Our host and State Voices Digital Storytelling Fellow, Linda Denson, speaks with DJ Lynnée Denise, an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and scholar, and explores the history of remixing, Denise’s coined term DJ scholarship, and the connection between Black music and everyday civic engagement. Together, DJ Lynnée Denise and Linda dissect the dynamic art of remixing as a tool for storytelling, history preservation, and political resistance and reimagine the ways in which everyday people can use the art of remixing as a tool in the fight for a healthy democracy.

Learn more about DJ Lynnée Denise: http://www.djlynneedenise.com/

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Freedom Arts Collaborative: Artist Interview with DJ Lynnée Denise

Our host and State Voices Digital Storytelling Fellow, Linda Denson, speaks with Maya Salameh. Maya is a Syrian-American poet, performer, and teaching artist from San Diego, California. She is the author of How to Make an Algorithm in a Microwave and the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize winner. Together, Maya and Linda explore the intricacies of navigating personhood when holding marginalized identities in an increasingly digitally surveilled world, why everyone should and can be a poet, and how freeing ourselves from shame can help lead to a more liberated world.

Content warning: Discussions of state violence.

Freedom Arts Collaborative Artist Interview with Maya Salameh

Cheeno Ghee created the song "BlackStar" in collaboration with State Voices in response to the prompt, "what does political power for Black people, Indigenous people, and all people of color (BIPOC) mean to you?"

A Hip Hop artist and poet from Brooklyn, New York, Cheeno Ghee has spent the last five years in Charlotte, NC, refining its underground music scene with a cadence that is raw yet polished.

“In order to write this song I had to be in a space of 1000% pride. In my skin. In my present. And in my why,” Cheeno Ghee says. “I want to have power and security in my own reflection. The feeling of recording this song was a combination of all that and the straight up pride I felt being Black.”

Learn more about Cheeno Ghee: https://open.spotify.com/artist/67d6hukJxYmBJrxkkbWJU0

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