality, this inclusive community travels the ecstatic and challenging terrain of initiating new Priests into the mysteries, medicine and power of Orisha.</div>
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This film introduces some of the concepts of Ifa, tells the story of this Ile's first 10 years and tells the story of some of the challenges and stigmas that a same gender loving, transgender and racially inclusive Ifa community faces. Through it all, the power of this community to support one another through transformation is mesmerizing.</div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">My People</strong> is an audio performance piece based on a poetic protest narrative by Alexis Pauline Gumbs and a soundscape created by Julia Roxanne Wallace aka Sangodare. The piece was created in response to the unjust arrest of two queer and trans activists of color by the NYPD and successfully helped to mobilize global support for their release. </div>
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If breathing in chorus through this virtual experience feels great, imagine what it would feel like to breathe together in person!!! On July 4th weekend 2014 we will be gathering for the <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" data-mce-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank">Black Feminist Breathing Retreat</a> in Magnolia, Mississippi at the Flowering Lotus Meditation Center. </div>
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Here is a video that includes some of the power of our breathing together at last year’s Combahee Pilgrimage Retreat: </div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/91758508">Combahee Pilgrimage Trailer</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user382634">J. Roxanne</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind</div>
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"She told them that the only grace they could have was the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they would not have it." -Baby Suggs Holy in <em>Beloved</em> by Toni Morrison</h4>
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<strong>Black Feminist Film School is a clearing space where we remember how to make the world we deserve visible, tangible and compelling. Clear space in your summer for y/our vision!</strong></div>
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Black Feminist Film School Summer Session 2014 (bffs-SS’14) is now open for up to 18 auditors. This will include access to course materials, described below, and will consist of what we call a virtual audit. This is an ideal option for people interested in building their skills, community and context for a Black Feminist Film approach but who are not able to attend our rigorous combination of in-person intensives and online classes this summer and would benefit from a flexible curriculum. A vast amount of information, conversations and other resources will be made available to all auditors as the course progresses.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', helveticaneue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">On Memorial Day I am remembering the world-reorganizing truth that Black Women Are Inherently Valuable. Today’s mantra affirms our breathing. Today’s collage uses the cover of the Combahee River Collective’s 1979 pamphlet in response to the murder of 12 Black women in Boston in 3 months as a centered element for remembering the urgency of love. </span></div>
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Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind</div>
lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432354593645182056.post-80544800853032901812014-05-24T03:12:00.000-07:002014-05-24T03:12:49.928-07:00Black Feminist Breathing Chorus Meditation #2: I Have Hopes for Myself<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
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<span data-mce-style="color: #444444;" style="color: #444444;">Today Queen Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks offers us what I call an “accessible affirmation.” Something great is possible. :)</span><br />
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Or if you want to move the meditation magic forward you can make a donation towards the scholarship fund for the Black Feminist Breathing Retreat (see more below). Donations of $25-100 give you eternal access to the streaming meditations on the site and donations of 101 or more give you access to streaming AND downloads of the meditations as audio files.</div>
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If breathing in chorus through this virtual experience feels great, imagine what it would feel like to breathe together in person!!! On July 4th weekend 2014 we will be gathering for the <a data-mce-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" data-mce-style="color: #444444;" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank">Black Feminist Breathing Retreat</a> in Magnolia, Mississippi at the Flowering Lotus Meditation Center.</div>
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Here is a video that includes some of the power of our breathing together at last year’s Combahee Pilgrimage Retreat:</div>
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/91758508">Combahee Pilgrimage Trailer</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user382634">J. Roxanne</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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If you want to breathe together in person there is still time to sign up for the Black Feminist Breathing Retreat:</div>
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And if you want to pay it forward consider donating to the Black Feminist Breathing Retreat Scholarship Fund so someone else can attend!</div>
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Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind</div>
lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432354593645182056.post-17605709888833723312014-05-23T02:49:00.001-07:002014-05-23T02:49:59.408-07:00The Wait is Over!: Black Feminist Breathing Chorus Meditation #1<h1 data-mce-style="color: #444444;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;">
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Our first meditation is based on June Jordan’s “Poem for South African Women.” Remember the multitudes that breathe through you. (And if you listen to the VERY end you will actually hear June Jordan laugh!)</div>
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Or if you want to move the meditation magic forward you can make a donation towards the scholarship fund for the Black Feminist Breathing Retreat (see more below). Donations of $25-100 give you eternal access to the streaming meditations on the site and donations of 101 or more give you access to streaming AND downloads of the meditations as audio files.</div>
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If breathing in chorus through this virtual experience feels great, imagine what it would feel like to breathe together in person!!! On July 4th weekend 2014 we will be gathering for the <a data-mce-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" data-mce-style="color: #444444;" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" style="color: #444444;" target="_blank">Black Feminist Breathing Retreat</a> in Magnolia, Mississippi at the Flowering Lotus Meditation Center.</div>
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Here is a video that includes some of the power of our breathing together at last year’s Combahee Pilgrimage Retreat:</div>
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If you want to breathe together in person there is still time to sign up for the Black Feminist Breathing Retreat:</div>
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And if you want to pay it forward consider donating to the Black Feminist Breathing Retreat Scholarship Fund so someone else can attend!</div>
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<a data-mce-href="http://eepurl.com/ThvM5" href="http://eepurl.com/ThvM5">Sign up</a> for the Black Feminist Breathing Chorus a series of meditations drawing on the wisdom of Black feminist ancestors.<br />
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Every day for 3 weeks starting Friday May 23rd you will get an original collage (by me!!) and a recording of an affirmation from Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Fannie Lou Hamer, Essex Hemphill and other powerful ancestors to chant with or meditate to featuring love messages from me and music composed by the brilliant Julia Wallace right up in your inbox!<br />
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Tell your friends! Invite your friends over to breathe with you!</div>
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It would be beautiful for as many folks as possible to be part of this love-filled experience from the very beginning!</div>
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Check out what happened when 21 Black feminists breathed together along with Lorraine Hansberry's mantra "We can impose beauty on our future," at last year's Combahee Pilgrimage retreat.</div>
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There are still spots available for this summer's Black Feminist Breathing Retreat in Magnolia Mississippi! Join us or support others to attend! More info here: <a data-mce-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/">http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/</a></div>
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<b>The Poetics of Black Feminist Film School - Summer Session</b></div>
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Black Feminist Film School Summer Session is the answer to a prayer whispered by storytellers, film school students, healers, artists, closet queer preachers and others who believe another world is possible as long as we can imagine it.</div>
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It is the vision we can not imagine of what a revolutionary practice can look like when we take the time to birth it together. </div>
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It is the liberation that is possible when our community and allies understand that Black women sharing their autonomous and self-actualizing work means freedom for us all.<br />.</div>
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<a data-mce-href="http://blackfeministfilmschool.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/picture-10.png" href="http://blackfeministfilmschool.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/picture-10.png"><img alt="bffs in BITCH" class="alignleft" data-mce-src="http://blackfeministfilmschool.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/picture-10.png?w=252" height="300" src="http://blackfeministfilmschool.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/picture-10.png?w=252" style="float: left;" width="252" /></a>The answer, the vision, the liberation. Black Feminist Film School is an initiation journey that will transform all involved toward love and light. I invite you to join in and support in the ways that make sense for you.<br />.<br />This is serious life saving and life changing work. It will be challenging and rewarding. It is not merely a workshop to gain filmmaking skills. It is not just a networking opportunity to gain crew for your projects. For ourselves and each other we seek to create a profoundly safe space; to develop a league of excellence, a language of love and transformation that allows us to create the world anew by every generative means we know.<br />.<br />Black Feminist Film School Summer Session (bffs Summer Session) will take place June - August 2014. We will be focusing on building skill and practice as Black Feminist storytellers using the filmmaking medium and accompanying art forms. Within the three month session we will cover all phases of filmmaking including research and writing, pre-production, production and post-production.</div>
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<strong>Our goal</strong></div>
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Our goal is to share and(re)develop a standard of Black Feminist filmmaking so that when participants complete the program they are able to: 1) join a film crew - independent, Black Feminist or within the Hollywood system - and excel; 2) develop their own skill and voice by creating short film projects that result in a high quality reel; 3) have the tools and relationships necessary to create a practice that will be self-sustaining. </div>
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Up to 15 of those that apply will have the opportunity to audit the session once the 6 participant spots are filled. The fifteen auditors will have access to electronic copies of course materials, videos, tutorials, etc. But they will not be a part of the intensive gatherings or the virtual meetings. </div>
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<strong>If you have any questions please email us at: blackfeministfilmschool@gmail.com</strong></div>
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<li>Storytelling</li>
<li>Script reading and writing</li>
<li>Camera</li>
<li>Light</li>
<li>Sound</li>
<li>Production Roles/Jobs and Collaboration</li>
<li>Elemental Forces/Nature</li>
<li>Invisible Elements/Spirit</li>
<li>Music</li>
<li>Wardrobe</li>
<li>Locations</li>
<li> Set Design & Props</li>
<li>Directing Actors</li>
<li>Production Notebook and Organization</li>
<li>Scheduling</li>
<li>Budgeting</li>
<li>Equipment (Care, Rental, Review)</li>
<li>Software</li>
<li>Black Feminist Theory & Practice</li>
<li>Media Files, Formats and Workflow</li>
<li>The Hollywood System</li>
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<strong>Legacy</strong></div>
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black feminist film school acknowledges the legacies that we walk in especially <b>QWOCMAP</b> Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project which creates, exhibits and distributes new films that authentically reflect the lives of queer women of color and address the vital social justice issues that concern multiple communities; Yvonne Welbon an independent film director, producer, screenwriter and film/media scholar; Jessie Maple, the first African American woman to direct an independent feature-length film in the U.S.; Amy Ongiri scholar of film, literature and cultural studies; Zeinabu Irene Davis, Camille Billops, Cheryl Dunye, Ayoka Chenzira, Barbara McCullough, Pratibha Parmar, Ada Griffin, Michelle Parkerson, Julie Dash and many more.</div>
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"We can impose beauty on our future." -Lorraine Hansberry<br />
Today is the birthday of Lorraine Hansberry, brilliant a brilliant Black feminist prophet that we lost too soon. As an affirmation of your self-love and abundant vision take a moment to add your email to a list of us who will be breathing and meditating with Black feminist mantras starting THIS FRIDAY for the 21 days leading up to my birthday!<br />
Every day starting THIS FRIDAY you will get an original collage (by me!!) and a recording of an affirmation from Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Fannie Lou Hamer and other powerful ancestors to chant with or meditate to featuring love messages from me and music composed by the brilliant Julia Sangodare Wallace right up in your inbox! <img alt="tumblr_n0morwm8xx1ts3djuo1_500" class="alignleft" data-mce-src="http://brokenbeautiful.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/tumblr_n0morwm8xx1ts3djuo1_500.jpg?w=300" height="300" src="http://brokenbeautiful.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/tumblr_n0morwm8xx1ts3djuo1_500.jpg?w=300" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left;" width="300" /><br />
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<strong>Join the Black Feminist Breathing Chorus: </strong><a data-mce-href="http://eepurl.com/ThvM5" href="http://eepurl.com/ThvM5"><strong>http://eepurl.com/ThvM5</strong></a></div>
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Tell your friends! Invite your friends over to breathe with you!</div>
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It would be beautiful for as many folks as possible to be part of this love-filled experience from the very beginning!</div>
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AND If breathing together virtually is magical imagine what breathing together in person will do!!!!</div>
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Check out what happened when 21 Black feminists breathed together along with Lorraine Hansberry's mantra "We can impose beauty on our future," at last year's Combahee Pilgrimage retreat.</div>
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There are still spots available for this summer's Black Feminist Breathing Retreat in Magnolia Mississippi! Join us or support others to attend! More info here: <a data-mce-href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/" href="http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/">http://www.alexispauline.com/apgblog/event-view/black-feminist-breathing-retreat-july-4-6th-magnolia-mississippi/</a></div>
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Hope to see you this summer!!</div>
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Your breathing is a crucial contribution!</div>
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Love,<br />Lex</div>
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lexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265539602839655150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432354593645182056.post-25727621801819850952014-05-12T10:55:00.001-07:002014-05-12T11:24:41.328-07:00Mother's Day: The Extended Remix (Mothering Ourselves)<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">
The complexity and crucial energy of Mother's Day is too big to fit in just one holiday. This post-mother's day week as we all take the opportunity to meditate on what aspects of our experiences of mothering we want to amplify and which ones we are ready to evolve past, Audre Lorde's concept of <strong>mothering ourselves </strong>is as relevant as ever!</div>
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So here are some <strong>special treats</strong> for the motherful massive:</div>
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Download my Mother Ourselves Manual a curriculum that includes the Mother Ourselves Manifesta and a beautiful set of activities based on Audre Lorde's theorization of mothering ourselves that an amazing group of women and children of color brought into practice at the Mother Ourselves Bootcamp in Durham, NC! These activities are especially helpful for folks who have experienced any sort of trauma related to mothering or mother figures and are ready to transform that energy into clarity and insight.</div>
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And this week if you email your scribd receipt for the Mother Ourselves Manual or <a data-mce-href="http://www.scribd.com/alexis_gumbs" href="http://www.scribd.com/alexis_gumbs">any of my other scribd downloadable</a> publications (to brokenbeautifulpress at gmail dot com)</div>
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or become an <a data-mce-href="http://blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/donation-station/" href="http://blackfeministmind.wordpress.com/donation-station/">Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind Monthly Sustainer</a> I will also send you the Mother Ourselves Mediation and Dance Party Mixtape which includes an extended guided meditation and some of my favorite healing music to dance to...we used this meditation/dance mix for the <a data-mce-href="http://thefeministwire.com/2011/01/mothering-ourselves-manifests/" href="http://thefeministwire.com/2011/01/mothering-ourselves-manifests/"><strong>Mother Ourselves Bootcamp</strong></a> and the <strong>Thicker Than Whatever: Unstoppable Mother/Daughter Relationships </strong>workshop that my mama and I co-facilitated at MotherHouse in Atlanta, GA.</div>
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Sending you love as you use these love-filled resources for your personal growth and reflection, your classrooms and community gatherings and the motherful whirlwind of transformation we all deserve!</div>
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Love,<br />
Lex<br />
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