Hosts Diamond and Gabrielle share readings from 'How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration' by David Richo, 'The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma' by Vesser van der Kolk, and 'After the Tears: Helping Adult Children of Alcoholics Heal Their Childhood Trauma' by Jane Middelton-Moz and Lorie Dwinell.

Featuring excerpts from bell hooks, Sobonfu Some, Laraaji, Cookie Monster, The Count, and more.

Art by Kiki M (neptune's next, 2019)

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Dark matter objects: Technologies of capture and things that can’t be held is a one of a kind audiobook compiled by Neta Bomani for children and adults about how the master-slave relationship organizes social, political, economic, racialized, gendered and other cybernetic relations contained within the feedback loop that produces technological infrastructure. The special Silent Reading Hour Montez Press Radio mix of the audiobook includes a playlist compiled by Contour (Khari Lucas) and Neta Bomani and features original music by Christelle Bofale alongside narration by Alexander Fefegha, American Artist, Ashley Jane Lewis, Bomani Oseni McClendon, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker, Galen Macdonald, Fred Moten, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Laolu Numa, Lina Chang, Marilyn Nance, Melanie Hoff, Sadé Powell, Simone Browne, Sol Cabrini de la Ciudad, Stephanie Dinkins, Sydney Spann, and Zisiga Mukulu. Read more at netabomani.com/darkmatter

Tracklist
Excerpt from B. Jenkins (Reading on May 3, 2016 at the University of Chicago) - Fred Moten
Dark matter objects theme - Christelle Bofale
Alabama - John Coltrane
Is It Because I’m Black? - Syl Johnson
Blastit - Shabazz Palaces
Pain ft. Jadakiss - Sheek Louch
No! - Uffe
Time Passin’ - Jwords
Noise Tracc - SOUL GLO
Volunteered Slavery (Dark matter objects edit) - Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Keep On Running - Stevie Wonder
Maria Bethania - Caetano Veloso
Come On Feet - Quasimoto
Stand On The Word (Larry Levan Mix) - Celestial Choir
Better Days Ahead - Gil Scott Heron

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55 mins of educational soundscapes honoring the histories, languages, cosmologies and ongoing environmental/communal concerns of the Black Indigenous peoples of Australia. Featuring found audio from Janet Long Nakamarra, Deborah Bird Rose, Rosalie Kunoth-Monk, Dean Yibarbuk, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, and more.

Disclaimer: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be aware that this program may contain names and voices of people who have died.

Art by: Janet Long Nakamarra

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Silent Reading Hour w/ Sparkle Nation radio archive. Sparkle Nation is a literary arts collective dedicated to the written word and organizing though its various forms. All shows originally aired via Montez Press Radio.

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