antiquated concepts of heaven and hell (in any religion) are limited states of mind; and limiting/controlling/exploiting peoples' minds (and bodies, labor) is the objective rather than engaging effectively in true dialectical reasonsing. obsolete states of mind are to be transformed (not reformed); and, only if necessary, stored in epigenetic memory for future reference and reflection

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

Day 1: Black People Tell Black History with J Mase III (@jmaseiii)

In the beginning there was the Word and the Word was with God but it was also likely Black and it certainly wasn't just cisgender and straight.
I'm sleep tho, in Jesus Name. 

J Mase III is a Black/Trans/queer poet & educator based in Seattle by way of Philly. As an educator, Mase has worked with community members in the US, UK, and Canada on the needs of LGBTQIA+ folks and racial justice in spaces such as K-12 schools, universities, faith communities and restricted care facilities. He is founder of awQward, the first trans and queer people of color talent agency. 

J Mase is author of And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer’s Reflections on Grief, Unemployment & Inappropriate Jokes About Death as well as White Folks Be Trippin’: An Ethnography Through Poetry & Prose. He is head writer for the theatrical production Black Bois. 

He is co-director of the forthcoming documentary, the Black Trans Prayer Book and is finishing his latest solo work, Is Your God a Violent God? Finding a Theology for Survivors. 

This year he will be leading a series of workshops on Reparations Frameworks, called "All That DEI & Still No Reparations?" Find out more on IG & TikTok @jmaseiii and sign up for the mailing list on his site: www.jmaseiii.com 

How to support his work: 
My Cashapp is: $jmaseiii
Venmo is : @JMase-Mase

Intro music: "Black People Tell Black History" by Patience Sings
Outro: Apathy Happy by Benjamin Earl Turner
Excerpt: Reverend Valerie Spencer at the 2010 TransFaith Summit, courtesy of Diamond Stylz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmqg_jxzCOA

Living in the Last Days of Antiblackness and Transphobia feat. J Mase III

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

Who Want It

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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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