black love matters : : : :::May we continue to find resilience in tree, soil, sunshine, thunder, rain, moon, stars, and dream::: : : : to freedom

a first work-in-progress deejay mixtape featuring poems/spoken word by Ashlee Haze, Bronx 2 Theatre Club x Danez Smith, Ruth Forman, Skim, and Suheir Hammad

Flying Lotus - tree tunnels3
Blood Orange - By Ourselves feat. Ashlee Haze
Flying Lotus - Siren Song feat. Angel Deradoorian
Avery*Sunshine - Meditation #2 (Conversation with Him)
Julie Dexter - Melanin(Beautiful People) [Miggedy's House Remix]
Bronx 2 Theatre Club - Alternate Names for Black Boys
FAVI - Sueño feat. Monk
Beyoncé - Freedom feat. Kendrick Lamar
Cihuatl Ce - Dreamaah
Ibeyi - Weatherman
Radiohead - Lotus Flower [Jacques Greene Remix]
Nneka - Mind Vs. Heart
Saul Williams - The Noise Came From Here
Erica Benton - Everywhere 
Bat for Lashes - Pearl's Dream
DJ Kemit - Confession feat. Josh Milan
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - This Side of Sunshine
Miles Davis & Robert Glasper - Little Church feat. Hiatus Kaiyote [Everything's Beautiful Remix]
Frank Ocean - Bad Religion
Blood Orange - Love Ya
Fela Kuti - Water No Get Enemy
Mystic - Beautiful Resistance
Amerigo Gazaway - Umi Says
Miles Davis & Robert Glasper - They Can't Hold Me Down feat. Illa J
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Perspectives
D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Prayer
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Sunrise in Beijing feat. Elena Pinderhughes
Erykah Badu - Orange Moon
Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me feat. Kendrick Lamar
Blood Orange - Hadron Collider::: : : : Ruth Forman - May Peace Come
Ibeyi - Stranger / Lover [Mura Masa Remix]
Kamasi Washington - Seven Prayers::: : : : Skim - How You Move : : : :::Suheir Hammad - Talisman

July Spiritual ::WE ELEMENTAL::

black healing matters::: : : : In gravitation and gratitude for Southeastern summerlush magick and diasporic open skied vibrationals : : : :::dedicated to m.o.s. star shine the four directions sun day poets conjure women music room medicine keepers growers of light and bloom::: : : :

Hurricane G - Outro
Amin PaYnE - Wisdom
A Guy Called Gerald - The Universe feat. Jennifer Neal
NAO - Intro (Like Velvet)
Prince - affirmation III
Erykah Badu - Twinkle::: : : : Frank Ocean - Nikes : : : :::Lovenloops - June’s Black Destiny
Amel Larrieux - Magic
Alice Coltrane - Translinear Light
Gabriel Teodros - Colored People’s Time Machine
Nina Simone - Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)
Zap Mama - Call Waiting
Erykah Badu - Dial'Afreaq
NAO - Blue Wine
Janelle Monae & Jidenna - Yoga
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Tantric
Toumani Diabate - El Nabiyouna
Prince - affirmation I & II
Maxwell - Submerge- Til We Become The Sun
Frank Ocean - Pink Matter feat. Andre 3000
Artemis - Inner Worlds
Lovenloops - Now Who (Feminist God)
Frank Ocean - Godspeed::: : : : XRS - Interlude 2
A Guy Called Gerald - Humanity feat. Louise Rhodes
Bahamadia - Pep Talk
NAO - Voice Memo 4 (Say Yes)
Transdub Massive - On White River::: : : : #BlackPoetsSpeakOut - JP Howard & son, Nicholas, age 10
Kelela - Hallucinogen::: : : : #SongsInTheKeyofPhife - Cheryl Boyce Taylor
Lovenloops - Black Girl Levitation
Frank Ocean - Pink + White
Prince - WAY BACK HOME
Shen Wu - Heavenly Tone::: : : : #BlackPoetsSpeakOut - Cheryl Clarke [sharing Audre Lorde]

Augustine Mystical ::LEVITATE::

For the brujas & sorcerers,
water protectors, stewards of sanctuary & sea

seen & unseen, in stillness & in movement
honoring ancestral brilliance & seeding new worlds

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each rib each palm stronger than cages still chanting
each breath you stole for rest each whisper campaign still chanting
each poem speaks later each truthsong before Night Comes still chanting
each window sky each freedom found in village arms still chanting
each knowing eye each kind gesture still chanting
each movement til empire fall each rest in love still chanting
gathering this rebel heartdrum still chanting
all this music poetry still chanting**

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A sonic cento mixed in call & response with #nobannowall #sanctuary4all & 3/8 #womenworkersrising: www.womenworkersrising.org

May this offering shake and feed us in loving, ungovernable transformation -

A Tribe Called Red - Eanan feat. Maxida Marak
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Remember
Vert - Part One:: : : : Sweet Honey in the Rock - Would You Harbor Me : : : :::De La Soul - Genesis feat. Jill Scott
Maramza - Inkwenkwezi feat. Moonchild
Princess Nokia - Brujas
Ibeyi - River (Oshun Dub)::: : : : Esther Armah - #reImaginingRESISTANCE podcast feat. Dr. Treva Lindsey and Kathleen Addy
Shadia Mansour - Kollon 3endon Dababaat كلن عندن دبابات feat. DAM
Beyoncé - Sorry
A Tribe Called Quest - We the People....
Maramza - Poison feat. Moonchild
Hiatus Kaiyote - By Fire (Vikter Duplaix Remix)
José James - Warrior
A Tribe Called Red - R.E.D. feat. Yasiin Bey, Narcy & Black Bear
De La Soul - Royalty Capes
A Tribe Called Quest - Solid Wall of Sound
Solange - Mad feat. Lil Wayne
A Tribe Called Red - The Virus feat. Saul Williams & Chippewa Travellers
Ibeyi - Ghosts
KING - Love Song
Prince - Moonbeam Levels
Jamila Woods - Way Up
Mark de Clive-Lowe - The Processional::: : : : Esther Armah - #reImaginingRESISTANCE podcast feat. Tamika Mallory and Angela Davis
Björk - Atom Dance
FlyLo - The Protest::: : : : chant from Esther Armah - #reImaginingRESISTANCE podcast
Prince - God
Valerie June - Astral Plane

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*Graphic by Jordan Alam & Jess X Snow, courtesy Justseeds 
**Excerpted from quiet of chorus, forthcoming with UpSet Press: vanessahuang.com/books

harbor/we*

For my beloved yoga brother Mike - 

In traditional Chinese Medicine, the heart is known as the Emperor, overseeing the five organ networks, commanding how our legs and arms move, a central channel for our subtle energies and the energies of our gross body, ruling and roaming the realms of what we touch with our hands and touch with our intuition and crowns. A seat of consciousness tuning the orchestra of the body.


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The sage regards his/her body like a country: the heart is the ruler, and the jing and the qi are the citizens. If the heart does not abuse its superior position, if it remains centered and focused on the essential matters, the jing will flourish and the qi will be steady, noxious intruders will always be fought off, the dantian will be full with treasures, and every part of the body landscape will be light and at peace.

Li Yuheng, Unfolding the Mat with Enlightening Words (Tuipeng Wuyu), Ming dynasty, 1570


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Stilling the mind to reflect on your presence with us, the Universe passed along energy of the Emperor card.

We witness you leading by example, with humility, with open mind, with levity, following your inner light to the tune of freedom for each and all. Listening for the inevitable unraveling of shackles to keep us from being too comfortable or left behind from the higher consciousness we are destined for.

We witness the deep, courageous love emanating from the strength of your heart. A love that touches your chosen pack of beloveds and that in turn touches each of ours.

We honor and receive the wisdom and the grounding borne of you sitting in the fire, borne of you accepting and surrendering in sacred service.

We are blessed by your example, by your presence, by your companionship.

We witness your wild geese in divinity of our collective darkness and in divinity of our collective light.


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You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese"


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Bad Karma, Axel Thesleff
Wrong, Fifi Rong
Phases feat. Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah


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'This Machine Kills Fascists' Graphic: Jonathan Byxbe via Justseeds

Emperor

A sonic cento mixed with light, love, and the magic of forest, mountain, rain, sea, river, falls, and fog

:: For my deer light & love workers, the lotus-crowned, the ones with healing hands, the fertile ones ::

Namaste

Jai Uttal & Ben Leinbach - Gopala Lullaby :: Wallace Stevens - What is Divinity? :: Vanessa Huang - Brahma, infinity

Shlohmo - Rained the Whole Time :: Vanessa Huang - Brahmacharya arises :: Thich Nhat Hanh - The Buddha said :: Rumi - We've cleaned our heart

Sheila Chandra - Every So Lonely : Eyes : Ocean :: Clarissa Pinkola Estés - And then there are the cravings

Alice Coltrane - Wisdom Eye :: Rumi - And then the ocean disappears :: Vanessa Huang - Brahmacharya also carries :: David Hudson - Rainforest Wonder :: Clarissa Pinkola Estés - As a woman lives them :: Thich Nhat Hanh - Your desire :: Rumi - My beautiful moon :: Vanessa Huang - I am boundless love :: Marilyn Buck - Amulets against amnesia :: Clarissa Pinkola Estés - Places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God

Bhakti Caravan - Water (Is Life)

Alice Coltrane - The Hymn :: Rumi - And because of the magic in his eyes :: Vanessa Huang - Brahmacharya reminds us to wake :: Thich Nhat Hanh - You are a part of the Universe

Marti Nikko & DJ Drez - Lakshmi feat. Sheela Bringi & Vijay Krishna :: Thich Nhat Hanh - Every child is born in the garden

Jai Uttal - Gopala Lullaby :: Clarissa Pinkola Estés - In mythos and fairy tales :: Rumi - If you've got the pearls

::Brahmacharya::

Poet, artist, and cultural worker conjuring space for sonic healing::: : : : freedom dreams

conjure ^ 💜

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