Erika&Ebony do you want a Bird of Paradise?! I got a white person on deck with plants to give away... I wanna see y'all have some kinda joy!

I definitely just twerked to that lil tune 🤣

I had to listen to this twice , because of how on point and how necessary this episode is. Sending love from Louisiana 😊

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This episode is dedicated to the memory and power of the victims of white domestic terrorism in Atlanta, the survivors and their families as well as the victims and survivors of all forms of sinophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-sex work and anti-Asian xenophobia/ US imperialist violence against Asian bodies happening all around the globe. If you would like to join us in a moment of silence, fast forward to the 1:54:28. This episode is also dedicated to Stacey Park Milbern, one of the creators of the disability justice movement. We also dedicate this episode to the Seattle Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP).  The transcript at 1:55:00 is from a livestream of a community vigil held in the victims' honor and in solidarity with Black and Indigenous sovereignty. Cash App: $mpopsea, Venmo: MPOP_SEA


Recommended Reading:
-Resisting State Violence by Dr. Joy James (Ericka reads an excerpt from that book in this episode)
-Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson 
-Some Reasons For Chinese Exclusion: Meat v Rice, American Manhood Against Asiatic Coolieism (Author Unknown)
-Essay on Japanese American Beauty Pageants and Minstrel Shows during political imprisonment by the FDR administration during WWII by Malia McAndrews: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/536560/summary

-The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad 

-Search for articles on the history behind yellow peril movement and Richard Aoki, an FBI Informant who infiltrated the Black Panther Party in the 60s

-Note on Marxism: Engels' father owned a factory and Marx was white and didn’t understand that capitalism is always racialized like Cedric Robinson and Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore talk about - check the book out if you want, there are some goods in Marx’s Capital Illustrated by David Smith

-Lisa Simpson and Samaria Rice Official Statement: https://www.wearyourvoicemag.com/official-statement-from-samaria-rice-mother-of-tamir-rice-lisa-simpson-mother-of-richard-risher-and-the-collective/
How to Support Samaria and Lisa: Cashapp-$SamariaRice
Cashapp: $lisalee693


Support
Tamir Rice Foundation/Tamir Rice Afrocentric Cultural Center in Cleveland, OH
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)
Seattle Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP)
List of Black Owned Bookstores: https://nonamebooks.com/Bookstores
Zora's Daughters Podcast: https://zorasdaughters.com/

Music by Benjamin Earl Turner-Apathy Happy

Editors Note: Both Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel wore Blackface

The Negro Problem and Asian Hate: The Fight for White

A soulful return to house, this mix is for Fokus Global, fats, femmes & those who love us. <3

Apply Pressure

Anu's joined by Detroit's finest Ash Lauryn in a bumper collab show.

https://www.nts.live/shows/soup-to-nuts-anu/episodes/soup-to-nuts-anu-15th-march-2023

Soup To Nuts w/ Anu & Ash Lauryn 150323

Legendary

Drakeo The Ruler x BlueBucksClan - I Know

Angels in tibet sped up

INTRO 
LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT!!!!

(Zhalarina) 
I SAID GUNNY I’M HURT LIKE 
NEW PLAN, NEW HAND, NO WORK  I’M TIRED OF THE SAME OLD DANCE TRYNA VIBE WHEN I KNOW I CAN’T 

CHORUS
Ain’t no sense in hiding where you at/ 
(AAHH-OOOH!) 
Call up GUNNY, I got your front, your side, your back/
You’re ready-made for this day 
And your life ain’t ever known lack 
now throw a grenade in this cave/
Make a mountain grow a new path/ 
(AAHH-OOOH!)

VERSE ONE 
I mean to say it broke me not/ 
my nephew call me paramedic cause I’m/ 
cruising with the open shot/ 
Look here, the benefit of a good drown
is seeing hope float/
Baby wallet on soaked loaf/ 
I started measuring my pleasure in living/
after beginning a descent into bad sprints and a broke run/ 
my locs thinning, the doctor say that my spine shifting/
I should break the mileage/ 
but she don’t know what I’m running from/ 

I pray to God through a clenched fist/ 
If He playing, I must be bout to see him at intermission/  
Caught a valley and a split chin/
when He made my perfection His business/
I’mma take two bunny steps to the right alright?/
Scooch for the goon with the room to fight/
I’m calling for help like it's gon' jump out the manger/
Cause I ain’t run up a mountain to become a cliffhanger/
oh

CHORUS
Ain’t no sense in hiding where you at/ 
(AAHH-OOOH!) 
Call up GUNNY, I got your front, your side, your back/
You’re ready-made for this day 
And your life ain’t ever known lack 
now throw a grenade in this cave/
Make a mountain grow a new path/ 
(AAHH-OOOH!)
 
VERSE TWO 
I don’t even know I don’t wanna receive help/ 
Drive standing so I don’t inconvenience the seatbelt/ 
You and me? Well, we know bout Yeshua 3 nails/ 
the way He felt, n***as would call Him a "female"/ 
So for me? Tell? Rina gon' spare every detail/ 
cause the bar could not be steeper when speaking for retail/
But ’m hurting in my Birkin and trying to be well/ 
that’s like cuffing a vitamin and trying to B12 
yo
I’m finally dying to grieve well/ 
throw my pride to the water and pray it don’t beach whales/ 
Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy/
I call for my GUNNY/
You can press Him with a thorn but He still coming for me/
Almost said a vow in Spanish
I like to repeat L’s/ 
But He popped shame, I can remember the heat smell/
I’m kind to each fail, I find the meek trail/ 

BRIDGE
The mountain is that continual journey
that we find ourselves on 
We’re not walking a flat terrain 
It might go from a 45-degree angle to a 90-degree angle 
But I’ve got a lot of tools 
And I’m able to reach out to somebody 
who can reinforce and support me 
That’s another tool 


CHORUS
Ain’t no sense in hiding where you at/ 
(AAHH-OOOH!) 
Call up GUNNY, I got your front, your side, your back/
You’re ready-made for this day 
And your life ain’t ever known lack 
now throw a grenade in this cave/
Make a mountain grow a new path/ 
(AAHH-OOOH!)

GUNNY

The Rant

Who Want It

In her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers. &ldquo;A meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.&rdquo;&mdash;Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead &ldquo;What a long way it is from one life to another, yet why write if not for that distance?&rdquo; Startlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. Yiyun Li grew up in China and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist, an author, a mother, a daughter&mdash;and through it all she has been sustained by a profound connection with the writers and books she loves. From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to S&oslash;ren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin, Dear Friend is a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together. Interweaving personal experiences with a wide-ranging homage to her most cherished literary influences, Yiyun Li confronts the two most essential questions of her identity: Why write? And why live? Praise for Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life &ldquo;Li has stared in the face of much that is beautiful and ugly and treacherous and illuminating&mdash;and from her experience she has produced a nourishing exploration of the will to live willfully.&rdquo;&mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;Li&rsquo;s transformation into a writer . . . is nothing short of astonishing.&rsquo;&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;An arrestingly lucid, intellectually vital series of contemplations on art, identity, and depression.&rdquo;&mdash;The Boston Globe &ldquo;Li is an exemplary storyteller and this account of her journey back to equilibrium, assisted by her closest companion, literature, is as powerful as any of her award-winning fiction, with the dark fixture of her Beijing past at its centre.&rdquo;&mdash;Financial Times &ldquo;Every writer is a reader first, and&#160;Dear Friend&#160;is Li&rsquo;s haunted, luminous love letter to the words that shaped her. . . . Her own prose is both lovely and opaque, fitfully illuminating a radiant landscape of the personal and profound.&rdquo;&mdash;Entertainment Weekly &ldquo;Yiyun Li&rsquo;s prose is lean and intense, and her ideas about books and writing are wholly original.&rdquo;&mdash;San Francisco Chronicle

Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li, read by Jennifer Ikeda

Paper 1

Learning

It's business as usual in AmeriKKKa...a state of emergency has been declared in New York State yet rent is still due all the same. Black people still comprise the highest number of deaths from COVID 19 across the nation and our enemies couldn't be more visible. Dr. Armen Henderson, a black doctor in Miami was handcuffed by police for no reason while administering COVID 19 tests for the unhoused. Essential workers are making less money than ppl receiving unemployment. The rich get richer and the senators still sell stocks before impending market crashes and buy stock in teleconferencing companies, too. Being essential is not a prize when you're disposable tomorrow. Some people got shelter and places, and some people got million dollar stimulus checks. But Gavin Newsome is great tho, right? 

Highly Recommended Reading

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/all-but-three-people-who-died-from-covid-19-in-st-louis-were-black-2020-4%3famp

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-stimulus-checks-millionaires-wealthy-tax-break-loophole-a9466476.html?fbclid=IwAR3ijwPs712zS3Vos0RTDCKVmLFy9sm7CrbF367ZAktD4c2HxLMsc2FPdC0

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/California-data-reveals-blacks-are-dying-in-15205002.php?utm_campaign=CMS+Sharing+Tools+%28Desktop%29&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&fbclid=IwAR3hhboaKXbdeQwJVxmsN6IfMBFhgiFzljQ4hIx_y1hF4P2Fdf_QzFIuw7E

https://aeon.co/ideas/land-and-the-roots-of-african-american-poverty

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ny.curbed.com/platform/amp/2020/3/27/21195216/new-york-rent-freeze-legislation-coronavirus-covid-19

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/armen-henderson-arrested-homeless-coronavirus-testing.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR0yauIdP7WdDCGfqRxoIcpQ9-rHWBNco1aDi3KpXAJdZNJNU6uKuSAsiNc

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2020/04/14/why-are-rich-americans-getting-17-million-stimulus-checks/?fbclid=IwAR14MNRkAY5etW8P9MuJAASE11YnGol25y6AiOXDqVnTaOTasKXPvgm36vE#5d701cf665b4

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8216965/McDonalds-China-bans-black-people-entering-fears-coronavirus.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR3eoxMMHTIw_Jj3ELQFSLpy-tFBEq5Sm9fGFarGPOc9LuxEiLr6X6hvQxk

https://www.colorlines.com/articles/uspss-largely-black-and-female-workforce-rallies-save-jobs?fbclid=IwAR16zqUo3pRIK_eeRXhTlF3S_bmzLqVm0GKnoV_VmGYSCxRdDFy0n27sWJM


https://www.theroot.com/in-coronavirus-economy-somehow-trumps-friends-keep-get-1842734509?fbclid=IwAR3Vfo6MQjBFJj1G37rlivlNrknoCUWYVTf-uRJmoaa03JtoQYOu95-UNsU

https://www.theroot.com/we-figured-out-why-coronavirus-is-killing-black-people-1842774532?fbclid=IwAR3wisRyvlpOkYmKKrhmAyBfc-_VpfUF6CLJLbwmTTaocBXAzTOdcR1LylU

https://www.theroot.com/report-black-people-are-contracting-and-dying-of-coron-1842679305?utm_campaign=The+Root&utm_content=1586025005&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3LZqEPa8Gybyfrq_yegPfGxTkpcjfM1yJzdSb89jw_elTpX4MUQKOeuQ0

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/us/coronavirus-stay-home-rich-poor.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR3RrV3rA9-h0Imc38SwO9AL7KqkhaQnsqTTMYTG2Rb2w0MOZLnNVLvYehQ

https://money.cnn.com/2018/04/23/news/companies/walmart-ceo-pay/index.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/16/835343965/-a-perfect-storm-extremists-look-for-ways-to-exploit-coronavirus-pandemic?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1ExBtQkpZ4gwEp9P2utwn1hF-uma8LdDLCmlO-Jm16sSH8LbcfxPXCFGk

Support: 
Fatima Jamal's Indiegogo Film Fund:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/no-fats-no-femmes#/

Pleasure Chest Employee Resource Fund
https://www.gofundme.com/f/tpc-employee-fundraiser?utm_source=New+York&utm_campaign=aa6a32816a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_05_03_31_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bc62c5da73-aa6a32816a-119703545

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Music by Benjamin Earl Turner: Apathy Happy

30 Days A Slav--Essential: Disposable Tomorrow.

A Decolonized Podcast for lovers on the margins, join your resident sexuality educator Ericka Hart and Deep East Oakland's very own Ebony Donnley, as we game give, dismantle white supremacy and kiki in the cosmos somewhere between radical hood epistemological black queer love ethics, pop culture, house plants and a sea of books.

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