Fold address the silencing of dissent on soulful new single The Painful Truth with bell hooks, out Fri 26 May

The phrase “truth is an endangered space” opens Leeds-based Fold’s latest piece, voiced by the late bell hooks and in tribute to her. Using delicately paced soundbites from the visionary author, The Painful Truth reflects a society in which dissenting voices are being deliberately and increasingly stifled. Yet there is hope because, as hooks states, ‘people are really hungry for truth.’ That sense of hope is brought to life by a beautifully cinematic, jazz-funk soundscape with horn arrangements by long-time Fold collaborator Emma Johnson.

“We are continually impressed by bell hooks’ observations and with each new discovery we feel her loss more keenly. Like me, bell hooks was also a New Yorker. She was a professor at CUNY where my father taught for most of his career. This piece uses excerpts from a 2002 interview that triggers memories for me of how it felt to live in post-911 New York / USA. Dissident voices were ruthlessly silenced. Powerful forces took full advantage of the hurt and fear that people were experiencing. What bell hooks observed at that time was the beginning of a trend that has only increased since. We are now very much, as she puts it, ‘in danger of silencing any form of speech that goes against what is perceived to be the status quo.’ This is the perspective that we want to amplify right now.“
— Seth Mowshowitz, Fold

'The Painful Truth' is also released in solidarity with all brave souls speaking truth to power, often at great personal cost. This goes out to the whistleblowers, journalists, academics and each person who is brave enough to deliver the necessary truth in everyday life, even when it is most uncomfortable.

LYRICS

Truth
Is an endangered space
Truth
Is associated with the painful
That should not be spoken

And it becomes hard to get people to value
Speaking freely

Dissident speech
The painful truth
That will to silence is growing
But I see the hope
People are really hungry
For truth
Hungry
For truth

We are in danger
Of silencing
Any form of speech
That goes against
What is perceived to be
The status quo

Truth
Is an endangered space

People are hungry for
Provocative voices
That go to the heart of the matter
Because they want answers
To the things that they are
In crisis about

Dissident speech
The painful truth
Is not valued in our nation
But I see the hope
People are really hungry
For truth
Hungry
For truth

The hope that I feel
Within my own self
And with other people
Is that hunger for truth
And for ways to live our lives
More fully

Dissident speech
The painful truth
There are things we have to say
That will be wounding
But I believe in
The outrageous pursuit of hope
A society that is full of promise
And possibility
People are really hungry
For truth
Hungry
For truth

And its that hunger
That keeps a place
For the dissenting voice
That keeps the place for speaking freely

The Painful Truth

Fold - The Painful Truth

Sesión4. Cuerpos excéntricos con Carmen Romero Bachiller
Curso: Monique Wittig y el pensamiento heterosexual
31 de mayo de 2023

Al igual que la raza, el sexo es una formación “imaginaria” de las que producen realidad, incluyendo los cuerpos, que son percibidos como anteriores a toda construcción. La  ̈mujer ̈ sólo existe como esta clase de ser imaginario, mientras que las mujeres son el producto de una relación social de apropiación, naturalizada como sexo (...) La lucha clave busca la destrucción del sistema social de la heterosexualidad, porque el  ̈sexo ̈ es la categoría política naturalizada en la que se basa la sociedad heterosexual” ([Wittig, 2011] en Haraway, 1995)

En esta sesión trataremos de trazar un genealogía y poner en discusión las propuestas de Wittig con el concepto de "cuerpos excéntricos" de Teresa de Lauretis y las importantes discusiones que desde los feminismos negros, chicanos, postcoloniales y decoloniales se han dado sobre el sujeto "mujer" y los sujetos de los feminismos y sus luchas.

Monique Wittig y el pensamiento heterosexual

Cuerpos excéntricos con Carmen Romero Bachiller

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How do we make the classroom into a place of radical possibility and a place for the practice of freedom? Jody Greene has led the way in reimagining teaching at UC Santa Cruz for the last seven years at the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning. We’ll talk about bell hooks,  hope not cynicism, self-actualization, and drinking water with dirt in it.

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Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives. Combining critical thinking about education with autobiographical narratives, hooks invites readers to extend the discourse of race, gender, class and nationality beyond the classroom into everyday situations of learning. bell hooks writes candidly about her own experiences. Teaching, she explains, can happen anywhere, any time - not just in college classrooms but in churches, in bookstores, in homes where people get together to share ideas that affect their daily lives.

In Teaching Community bell hooks seeks to theorize from the place of the positive, looking at what works. Writing about struggles to end racism and white supremacy, she makes the useful point that "No one is born a racist. Everyone makes a choice." Teaching Community tells us how we can choose to end racism and create a beloved community. hooks looks at many issues-among them, spirituality in the classroom, white people looking to end racism, and erotic relationships between professors and students. Spirit, struggle, service, love, the ideals of shared knowledge and shared learning - these values motivate progressive social change.

Teachers of vision know that democratic education can never be confined to a classroom. Teaching - so often undervalued in our society -- can be a joyous and inclusive activity. bell hooks shows the way. "When teachers teach with love, combining care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect, and trust, we are often able to enter the classroom and go straight to the heart of the matter, which is knowing what to do on any given day to create the best climate for learning."

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“Stanco” è la mia parola rifugio. Ma stanco di cosa, di chi? Il mio nuovo pezzo parla di questo. Di essere, Stanco!, con potere liberatorio e affermativo. Pensando al lavoro che si fa con la classe della rima, con la classe formativa e nel ritornare in classe con il corpo studentesco, nonostante tutto, più di prima.

“Stanco! Delle bandiere di sinistra | Del genere che ho, violentato in una messa | Stanco! Della tua testa violenta, f@scist@ | Stanco! Del tuo patriarcato, razzist@”

A Vogue le canzonette rap machiste non piacciono. Ecco sei minuti d’amore, che finiscono con bel keynote speech di bell hooks. Peace!

Fuori ovunque.



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In this episode of “That Black Couple,” Jenn and Daren delve into the complexities of toxic masculinity within Black communities. They discuss the impact of patriarchy on Black men, including the emotional struggles they face in unpacking societal expectations and behaviors. Further, they highlight the crucial role women play in challenging these toxic behaviors. Through personal reflections and references to influential thinkers like bell hooks, they emphasize the importance of community accountability and emotional expression in fostering healthier relationships and promoting change.

Reference Material
* The Will to Change - bell hooks: https://amzn.to/4lXgiat
* Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde: https://amzn.to/46cNSEN

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During this post-Labor Day discussion, with November on our minds, we will explore through personal examples the concepts of love, pleasure, and joy as intentional acts of resistance.


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Jardinières et paysannes en Ile-de-France : cultiver depuis la ville

En direct du festival Plein Champ au jardin partagé de Villetaneuse, cette émission croise les témoignages de femmes jardinières et paysannes en ville. Nous avons échangé sur les héritages agricoles qui parfois traversent les mers et les continents et se recomposent sur de nouvelles terres d’accueil, l’histoire des jardins ouvriers et partagés en région francilienne, et l’enjeu de la production alimentaire depuis et pour la ville.

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Iseult, paysanne en Ile-de-France au GAEC du Vieux Augustin
Dya, Fatiah et Mina, jardinières au jardin partagé l’Autre Champ
Caro, jardinière à l’Autre Champ et praticienne de l’aromathérapie


extraits
Bell Hooks, Cultiver l’Appartenance https://www.cambourakis.com/tout/sorcieres/cultiver-lappartenance/

interview de la géographe Flaminia Paddeu, extraits du documentaire audio https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/lsd-la-serie-documentaire/agriculture-urbaine-cultiver-son-coin-de-bitume-136671


animation Gagou et Léa
émission enregistrée le 26 septembre 2025, festival Plein Champ à Villetaneuse



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Jenn and Daren have always said to themselves, “Wouldn’t it be cool if we had a show?” Well, no major networks have reached out yet. So, until that happens, you can find the them here, sharing their views on race and culture and everything in between.

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By incorporating a wide range of voices including MCs, poets, historical speakers and singers into their music, Fold aim to amplify humanitarian perspectives and critical reflections on today’s world. Through doing so they also hope to help keep spaces open for speaking freely and truthfully. Their sound is similarly wide-ranging, from jazz-funk through Brazilian, psyche, hip-hop and downtempo.

Starting in 2012 they’ve managed to cultivate a decent reputation in the underground British music scene. Their music is played on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, Radio X, Amazing Radio and stations across the world. Indie Shuffle are big fans and they’ve had features in The Times, The Guardian and The NME. They’ve played shows all over the UK including a live session for Lauren Laverne on BBC 6 Music.

Fold believe that the answers to a sustainable future lie in prioritising the value of life over profits in all decisions. They believe that the success of our species has not been driven by ‘survival of the fittest’ but instead by ‘survival of the most cooperative.’ Our ability to act cooperatively to our mutual benefit, facilitated by our loving natures, is the true foundation of society. These beliefs, are what they bring to every record and every performance.

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