‘How To Subaltern-Speak’ is a guided meditation to communicate with the wisdom and chronicles of the Subaltern. Starting with Gayatri Spivak’s definition, what today we might call the ‘global majority’, we see the Subaltern also as underground communities and cultures who are life-affirming and Do-It-Together. This album stitches audio clips from various points of my travels and community organising over the past 3 years: a walk through the University of San Diego militarised campus, recordings in my garden, a Free Palestine demo, conversations with family, songs and poems of mine, and sounds of water from 2 communities I am part of (MA Intercultural Practices and Rerooting). It is centred around an interview I did with Black Quantum Futurist and music-maker, Moor Mother, on the Anthropology of Consciousness. This body of chronicles invites you to tap into the chronicles of your body. It is best listened to with a bowl of water (to do with what you choose). Feel free to move whilst you listen (I encourage it).

fr33 pal3stin3

write (dear mango&mama)

take a walk (I embrace holy guidance and protection in this place)

empty that trash outta uu (mother of the house)

tunein (2gaia-tr33)

rero(u)ting

how great thou art

Tortuguita's bday wish (23.03.23) 

What are your birthday wishes for Tortuguita?
“I feel, I wish for them, particularly them and their community, I wish that they are part of some sun ray somewhere, one specific beam maybe, is what I kind of imagine. Obviously they are very at one with nature, and they clearly had this sustained, insane force of will that they dedicated and that eventually led to their death, which is heartbreaking to hear. But what I imagine is that, today especially, maybe they are always part of the sun … in that they are then part of the force helping make things grow… I like to think that they are part of a sunray that might shine through the wilderness… onto a specific leaf that then becomes a home for an animal, or a leaf in the forest that they protected, that they loved so much. Or maybe they are a speck of soil, helping something grow, or an insect and they’ve now started the process again of being part of this whole ecology of something. But, I really imagine them, being the artist they are, being the sun to whatever place they hoped to be with. And I like to think that they maybe thought about that and then whatever energy protects us, or whatever happens when we die, that they have got exactly what they wanted. And that they still think and feel, and spread hope. And I think they can hear us right now, and I think they can hear everyone. And they can see you and what you were saying out there maybe. They can see what’s happening here in London. All this positive joy, incredible positive joy that’s going towards helping everyone in the whole world… and I reckon they’re really happy, I reckon they’re at peace.. And I wish that they will always have that hope, and be able to see their friends and the people that they’ve impacted, what joy that they have given to them. So that’s my birthday wish.”

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