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Decolonial Realness

OPEN CANVAS w/ TAJ MITCHEL ALEXANDER

Required Listening

Rose Royce edit w my flip of a Príncipe beat

love don't live here (BAE BAE Edit)

Hi! This is the launch show of 'THE SPIN: all women media panel', my new weekly syndicated radio show. It was recorded at New York City's NPR Studios. 10 radio stations across the country have confirmed they will carry the show including Chicago, Arizona, Las Vegas, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina. This launch show features Staceyann Chin - award winning poet, Tony nominated writer, author; Professor Blair Kelley - scholar historian, author; Joan Morgan - provocative cultural critic, critically acclaimed author, award winning journalist, editor. Every week we take on 3 topics. For this show we talk: 'Guns, God, Beer, Babies'; 'Can Slavery Ever Be Funny?'; Named & Shamed: Tackling Sexual Assault on College Campuses. This is an interactive show, join the conversation, 'like' The Spin facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-SPIN-all-women-media-panel-syndicated-radio-show/106155549418336?ref=hl and share your comments and contributions on the show. The Spin: smart is sexy. 

The Spin 5.8.14 Launch Show Final Version

Rihanna’s glitter boobs, an Azealia Banks debate and more.

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Crystal Tits

The ladies of the Crimson Wave podcast discuss classic horror movie Carrie and the irony that even gore-fest films seem to fear menstrual blood most of all. 

Why Do We Fear Menstrual Blood?

For the first part of a two-part series on how Latinos have influenced hip-hop Latino USA producers Daisy Rosario and Marlon Bishop learn about the early years by talking to legends like Devastating Tito, Lee Quiñones, and Charlie Chase. They break down the four elements of hip-hop: MCing, DJing, graffiti, and break dancing and explore how New York City made it all possible.

#1512 - A Latino History of Hip-Hop Part I

Your Gut Instinct Summit Interview

Recorded live from Samba's Café Brooklyn NY 

Host: Taj Mitchel Alexander of The Open Canvas & Samba’s Café

Guest: Stanford Reid of WAFFL 

Recorded by Richard Rolle 

Music playing at Samba’s Café by Mike & Keys

WAFFL Records: https://www.wafflrecords.com

SAMBA'S CAFÉ by The Open Canvas: https://theopencanvas.com/blogs/s-a-m-b-a-s

Open Moments Live from Samba's Café in 432hz Frequency

Activists still need to sleep enough, eat enough, and stretch every once in a while. On this episode, we explore the gender and race dynamics of taking care of our minds and bodies and share self-care tips.

Featuring Evette Dionne on why self-care is a radical act and writer Emily V. Gordon on what superheroes can help us rethink anxiety. 

Feminism and Self-Care

EMMA Talks Podcast lives on our website at emmatalks.org
Recorded at the VPL inspiration lab, November, 2016.

Sarah Hunt - Decolonizing the Roots of Rape Culture

Together We Rise

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

The Case for Reparations - The Atlantic - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Find the full podcast here : https://www.mixcloud.com/RinseFrance/dj-cheetah-14-mars-2018/

Rinse France Podcast

Dj Cheetah on Rinse FM //  @RinseFrance

DESCRIPTION:
In June 2018, generative somatics (gs) created a podcast with Spenta Kandawalla, Prentis Hemphill and Staci K. Haines, hosted by adrienne maree brown. We had a conversation about trauma, oppression, healing and organizing for structural change. We dug into the connections between personal, collective and structural transformation, and between healing and building collective power. We also explored the term Healing Justice. What does embodied healing have to do with creating liberation? 

HOST:
adrienne maree brown is author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit. She is on the teaching bodies of generative somatics and Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity.

GUESTS:
Prentis Hemphill  is healer, Somatics practitioner, teacher, writer and organizer who works at the intersections of healing and justice. As the former Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter, Prentis committed to supporting and nurturing the brilliant strategies of organizers and healers to address trauma, move through conflict and center wholeness in the BLM network and in the broader movement for Black freedom and liberation. Prentis continues their ongoing work as a teacher of somatics and personal transformation with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD), a training program for Black organizers throughout the US, and with generative somatics, which is focused on bringing a politicized Somatics practice to movement building organizations. Prentis has worked for years with communities developing transformative responses to violence and envisioning new ways of being together, including work with generationFIVE and Communities United Against Violence. Prentis is committed to transformation on the cellular level and the belief that who we are and how we are in our most intimate spaces is vital for our collective liberation.

Spenta Kandawalla is a co-founder of generative somatics (gs).  She is an auntie, acupuncturist and herbalist, generative somatics teacher, and member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC). Over the past 13 years, Spenta has been studying, teaching, and growing generative somatics work for organizers, movement builders and healers across the country. She is committed to helping move and expand work at the intersection of healing and organizing toward more freedom and possibility for all of us.

Staci K. Haines is a co-founder and the Executive Director of generative somatics. She integrates trauma and healing and a systemic analysis of power, into this unique and powerful work. Staci is committed to the interdependence of personal, collective and systemic transformation: “We are shaped by our deeply personal experiences and our social conditions. Through embodied transformation and collective action we can move ourselves, communities and society toward what is life­ affirming. The focus of gs is to bring the transformative power of somatics to serve social and environmental justice movements.” Staci is also a founder of generationFIVE, which has the mission to end the sexual abuse of children within 5 generations. She is the author of Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (Cleis 1999, 2007).  

THANK YOU
Producer: Janvieve Williams Comrie
Music: Oakland-based collective Mass Bass.

JOIN US
Tinyurl.com/gsDonate2018
generativesomatics.org

Trauma, Healing & Collective Power

adrienne maree brown is brilliant. She is a Detroit-based organizer, doula, facilitator, community builder, and writer of seminal books Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism. While in town for a talk at the Chicago Humanities Festival, adrienne swings by AirGo to talk with the guys about her birth work, learning from Grace Lee Boggs, fluidity, and much more. Plus, Damon and Daniel geek out about how dope she is.

Recorded 5/4/19 in Chicago
Music from this week's show:
Juice - Lizzo

Ep 187 - adrienne maree brown

Podcast on HEMISPHERIC PRACTICES with Michaela Shirley (Indigenous Design + Planning of UNM) and Chike C. Nwoffiah (Founder of the Silicon Valley African Film Festival) moderated by Dr. Amy Shimshon-Santo.  

Nerd Alert: 
The group discusses arts and cultural management through the following lenses: decolonizing and recuperative practices, institutions and spaces, and the power of synergies between communities.

Produced by Avila Santo (www.avilsanto.com) for CREO.

Hemispheric Practices

CREATOR OF PROJECT 96
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CREDIT

RECORDED & EDITED BY TAJ ALEXANDER IN BROOKLYN, NY

MUSIC BY THE DELI, JANSPORT J, ES-K - LA GUINDA

FILM PHOTOS BY TAJ ALEXANDER

EPISODE 143 PETER JOHNSON

MUSICAN & PRODCUER FROM LA.
https://soundcloud.com/nyallah
https://theopencanvas.com

CREDIT
RECORDED & EDITED BY TAJ ALEXANDER IN BROOKLYN, NY.
FILM PHOTOS BY TAJ ALEXANDER
MUSIC BY TYMK

EPISODE 144 NYALLAH

PHOTOGRAPHER FROM BROOKLYN, NY.

https://theopencanvas.com

CREDIT

RECORDED & EDITED BY TAJ ALEXANDER IN BROOKLYN, NY.

FILM PHOTOS BY TAJ ALEXANDER

MUSIC BY BIG WAVE + CARTER

EPISODE 145 CHRIS COOK

RECORDED LIVE IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL

https://theopencanvas.com

CREDIT

FILM PHOTOS BY TAJ ALEXANDER IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL

RECOREDED & EDITED BY TAJ ALEXANDER IN BRASIL 

MUSIC BY ATHENA

EPISODE 146 NEEMA GITHERE IN RIO DE JANEIRO

snippets from Black Journal interview with Angela Davis (1972)because Angela's words are eternal

Combat Racism ! Angela Davis x Green Velvet (MC Edit)

What is critical media literacy? Wanna hear about some resources to support building that skill *and a critique of those sources too? Come thru for a decolonial feminist critique of @DemocracyNow and other independent media sources that I listen to w/ a grain of salt. Hope you enjoy this 2nd installation of our “Weeds & Seeds” autumn series. Hope to see ya Wednesday for some weeding! PS- Yes, this is a lil’ snippet of my book “Pulling Weeds & Planting Seeds: on Decolonial Discernment.”

Make sure to cite my intellectual production if you’re inspired by these ideas & wanna share them out! Don’t steal from BIWOC- have ethics! Don’t plagiarize or my folx will come for you- thx : ) PPS- Plz help Liberation Spring on Patreon or Paypal so I can get this book published asap to support our discernment in these deadly times. Thanks fam.

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EPISODE 146 NEEMA GITHERE IN RIO DE JANEIRO

THE OPEN CANVAS