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2 episodes with Warsan Shire
2 episodes with Warsan Shire
2 episodes with Warsan Shire
Notes and Links to Jason De León's Work Jason De León is Director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Loyd E. Cotsen Endowed Chair of Archaeology, Professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. De León is Executive Director of the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) Inc. a 501(c)(3) research, arts, and education collective that seeks to raise awareness about migration issues globally. He is the author of two award winning books: “The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail” (featuring photos by Michael Wells) and “Soldiers and Kings.” Soldiers and Kings won the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction. De León is 2017 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Jason is an active musician who sang and played guitar with the Long Beach based hardcore-punk-reggae band Youth in Asia in the mid to late 1990's and the Americana band The Wilcox Hotel based out of State College, PA between 2005 and 2008. He currently plays bass in The War Pigs and is involved in various musical projects including periodic reunions with The Wilcox Hotel. Buy Jason's Books Jason Website Jason's National Book Award Receipt: Video Book Review: Soldiers and Kings New York Times Review Jason on CBS Sunday Morning: Video At about 2:50, Jason helps Pete get over some Lakers/Kings traumas At about 6:15, Jason talks about the experience of winning the National Book Award At about 8:45, Jason shouts out indie bookstores like Literati, Village Well, Powell's as places to buy his book At about 10:05, Jason gives background on his early relationship with language and story, and how this reading was shaped by his childhood At about 11:10, Jason talks about ups and downs of reading and writing for joy, and how “story” has been an interest At about 13:20, Jason talks about how multilingualism was part of his childhood and the ways in which speaking foreign languages At about 14:50, Jason responds to Pete's question about writers who challenge and inspire him, including Ernest Gaines, Lus Alberto Urrea, Willie Vaultin, and Jesmyn Ward At about 17:00, Jason cites songwriters like John Prine, Jason Isbell, and Bruce Springsteen as inspirational At about 19:20, Jason gives background on the protocol and timing and embedding done in his research for Soldiers and Kings At about 20:30, Pete is highly complimentary of Jason's balance of first person and third person and his skilled objectivity; Jason responds to Pete's questions about any “vertigo” that came with intense fieldwork and academia and family life At about 24:15, Jason speaks to the significance of the book's epigraph from Jason Isbell At about 27:50, Jason discusses the difference between “smuggling” and “trafficking” and their implications in the book and beyond At about 29:15, Jason and Pete reflect on the titles for the people represented on the book, and Jason responds to Pete's question about how he wrote to avoid generalization At about 32:30, Jason recounts a story from his first book that is emblematic of fully-drawn characters At about 34:30, Pete asks about ethical concerns in research for the book At about 36:05, Jason outlines how childhood experiences and exposure to violence may have helped him connect more with the main characters of the book At about 38:50, Jason reflects on how he proved himself trustworthy in his research and how and why the characters are “good judges of characters” At about 41:00, The two discuss Honduras and its importance in migration in the last decade or so, as well as how its emblematic of the global and natural forces At about 45:45, the two reflect on youth and its importance in the book and how privilege, or lack thereof, connect to ideas of redemption and traumas At about 49:35, Pete cites a telling quote from Father Greg Boyle in reference to the high number of adverse experiences that so many migrants have had to carry; Jason discusses ideas of hope At about 52:15, Pete highlights a resonant poem by Warsan Shire that leads Jason to talk about the “sharks” that put people on the migrant route At about 55:25, Jason responds to Pete's question about the infamous “La Bestia” At about 57:20, Jason explains the term “clavo” and its implications to “stateless” people At about 58:55, Pete notes that the book deals so successfully with At about 1:01:00, “The Future Belongs to Those Who Dream,” a chapter title, and its implications for optimism and hope is discussed At about 1:04:55, Pete cites the book's wondrous last page, as well as the book's long future “shelf life” You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow Pete on IG, where he is @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where he is @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both the YouTube Channel and the podcast while you're checking out this episode. Pete is very excited to have one or two podcast episodes per month featured on the website of Chicago Review of Books. The audio will be posted, along with a written interview culled from the audio. This week, his conversation with Episode 264 guest Maggie Sheffer is up on the website. A big thanks to Rachel León and Michael Welch at Chicago Review. Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting Pete's one-man show, his DIY podcast and his extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content! This month's Patreon bonus episode will feature an exploration of the classic Gabriel Garcia Marquez short story, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World.” I have added a $1 a month tier for “Well-Wishers” and Cheerleaders of the Show. This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form. The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com. Please tune in for Episode 271 with Alejandro Heredia, a queer Afro-Dominican writer from The Bronx and winner of the Gold Line Press Fiction Chapbook Contest. His writing has been featured in Teen Vogue, Lambda Literary Review, and elsewhere; His resonant debut novel LOCA has its Pub Day on Feb 11, the day on which the episode airs.
Cześć! Ostatni w tym roku odcinek poleca się Waszej uwadze! Temat: poezja życia codziennego. Mamy dla Was aż cztery książki poetyckie, za pomocą których będziemy szukać odpowiedzi na przeróżne pytania. Czym jest poezja? Czego w niej szukamy i jakich słów można używać, by opisać swoje doświadczenie czytelnicze? Czy poetka zawsze jest tylko poetką? A może osoby piszące wiersze pełnią dziś różnorodne role? Poza pytaniami padną też oczywiście jakieś odpowiedzi, trochę też poczytamy na głos, by porównać ze sobą te różnorodne poetyckie doświadczenia. A jak wygląda Wasza relacja z poezją? Dajcie nam znać w komentarzach! Książki, o których mówimy w podkaście, to: Marit Kapla, „Osebol”, tłum. Justyna Czechowska, Ossolineum; „Dymy. Antologia tekstów slamerskich”, red. Dagmara Świerkowska-Kobus, Bartosz Wójcik, Wydawnictwo Dosłowne; Warsan Shire, „Błogosławiona córka wychowana przez głos w swojej głowie”, tłum. Aleksandra Samonek, Lokator; Noor Hindi, „Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow”, Haymarket Books. Dziękujemy redakcji „Dymów” za przysłanie nam egzemplarza tej antologii. TW: w odcinku pojawiają się rasistowskie obelgi, będące fragmentem cytowanego wiersza. Jeśli spodobał Ci się ten odcinek, możesz nam podziękować na Suppi. Zapłacisz bezpiecznie i bez prowizji Blikiem, przelewem czy kartą. A jeśli chcesz zostać z nami na dłużej: wejdź na nasz profil Patronite! Jeżeli chcesz dołączyć do naszego grona Matronek i Patronów, będziemy zaszczycone! Dla tych, którzy zdecydują się nas wspierać, mamy spersonalizowane książkowe rekomendacje, newslettery głosowe, podziękowania na stronie i wiele więcej. Zachęcamy do odwiedzin na naszym profilu na Instagramie i na Facebooku, na naszym kanale YouTube oraz na naszej stronie internetowej. Intro: http://bit.ly/jennush
I learned about a poet this week. Warsan Shire. She is a British writer, poet, editor, and teacher who was born to Somali parents in Kenya. She migrated with her family to the United Kingdom at the age of one. According to Wikipedia, Shire has read her works in various artistic venues throughout the world, including in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, North America, South Africa, and Kenya. Her poems have been published in various literary publications, and have been translated into a number of languages, including Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, and Estonian. Her poetry was also featured prominently in Beyoncé's 2016 feature-length film Lemonade "For Women Who Are Difficult to Love," and again in Beyonce's 2020 musical film “Black Is King.” Shire published her first full-length poetry collection, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems, on 1 March 2022. For me, her words can be dark, hard, heavy, provocative, surprising even. Yet, her work conjures up that inner strength and grit that we sometimes forget that lies within. Keywords: Empowerment Feminism Union Togetherness Strength Resilience Support Create About The Host: Dr. Shirley Madhere is a NYC-based plastic surgeon and Founder of Holistic Plastic Surgery. This philosophy is based on a whole-body, mind, and spirit approach to beauty and incorporates wellness, integrative nutrition, functional aesthetics, and complementary medicine. Dr. Madhere's approach to optimal outcomes in plastic surgery is through a lens of wellness, and is grounded in science and backed by ivy league medical study, research, and extensive surgical training. View her menu of services at ElementsandGraces.com. Consultations are available in-office, virtually, and online via Click-lift.com. Coming soon: Dr. Madhere offers beauty on call services through Jet Set Beauty Rx, a mobile medical aesthetics unit delivering beauty in the privacy of your own home. Reserve at JetSetBeautyRx.com. About This Podcast: As a creative outlet and means to broaden the perspective on the “spectrum of beauty,” Dr. Madhere created Forever F.A.B., a podcast dedicated to Fashion, the Art of living well (i.e., wellness), and all things Beauty. Visit ForeverFABpodcast.com for past and new episodes: https://www.foreverfabpodcast.com/ . If you enjoy listening to the Forever F.A.B. podcast, get more audio and visuals with a membership through Patreon. Choose the Gold, Platinum, or Diamond tier for premium added content, special co-hosts, lifestyle videos, branded merchandise, and private access to Dr. Shirley's Clubhouse by visiting patreon.com/ForeverFAB. Catch the latest episode of the Forever F.A.B. podcast on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, iheartradio, Podbean, Amazon podcasts, and wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. For past episodes featuring guest star interviews, beauty product reviews and innovations in plastic surgery, visit ForeverFABpodcast.com. Call to Action: Did you learn something today? Did this episode make you feel something today? Share positively on social what resonated with you most using one word and tag the FFAB Podcast. If you liked this episode of the Fifteen Minutes of FAB on the Forever FAB podcast, please share it and subscribe to the feed. Listen to past episodes or check out who's coming up next on foreverfabpodcast.com. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsan_Shire
Notes and Links to Lauren Markham's Work Lauren Markham is a writer based in northern California. She is the author of the recent A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging (Riverhead, 2024) which The New Yorker listed as one of “The Best Books We've Read in 2024 So Far” and which Kirkus reviews called “a remarkable, unnerving, and cautionary portrait of a global immigration crisis.” A fiction writer, essayist and journalist, her work most often concerns issues related to youth, migration, the environment and her home state of California. Markham's first book, The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life (Crown, 2017) was the winner of the 2018 Ridenhour Book Prize, the Northern California Book Award, and a California Book Award Silver Prize. It was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Selection, a New York Times Book Critics' Top Book of 2017, and was shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the L.A. Times Book Award and longlisted for a Pen America Literary Award in Biography. Markham has reported from the border regions of Greece and Mexico and Thailand and Texas; from arctic Norway; from gang-controlled regions of El Salvador; from depopulating towns in rural Sardinia and rural Guatemala, too; from home school havens in southern California; from imperiled forests in Oregon and Washington; from the offices of overwhelmed immigration attorneys in L.A. and Tijuana; from the upscale haunts of women scammed on the Upper East Side. Her writing has appeared in outlets such as VQR (where she is a contributing editor), Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Guernica, Freeman's, Mother Jones, Orion, The Atlantic, Lit Hub, California Sunday, Zyzzyva, The Georgia Review, The Best American Travel Writing 2019, and on This American Life. She has been awarded fellowships from The Mesa Refuge, UC Berkeley, Middlebury College, the McGraw Center, the French American Foundation, the Society for Environmental Journalists, the Silvers Prize, the de Groot Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. In addition to writing, Markham has spent fifteen years working at the intersection of education and immigration. She regularly teaches writing in various community writing centers as well as at the Ashland University MFA in Writing Program, the University of San Francisco and St. Mary's MFA in Writing Program. Her third book, Immemorial, will be published by Transit Books in 2025. Buy A Map of Future Ruins Lauren's Website Los Angeles Review of Books' Review of A Map of Future Ruins At about 4:00, Lauren makes the case that not all young reading has to be high-brow as she discusses formative works as a kid and adolescent, which included Nancy Drew and Milan Kundera At about 6:50, Lauren responds to Pete's question about how she thinks and writes in diverse genres, and how her reading of varied writers informs her own work At about 10:40, Lauren shouts out Vauhini Vara, Hernan Diaz, Nathan Heller, Jia Tolentino, and other treasured contemporary writers At about 12:45, Lauren talks about how writing informs her teaching, and vice versa At about 15:25, Pete asks Lauren about seeds for A Map of Future Ruins and how her work with many undocumented and refugee students has affected her writing At about 19:00, Lauren and Pete discuss ideas of belonging and exclusion and pride and heritage in connection to Lauren's Greek heritage and reporting trips there At about 23:10, Ideas of “insiders” and “outsiders” and the challenges of immigration paperwork are discussed At about 26:05, Pete and Lauren reflect on a powerful quote from Warsan Shire regarding people being impelled to emigrate At about 26:55, Lauren gives background on the conditions that made Moria on the Greek slang of Lesbos a “purgatory” At about 31:20, Demetrios, a representative Greek from the book, and his views on immigration and “speak[ing] bird” is discussed At about 36:05, Lauren expands upon how Greece as the “starting point of democracy” has been corrupted and co-opted and points to a stellar expose on truth from Kwame Anthony Appiah At about 41:50, The two discuss the arbitrary nature of “The West” and Greece and its ideals and ideas of a “Western lineage At about 43:55, Lauren expands upon the ideas of “proximity to Whiteness” with particular historical relevance for Greeks, Italians, and Southern Europeans At about 44:55, Pete and Lauren reference the horrific images of the Syrian refugee whose death galvanized support, as well as Ali Sayed's story, traced in her book At about 46:40, Lauren explains terminology and methods of doing business by Turkish and other smugglers At about 48:10, Turkish and Greek relations and how they affected the lack of patrols is highlighted At about 49:20, “The Moria Six” and Ali's story and trials are discussed in relation to the fire referenced at the beginning of the book At about 52:00, The impositions of maps and Empire are reflected upon At about 53:05, “Whiteness” and its imposition on “classical form” and racist science are explored, as written about in the book At about 54:55, The two trace the initial and later welcome for refugees to Greek islands and ideas of the original meaning of “asylum”; Lauren also highlights many incredible people helping refugees to this day, as well as ideas of “invaders” and scapegoats At about 58:40, Discussion of Greek austerity and true issues of difficulty for are referenced At about 59:50, The two discuss Lauren's section in the book regarding Darien Gap and connections to Lauren's family's own emigration/immigration story At about 1:02:00, The two highlight ideas of community among refugees, and Pete asks Lauren about pessimism and optimism and the book's title At about 1:03:25, Ali's unfinished story is referenced At about 1:04:05-Laser Round Questions! East Bay Booksellers, Point Reyes Books and Green Apple are shouted out as good places to buy her books At about 1:05:05, Immemorial, Lauren's 2025 release, is described What a pleasure it has been to speak with Lauren. Continued good luck to her with her future writing and important work. Thank you for listening to this episode of The Chills at Will Podcast. You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode. I am very excited to have one or two podcast episodes per month featured on the website of Chicago Review of Books. The audio will be posted, along with a written interview culled from the audio. A big thanks to Rachel León and Michael Welch at Chicago Review. Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content! This month's Patreon bonus episode features segments from conversations with Jeff Pearlman, F. Douglas Brown, Matt Bell, Rachel Yoder, Jorge Lacera, and more, as they reflect on chill-inducing writing and writers that have inspired their own work. I have added a $1 a month tier for “Well-Wishers” and Cheerleaders of the Show. This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form. The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com. Please tune in for Episode 261 with Greg Mania, who is a writer, comedian, and award-winning screenwriter. He's also author of the debut memoir, Born to Be Public, which was an NPR Best Book of 2020 and an O, Oprah Magazine Best LGBTQ Book of 2020. Greg's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Oprah Daily, PAPER, among other international online and print platforms. This episode will air on November 12. Lastly, please go to ceasefiretoday.com, which features 10+ actions to help bring about Ceasefire in Gaza.
In this Poetry Pour, host Ava Jordyn reads a poem from Warsan Shire titled “For Women Who Are Difficult to Love”. Check out Ava at https://linktr.ee/avajordyn Check out Entertainology at https://linktr.ee/entertainology
In this episode of The Poetry Exchange, we talk with one of poetry's greatest leading lights, Malika Booker, about the poem that has been a friend to her: ‘The Domestic Science of Sunday Dinner' by Lorna Goodison.Malika Booker, currently based in Leeds, is a lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage, and co-founder of Malika's Poetry Kitchen (A writer's collective). Her pamphlet Breadfruit, (flippedeye, 2007) received a Poetry Society recommendation and her poetry collection Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre 2014 prize for first full collection. She is published with the Poets Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire in The Penguin Modern Poet Series 3: Your Family: Your Body (2017). A Cave Canem Fellow, and inaugural Poet in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company, Malika was awarded the Cholmondeley Award (2019) for outstanding contribution to poetry and elected a Royal Society of Literature Fellow (2022).Malika has won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem TWICE: in 2020 for 'The Little Miracles' (Magma, 2019), and most recently in 2023 for 'Libation', which you can hear her read in this episode.'Libation' was first published in The Poetry Review (112:4). ‘The Domestic Science of Sunday Dinner' by Lorna Goodison is published in Turn Thanks by Lorna Goodison, University of Illinois Press, 1999.You can read the full text of ‘The Domestic Science of Sunday Dinner' on our website.P.S. don't forget you can pre-order your copy of Poems as Friends – The Poetry Exchange 10th Anniversary Anthology – which is published by Quercus Editions on 9th May 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bienvenidísima queridísima Fauna bípeda estresada con acceso a wi-fi! henos aquí una vez más que atizamos la hoguera en la ágora para calentar un poquito nuestro Ritual de lo VIRTUAL de eclectomeiroland en su Sedición #520 que esperemos quede al dente y te encuentre cómo oyente justo aquí en frente porque Este será un Paseo por Grandes Mentes cómo Ricardo Flores Magón, Hipatia de Alejandría, Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Baruch de Spinoza, Warsan Shire y el #ChoroChido de Rodrígo Solís Acá en nuestro Ritual de lo VIRTUAL de eclectomeiroland en su Sedición #520 por Política y Rock and roll Radio 106.7 FM desde Hermosillo, Sonora hasta el Ajusco por Radio Comun 103.1FM
Warsan Shire is an accomplished advocate and poet that has published works and worked with Beyoncé.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Van Dis heeft een hoofd vol zorgen over de gebeurtenissen in het Midden-Oosten. Hij geeft er zijn eigen kijk op, die mede is gekleurd door zijn jeugd en zijn verblijf op een kibboets, eind jaren zestig. Zoals hij vaak doet zoekt hij duiding in poëzie, ditmaal met gedichten van Avner Treinin en Warsan Shire. Na het poëtisch intermezzo vertelt Van Dis over het boek ‘Smibologie' van prof. Soortkill, dat je van achter naar voren moet lezen. Hij is onder de indruk van het boek, waaruit hij haalt dat een 0-5 achterstand op de maatschappij als je opgroeit in de Bims (Bijlmer), óók een kracht kan zijn.Adriaan introduceert, tot verrassing van presentator Simon, een nieuwe rubriek: ‘Knipsels'. Uit de New York Times knipte hij een stuk over een onderzoek naar concentratie: onder invloed van social media blijkt de concentratieboog de afgelopen jaren sterk afgenomen.De twee gedichten van Avner Treinin (1928 – 2011) zijn vertaald door Shulamith Bamberger. Gepubliceerd in ‘De Tweede Ronde. Jaargang 7' (1986)Fragment uit ‘What They Did Yesterday Afternoon' – Warsan Shire (1988). Gepubliceerd in 2011.Uit de nieuwe rubriek ‘Knipsels':https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/well/mind/concentration-focus-distraction.htmlBoeken die voorbijkomen:‘Hoe genees je een fanaticus' - Amos Oz. Vertaling Patty Adelaar. De Bezige Bij (2016)‘Wij slaven van Suriname' – Anton de Kom. Atlas Contact (2020)‘Amsterdam in bijna 80 boeken' – Geert Mak/René van Stipriaan, Guus Luijters, Marita Mathijsen, Emile Brugman. Atlas Contact (2023)‘Smibologie' – Prof. Soortkill. Uitgeverij Pluim (2023)Te bestellen via de webwinkel van Atlas Contact: https://www.boekenwereld.com/van-disVan Dis Ongefilterd wordt gemaakt door Adriaan van Dis, Simon Dikker Hupkes, Ellen van Dalsem, Bart Jeroen Kiers en Erik Brandsen. @atlascontactwww.atlascontact.nl© Atlas Contact | Adriaan van Dis Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
ÖVERSÄTTNING: Judith Kiros UPPLÄSNING: Judith Kiros DIKT: "Välsigna spöket" av Warsan ShireDIKTSAMLING: Välsigna dottern (Aska förlag 2022)MUSIK: Jóhann Jóhannsson: A sparrow alighted upon our shoulderEXEKUTÖR: Hildur Guðnadóttir, cello, The Lyndhurst orchestra, Anthony Weeden, dirigent
This week we're talking about poetry! Join us for a conversation on some of our favourite poems, and poets such as Warsan Shire, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, John Agard and much more.Contact us at thestackedpod@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram at: Stacked - https://www.instagram.com/thestackedpod/ Amanda - https://www.instagram.com/amandaafuaa/ Credits: AiAi Studios - https://www.instagram.com/aiai.studios/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The conversation is in English, after a short introduction in Swedish. Möt Warsan Shire i samtal med Judith Kiros. En av världens mest omtalade poeter besökte Internationell författarscen – Warsan Shire har prisats för sin poesi och samarbetat med Beyoncé. 2023 utkom "Välsigna dottern" på Aska Förlag, en bok som samlar hennes dikter från de senaste tio åren. Warsan Shire är en brittisk poet, född i Kenya 1988 av somaliska föräldrar. Hon växte upp i London och är bosatt i USA. Hon har studerat litteratur och hennes dikter har en stor läsarskara över hela världen. I samarbete med Aska Förlag. Från 3 maj 2023 Jingel: Lucas Brar
In this month's book club mini episode Hannah, Laurie and Rebecca chat about Warsan Shire's Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head. The book is available here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/bless-the-daughter-raised-by-a-voice-in-her-head/warsan-shire/9781784743703 The article Laurie references where Bernadette Evaristo interview Warsan Shire about the collection is available here https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/26/warsan-shire-bernardine-evaristo-suoperstar-poet-beyonce
Sono trascorsi quasi dieci anni da quando almeno 600 persone persero la vita in due naufragi, il 3 e l'11 Ottobre 2013 al largo di Lampedusa. In quello dell'11 persero la vita almeno 60 minori, tanto che venne definita “la strage dei bambini”. Dal 2014, quasi 26.000 persone sono scomparse nello stesso modo nel Mar Mediterraneo nel tentativo di raggiungere le coste europee. Dal 2016, il 3 ottobre è stata istituita Giornata della memoria e dell'accoglienza, a monito che tali tragedie non si ripetessero. Il 26 febbraio scorso, decine di corpi sono stati trascinati dalle onde del mare in tempesta sulla spiaggia di Steccato di Cutro, a Crotone, in Calabria. Un peschereccio partito da Smirne, in Turchia, con circa 200 persone a bordo molto probabilmente ha preso una secca e a causa delle onde molto alte si è spezzato. Quello di Crotone è il naufragio più grave dal 2013 sulle coste italiane, tra le vittime oltre 10 bambini, tra cui un neonato. Il ministro dell'Interno davanti a una simile strage ha usato parole di rara disumanità, colpevolizzando le vittime: «La disperazione non può mai giustificare condizioni di viaggio che mettono in pericolo le vita dei propri figli». La poesia della scrittrice e poetessa Warsan Shire, nata in Kenya da genitori somali, in apertura di questo podcast, è l'unica risposta possibile che ci sentiamo di dare al ministro. Perché partono. Ne abbiamo parlato con Antonella Sinopoli, direttrice Voci Globali, collaboratrice di VB profonda conoscitrice dell'Africa, vive in Ghana. In questi anni ci ha accompagnato nella conoscenza del continente africano e dei flussi migratori al di là di stereotipi e pregiudizi. Musica: Plus rien ne m'étonne - Tiken Jah Fakoly
Saving our democracy isn't just about registering people to vote, ending gerrymandering, and so on. It's about getting back to the basics of living together well through micro, everyday moments. To kick off season four of the show, Baratunde talks with writer, activist, and fellow Virgo adrienne maree brown about how we can learn to practice democracy in every space we're in and how our small, civically-minded behaviors in society create a culture that isn't easy to shake. Stay till the end to hear questions from our live audience. SHOW ACTIONS Internally Reflect - Make a plan to share your power What communities are you a part of right now, from the smallest to the largest, the most local to the most global? Build that list in your mind. In which of these communities do you play some role in decision-making and resource allocation? Can you think of ways to bring others into those decisions more? In other words, can you think of ways, even and especially small ways, to bring more democracy to your existing communities? Become Informed - Study the work of Grace Lee Boggs & Octavia Butler adrienne was mentored by Chinese American philosopher, writer and activist Grace Lee Boggs. Learn more about Boggs in the documentary American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs. Explore the power of fiction to affect our vision of what's possible by reading adrienne's book, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. And her newest book, Fables and Spells. You should also read the Parable Series by Octavia Butler to see why adrienne is so obsessed with this writer. Most books cited in the show are available on our Bookshop.org page. Publicly Participate - Practice collaborative ideation Return to the communities you identified in the personal reflection. It could be your household, classroom, office department, or group chat. Within one of these groups, have members identify some challenge you feel is hurting or impeding the group. Then ask folks to imagine what things would be like years out if this challenge were fully resolved. How would they feel? What would they be able to accomplish? Write this down in short form, perhaps a corny movie trailer to make it fun. “In a world, where none of us carries student debt…” or “In a world, where everyone in this house is able to access the bathroom for as long as they need without preventing others from doing the same…” It doesn't have to be super serious. The point is to try, with others, to imagine a better future. If you don't have someone to play with, try this by yourself but look for ways to share your ideation with others, maybe in an email to a friend or a post on social media. SHOW NOTES Read the poem Home by Warsan Shire and check out the book Brave Community: Teaching for a Post-Racist Imagination by Janine de Novais. Find How To Citizen on Instagram or visit howtocitizen.com to join our mailing list and find ways to citizen besides listening to this podcast! Please show your support for the show by reviewing and rating. It makes a huge difference with the algorithmic overlords and helps others like you find the show! How To Citizen is hosted by Baratunde Thurston. He's also host and executive producer of the PBS series, America Outdoors as well as a founding partner and writer at Puck. You can find him all over the internet. CREDITS How To Citizen with Baratunde is a production of iHeartRadio Podcasts and Rowhome Productions. Our Executive Producers are Baratunde Thurston and Elizabeth Stewart. Allie Graham is our Lead Producer and Danya AbdelHameid is our Associate Producer. Alex Lewis is our Managing Producer. John Myers is our Executive Editor. Our Mix Engineer is Justin Berger. Original Music by Andrew Eapen and Blue Dot Sessions. Our Audience Engagement Fellows are Jasmine Lewis and Gabby Rodriguez. Special thanks to Joelle Smith from iHeartRadio and Layla Bina. Additional thanks to our live audience voices Allison M., Janine D., and Carole W. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On today's episode of Love Notes From a Soul Coach, we're talking about cycle breakers. A cycle breaker in a family system is the person who refuses to perpetuate the hurt they've inherited. They are the one, in the family lineage, who is determined to break the chain of dysfunction and do things differently. A cycle breaker says: REGARDLESS of how much hurt I've experienced, I refuse to allow that hurt to justify imposing the same kind of cruelty, hurt and abuse on someone else. The cycle breaker says: I acknowledge the hurt but I don't act on it. I don't act it out on others. I choose to use my precious time on earth to heal instead. To connect these dots and wake up and do things differently. The Somalian poet Warsan Shire wrote: no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark No one ousts themselves from their own tribe unless there is something seriously wrong inside that tribe. The strength to stand up for what is true and right for us, according to our own internal, spiritual compass is a deeply courageous act and it yields, ultimately, to authentic healing in the family system. Learn more about cycle breakers, and how to support yourself if you identify as this role in your own family system, on today's episode. Find transcripts for each show, read my book or listen to my FREE guided meditation for anxiety relief at: marywelch.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This month, Laurie, Hannah and Rebecca chat to Bristol-based poet Sam J Grudgings about punk, writing a sequel to the Bible and his explosive performance style. Plus there's poem from Joss Affleck and a sneak preview of our book review episode on Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire, which will be out later this month. You can find out more about Sam, and buy his book, The Bible II, here https://www.samjgrudgings.co.uk/
When we are forced to leave a life behind, what price do we truly pay. This question is the one at the heart of Warsan Shire's poem Midnight In the Foreign Food Aisle.Join me as I delve into this incredible portrayal of her uncle. Warsan Shire can only be described as a poetry superstar, who has captured the attention of audiences worldwide. From becoming London's first young poet laureate to collaborating with none other than Beyoncé on her album LemonadeShire has made a remarkable impact in the world of poetry.But those achievements are only a small part of what makes her writing so powerful. Warsan writes with a raw emotion that connects directly with her readers, and her unflinching approach to writing about her own feelings, family relationships, and the world at large has earned her immense popularity.In this episode, we'll explore the way in which Shire's culture and upbringing in North West London have shaped her unique writing style and crystal clear observations of others. The New Yorker ProfileSubstackInstagramTwitterYoutubeThe music in this week's episode is Little Fire by Tamuz Dekel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own way toward womanhood. Drawing from her own life, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women and teenage girls. In Shire's hands, lives spring into fullness." The Cheeky Natives sat down with Warsan Shire following the release of her much anticipated poetry collection. In a far ranging conversation spanning the both themes of the book and the context in which they exist, this complex and layered life was laid out. These poems are a record of black womanhood, a journey often characterised by a prevailing state of precarity and difficulty. Despite this, Warsan also captures the joy and magic in the essence of our journey into becoming. Warsan's writing is masterful, each poem so vividly and tenderly written that it unfurls as you read it. For fans of Warsan, (s/o to Tumblr), this collections feels like a meeting of old friends, an encounter where one sees just how much they have changed and grown. In many ways, this book is effulgent. A writing against the abyss of trauma, harm and erasure.
Warsan Shire (1988) escritora, poeta, editora e professora Somali, criada em Londres. Poeta mais jovem a fazer parte da Sociedade Real de Literatura, venceu o primeiro Brunel International African Poetry Prize. Nesse poema ela trata uma realidade caótica pensando em reverso, e provando que mesmo assim pode existir amor, mesmo que seja na escrita. Acompanha o poema a obra Wallace de Hans Zimmer. Obrigado. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edmundonesi/message
Warsan Shire er ein kritikarrost og prisvinnande britisk poet. I 2016 vart ho trekt fram av artisten Beyoncé som ei av hennar favoritt-poetar, og ho figurerer på albumet «Lemonade» og i filmen «Black Is King». I 2014 var ho første poet som fekk tittelen Young Poet Laureate of London.Shire er fødd av somaliske foreldre i Kenya og oppvaksen i Storbritannia, og har sagt at ho nyttar si eiga erfaring som innvandrar, så vel som erfaringar frå familie og kjende i det ho skriv.Dei to diktsamlingane hennar, Eg lærer mor mi å føde og Velsigne dottera oppdratt av ei stemme i hovudet, er begge gjendikta til norsk av Camara Lundestad Joof og Kristina Leganger Iversen. Her utforskar ho tema som oppvekst, mødrer og døtrer, svart identitet, migrasjon, familie og tru gjennom eit stilsikkert språk, der både referansar til popkultur og ord og frasar på somali er fletta inn.Athena Farrokhzad er ein svensk poet og forfattar, særleg kjent for debutsamlinga Vitsvit, om migrasjon, kvitheit og vald. På Litteraturhuset møtte ho Shire til ein samtale om poesi og marginaliserte menneske og erfaringar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Warsan Shire is a critically acclaimed and award winning British poet. In 2016, the artist Beyoncé named her one of her favorite poets, and she appears both on the album «Lemonade» and in the film «Black Is King». In 2014, she was the first poet named Young Poet Laureate of London.Shire, born to Somali parents in Kenya and raised in Great Britain, has said that she draws on her own experiences as an immigrant, as well as those of her family and friends in what she writes. Shire has published two chap books, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth and Her Blue Body as well as one full-length poetry collection, Bless the Daughter Raised By a Voice In Her Head. Her poetry explores themes such as girlhood, mothers and daughters, black identity, migration, family and faith in a striking language, interspersed with both references to pop culture and phrases in Somali.Athena Farrokhzad is a Swedish poet and writer, best known for her debut collection Vitsvit (White Blight), about migration, whiteness and violence. At the Hourse of Literature she joined Shire for a conversation about poetry, marginalized people and their experiences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Somali British poet Warsan Shire has had many projects, including running a popular Tumblr page and collaborating with Beyoncé. Now, she is out with a new collection of poems called Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head. That title is an ode to how she was raised, having to take on a lot of responsibility from a young age. But Shire told NPR's Sarah McCammon that it's also an ode to the children who are able to turn those voices into their friends instead of struggling with them as she has.
Den kenyanskfødde britisk-somaliske poeten Warsan Shire tok verda med storm med diktsamlinga «Eg lærer mor mi å føde». Den nye diktsamlinga heiter «Velsigne dottera oppdratt av ei stemme i hovudet». Ho er gjendikta av poetane Kristina Leganger Iversen og Camara Lundestad Joof. Programleder er Janne Stigen Drangsholt. Dette er eit opptak frå Kapittelfestivalen 2022. --- Innspelt på Sølvberget bibliotek og kulturhus i september 2022. Medverkande: Warsan Shire, Camara Lundestad Joof, Kristina Leganger Iversen og Janne Stigen Drangsholt Produksjon: Åsmund Ådnøy
Hablamos sobre: ¿Cómo maternarnos y darnos lo que no recibimos de nuestros padres? (Estructura, destrezas de comunicación, pedir perdón, auto compasión, amor propio, confiar en ti, auto regulación, etc.) Es posible ser agradecidas con nuestras madres por lo que hicieron pero a la vez expresar que necesitabamos otras cosas de ellas. Lo complicado que es exigir más de nuestras madres cuando ellas no tenían mucho apoyo para criarnos Lo mucho que nos irrita las personas que no tienen conciencia de sí ni destrezas de inteligencia social Tips para manejar la presión del fracaso, combatir el síndrome de impostor y re definir nuestros logros. La modestia no le sirve a las mujeres y femmes. Tenemos destrezas que tienen valor y que no nos enseñan a reconocer porque se asocian con la personalidad de una mujer. El impacto de cuando nos alagan por no expresar necesidades desde niñxs. El costo económico de sanar traumas y ser sobreviviente de violencia secuaz. Les modelamos un ejemplo auto regulación a través de la respiración y otro ejemplo para analizar tu círculo de apoyo. Puti(a)rte-Poemas de Warsan Shire con temática de maternarnos, ser nuestro propio fuego, sanar heridas seccuales generacionales. Ser mujer feminista y entender los traumas de tu jevo pero eso no significa que los tienes que tolerar. También hablamos de no ser el hogar de otra persona sin reciprocidad. Mojaera- Unirse como amigas y ayudar a una amiga a procesar el fin de una relación Recursos Mencionados: -Corona de Flores- Ana Castillo Muñoz -Homecoming Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole, Authentic Self0 Therma Bryant Ph.D. -Psicóloga y Astróloga- Instagram @vroshk www.veroshk.com -Recursos de Terapia y referidos: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C0lnBqXwM-yJKHzSwdVhTVx1jhLrEAq_wp8m7ihSi3Y/edit?usp=sharing -Teaching my mother how to give birth por Warsan Shire Conecta con nosotras a través de nuestras redes sociales: Instagram/Twitter/Tiktok: @vulgarmaravilla Moni: @soylamoni Leuryck: @leuryck_valentin Melz: @itsmelonmelz Apóyanos en: Patreon.com/VulgarMaravilla Para ser parte del segmento Léeme esta: Envíanos un DM en Instagram o un email vulgarmaravilla@gmail.com *La información y opiniones expresadas en este podcast no sustituyen una consulta con un profesional de salud mental y salud se*ual.
Episode 142 Notes and Links to Sadie Shorr-Parks' Work On Episode 142 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Sadie Shorr-Parks, and the two discuss, among other topics, her lifelong love of poetry, formational writers and poems, art's role in her writing life, themes of her poetry revolving around love and loss and so many more themes, and the amazing circumstances that inspired her poetry collection's title and ethos. Sadie Shorr-Parks teaches writing at Shepherd University, where she is the Director for the Society for Creative Writing. She is the author of HONEY MONTH (Main Street Rag). Her writing has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Appalachian Heritage, Aquifer: The Florida Review, Blueline, Cimmaron Review, The Hongkong Review, Lines+Stars, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sierra Nevada Review, Southwest Review, Utne Reader, and Witness, among others. Her book reviews can be found in Los Angeles Review of Books and Southern Literary Review. She edited Becoming International: Musings on Studying Abroad in America (Parlor Press). Sadie Shorr-Parks' Website Buy Honey Month Read Samples from Honey Month “Making Light of It”-Gabby Bates Interviews Sadie for Southwest Review, Aug 2022 At about 2:00, Sadie discusses her loves in teaching, and the two discuss the power of personal narratives At about 4:20, The two begin to explore ideas of perspective in writing At about 4:45, Sadie lists some of the artistic works-visual, literature, etc.-that have thrilled her and inspired her At about 8:00, Pete cites a profound quote from Sadie's work that dovetails with questions for her about art and muses; Sadie analyzes the exact quote with regard to her mother's life and her own At about 11:50, Sadie responds to Pete's questions about works/writers that have given her “chills at will,” including Warsan Shire, “For Women Who are Difficult to Love,” Marianne Boruch, Louise Gluck (“her desert island poem”), and Ada Limón At about 14:25, the two fanboy/girl as they discuss Andrea Cohen's legendary, chill-inducing “The Committee Weighs In” At about 15:20, Sadie gives some Ada Limón recs At about 16:10, Pete (again) recommends “The Gospel According to Mark” as a stunner At about 18:00, Pete wonders about “ ‘Eureka' moments” for Sadie, and she talks about the “dreamy” feeling associated with grad school and creating At about 21:30, Sadie delves into the significance of the title and inspirations for Honey Month At about 23:55, The two discuss the “loving review” done by Gabby Bates for Sadie's collection At about 24:55, the two use a quote from Bates to discuss At about 27:20, Pete cites a quote from Honey Month's Goodreads page and the conversation moves to Pete's description of the collection as “quiet” and Sadie reacts to this description At about 30:30, Sadie talks about her love of 16th/century poetry and its characteristics At about 31:50, The two reflect on the quiet and nature depicted in the collection At about 35:25, Sadie references a certain poem and ideas of beauty and love being intertwined At about 37;00, Sadie discusses the recurring theme of love and breaks from lovers, and Pete notes the opposites that stand out that accentuate love and other ideas At about 38:25, Pete points out some clever and interesting verb usages throughout the collection At about 40:20, Pete cites another set of opposites and Sadie is reminded of writing this work in 2017, as the world was changing so rapidly At about 42:00, Sadie notes how differently her upcoming collection themes are from the first At about 43:00, Pete shouts out Nightbitch as an incredible work that so aptly describes early parenthood At about 44:50, The two discuss “adding to subtract” and Sadie discusses ideas of body image, double-standards and metaphors that come with “destruction” At about 47:40, the two discuss poems that feature themes of nostalgia and lost love and equilibrium At about 49:40, Sadie talks about the importance of being “even-keeled” At about 50:50, Pete cites a meaningful line, and Sadie discusses various meanings of “missing” someone At about 52:40, The two discuss poems dealing with love and reconciliation At about 55:15, The two gives differing takes on a key line about “endings” At about 57:15-57:50, Sadie describes how a poem brought her boyfriend (now husband!) and her together At about 57:55, A key line about daughters and mothers engenders conversation about a key theme of the book and how hard is it to write about beloved people (moms for sure!) 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En el episodio de hoy, Andrea Ramos nos hablará de Tik Tok como medio de difusión para la poesía. Además, nos compartirá una de sus traducciones de Home, un poema de Warsan Shire. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/librostransporte/message
TW // eating disordersI'm biased but oh my goodness, I love this guest and this episode SO much. Ahead of Refugee Week, which runs 20-26th June, it is my honour to welcome the poet Warsan Shire to the podcast. Warsan was born in Kenya to Somali parents. She migrated with her family to the UK at the age of one and her powerful poem Home - which opens with the line ‘no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark - has become the unofficial anthem to raise awareness of the refugee crisis. She's also a frequent collaborator with Beyonce - her poems are featured in the singer's seminal visual album, Lemonade. Now, at the age of 33, Warsan's first full length collection, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head, has just been published to critical acclaim.Warsan joins me to talk about her failures in everything from breastfeeding to maths. We also talk about her eating disorder and her 'failure to control it'. We discuss what 'home' really means and what it is to be a refugee. And yes, we OBVIOUSLY talk about Beyonce.Warsan is a beautiful, powerful communicator and this interview made me think and understand better. I hope you like it as much as I do.--Warsan's poetry collection, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head, is available to order here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1119216/bless-the-daughter-raised-by-a-voice-in-her-head/9781784743703.html--How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com--Social Media:Elizabeth Day @elizabdayHow To Fail @howtofailpod Warsan Shire: @warsanshiree
Översättning: Judith Kiros Uppläsning: Judith Kiros Diktsamling Välsigna dottern Aska förlag 2022 MUSIK Torbjörn Carlsson: PresenceEXEKUTÖR Torbjörn Carlsson, gitarr
Översättning: Jakob Kaae Uppläsning: Josefin Iziamo Diktsamling "Lära min mor att föda" Rastlös förlag, 2014MUSIK Bill Frisell: MonroeEXEKUTÖR Bill Frisell, gitarr, Hank Roberts, cello
Warsan feels like an outsider growing up in London. She wants to find stories that she can see herself in, but when she can't find any she decides to write them herself and turns emotions into insightful poems. ✍️
This week on Under the Radar: It's undeniable — poetry is having a moment. So we're revisiting one of our favorite conversations about the craft from back in 2019. Many attribute the growing popularity to social media, poetry outreach efforts and visibility from superstars like Beyoncé, who read poems by Warsan Shire on her visual album "Lemonade." So what is it about the art of putting motion to measure that is striking a chord these days? To gain insight into the current landscape of poetry, and in celebration of National Poetry Month, we're sitting down with two lyrical extraodinaires. GUESTS: Kwame Alexander, Newbury medal winning author, poet and publisher. He is the author of 36 books including The Undefeated. Rose Hansen, 2019 and 2021 Massachusetts State Poetry Out Loud Competition champion.
Director Shasha Nakhai talks about her feature film debut, Scarborough, and what a story set in one of Toronto's most undervalued communities can tell us about race, class and community. Writer Warsan Shire discusses her first full collection of poetry, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head, about migration, womanhood, trauma and resilience. Model and singer Irina Lazareanu talks about her new book, Runway Bird: A Rock 'n' Roll Style Guide, and reflects on the style icons who inspired her.
Gay homosexuals Nick and Joseph discuss Eaux profondes (Deep Waters) - a 1981 French thriller film directed by Michel Deville and starring Isabelle Huppert. Additional topics include: Rupaul's Drag Race Season 14, Jessica Chastain, Jussie Smollett, Warsan Shire, the death of Takarda Akira, and too many films to mention. Want to send them stuff? PO Box 461752 Los Angeles, CA 90046 Check them out on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChVV6ezEYnPv9XaLZtUlZdw Nick's IG: ragingbells Joseph's IG: joroyolo --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fish-jelly/support
Somali British poet Warsan Shire has had many projects, including running a popular Tumblr page and collaborating with Beyoncé. Now, she is out with a new collection of poems called Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head. That title is an ode to how she was raised, having to take on a lot of responsibility from a young age. But Shire told NPR's Sarah McCammon that it's also an ode to the children who are able to turn those voices into their friends instead of struggling with them as she has.
The special bond of the mother and daughter - and its complexities - are up for discussion this week. Radio 3's regular writing programme hears about the concept of being "parentified" from Warsan Shire in her new collection examining the experience of displacement endured by her family. And Ruth Padel joins us to talk about Daughters of the Labyrinth, a novel which sees central character Ri investigate a secret history. Ruth also takes us through the Cretan performance poem the Mantinades, and even gives us a rendition. Think beautiful, ancient Cretan rap battle... And Hollie McNish reads us her poem Sweet Separation about the pangs felt when a daughter begins the process of developing her independence. Hollie discusses the somehow inadequate terminology of motherhood and how we consider, or rather reject, the postpartum female body. And following the death of beloved children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes, Lissa Evans describes an artist with a unique ability to capture the small details of children's lives and encompass them in kindness. She discusses how Shirley's work made a difference to her non-traditional family, and how adopting daughters led to an interest in the experience of wartime evacuees. Her latest book is V for Victory. Presented by Ian McMillan. Produced by Kevin Core.
Irish writer Colin Barrett discusses his much anticipated second collection of short stories, Homesickeness, the follow up to his hugely successful 2014 Young Skins. Long before he became the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky played the President of Ukraine. In Servant of the People he was an everyman swept into office to fight corruption. Now, as he fights the Russian advance Zelensky's comedy is being shown on Channel 4 and All 4. The Sunday Times Europe Editor Peter Conradi joins academic and writer Rommi Smith and Sameer Rahim the Arts and Books Editor at Prospect Magazine. Sameer and Rommi stay with presenter Tom Sutcliffe to discuss the first full-length book of poems from Beyonce favourite, Warsan Shire. In Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head, the Somali-born British poet explores themes of themes of migration, womanhood, Black identity and resilience. Also up for review is Run Rose Run, Dolly Parton's foray into fiction. Co-written with best-selling author James Patterson, the novel is a thriller about a singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run. The songs written about in the book correspond to an accompanying music album. We know the country music star can write stories in songs but can she write stories in books?
New York, 1984: the iconic artist Andy Warhol meets the rising star Jean-Michel Basquiat. Their relationship as they work together on a landmark exhibition is at the heart of the world premiere of Anthony McCarten's new drama, The Collaboration, at the Young Vic theatre. The director Kwame Kwei-Armah tells Kirsty Wark how the drama pulls apart the creative, racial and sexual tensions between the two, and explores artistic reputations and rivalries. The artist Louise Bourgeois was already in her 70s in the 1980s and slowly getting the attention she deserved. An exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London focuses on the decades that followed as she had a late burst of creativity using fabric and textiles. The curator of Woven Child Ralph Rugoff explains how the artist began to incorporate clothes from all stages of her life into her art, mining themes of personal trauma, memory, identity and reparation. The Somali-British poet Warsan Shire has been hailed as the voice of a generation, who has collaborated with the superstar Beyoncé. Her debut collection, Bless The Daughter: Raised By A Voice In Her Head is full of sounds and smells, exploring the lives of refugees and the relationship between mothers and daughters. While she is celebrated as an exciting poet of our time, Shire says she looks to Somalia's literary heritage for inspiration. Producer: Katy Hickman Photo credit: Jeremy Pope and Paul Bettany in 'Collaboration' (c) Marc Brenner. Concept and design by Émilie Chen.
This week we investigate one of the strangest implications of the Ashcurse; the heavenly refugees. At the time of the Ashcurse, not only were there gods on the mortal side of the curtain, but there were mortals on the side of the divine! What happened to these individuals? What happens to a mortal body when it passes into the heavens?Listen this week to find out!———Curious about something you heard in this episode? Chances are you can find out more about it in the Record of the Lorekeeper!———Want to learn more about Halûme? Got some ideas of your own? Join the conversation at www.reddit.com/r/thelorekeepers or by visiting our homepage at thelorekeepers.com and clicking on "Canon". Note that it may not render properly on your browser. If so, try using Chrome.Questions or ideas? Visit r/thelorekeepers!Website: thelorekeepers.comEmail: lorekeeperspodcast@gmail.comTwitter: @thelorekeepersLorekeepers art by Sam Wade.Instagram: @bysamwade
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Mary and Wyatt are freaking out because they're so excited to welcome the inimitable Nadia Schuessler to the pod. Nadia is a social worker, public health advocate and community organizer. She cares deeply about harm reduction, integrated healthcare, trauma centered healing practices and community arts. She has worked in a variety of fields, including mental health/addiction services, food manufacturing, a variety of seasonal tourist attractions, and most notably, the music industry with her all time favorite boss Mary. Mary and Wyatt chat with Nadia about her wide variety of experiences: community theater, driving ice cream trucks, managing logistics, doing social work, and driving a Winnebago with Mary while on tour. She talks about how a family tragedy motivated her to pursue a career in social work and public health. Also on the agenda: The Whisper Game, the ingenious design of the human butthole, and poems by Warsan Shire, Laura Kolbe, and Rumi.
“Forthright but also full of grace”: that could be a mantra for how we should all live our lives. It's also how Jacqui Patterson has described her ideal as she fights for environmental justice in a world that can feel like it's submerged completely in environmental injustice.From the South Side of Chicago, to Jamaica, to South Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, Jacqui has continually asked what deep, transformative change looks like. She grounds her theory of change in community-led advocacy. She envisions a world of eco-communities and works with real communities across the country who have already created elements of these utopian visions.But never does she lose sight of climate change and environmental exploitation as multipliers of injustice.Jacqui Patterson directed the Environmental and Climate Justice Program at NAACP from 2009 to 2021. Most recently, she is Founder and Executive Director of The Chisholm Legacy Project: A Resource Hub for Black Frontline Climate Justice Leadership.I've had the great privilege of knowing Jacqui for the last few years, and she's an advisor on my current documentary film in post production, called Raising Aniya.In our conversation, Jacqui discusses the origins of the environmental justice movement and the importance of community-led activism, and she charts her path to a life devoted to the struggle for environmental justice.This is the first episode of the Chrysalis podcast! You can listen on Substack, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast platforms.Please rate, review, and share to help us spread the word!Jacqui PattersonJacqui Patterson is the Founder and Executive Director at The Chisholm Legacy Project: A Resource Hub for Black Frontline Climate Justice Leadership. Since 2007, Jacqui has served as coordinator & co-founder of Women of Color United. She directed of the Environmental and Climate Justice Program at NAACP from 2009 to 2021. Jacqui has worked as a researcher, program manager, coordinator, advocate and activist working on women‘s rights, violence against women, HIV&AIDS, racial justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice. Jacqui served as a Senior Women's Rights Policy Analyst for ActionAid where she integrated a women's rights lens for the issues of food rights, macroeconomics, and climate change as well as the intersection of violence against women and HIV&AIDS. Previously, she served as Assistant Vice-President of HIV/AIDS Programs for IMA World Health providing management and technical assistance to medical facilities and programs in 23 countries in Africa and the Caribbean. Jacqui served as the Outreach Project Associate for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Research Coordinator for Johns Hopkins University. She also served as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Jamaica, West Indies. Jacqui holds a master's degree in social work from the University of Maryland and a master's degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University. She currently serves on the Steering Committee for Interfaith Moral Action on Climate, Advisory Board for Center for Earth Ethics as well as on the Boards of Directors for the Institute of the Black World, The Hive: Gender and Climate Justice Fund, the American Society of Adaptation Professionals, Greenprint Partners, Bill Anderson Fund and the National Black Workers Center.Quotations Read by Jacqui Patterson“If you come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because, you know, and feel that your liberation is bound to mine, let's walk together.” - Lilla Watson“you have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land” - From "Home" by Warsan Shire“If one of us is oppressed, none of us are free.” - Unknown“the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.” - Che GuevaraRecommended Readings & MediaTranscriptionIntroJohn Fiege “Forthright but also full of grace”: that could be a mantra for how we should all live our lives. It's also how Jacqui Patterson has described her ideal as she fights for environmental justice in a world that can feel like it's submerged completely in environmental injustice.From the South Side of Chicago, to Jamaica, to South Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, Jacqui has continually asked what deep, transformative change looks like. She grounds her theory of change in community-led advocacy. She envisions a world of eco-communities and works with real communities across the country who have already created elements of these utopian visions.But never does she lose sight of climate change and environmental exploitation as multipliers of injustice.Jacqui PattersonFor example, if a child is having a hard time paying attention in school, because lead and manganese are some of the toxins that come out of these, these smokestacks, or if a child is having a heart is not able to go to school on poor air quality days, or if the school that 71% of African Americans live in counties in violation of air pollution standards, and an African American family making $50,000 a year is more likely to live next to a toxic facility than the white American family making $15,000 a year. And we know that. But yeah, then on average, if you're living next to a toxic facility, your property values are significantly lower, and property values go directly into funding our school system. So if you have all of these challenges with being in school in the first place, learning in school, and then the school itself doesn't have the level of quality of other schools, then studies show that if you're not on grade level, by the third grade, you're more likely to enter into the school to prison pipeline.John FiegeI'm John Fiege, and this is Chrysalis.Jacqui Patterson directed the Environmental and Climate Justice Program at NAACP from 2009 to 2021. Most recently, she is founder and executive director of The Chisholm Legacy Project: A Resource Hub for Black Frontline Climate Justice Leadership. I've had the great privilege of knowing Jacqui for the last few years, and she's an advisor on my current documentary film in post production, called Raising Aniya.In our conversation, Jacqui discusses the origins of the environmental justice movement and the importance of community-led activism, and she charts her path to a life devoted to the struggle for environmental justice.Here is Jacqui Patterson.---ConversationJohn Fiege You grew up on the South Side of Chicago. Could you start by talking a bit about the neighborhood where you grew up how that shaped you and you know, being an urban environment, how you viewed your relationship to the rest of nature?Jacqui Patterson Yeah, growing up on the South Side of Chicago, been an area where it was, there was lots of, of trees, there was lots of I was just talking with someone yesterday about how how we would get excited when we would see a Blue Jay or a Robin in our trees, there were squirrels, there was an occasional rabbit, which was very exciting. And, and there was a lot like summers were all about being outside. Winters were moderately about being outside John Fiege If there was snowJacqui Patterson Exactly. Only if there's snow. And otherwise it was being huddled inside and and at the same time, there was the other side's being to being born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, which is that it was a gang land area with the Black P Stone Nation and the El Rukns. As the main gangs and the pressure on boys to to affiliate and the guns, as you hear the challenges you would have. So being outside was also challenged by that as well. I mean, it didn't, I don't remember it being kind of a constant thing, but I don't remember it necessarily meaning that we didn't go outside but I do remember a couple of times where, where, where there were times when they were kind of fights or so forth, it would be inside. So to put my dad was from Jamaica, so we took a trip, we went to the park often and my dad was definitely big on the outdoors. And so we would go to the park frequently, both our local park as well as sometimes going to a national park to hike.John Fiege Oh, awesome. And, you know, that must impact your view of what the environment is to when you, you know, you see the birds in the trees and those beautiful, tree lined streets of South Side of Chicago. And at the same time, there's this, like, this potentially dangerous environment you're dealing with sometimes as well.Jacqui Patterson Yes, it definitely, definitely makes it a mixed situation. It reminds me of when I was at a conference of the Power Shift Network, I was moderating a panel with youth. And, and this person who was on the panel, I mean, it was a real striking and moving moment because the person was on the panel stood up and she said, You know, I would like for me being you know, I would love to be able to have the luxury to go to the park and so forth. But for me just surviving was the objective and and if I can get beyond just focusing on survival to be able to go to the park, you know, that would be a good day. And she actually started crying while she was saying that because I think it was such an emotional moment to be attacked about the very thing that you know, about the very thing that that kind of puts in stark relief, the difference in realities and what's what's kind of normal to other people would be a luxury to her.John Fiege And survival survival is a prerequisite for enjoying the world Jacqui Patterson exactly, exactly.John Fiege Well, not not only is your father from Jamaica, but you spent time in the Peace Corps in Jamaica. Yeah, which I find really, I find so interesting, because not many Peace Corps volunteers work in a country so close to their roots. Can you can you tell me about the path? This this young girl from the South Side of Chicago took to Jamaica and and how that experience influenced you?Jacqui Patterson Yeah, sure. Um, I grew up I grew up very active in the church, we'd be in the church like five days out of the week, during the summer. And, and during the winter, this at least a couple of times weekly. When during the summer, so I was always a Sunday school teacher and during the summer, I was a vacation Bible school teacher and and as I decided on my career path, I decided I wanted to be a teacher. And so and then I was watching TV one day and saw this commercial about the shortage of special education teachers. Oh, I could do that. And I decided to do that as well. And so after I, long story short, I was in Boston going to school for undergrad at Boston University. And it was. And that was when I first started to really get involved around social justice. I was working in a shelter for homeless people who were unhoused in Boston, and then also at the same time getting involved in the Housing Now movement there. Anyway, then I fast forward to deciding after I graduated to go to Peace Corps, what was interesting there in terms of the time between me going to Peace Corps and a place that I know is that to make us known was the recruiter was telling me that Jamaica was I had actually wanted to go to a place that where I could learn Spanish or French, or some other language, you know. And so she was she really put a hard pressure on me to go to Jamaica, because it has a high rate of attrition of people dropping out. And, and so she also needed like someone who was kind of specialized in special education, and it's a little bit at the back then it was almost rare to be able to do something that's so aligned with your actual career that I'd like there was someone there in my group who was a drama major in school, and she ended up being a bananas extension officer with the Agriculture Department. So it's kind of funny. So anyway, she says, Yeah, so all of that is what led to me being in in Jamaica.John Fiege What did you see there and experience that you can connect with what you did later, you know, what you're doing now and what you did later with your work?Jacqui Patterson Yeah, so a couple things. One is, as a special education teacher in the parish of St. Thomas one situation arose where there was a whole group of three year olds who had hearing impairments because, you know, a little bit over three years ago, almost four years ago, they had an outbreak of rubella. And I guess when a mom has rubella, then it's more likely for her child to be born with a hearing impairment. And so, so I ended up being because I had taken one sign language class in undergrad, I ended up being a sign language teacher to these, these, these parents and their children, it was like a parent child group, and so helping them to be able to communicate. And so both that in and other kind of situations of people with special needs, there are who are differently abled was just struck me in terms of being a systemic issue, kind of people not having either choices and not having resources to live a thriving life, in those circumstances of being differently abled made me really think about the prevention aspect, you know, and so I, I started to decide I was coming, come back and go into, into public health, and also do a double degree one in public health, on the technical side of things, as well as one in social work, but macro level social work, to learn about community organizing, because at that point, point, it was just clear that important to community voice, community power community leadership, parallel, or, you know, at the same time, I was also kind of in Jamaica, just observing the circumstances in terms of, you know, what led there to be not the resources to have to have the rubella vaccine in a place that is so beautiful, so, so much possibility for people to be able to, to a to have the, the whether it's that natural resources to eat or the natural resources to, to provide energy for the country and all of these different things. And then also the the natural beauty that attracts, you know, millions of tourists there with all of the billions of dollars that are coming with with that. And yet we have communities where the you know, people are living in abject poverty. And so, so, so seeing that, watching films like Life and Debt that talked about structural adjustment programs, and then and then reading books, like How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, I started to really understand some of these systemic issues as well. So that was an important kind of politicization. And then the last thing I'll say is also I was there I was in a community where the water supply was contaminated by Shell Oil and the community had to push for, for justice and that situation, but in that situation, it was definitely a David and Goliath, where the community ended up getting as part of their settlement a series of ventilated improve pit latrines for the community, as well as some money given to the school for three Rs program. So that was the settlementJohn Fiege in exchange for a billions of dollars worth of oil,Jacqui Patterson and in exchange for having their water supply contaminated, drinking poison for several, yeah, I mean, whatever long term illnesses that was that was caused. And so these were the so these are the things these are the lessons I learned in my short time in Peace Corps, they really kind of all all contributed to the trajectory of my life since thenJohn Fiege I find that so interesting, when there's something there's some short period of time when in when you're young, and you can find in that period of time, so many seeds that germinated later in your life. And when you're talking about Jamaican, like, I'm hearing like all of the elements of your later work. It's so interesting. Jacqui Patterson Yeah, it is fascinating. John Fiege So I've heard you say that climate change is a multiplier of injustice, which is, which is really beautifully succinct. Can you explain what that means?Jacqui Patterson Absolutely. So both on the on the the whole climate continuum, we think about in terms of the drivers of climate change, and the impacts of climate change. on the driver side, you have all of the polluting practices that contribute to the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. And so the fact that these facilities are disproportionately located in BIPOC communities, whether it's coal plants, or or oil and gas refineries, or other or fracking, or it's even near roadway, air pollution, and air in the ways that that impacts all of those are disproportionately located in, in in BIPOC communities and also in trash incineration, and landfills and so forth. And I could make more, agricultural, like confined animal feeding operations, etc. So with all of those being disproportionately located communities of color, it's not only that they're emitting greenhouse gases, but they're all also emitting pollutants that that also harm that compound harm to the public health and well being of those communities. And so whether it's the sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, which is tied to asthma rates, and African American children are three to five times more likely to go to the hospital for asthma attack two to three times more likely to die of an asthma attack, or it is the mercury which is known to be an endocrine disruptor. And we know that low birth weights, infant mortality, etc, are much higher, for example, in African American communities and beyond. So there's just so many examples of these negative health impacts. But then on top of it all, we talk about multiplier as well, it's a multiplier of a multiplicity of issues. And so, for example, if a child is having a hard time paying attention in school because lead and manganese are some of the toxins that come out of these, these smokestacks, or if a child is having is not able to go to school on poor air quality days, or if the school, 71% of African Americans live in counties in violation of air pollution standards, and an African American family making $50,000 a year is more likely to live next to a toxic facility than the white American family making $15,000 a year and we know that then on average, if you're living next to a toxic facility, your property values are significantly lower and property values go directly into funding our school system. So if you have all of these challenges with being in school in the first place, learning in school, and then the school itself doesn't have the level of quality of other schools, then studies show that if you're not on grade level by the third grade, you're more likely to enter into the school to prison pipeline. So we see all of these interconnected, you know, multiplier issues, and then a multiplicity of issues that they get exacerbated. And so these are, and that's just one scenario. That is an example when we talk about the gender, gender and justice that already exist, and then on the pipelines, along the lines of the pipeline, there's a high rate of sexual assault of Indigenous women in particular, along those pipelines. Also, around the man camps that are propped up around these oil and gas rigs, there is a high rate of missing and murdered Indigenous women, there's a drug trade that's come up, there's trafficking that that happens in those areas. And, just a known level that you know that you can when googled one can see all the different statistics and stories around this. And so that's just on the driver side of the continuum. And then we go on the other side in terms of the impact. We know that climate change that, for example, when we talk about the increase in frequency and severity of extreme weather events, that women are more likely to experience violence against women after disasters. Whether it's, yeah, so we saw that with the earthquake in Gujarat, the tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, for sure. And even the BP oil drilling disaster where I was down there and that the, the police blotters showed a four fold increase in domestic violence in one particular area, I was sitting in Alabama, and we look at place after place, it was the same thing. And they even though the BP oil drilling disaster wasn't caused by climate change, it also was on the other driver's side of the continuum as well. So anyway, so then, then, when we talk about the the shifts in agricultural yield, we know that already, for example, 26% of African American families are food insecure. And when we have shift in agricultural yields that mean that healthy nutritious foods are going to be even more inaccessible and less affordable, than that just exacerbates what's already a bad situation for for African American families who too often live in communities where it's easier to get a Dorito or a Cheeto or Frito than kiwi or quinoa or anything. So when we, when we see that then we also see how these various chronic health conditions that are that are causing premature deaths and shorten our very life expectancy as a people. And then that has made us even more vulnerable to the impacts of of COVID-19 and has contributed to our high rates of mortality. Then when we talk about sea level rise, also communities that are less likely to be homeowners, we know that 44% of African Americans are homeowners versus 75% of white Americans, for example. And so when when you know when you have when you need to move or even impacted by disasters, all of that, being in a homeowner, you know, when you have equity you have in not only do you have equity in your home, conceivably, but you're also also some of the aid from FEMA and so forth is directly tied to being a homeowner and the work of relocation is still emerging and how that's going to be financed and what the mechanisms are going to be. ButJohn Fiege I wonder who I wonder who wrote those, those rules?Jacqui Patterson Yeah, as I say, we can pretty much rest assured thatJohn Fiege they were homeowners at least,Jacqui Patterson yeah, that's really something. So all of these things. Oh, and then finally, I'll just say to as it relates to sea level rise, combined with, combined with the frequency and severity of extreme weather events is the fact that even after we think we find out that the levee fortification is, like so many other things was tied to property values after Hurricane Katrina, where they decided to to fortify all these levees in Louisiana. they used a formula to decide which levees they were going to be fortifying first. And it was based on what the economic impact would be if the levy was overtaken, which literally legislates or institutionalizes the the disregard for the people who are the most vulnerable, just literally by definition, by design.John Fiege Early on in the COVID pandemic, you wrote an article for Color Lines, that that connects the pandemic to climate justice, among other things. So you write: "Centuries of racist policy and practice have shaped the neighborhoods we live in, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, our access to education and justice, and the health care we receive (or don't). Layers of harm, generation after generation, alter our bodies at the molecular level and even the genes we pass on to our children. Those harms, past and present, render us more vulnerable to the coronavirus—and also to the longer-term crises caused by climate change." Wow, it's really amazing how you can connect dots and wrap so much into this single paragraph. Can you talk about the importance of seeing whole systems, rather than separating out these interconnected issues in order to envision what you call deep transformative change?Jacqui Patterson Yes, absolutely. So when we have a system that, as I said before, is doing exactly what it was designed to do by those who, as you said, designed it. And, and when we continue to try to tweak a system, which at its core has a different intention, then then what we should be seeking, which is literally liberty and justice for all, then then we have to think transformation rather than than reform. But we have a system that means that, that certain people are only more likely to live in certain communities when you have a system that says that those communities are, by definition, are the communities that are the asthma clusters, the cancer clusters, the communities where the life expectancy is shorter, too often by decades, sometimes by almost a lifetime, when we talk about infant mortality, and and, and so forth. So when we talk when we have a system where before African Americans were emancipated from slavery, there were policies that enabled white people to be able to access these grants for land for those for schools, or for farming or otherwise. So and when African Americans were emancipated, not only had they put in this in slave labor, that that to build a country that was completely uncompensated, but also didn't even have the legal rights to be able to write legal wills to pass down their property. And so not only do we have white Americans who, for whom, African Americans were part of the, their actual generational wealth, but then on top of it all, they were given all these additional aids by by the government system. And so it's clear why at this point, we have white wealth at $171,000 on average, per household, African American wealth at $17,000 per household. And then yeah, there will be a layer gender on top of it all, we have African American female headed households with the average wealth of $5. And so if we just continue to try to tweak a system that's doing exactly what it was designed to do in the first place, you know, now 400 years after the transatlantic slave trade, this is where we are. So what's going to be the increments of change? And what what, what century will there be equality if we don't actually do something transformational now?John Fiege Yeah, I, I talk a lot about the problem with how we've set up environmental issues where, you know, if somebody wants to learn about why we have environmental problems, they're often told to go study science or to go study economics. But the best place to start really is American history. You can't separate how the systems were built from the problems they've caused, and to pretend that we can address them without acknowledging and confronting those those things is so delusional.Jacqui Patterson Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Thank you.John Fiege So to talk about the NAACP and the roots of the environmental justice movement. Many people consider the birthplace of the environmental justice movement to be in Warren County, North Carolina, in 1982, when 500 people were arrested, protesting the siting of a toxic waste dump for PCB laden soil and a county that was predominantly African American, and one of the poorest counties in the state. Among the coalition of community members of the Civil Rights Organizations, was the NAACP and Reverend Benjamin Chavez, who later became the executive director of NAACP. Can you talk about the importance of this moment, both for the movement and the NAACP?Jacqui Patterson Yeah, thank you. Um, yes. So one thing that is important about that, that the rise The movement in its inception is the power of the people and the importance of frontline community leadership, it was never going to be some organization or some entity that's outside of the community looking at and seeing this is wrong. And then, you know, organizing a plan and in and so forth, it was the power of the people that that really unsurface the situation that that the push for the type of change that they need to have and, and that we all need to have. And really gave rise to this movement. And so it needs to kind of go as it started in terms of the movement. And this is why we're always pushing for frontline community leadership. And so for us, that situation was critical around the the roots of the problem and the depth of the problem. And it was critical around the, in terms of just like the extreme level of contamination and so forth in the health impacts and so forth. And it was also critical in terms of the method and the ethos behind the solution of the problem and addressing it. And so for us, it just means that we, but it also was critical in terms of how long it took. And we often now when I'm doing presentations often show this kind of four image slide of three, of four toxic situations, the Flint water crisis, the Chicago Indiana arsenic and lead crisis and Eight Mile Alabama Mercaptan oil spill and then I show the Porter Ranch gas spill that happened and talk about how you know for each of the other situation it was they were decades, you know, decades and still seeking justice. Before the Porter Ranch gas spill, it was literally within a matter of months there was kept within a matter of less than a year that they were they were given $4 million in damages to this white wealthier white community versus decades and hundreds of 1000s of dollars at best for these other communities. John Fiege Yeah, well, the coalition is the coalition around that event was, was incredible. And, you know, this kind of genealogy of civil rights within environmental justice, it seems to really be you know, NAACP is a is a huge national organization, just like the big environmental organizations. But do you see that it's kind of history and valuing and ability to work with local groups on the ground changes the way this giant national organization interacts with communities?Jacqui Patterson I do. So for one thing, one of the things that has that drew me to the work and has kept me at the NAACP is the fact that we are accountable first and foremost to our frontline community leadership and so that that being the marching orders for for us as a program and for the association really does set it apart from from other organizations in that sense, like we do things because our state and local branches think that they are important. And so that's quite different than if you are setting an agenda and then you're deploying all of these, these these chapters to do like some other large national organizations. And so but but when we're when we're working in the environmental climate justice program, for example, we're we're out there in the branches and we're saying, like, let's, let's do a visioning session, what do you want for your community, and then now, well, we can help with political education, we can help developing a strategy. We can walk alongside you once you have your action plan of what you want to do and help connect you to resources and so forth. So that model of like, it's about what you want for your community. And then we kind of see the patterns of what people are interested in and what they're facing. And then we roll that up into a national agenda that we get res ources for on behalf of the units and that we then advocate for at the federal policy level as well. So if a community might be working on, you know, a lead crisis in their backyard, we might be helping them with how to deal with that. Then at the at the federal level, we're working on the lead and copper rule under the Clean Air Act and so forth. So that's always kind of a corresponding national agenda, but it corresponds with the leadership of our state and local units.John Fiege Oh, that's, that's interesting. And it's such so important. Always going back to that. Yeah, accountability to the communities. So key. So can you talk a bit about your theory of change and the work you're doing, and maybe first describe what a theory of change is? And then how your theory of change has shifted over time as you've engaged ever more deeply in this work?Jacqui Patterson Yeah, thank you. So, first, the theory of change is exactly what the words imply, is the theory of how change happens in our world. So for us, and it's interesting to even when we were kind of like, formally crafting our theory of change, there was kind of the difference between the change that's needed, and how do we get there. And then there's also kind of models and theories of change that were more granular, but our broader theory of change is rooted in the just transition framework that we work with the Climate Justice Alliance, and others facilitated Movement Generation, when we, when we talk about the just transition framework, we are moving from a society that is rooted in exploitation, domination, extraction, and enclosure of wealth and power militarism, as a vehicle to do it. And so moving from that, to what we consider is a living economy, versus an extractive economy, a living economy that's rooted in principles of caring, caring for the sacred cooperation. And really, kind of honoring the earth and honoring each other, as well as really rooting it all in deep democracy. And so, for us, that means that the work that we do, in terms of how we get there is around visioning, starting with a visioning, visioning of our communities and then helping with political education so that if a community has a certain vision, then thinking about how they get there is rooted in understanding how it fits in with this broader context. And then three is then working with the community to develop a strategy to advance change. And then four is then working with communities on developing an action plan based on that strategy and their understanding of the political education, but rooted in their vision, and then we accompany folks through achieving that action plan helping along the way with connecting them to formational, technical, financial resources and so forth. And and so our overarching work as a national program is, is is around, you know, all starts and ends with with that with our community vision. And then we also work on the types of policy changes that need to shift the system. And we also work on narrative shifts, because too often narrative dictates what's happening from the very beginning, in terms of this false narrative of scarcity that has pushed so much of this notion that there's an inverse relationship between my well being and your well being I can only be well if you're not well because there's only so much to go around and so that has pervaded so much of this decision making and actions that we see and even down to, you know, our kind of extremely divided political system it is so based on that people feeling threatened people feeling fear people feeling whether it's the immigration, or it's this notion of Black Lives Matter, kind of meaning that other lives don't. So...so all of this so, so yes, a narrative shift is a critical piece as well as the policy change. And again, all rooted in the vision of our communities.John Fiege Yeah, awesome. Yeah. And you know, as you can imagine, you know, I'm super interested in narrative and environmental storytelling and how we're telling the stories that matter. And so that really caught my eye when you talked about controlling the narrative. Can you give maybe an example of like, what does controlling the narrative mean? What does that look like?Jacqui Patterson Yeah, I'll give an example on the, the problem up to till now in terms of some of the ways of the narrative has been controlled a wedge resulted in and then on the other side, so we have everything from, you know, at that end, again with African American folks, the ways that the narratives that have been advanced, whether it's the rise of the term super predator, or the ways that the black men have been considered to be an enemy or something to be feared, or someone to be feared, and though, and how that has led to in black folks in general, but definitely black men, and how that that led has led to profiling. And then that led to, to kind of this criminalization as well as police brutality and what has resulted in state sponsored violence. I talk about how, in the context of Hurricane Katrina, how there is this image that I show where it's two white couple, and they're in these floodwaters, and then there's African American, male in floodwaters and it's the same day. Associated Press is the outlet telling the story in both cases, but the caption with the two white people is, you know, "Two residents wade through chesty floodwaters after 'finding' bread and soda in the grocery store." With African American young man it says "A young man waves through testy floodwaters after looting a grocery store." And so that kind of characterization and a difference of it is exactly what leads to this racial profiling. And then leads to that criminalization and then to, for group of families on the Danziger bridge, where they were crossing in again, trying to find food, trying to find relatives, they were going back into New Orleans, and someone called the police on them and said that they wer e, you know, probably looking to loot and so they were unarmed and the police encountered them on the Danziger bridge and killed some of them as a result so that racial profiling that image of those two folks that you know, seemingly just an image in a newspaper but what it contributes to a narrative that certain people are up to no good and so we've seen how these days they're talking about living while black all the ways, I just myself I'm staying at an Airbnb in Florida and I went outside to, anyway there's some construction going on and so they left a package in the front that they're supposed to bring around to the back anyway, so I had to go under the construction tape to get the package and as I'm walking out I hear this voice go, May I help you? And it was this lady across the street who thought that I was stealing the package I mean, so and the irony was that I had met her like a couple days ago and had a conversation with her and she just didn't remember it. So but unfortunately but so the other day there was a whole another situation with another package and I walked around the neighborhood and I saw the packages, it had been delivered to another neighbor but I didn't want to kind of walk up and look at them for sure and didn't even want to knock on the door because, and so I called the person who owns the Airbnb and I'm like, do you know the lady who lives a couple doors down you know, and then there was a whole long two hour long process where she was trying to get Jonathan the real estate age all these different things you know, just so that I could get my my packages there on this door a couple of days back. So this is the kind of difference in life, you know that and reality but that's just you know, but that could have fatal effects or someone saw me skulking around it was they would have characterized it, and, you know, considered themselves to be defending their property, and people have the right to do that. And these, you know, again, with our system, this is what results and so, so all of this go on on the negative side of narrative, but and the importance of why, you know, and then when we talk about environment, this notion of 'job killing regulations' and, and again, that's based on scarcity assuming that like the only way that people will be able to work is that if they work at least jobs that also are fatal for other like people killing pollution, you know, the post job killing regulations and so we as communities are reframing to say it is possible for us to have all the jobs that we want, it is possible for us to have it in the context of clean air, clean water. And what we, what we do often is to do that by saying that it's already happening, here's where it's happening. And it's possible for us to take this to scale. John Fiege Well, how much of that taking back the narrative is, I mean, there's, you know, your example of Hurricane Katrina and, and the AP captions on the photos, you know, that kind of ties into this, the myth of objective journalism, and kind of these outside folks who are building a narrative that you're trying to counter, but in some ways, I'm wondering how much you have to reformulate the narrative from within your own ranks. You know, I'm thinking about early on environmental justice movement. You know, there were some communities that were pushing back against some environmental regulations, because they were concerned that the jobs in these communities were going to be reduced or or go away. And, you know, even today, we're seeing, you know, pushback from unions around the shift to to electric vehicles, because it's there gonna be fewer jobs involved. So what is that? How do you navigate that of like, people who are on your side, are also buying into some of these narratives?Jacqui Patterson Yeah, I mean, it's kind of what I just said, is really helping people to see how how all of it is possible. So that's true for whoever's on whatever side is the importance of that. And so we have, for example, put together the Black Labor Initiative on Just Transition. And, and for that initiative, we work with folks who stand to be impacted by these job shifts, that will happen and we say, okay, we need to make sure that we're supporting you who is impacted, and that you're in the driver's seat. So it's not, that's not something that's happening to you, but you're saying, here's what's happening, you know, in terms of the the needs of the earth, in our communities, and here's how I'm going to be impacted. If I don't say, Alright, this is what I want, that's going to allow us to have clean air clean water, and allow me to have a livelihood at the standard that I need to support my family. And so then both kind of making sure that people are in the driver's seat, and we're not just trying to tell them that this is better, they're actually determining that for themselves, and we're supporting that, but then also, so they, they will also be the ones who are able to educate and inform their, their peers as well. So, that's definitely what's most important, working with working with people to be able to self actualize whatever enlightenment might come, and what the path is.John Fiege So that that's what I hear you saying is that's, that's the key element of taking back the narrative and controlling the narrative is, is telling that story within your community and having that spread. Is that accurate?Jacqui Patterson Yeah, making sure that the community themselves kind of generate the story, like really being in dialogue with the community and have having that conversation, which are always always right, always kind of results in, in the truth versus, versus people kind of parroting what's been told to them. And so for us, it's all about an organic process. John Fiege Ok. That's awesome. Great. So, in in 2013, you released a report, a report called "And the People Shall Lead" which which is a great title. And it has, it has a subtitle, "Centralizing Frontline Community Leadership, and the Movement Towards a Sustainable Planet." So the report addresses working with big national environmental groups or big greens as you call them here. And you open the report this way: "How often do we hear frontline communities say, “We refuse to work with Big Green A until we hear an apology for past wrongs and a commitment to a fundamental change in how they operate” Or, “Why would I want to work with Big Green B? They will take the credit for the work I do!” Or, “I'll never work with Big Green C again. They have no respect for my culture.” At the same time, we often hear mainstream enviros speak with angst, “We want to work more with grassroots groups but we don't know how to engage them.” Or, “We reached out, and they didn't respond.” Or, “This plant is bad for this community but they just don't get it! We are trying to help them.” So that really cuts to the chase and shines a light on on the history of the kind of rocky relationship between white led and Black and brown led organizations when it comes to environmental justice. What has changed and what hasn't changed since 2013?Jacqui Patterson Yeah, thank you. Oh, that brings back memories. I haven't. Yeah, so what has changed is that those questions are less happening behind closed doors, particularly on the grassroots side. And also, what has also changed is that there have been formations that have been put together to deal directly with this issue, like the Building Equity and Alignment, no, Building Equity and Alignment for Impact one way, or like the B...Yep, that's exactly the B--Building Equity and Alignment for Impact, which is a combination of kind of these large green organizations, frontline grassroots groups, and philanthropy coming together to talk about to talk about these challenges, and how do we build more alignment recognizing that, yeah, that we know, we need it sorely. And so trying to work through some of those challenges that have been surfaced. But recognizing that, that, that the the power is in the collaboration and saying that we have to do this, we have to, we have to do this. And so that has changed, recognizing that and, and the formations to deal with it. And also certainly, what's also changed is the fact that philanthropy is supporting the need for that shift, and supporting the spaces to help to bridge those challenges. And that philanthropy is also recognizing that continuing to put, you know, millions upon millions of dollars and resources in the hands of only in the hands of big green organizations is actually exacerbating some of those dynamics and challenges. And there's a lot more of an effort to support frontline grassroots groups. So all of those things have changed, as well as the urgency of the climate clock, that it hasn't changed, but it's become much more well known. And, and therefore, as Martin Luther King says, "People are feeling the fierce urgency of now" in terms of the the nature of a critical this of kind of getting it together. So not to say that in some ways, all those things have shifted. And, and, and some and and the very same things are still being said at the same time. You know what I mean? John Fiege RightJacqui Patterson Yeah, so the problems persist, but at least there's an acknowledgement of them, which is the first step and some, some steps in the right direction. John Fiege Right. It's a process. Always a process. Jacqui Patterson Exactly Yes. John Fiege So what does antiracism look like in the environmental movement? Jacqui Patterson Yeah, in the environmental movement, it means that across the board and all the work that we do around the environment, we have to acknowledge and intersectionally address the impacts of racism. I famously talked about when I was doing a talk for a funder, a funder ask me to do a talk to a group of solar, like solar industry, folks. And when I gave my slides, the funder was like, "Yeah, we just want you to focus on solar, you know, and on energy. And so, so I, I said, so after kind of going back and forth with them, I was like, Alright, I'm not gonna use slides, and I'm renaming my talk. Black Lives Matter, Energy Democracy in the NAACP Civil Rights Agenda, and after I gave the talk like people, like it was kind of a well, it was an exponentially better received talk than if I had just I don't know what they what even just talking about this would mean in the context of, you know, the reality of life. But but but, but the folks in the industry really saw a new purpose and what they were seeing doing and political purpose and what they were doing, and they felt brought meaning to the work that they do. And so, so, so in some, it's first of all, kind of understanding that a) how how racism impacts how it impacts environment, environmental work and environment in the environment and b) understanding that, and that the very same systemic underpinnings that are driving climate change, are rooted in racism and so forth, and that we and if we don't kind of address these issues at their roots, we we won't be able to address climate change. And so that that's another piece that people need to understand. John Fiege Can you talk about your work across the international borders and how it fits into what you're doing here in the US?Jacqui Patterson Sure. Yeah. When we first went to actually one of the first things that I did, when I joined the NAACP, actually, I was already I was already going to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties in Copenhagen, before I joined the staff and so so I ended up going in kind of this hybrid role of kind of starting to join the end up starting to be a staff member of the NAACP and already planning to go as part of this project I'd started through Women of Color United looking at the intersection of gender and climate. And at that UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties will call it COP that I first encountered the Panafrican Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), and and I had been my work my work leading to working with NAACP had been International, that's the work that I do so I always had that international orientation and seeing how things are connected and so forth. But and in the context of connecting with the PACJA, done other international groups, we now have a memorandum of agreement with PACJA,. And being a part of the US Climate Action Network, which is part of the Global Climate Action Network, we we see the connections between US policies, domestic and quote unquote, foreign policy, and and everything from at those UN climate talks. Historically, no matter what administration the US has played an obstructive role always wanting to kind of commit as little as possible from an national standpoint, but then that also impacts the level of commitment across the board, if you have one group bringing it down, it kind of waters down the the teeth and the aspirations and the ambition in the in the agreements. And so recognizing that we need to be there as us voters to hold the delegation that's there to you and climate talks accountable for, for not weighing down because we can't like if we even if we all in the US stopped all of our emissions tomorrow, we're still in a globe. And if we're kind of weighing down the rest of the processes, then other people's a missions like yeah, we are 25% of the global emissions. So it would definitely have a significant impact. But we need to we need everybody to stop emitting in order for us to as a as a world to advance. And so the US has to be there making commitments on its own part, and it has to push for ambition with all the industrialized nations who are driving climate change for us all to be able to survive and thrive. So that's one thing. We in our connection with the Panfrican Climate Justice Alliance, we in our storytelling that we've done since then,we go there for those UN climate talks. We were in Nairobi for those conversations they've come here, and what's emerged as the story of our connections are like the same ways that countries in the Global South and BIPOC communities in the global north are least responsible for climate change. We all share... We all share the fact that we're at least responsible and we all share the fact that we're most impacted. And we all share the fact that we're the least politically powerful in terms of the decision making thats had, so we have our organizing as a bloc to say, you know, we, as global Afro descendant, leaders on environmental and climate justice, want to have a common agenda so that we are, we're pushing in concert and building power of as a global majority, in terms of BIPOC folks. And so with that, that means that we like even as I push for something here, or if our if our communities and movement here push for like stopping the burning of coal, then at the same time, we're pushing to stop global exports of coal. And at the same time, countries in Sub Saharan Africa are pushing to stop the global imports of coal. So we really we deal at all sides of that, that continuum. So those are just some...and then I'll just end with another example of kind of those connections as well. So as we talk about immigration policy, again, US being 4% of the population, but 25% of the emissions that drive climate change. But yet we have these punitive immigration policies so that when people are driven out of their nations because of disaster, or because their breadbasket has dried up as a result of our actions, on climate me on on emissions, but also our kind of imperialist actions, and the ways that the structural adjustment programs that others have made, have made those nations in, you know, uninhabitable, in some cases in some of the communities, then instead of kind of offering refuge in sanctuary, we're putting people in cages. And so while we work on better immigration policies to really so that not just, you know, so we're taking responsibility and being accountable for the actions that are driven people from their nations, but at the very least, but ideally, just because people need need they their need, and we and we have abundance, again, pushing back on that false narrative of scarcity. But then at the same time, we're also pushing for the types of policies that allow countries to be self sufficient, and able to address the impacts of climate change or avoid climate change in the first place. So through the US commitments to the UNFCCC and so forth, and that we're helping the to work with our kind of partners in the Global South, to be able to have nations where we where people don't have to kind of flee in order to survive. And I'll just end with a quote from, Warsan Shire, which is... Somali...a Kenyan, a Somali born Kenyan poet. Anyway, she says, "You have to understand that no one puts their children in a boat. Unless the water is safer than the land."John Fiege Wow. That's a good punctuation mark. Yeah, it makes me think back to what you were saying earlier about whole systems and the absolutely importance and importance of thinking in terms of whole systems. So how is your work change since the killing of George Floyd and the blossoming of the movement for Black Lives?Jacqui Patterson Yeah, for one is gotten more, we've been just crushed by by demands that so that's one thing. And not only, the full the fulfilling the demands is kind of the least of it in terms of capacity, because we, for the most part, don't even get there. But uh, but just fielding all of their demands, as is so many and trying to filter out which ones are from people who are pushing or are performative, because you know, they look good, which ones are people who are trying to do something because a funder is saying that they need to do this,John Fiege What are folks asking of you?Jacqui Patterson It's everything from just wanting to quote unquote, pick our brains. Like, "Here's what's going on in my company," like sometimes it's corporations sometimes is organizations. "Here's what's going on in my organization. Here's what I'm planning to do. Can you give them feedback on it?" That kind of thing. A lot of times is wanting people wanting us to come and speak, you know, just kind of help to educate folks. So that's another thing. Sometimes it's wanting us to recommend consultants, which is another thing. Giving feedback on on documents. And sometimes it seems like it's just so people want to be able to say that they talk to us, so it's just kind of wanting to have a conversation. Um, and then a lot of people wanting us to join, whether it's advisory groups or boards or steering committees or all these other things, because so various, various things.John Fiege A lot of things that are asking for a lot of time. Jacqui Patterson Yes, definitely. So there's that. On the other side, though. Some, some, some groups have come and they've said, Oh, now what you said, we see what you were saying all these years ago, and are kind of pulling, you know, dusting off some memo that I may have written way back way back when say, and actually taking it seriously now. So that's been interesting. And so that, so so on a positive side, there are there are organizations, companies and so forth that are making concrete commitments as a result of what has come. Yes. And so some folks are going beyond the statements and shifted their funding priorities shifting the way that they do the work integrating, at least a more anti racist frame into the work that they do. So that kind of enlightenment and action has definitely moved the ball in an important way. For sure.John Fiege So social movements often focus on what's wrong and what needs to change. But sometimes, they don't spend enough time imagining what could be, and getting people excited about those dreams of alternative possibilities. I've heard you talk about creating eco communities and locally controlled sustainable food and energy systems, with the potential for communities to become the owners and beneficiaries of local distributed generation and micro grid energy systems. I personally really love this kind of thinking, can you talk about some of these specific regenerative, self reliant eco-community ideas? And in how you think about what might be called utopian visions?Jacqui Patterson Yeah, definitely. So first, as I was talking about before, in terms of the type of societal shifts that we need, we know that the way each and every one of the systems around the commons are designed have been problematic, and not delivering universally what's needed. And, at best, and then at worst, actually causing harm in the generation and the delivery of, of whatever the good is. So we talk about our energy systems, we're saying we need to shift to, to more energy efficiency, to clean energy. And we need to have a distributed system of doing so we know that not only you know, whether we've we've already talked about extensively in terms of the pollution and so forth, but the energy sector, but the other thing that's important to note is the is the the energy companies in the millions...the billions of dollars in profits that they've made and how they've, they've invested that in, and not only anti-regulatory lobbying, and anti clean energy lobbying, but also invested in groups like ALEC, that push on voter suppression, water privatization, school privatization, prison privatization, etc. And so for us, when we talk about the alternative, it is about making sure that there's affordable and accessible energy for all and it's about making sure that that becomes the focus of the energy sector, versus the focus now which is on, again enclosure of wealth and power to the tune of billions of dollars. And so that's why we feel like the whole sector needs to shift. And so that's just a little bit of background there. And so we we've been able to lift up the stories where people are developing, whether it's micro grids, or even larger grids in for example, on Navajo Nation. They're replacing the Navajo Generating Station, which was one of the largest, most polluting coal fired power plants in the country, and now they have a Navajo Nation owned a solar farm. That is creating energy in a way that don't pollute, and it is owned and operated by the Navajo Nation. John Fiege That's awesome. Jacqui Patterson Yeah, that's awesome. John Fiege One thing that's exciting to me about the green new deal and similar ideas that came before it is, is the possibility for labor and sustainability to be on the same side for issues rather than constantly to be pitted against one another. What are your thoughts about how labor and justice and environment can can build solidarity as as we move into this new era?Jacqui Patterson Yeah, so we put together this Black Labor Initiative on Just Transition for that very reason. So that we are all talking together at the same table with a common agenda, we were speaking at the coalition of Black Trade Union this meeting a couple of years ago. And when someone asked us about the Cold Blooded Report, and we spoke on that, then someone raised their hand in the audience, and they were like, "Well, we're from the United Mine Workers of America. And we kind of take exception to this Cold Blooded framing." And so we really had a chat about that. And understood where they were coming from, and really kind of talk about how we had reached out to them, we put together the Black Labor Initiative on Just Transition a couple of years before. And we would love if they consider coming back to the table there. And so they they did, and we really had a great conversation that resulted in...I was going literally from that meeting, to a meeting of the 100% Building Blocks, which is being put together by this 100% Renewable Network. And so as one of the authors of the Building Blocks, I really pushed hard for us to have a building block that's dedicated to labor. And it was out of that conversation that I said, we need to have, like, right alongside the renewable portfolio standards and the energy efficiency standards we need to have in just right in tandem demands for high road jobs, for pensions, and for health care for transitioning workers. Like that can be like an afterthought, and "Oh, we need to do this too." It's not like, it's like, these are the things we need to do not like we need to do this too, because that automatically is like, but no, like we like these are the things we need to do. No caveat, no qualifier. Just like these are the things; renewable portfolio, standard energy, local higher provision, disadvantaged business, enterprise division, health, you know, health care, pensions and high road jobs for transitioning workers are inextricably tied prerequisites for this transition.John Fiege Yeah, and that goes back to what you talked about before of rooting, the work in the dialogue with with multiple groups, multiple people, multiple stakeholders, and finding truth through that negotiation discussion, rather than imposing it in some theoretical way on top of other people. So when the internet started to roll out in the 1990s, and 2000s, there was this, what was called the digital divide. Well, you know, wealthier, whiter, more urban communities got access to computers and the Internet, poorer communities, more rural communities, communities of color, were often not at the negotiating table and left out of the digital revolution. Some people are concerned that the rapid shift to green energy could cause a similar divide. Maybe you know, you could maybe call it a "green divide." What's your view on, on how this concern is playing out? And what do you see as the key elements to understanding what's going on and what to do about it?Jacqui Patterson Yeah. So before what I was talking about one of the groups wiping off the dust off of a memo I had written some years ago, it was on that very thing, basically saying that, you know, how we need to have leadership of frontline groups in the new energy economy. And again, similar to what I was just saying about Black labor and labor in general, that it can't be an afterthought, like you can't continue to focus as a sole industry on quote-unquote, the low hanging fruit or this false notion that "a rising tide lifts all boats." And so that's all to say that, uh, that we need to make sure that we're working with with, with the, with the policies to make sure that we have clean energy in terms of universal access, we have to make sure that we're working with communities to make sure that they understand what the routes are to be able to access, we have to work with these regulatory agencies, whether it's for FERC, or, or the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or the PCs and the PSCs, to make sure that they are, that they're holding these utilities accountable for practices that are pushing us to where we need to go as a society towards clean and efficient energy. So all of that needs to happen in concert to make sure that we don't have those kinds of separations, in terms of who acts who's accessing it, who's paying the price. John Fiege That your narrative doesn't get co opted by people with a furious intention for using that narrative. That's exactly ridiculous. Yeah. Well, going back to young Jackie, growing up in the south side of Chicago, how has your thinking changed since then, about who you are, and about your relationship to the rest of life on the planet?Jacqui Patterson Hmm. One is, I see that...for one thing I now understand in a way that I now understand the relationship between whether I turn the light switch on, you know, this, this relationship to this larger world, like this, literally the implications of turning my life switch on and were, like, tracing that back to its roots, and then tracing it out to its impacts. Similarly to, if I "throw something away" knowing know where that will go and what its impacts will be like. So now just from being that innocent child who, who didn't, who didn't have a sense of that larger world, now I see all of that. And see like my, my, the importance of my individual actions, but then the importance of my actions as a part of a collective, and the and the possibilities of a change as a change agent, and shifting from a person who kind of life happened to me, to someone who is actually able to influence what's happening in in the world in a different way. So that's a major shift. Also, just like the innocence of childhood, I was were aware of racism fairly early on, because it was a constant refrain with my mom, and so forth. My brother, a
Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Poet and activist Warsan Shire grew up in London. She is the author of the collections Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (flipped eye, 2011), Her Blue Body (flipped eye, 2015), Our Men Do Not Belong to Us (Slapering Hol Press and Poetry Foundation, 2015), and Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head (Random House, forthcoming 2021). Her poems have appeared in journals and magazines, including Poetry Review, Wasafiri, and Sable LitMag; in the anthologies Salt Book of Younger Poets (2011), Long Journeys: African Migrants on the Road (2013), and Poems That Make Grown Women Cry (2016); as well as in Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade (2016) and film Black Is King (2020).According to Alexis Okeowo in the New Yorker, Shire's work “embodies the kind of shape-shifting, culture-juggling spirit lurking in most people who can't trace their ancestors to their country's founding fathers, or whose ancestors look nothing like those fathers. In that limbo, Shire conjures up a new language for belonging and displacement.” Shire's poems connect gender, war, sex, and cultural assumptions; in her work, poetry is a healing agent for the trauma of exile and suffering. In an interview, Shire noted, “Character driven poetry is important for me—it's being able to tell the stories of those people, especially refugees and immigrants, that otherwise wouldn't be told, or they'll be told really inaccurately. And I don't want to write victims, or martyrs, or vacuous stereotypes … my family are really amazing—they'll tell me, ‘I have a new story for you,' and I'll get my Dictaphone and record it, so I can stay as true as possible to the story before I make it into a poem.”Shire has read her work in South Africa, Italy, Germany, and the United States. In 2013, she won Brunel University's first African Poetry Prize. In 2014, she was named the first Young Poet Laureate for London and chosen as poet-in-residence for Queensland, Australia. In 2017 she was included in the Penguin Modern Poets series. In 2019 she wrote the short film Brave Girl Rising,narrated by Tess Thompson and David Oyelowo, and became the youngest person to ever be inducted into the Royal Society of Literature.Shire is poetry editor of Spook Magazine and guest edited Young Sable LitMag.For more information about Warsan Shire:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Suketu Mehta on Shire, at 09:18: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-079-suketu-mehtaTim Robbins on Shire, at 07:10: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-113-tim-robbinsHome read by Warsan Shire: "Home" by Warsan ShireNY Times: Warsan Shire, the Woman Who Gave Poetry to Beyoncé's ‘Lemonade'https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/arts/music/warsan-shire-who-gave-poetry-to-beyonces-lemonade.html
In the last 25 years, India has changed, journalism has changed and Barkha Dutt has been at the frontlines. She joins Amit Varma in episode 243 of The Seen and the Unseen to speak about how we got here, and the lessons of these years. Also check out: 1. Barkha Dutt on Twitter, Instagram and the Washington Post. 2. Mojo Story on YouTube. 3. This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines -- Barkha Dutt. 4. The Nurture Assumption -- Judith Rich Harris. 5. Barkha Dutt's conversation with Deep Sidhu. 6. What They Did Yesterday Afternoon -- Warsan Shire. 7. We The Women on Facebook. 8. Memories and Things -- Episode 195 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aanchal Malhotra). 9. Little Crazy Love Song -- Mary Oliver. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader, FutureStack and The Social Capital Compound. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! And check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing.
Home by Warsan Shire
Today's Daily Quotation:Home by Warsan Shireno one leaves home unlesshome is the mouth of a sharkyou only run for the borderwhen you see the whole city running as wellyour neighbors running faster than youbreath bloody in their throatsthe boy you went to school withwho kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factoryis holding a gun bigger than his bodyyou only leave homewhen home won't let you stay.no one leaves home unless home chases youfire under feethot blood in your bellyit's not something you ever thought of doinguntil the blade burnt threats intoyour neckand even then you carried the anthem underyour breathonly tearing up your passport in an airport toiletsobbing as each mouthful of papermade it clear that you wouldn't be going back.you have to understand,that no one puts their children in a boatunless the water is safer than the landno one burns their palmsunder trainsbeneath carriagesno one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truckfeeding on newspaper unless the miles travelledmeans something more than journey.no one crawls under fencesno one wants to be beatenpitiedno one chooses refugee campsor strip searches where yourbody is left achingor prison,because prison is saferthan a city of fireand one prison guardin the nightis better than a truckloadof men who look like your fatherno one could take itno one could stomach itno one skin would be tough enoughthego home blacksrefugeesdirty immigrantsasylum seekerssucking our country dryniggers with their hands outthey smell strangesavagemessed up their country and now they wantto mess ours uphow do the wordsthe dirty looksroll off your backsmaybe because the blow is softerthan a limb torn offor the words are more tenderthan fourteen men betweenyour legsor the insults are easierto swallowthan rubblethan bonethan your child bodyin pieces.i want to go home,but home is the mouth of a sharkhome is the barrel of the gunand no one would leave homeunless home chased you to the shoreunless home told youto quicken your legsleave your clothes behindcrawl through the desertwade through the oceansdrownsavebe hungerbegforget prideyour survival is more importantno one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your earsaying-leave,run away from me nowi don't know what i've becomebut i know that anywhereis safer than here__________________________________________ Poet and activist Warsan Shire grew up in London. She is the author of the collections Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (flipped eye, 2011), Her Blue Body (flipped eye, 2015), Our Men Do Not Belong to Us (Slapering Hol Press and Poetry Foundation, 2015), and Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head (Random House, forthcoming 2021). Her poems have appeared in journals and magazines, including Poetry Review, Wasafiri, and Sable LitMag; in the anthologies Salt Book of Younger Poets (2011), Long Journeys: African Migrants on the Road (2013), and Poems That Make Grown Women Cry (2016); as well as in Beyoncé's visual album Lemonade (2016) and film Black Is King (2020).According to Alexis Okeowo in the New Yorker, Shire's work “embodies the kind of shape-shifting, culture-juggling spirit lurking in most people who can't trace their ancestors to their country's founding fathers, or whose ancestors look nothing like those fathers. In that limbo, Shire conjures up a new language for belonging and displacement.” Shire's poems connect gender, war, sex, and cultural assumptions; in her work, poetry is a healing agent for the trauma of exile and suffering. In an interview, Shire noted, “Character driven poetry is important for me—it's being able to tell the stories of those people, especially refugees and immigrants, that otherwise wouldn't be told, or they'll be told really inaccurately. And I don't want to write victims, or martyrs, or vacuous stereotypes … my family are really amazing—they'll tell me, ‘I have a new story for you,' and I'll get my Dictaphone and record it, so I can stay as true as possible to the story before I make it into a poem.”Shire has read her work in South Africa, Italy, Germany, and the United States. In 2013, she won Brunel University's first African Poetry Prize. In 2014, she was named the first Young Poet Laureate for London and chosen as poet-in-residence for Queensland, Australia. In 2017 she was included in the Penguin Modern Poets series. In 2019 she wrote the short film Brave Girl Rising,narrated by Tess Thompson and David Oyelowo, and became the youngest person to ever be inducted into the Royal Society of Literature.Shire is poetry editor of Spook Magazine and guest edited Young Sable LitMag.
Hinkle/ Yaya introduces her concept of The Keepers and The Seekers in relationship to her residency at the 18th Street Art Center in Los Angeles in 2017. During her residency she worked on her long-term Kentifrica project. Kentifrica is contested geography that Hinkle/Yaya has been developing a research platform for since 2011. Hinkle/Yaya discusses why we hold on to the things we feel compelled to carry and pass down via memory, actions, and the objects that we hold on to. She contemplates larger questions concerning if something or someone can ever truly be erased. Hinkle/Yaya reads from Modern Poets Three: Your Family, Your Body that features the work of Malika Booker, Sharon Olds, and Warsan Shire 2017. She features two poems by Malika Booker: Brixton Market and How Our Bodies Did This Unfamilar Thing.
Day 2/30 National Poetry Month. Warsan Shire. Follow me on IG @ChocoLIT or drop me a line chocolitpod@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
“Nadie abandona su hogar, a menos que su hogar sea la boca de un tiburón..." Un poema de Warsan Shire, una chica que nació en Kenia, de padres refugiados de Somalia y criada en Londres. En este episodio es interpretado por Katherin, una nueva integrante de nuestro equipo y quien además en una conversación fresca, nos muestra desde su interior, lo que se siente dejar tu hogar por un conflicto. La despedida comienza mucho antes de despedirte. Puedes apoyar este proyecto aquí: https://www.patreon.com/m/Venezuela_Crisis
Episode No. 11 of InstaPoetic Justice / Poet of Discussion: Warsan Shire / Guest Speaker Poet: Nawaal / Instagram Handle: @flxw.d Support InstaPoetic Justice by becoming a patron on the Sophiamehr Studios Patreon page! Chat with other listeners on the Sophiamehr Studios Discord Server!
Episode No. 11 of InstaPoetic Justice / Poet of Discussion: Warsan Shire / Guest Speaker Poet: Nawaal / Instagram Handle: @flxw.d
It's a beautiful poem by Warsan Shire . It's titled ‘Tea with our grandmothers' --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reema36/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/reema36/support
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In this week’s episode, we talk about Somali-British poet, Warsan Shire. This episode includes a reading and discussion of Shire’s poem “Ugly” from her collection Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth. More about Warsan Shire: Shire’s work deals with her cultural roots, immigrations, womanhood, Identity, and Somalia. She is the author of many collections, including Her Blue Body and Our Men Do Not Belong To Us, but her work has been featured in so much more. Support the show (https://getlit.org/donate/)
This episode comes at a very important moment in time. We've just marked Halloween, Samhain, and the Day of the Dead. In the northern hemisphere, we're headed towards winter. And, in the United States, we're about to find out the results of the 2020 Presidential election. With all of this in mind, River asks the Tarot: where does it hurt? with the intention of discovering what most needs healing right now. In response, the Tarot deals the Hermit, the Tower, and the Seven of Swords -- all reversed. The cards remind us that in a moment of upheaval, we must re-examine our relationship with solitude, and remember that there are no shortcuts to creating a safer and more peaceful world. This week, River recommends the Tara Brach podcast and references two poems: "What They Did Yesterday Afternoon" by Warsan Shire, and "No Man Is An Island" by John Donne. To connect with River, follow her on Instagram (@callmeriverrose) or Twitter (@callmeriverrose) or send her an email at iamriverrose@gmail.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Dans l'épisode précédent, je vous parlais de Nii Ayikwei Parkes, traduit par Sika Fakambi. Cette même traductrice a traduit en 2017 pour les éditions Isabelle Sauvage les poèmes de Warsan Shire, adoubée par Nii Ayikwei Parkes. Warsan Shire est née en 1988 au Kenya de parents somaliens réfugiés. Elle arrive en Grande-Bretagne lorsqu'elle a un an, et devient vingt ans plus tard l'une des grandes figures de la poésie londonienne. En 2016, elle participe même au projet Lemonade de Beyoncé ! Où j'apprends à ma mère à donner naissance est son premier livre traduit en français, parions qu'il y en aura d'autres ! Bonne écoute ! addict-culture.com
In an effort to do a better job of amplifying voices that for so long have been muted or left out of conversations, Marguerite and Emily would like to use the platform they created with Millennial Poets Society to share the work of Black artists starting with segments from some of their previously recorded episodes. This segment is from Episode 2, published on March 15, 2019. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mps-podcast/support
A Poem A Day by Sudhanva Deshpande.Read on June 7, 2020.Art by Virkein Dhar.
Rachel talks with her childhood friend Juliet about what it has meant to her to be attached to two places: Massachusetts, where she was born, and California, where she has lived for the past eight years. They discuss place identity and the different ways our relationships, rituals, and connections to those places shape who we are and how we understand ourselves and the world. Host: Rachel Vinciguerra Guest: Juliet Montrone Show Notes People, Place, Space (digital resource/book) There, There by Tommy Orange (novel) Home by Warsan Shire (poem) Hello Neighbor (Pittsburgh nonprofit) Get Connected Juliet’s Twitter: @jmontrone Email Rachel, with thoughts and ideas for future episodes: paradoxiathepodcast@gmail.com Follow @paradoxiapodcast and @rachelvinciguerra on Instagram Website: rachelvinciguerra.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rachel-vinciguerra/support
Bella LaQuatra is back on 10 Minute Mindset to talk about loneliness when traveling and overcoming the feeling of loneliness in general. She also talks about how she lives an intentionally designed lifestyle for success when it comes to her sleep routine and her diet as she travels and builds her business. In a style that can be only described as average millennial meets bohemian oracle, Bella LaQuatra’s passion is mobilizing GEN-Y and the next group of conscious leaders through education and mentorship in lifestyle and business. Dubbed “the female Russell Brand meets Warsan Shire”, she couples her unassuming and animated intellectual nature with stream of consciousness styled intuitive insight and deep seated emotional mindfulness. Her approach is grounded, entertaining & accessible. Follow Bella on Facebook and Instagram. --------------------- Get your FREE copy of the Launching a Podcast 6-Figure Guide and learn how you can add 6-figures to your revenue using a podcast so that you can take the guesswork out of building a business that you love, leverage your time, and make your unique fulfilling impact in the process! Get your copy at LaunchingaPodcast.com/guide. Visit GIOmethod.com for a guide to help you do your daily GIO Method.
Bella LaQuatra joined Mario on 10 Minute Mindset to talk about her lifestyle of traveling the world, the energetic profiles of the different places she visits, what “home” really feels like to her, and how her connection with herself and journey of personal growth serve her in business and in life. In a style that can be only described as average millennial meets bohemian oracle, Bella LaQuatra’s passion is mobilizing GEN-Y and the next group of conscious leaders through education and mentorship in lifestyle and business. Dubbed “the female Russell Brand meets Warsan Shire”, she couples her unassuming and animated intellectual nature with stream of consciousness styled intuitive insight and deep seated emotional mindfulness. Her approach is grounded, entertaining & accessible. Follow Bella on Facebook and Instagram. --------------------- Get your FREE copy of the Launching a Podcast 6-Figure Guide and learn how you can add 6-figures to your revenue using a podcast so that you can take the guesswork out of building a business that you love, leverage your time, and make your unique fulfilling impact in the process! Get your copy at LaunchingaPodcast.com/guide. Visit GIOmethod.com for a guide to help you do your daily GIO Method.
About 1% of the world's population today are refugees, internally displaced or stateless. They live difficult, dangerous lives, have few protections and often no voice. Meanwhile, globalisation has been lop-sided. Money and goods can move relatively easily across the world, but people rarely can. Ameya Naik returns to The Pragati Podcast to talk about refugees, distress migrants and the movement of people across the world. The Pragati Podcast is a weekly talk-show on public policy, economics and international relations hosted by Pavan Srinath. Ameya Naik is a Non-Resident Associate Fellow at the Takshashila Institution and a recurring guest on The Pragati Podcast. Listen to earlier episodes with Ameya below: 42 - Sovereignty: https://ivmpodcasts.com/the-pragati-podcast-episode-list/2018/5/3/ep-42-sovereignty-from-the-cholas-to-wakanda 51 - The Iran Nuclear Deal: https://ivmpodcasts.com/the-pragati-podcast-episode-list/2018/7/19/ep-51-a-tale-of-two-nukes-iran-part-1 52 - The North Korean Nuclear Deal: https://ivmpodcasts.com/the-pragati-podcast-episode-list/2018/7/26/ep-52-a-tale-of-two-nukes-north-korea-part-2 62 - The Syrian Civil War: https://ivmpodcasts.com/the-pragati-podcast-episode-list/2019/10/30/ep-62-rebroadcast-syria-and-the-ugliness-of-modern-warfare 103 - The United Nations: https://ivmpodcasts.com/the-pragati-podcast-episode-list/2019/7/11/ep-103-the-united-nations-explained For Further Reading:Home, by Warsan Shire: https://www.care.org/sites/default/files/lesson_1_-_home-poem-by-warsan-shire.pdf The Cliff at the Border, by Lant Pritchett: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8777/042b950ca0356fec9236d2214886cbacd083.pdf Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk? by Michael Clemens: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.25.3.83 If you have any questions or comments, write in to podcast@thinkpragati.com. Follow The Pragati Podcast on Instagram: https://instagram.com/pragatipod Follow Pragati on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thinkpragati Follow Pragati on Facebook: https://facebook.com/thinkpragati Subscribe & listen to The Pragati Podcast on iTunes, Saavn , Spotify , Castbox , Google Podcasts , YouTube or any other podcast app. We are there everywhere. You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app. You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/
Manne Favor Ordinary Life summary for the week of August 4, 2019Dear Friends - Thanks so much for joining Manne Favor in Ordinary Life last Sunday. Learning about the work JFON does could not come at a more appropriate time. Following the mass shooting in El Paso, driven by hatred and fear of Latino Immigrants, it is more important than ever to learn of organizations showing compassion and care to immigrant populations. Often the reasons people leave home to come to a foreign land are driven by violence, abuse, famine and poverty. Immigrants come seeking hope. If you are so inclined, click here to read Warsan Shire’s poem Home to get a bit of insight into the complex pain of immigration. What I took away from Manne’s talk is the idea of radical hospitality that commands us to “love our neighbors AS ourselves.” This is, as they say, the golden rule. Please consider going to JFON’s website to learn more about what they do (http://www.jfonhouston.org/home). And if you’d like to support their work and get some exercise, consider running on their behalf in one of the upcoming races (http://www.jfonhouston.org/events). Click HERE to read the text from which Manne spoke.You may also listen to the audio of his talk by clicking the link below. To watch the video of Manne’s presentation, use the player below.
In which Joel and Basie discuss Backwards by Warsan Shire. Read the poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/90734/backwards Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Visit our website, email us, reach out on tumblr, or @OceansGoldTeeth. Subscribe if you never want to miss an episode, and please, tell your friends. Between Oceans and Gold Teeth is a product of Accordion Productions. It is hosted by Basie Cobine and Joel Watson.
After my recent trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, I’m so excited to introduce you to Tess Clarke. We process some of what we learned on the trip to visit refugees from Central and South America and hear about the work Tess and her husband are doing with their non-profit, Seek the Peace. Tess feels called to a ministry of presence in the same way that Jesus enters into our lives. It doesn’t mean that the circumstances are changed, but He takes away our aloneness, our guilt, our shame and our fear by being present with us in those hard circumstances. “The numbers are staggering and everyone knows that this is an overwhelming issue, which is why I think we can't become jaded and paralyzed, but we have to keep looking at it from a human point of view. When we were in Oaxaca, a lot of it was really about learning why people were fleeing and what their lives looked like and what they were hoping for when they came to the United States. Every person I had an opportunity to talk to said, I want to be safe.” No matter where you may fall politically on the issues of immigration and the current refugee crisis, I think Tess’ perspective on entering into the broken places and loving the marginalized and lonely around us can bring us together as believers. It has made a big difference in my own parenting when I invite my kids into loving others. “Something my kids and I talk a lot about is the line in the Lord's prayer, ‘Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’ And we asked Jesus, show us where heaven is not. Show us where heaven is lacking. Lead us there because we want to join you in that space and we want to do what we can to bring heaven there.” Tess, her family, their non-profit Seek the Peace and her role at We Welcome Refugees The work Tess and her organization have done at the border. Seeking to understand the plight of refugees and the work and role of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Family separation of refugees at the border and the humanitarian crises happening in Central and South America that are causing an increase in the number of refugees Stories from refugee centers at the border of South Texas Tess feels called to a ministry of presence in the same way that Jesus enters into our lives. The trip Heather and Tess made to Oaxaca, Mexico to visit refugees there A poem by Warsan Shire about why people leave their homes as refugees The legal ways to enter America are being shut down by the current administration Our experience visiting the unaccompanied minors shelter Femicide, being killed because you are a woman, is a big cause of death in Mexico Partnering with Jesus to love the marginalized and bring Heaven to Earth The call of God to love the oppressed and care for the broken in Isaiah 58
LaNia grew up in the segregated city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated with a BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She devotes most of her time conducting research on the philosophies of self perception, queer and feminist theories, and inherent racial dogmas; while also examining the contemporary works’ of Laylah Ali, Kara Walker and poet, Warsan Shire. The combination of printmaking and drawing inspires her to challenge these concepts and to push beyond the traditional expectations of not only the figure but printmaking itself. Through collage and assemblage she strives to conduct work that pays homage to imagery free from the barriers of social constructs and honest in its vulnerability. Next Door Neighbors Gouache, ink, watercolor pencil, colored pencil, watercolor crayons 13 ⅝ x 19 ¾ in 2018 Kentuckyana Watercolor crayon, gouache, marker, glitter 20x18in 2019
Ramadan Mubarak! We're happily loopy from our first week of fasting. In this episode, Ahmed talks to New York Times best-selling novelist, Fatima Farheen Mirza. Her novel, “A Place For Us,” explores the relationships between the children and parents of a Hyderbadi Muslim family and what happens when a brown boy doesn’t meet family and community expectations. It's kind of like that Warsan Shire tweet — "my dj name is dj eldest immigrant daughter." Plus: Salimah, Fatima, and Ahmed share their favorite suhoor memories. Donate to the Patreon to help support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. $10 donors get access to the show’s Discord chat server. Fill out this survey so we can get some advertising revenue: http://survey.libsyn.com/seesomethingsaysomething. Follow Ahmed on Instagram and Twitter: @radbrowndads. Follow Salimah on Instagram and Twitter: @salimahfm. Follow Fatima @fatimafmirza on Twitter and @ffmirza on instagram. Follow the show @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Email Ahmed at radbrowndads@gmail.com. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com.
In today's episode, we're joined by guests Angela and Obinna as we discuss how 4 science majors wound up on such different paths and we get spicy as we discuss finding love in today's context. --- Works Discussed On Shunning Becoming Doctors and Finding Our Passions (0:00-26:39) "US colleges are warming up to China’s toughest exam" by Quartz On Being the Children of Immigrants (26:39-50:05) "Income Mobility Charts for Girls, Asian-Americans and Other Groups" by New York Times "Home" by Warsan Shire (not explicitly mentioned) "Economic inequality increases risk taking" by Payne et al. On Tinder, Love, and Soulmates (50:05-end) “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” on Netflix “Symposium” by Plato “How to Win Friends and Influence People” by Dale Carnegie "Company" by Stephen Sondheim
Denisse and Olivia begin their chat about feminism - what it means to them, who inspires them, and the challenges they've faced and mistakes they've made in their journey. Follow us! Lady Hustle Instagram: instagram.com/ladyhustlepodcast Denisse Instagram: instagram.com/chasingdenisse Olivia Instagram: instagram.com/throughthesprawl Like our work? Leave us a review! Or buy us a virtual coffee or two or ten. We'll love you forever. Ko-fi.com/ladyhustlepodcast Media mentioned during the episode: Lady Hustle Podcast Premiere Playlist - http://bit.ly/lhplaylist1 Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay - https://amzn.to/2Ip3EBh Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie - https://amzn.to/2KrUpD2 (Olivia incorrectly called this book Home) Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur - https://amzn.to/2G6Mvtg The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur - https://amzn.to/2U8Skve Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire - https://amzn.to/2IblzMI Jaime, Bookstagrammer - https://www.instagram.com/absorbedinpages/ Patience, Bookstagrammer - https://www.instagram.com/inkandfable/ Valerie, (On a Curve) - https://www.instagram.com/valerieeguavoen/ Final song is "Hey Girl" by Lady Gaga featuring Florence Welch
“No one leaves home unless home is in the mouth of a shark.“ Warsan Shire, from the poem Home Today I'm talking with Shawn Smucker, who is a dear friend and the author of the book, Once We Were Strangers: What Friendship with a Syrian Refugee Taught Me about Loving My Neighbor. I loved Shawn's book and I had lot's of questions for him about refugees and what he has learned through getting to know a Syrian refugee. I think, if you're like me and you have questions, you're going to love this conversation. Links: ShawnSmucker.com Once We Were Strangers Find all of Shawn's Books HERE Whole: Restoring What Is Broken in Me, You, and The Entire World by Steve Wiens You can also listen on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher Google Play! Encouraged by this episode? Head over to iTunes to subscribe, rate, and leave a review. Reviews are how people know if they should listen or not, so please if you like the show, take a minute and give it a review. Thank you so much!
In this episode, U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar reads “Conversations about home (at the deportation centre)” by Warsan Shire and reflects on the many meanings of home. On November 6, 2018, Omar became the first Somali American, and one of the first two Muslim women elected to U.S. Congress. She represents Minnesota's 5th congressional district. This interview was recorded in 2017, when Omar was still serving in the Minnesota State House of Representatives. “Conversations about home (at the deportation centre),” by Warsan Shire, appears in the pamphlet, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, from Flipped Eye Publishing. Keep up with Ilhan Omar on Twitter, Facebook, and ilhanomar.com. As always, the Haiku Hotline (612-440-0643) is open for your short poems and poetic musings. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Subscribe on RadioPublic, iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher. https://radiopublic.com/interesting-people-reading-poetry-60aNDL/ep/s1!a9e40
with Christina Anderson, Olivia Marve, and Lara Kahn This podcast mobilizes Warsan Shire’s book of poems titled “Teaching my Mother How to Give Birth” to explore how diasporic belonging intersects with her experiences of gender, race, and sexuality as a first-generation immigrant from Somalia. We begin with an overview of Shire’s personal background with migration Continue Reading
Introduction, reciting a poem by Warsan Shire
Dans le camp de Ritsona en Grèce, Mohammed prend le micro pour évoquer ses envies de devenir footballeur en Syrie, et Dikenda nous décrire son village au Cameroun, mais comme l'écrit la poète Warsan Shire, « personne ne quitte sa maison à moins que sa maison ne soit devenue la gueule d'un requin ». Souvenirs heureux et tragiques, Moyen-Orient et Afrique se mêlent et s'emmêlent dans cette émission conçue en exil par des personnes réfugiées.
In this episode Matt Baker and Preston Price speak with Robyn Henderson-Espinozaand Tad Delayabout the theo-political climate in US following the controversial zero-tolerance policy separating migrant children from their parents. Sign up for Homebrewed Christianity's Theologies of Resistance Summer reading group here. Poem: "Home", by Warsan Shire.Reading: Alissgrey Munoz
Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Debie Thomas. Essay by Debie Thomas: *When Daughters Go in Peace* for Sunday, 1 July 2018; book review by Dan Clendenin: *The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading* by Anne Gisleson (2017); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Black Panther* (2018); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Home* by Warsan Shire.
"Nadie abandona su hogar, a menos que su hogar sea la boca de un tiburón." (Warsan Shire, Hogar) Este mes de abril After Perdices queremos dedicarlo a la acogida, especialmente a la acogida de personas refugiadas, a las personas migrantes, personas que pocas veces ocupan las noticias para hablarnos del otro lado del espejo, para hablarnos de nosotras. ¿Qué estamos haciendo para que la acogida sea una realidad? España ni siquiera ha cumplido con su exiguo compromiso de acogida, la Unión Europea sigue desilusionando a estas personas día tras día, permitiendo abusos y atropellos a sus derechos en las fronteras, y, además, a todo esto se une, con la entrada de Turquía y el ataque al pueblo kurdo, una guerra en Siria que no parece tener un final próximo. Estos días de reflexión debieran ser para estas personas. En los cuentos y en los mitos podemos encontrar multitud de ejemplos para la acogida. Empezaremos este programa con la poesía "Home" (Hogar) de Warsan Shire, una poeta de origen somalí-keniata que reside en Londres y que escribe bellos poemas para denunciar la situación de las personas desplazadas, sus propias experiencias como mujer negra, y para denunciar prácticas discriminatorias. Después haremos un pequeño repaso a un mito griego, en una de sus formas, que hablaba de la hospitalidad como una manera de "comer con los dioses" y repasaremos conceptos como el de "aporofobia" (es decir, rechazo de las personas pobres) de la filósofa Adela Cortina, que considera la acogida una parte fundamental de la ética. Asimismo recordaremos a las personas y organizaciones que podrían enfrentarse a penas de cárcel por ayudar a estas personas: Proactive Open Arms, Salam Aldeen de Team Humanity, los tres bomberos españoles de Proem Aid (Manuel, Julio y José Enrique), Helena Maleno de Caminando Fronteras, Cedric Herrou en Francia o Lisbeth Zorning en Suecia Personas que en Grecia o en el Mediterráneo intentan salvar algunas de estas vidas a la deriva. Para terminar el programa leeremos un cuento que circula por redes maquetado y editado por Oxfam Intermon que se titula ¿Falta mucho?, que podéis descargar gratuitamente, que cuenta la historia de un niño que huye de la guerra. Este cuento pretende explicar a niñas y niños lo que sucede con las personas que tienen que dejar su país. After Perdices nació para no quedarse en la historia única, peligro que corremos siempre que no miramos a las demás personas en igualdad, como bien advierte la escritora Chimamanda Adichie, cuya charla sobre la historia única y sus peligros podéis ver y escuchar pinchando aquí. Con sus palabras terminamos, que no nos quedemos con la historia única que nos venden los medios de comunicación convencionales sobre las personas refugiadas, escuchemos historias que nos hagan verlos como iguales. Desde After Perdices os volvemos a animar a asistir a nuestras próximas actividades, algunas de ellas en jornadas de apoyo a las personas refugiadas. Toda la información en nuestro Facebook. ¡Nos escuchamos! A.P. Música utilizada en el programa: "Slow Notes" de Tobias Weber "Stop the war inna Syria" Jeff Speed 68 "An Oriental Tale" Radiotimes Todas bajo licencia creative commons, no compartir con cambios, compartir autoría.
“because writing is soft and a hard place, all at once.” – Yrsa Daley-Ward Instagram poetry seems to dominate the modern way of consuming poetry and also in many ways a way to introduce people to amazing poets such as Nayyirah Waheed, Warsan Shire, Upile Chisala and Yrsa-Daley Ward. This episode features the ever-brilliant, multi-talented, gorgeous model and Insta famous poet, Yrsa- Daley Ward. Yrsa-Daley Ward self-published her prolific book bone, which has since being republished with a few new poems by Penguin Books. Yrsa Daley-Ward's bone is described a symphony of breaking and mending. In this episode, Letlhogonolo speaks to Yrsa Daley-Ward about her book bone, mothers, black womxn, her favourite books and what it means to be a black womxn in the world. In this heartfelt conversation, Yrsa speaks about her time in South Africa, Blackness, queerness and love. She also reveals a little about her upcoming memoir, The Terrible, to be released later this year.
in which Ruth Diaz and i have trouble with maths, uncover some emotional truths about the nature of poetry, and once again throw shade at T.S. Eliot other things referenced: Glacier National Park - https://www.nps.gov/glac/index.htm articles on Handmaid's Tale cinematography - https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/blessed-be-the-fruit?utm_term=.xjLAo5Kx0#.hkJ0Gkyq9 http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-female-gaze-television-20170505-htmlstory.html http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/director-reed-morano-the-handmaids-tale-interview minus/my-ness by Jane Hirshfield - http://missinglinkspress.com/titles/#my-ness The Trauma Stewardship Institute (Laura van Dernoot Lipsky) - http://traumastewardship.com/ Warsan Shire - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/warsan-shire Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith - http://coffeehousepress.org/shop/blood-dazzler/ Gwendolyn Brooks - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendolyn-brooks Saeed Jones - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/saeed-jones Rita Dove revision article - http://owrite.blogspot.com/2008/01/narrow-world-made-wide.html
Í þættinum Norður, en ekki niður, koma fram: Björn Unnar Valsson, verkefnastjóriHalldór Marteinsson, deildarbókavörðurNanna Guðmundsdóttir, deildarbókavörðurSunna Dís Másdóttir, verkefnastjóriSpjallað er um eftirfarandi bækur: Bernskubók eftir Sigurð PálssonAnna frá Suðurey, Arild Mikkelsen skráðiBókaflokkurinn um Elías: Elías, Elías á fullri ferð, Elías í Kanada, Elías, Magga og ræningjarnir, Elís kemur heim, eftir Auði HaraldsNíu þjófalyklar eftir Hermann StefánssonSpennustöðin: stílabók eftir Hermann StefánssonKlukkuþjófurinn klóki eftir Guðmund ÓlafssonPerurnar í íbúðinni minni eftir Kött Grá PjeGaldur eftir Vilborgu DavíðsdótturEinnig er minnst á:Harry Potter, lesinn af Stephen Fry, á Rafbókasafninu, www.rafbokasafnid.isTeaching My Mother How to Give Birth eftir Warsan Shire, á Rafbókasafninu, www.rafbokasafnid.isHljóðmaður: Ingi Þórisson
'My mother died seven times before she gave birth to me. I am grateful for that corpse that somehow always seemed to resurrect itself. My father is gone now but his smile is alive on my brother's face. There is no life without death; the two rely on each other and we rely on them for both for our purpose.' So begins the first chapter of Mohale Mashigo's 'The Yearning'. The Cheeky Natives sat down with Mohale Mashigo over a conversation filled with lightbulb moments, realisations and introspections delivered in the casual, easy manner which comes from someone whose magic is inherent. This is the first episode of the Cheeky Natives with a featured author and there couldn't have been a better choice for the introduction of this feature. In the wise words of Warsan Shire, 'If were going to heal, let it be glorious'
Jaemin and Gabe welcome their first ever Guest with Feelings: Alex Zobel, a modern-day Renaissance woman who has a PhD in 16th century English Lit, teaches prisoners in San Quentin, is building her own tiny home, and opening a brewery with her brother, among other things. The three of them discuss: how to become a modern day Renaissance person, what San Quentin prisoners thought of the election, what Standing Rock taught Alex (radical listening), IUD's and accessible poetry, and much more! Show Notes Guest with Feelings Interview • The tension between exploring many diverse interests and diving deep into each of those interests. • What San Quentin prisoners thought of Donald Trump winning the election. • Invisibilia podcast: Is Your Personality Fixed, Or Can You Change Who You Are? • The origins of the Armistice Brewing Company • Teams without conflict don't work. • The importance of Asset Mapping: what are the skills that I have and how can they be used to advance the causes I believe in? • How climbing a gigantic metal boar at Burning Man taught Alex to “just do it”. • The power of community to galvanize and inspire social change. • Alex's experience at Standing Rock: “If Burning Man is about racial self-expression, showing up at Standing Rock is about radical listening.” • Ta Nehisi Coates quote on allyship. • “Bad Feminist” by Roxanne Gay • “Say what you're going to say, but be willing to say you're sorry.” • Tactics for talking about Trump with family at the dinner table. Quick Picks • Gabe's #1: The People vs. O.J. Simpson (on Netflix) – O.J.: Made in America (ESPN documentary) • Alex's #1: IUD's (non-hormonal) – removable birth control. – Planned Parenthood video on IUDs (that Jaemin produced) • Jaemin's #1: In Defense of Facebook • Gabe's #2: Having a light morning routine (Meditate for 3 min. and journal for 3 min. before checking email) • Alex's #2: Accessible poetry – Alex's list of 10 accessible poets, (with a link to a poem by each poet): Nayyirah Waheed, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mary Oliver, Warsan Shire, Sherman Alexie, Billy Collins, Sharon Olds, Ted Kooser, Lucile Clifton, Louise Gluck. – salt. by Nayyirah Waheed – Andrea Gibson • Jaemin's #2: Gymnastic rings workouts – Nayoya gymnastic rings – Gymnastic Rings 101: A Beginner's Routine & FAQs • Alex's brewery: Armistice Brewing Company – Alex's latest brewery blog post: “Brewhouse Found Its Forever Home!” • Gabe's twitter – Gabe's latest blog post: “My Top 6 Books of 2016”” • Jaemin's twitter – Jaemin's latest blog post: “Three Books I'm Embarrassed to Admit Changed My Life” • Music for the podcast: “As Colorful As Ever” by Broke For Free
This week on StoryWeb: Beyoncé’s album Lemonade. Beyoncé slays. That’s the only word to describe her achievement on her most recent album, Lemonade. Now I am not a big fan of hip hop or pop music or what the Grammys call urban contemporary music, but ever since Beyoncé’s performance of “Formation” at last year’s Super Bowl, I have been mightily intrigued by this powerhouse of a performer. For Beyoncé’s songwriting and performance go well beyond hip-hop or pop music or urban contemporary or R&B. Indeed, it seems that any genre is just too narrow to contain Beyoncé. “I am large,” said Walt Whitman. “I contain multitudes.” The same might very well be said of Beyoncé. She slays precisely because she contains vast multitudes. “Formation” – especially the video Beyoncé released the day before the Super Bowl – made me sit up and take notice. Indeed, it made an entire nation sit up and take notice. Like many Americans, I pored over the video, read the lyrics online, read analyses of the song and the video, talked with others about what they were hearing and seeing. So many layers of African American history – from Creole culture to New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina, from the Black Power movement to Ferguson and #blacklivesmatter. I continue to watch the video and listen to the song – and I continue to hear and see new cultural references every time I witness this powerful piece. Two months later, Beyoncé released Lemonade, both as a “conventional” album (which in its release exclusively via the Tidal streaming service can hardly be called “conventional”) – and quite unconventionally, as a “visual album.” Back in the 1970s, we would have called this a “concept album” – but the term “visual album” refers to the fact that the entire album is also presented as a 65-minute film, which premiered on HBO in April 2016 the same day the album was released. It’s safe to say that Beyoncé and her husband, rapper Jay Z (who owns Tidal), likely earned considerable money from this album and film. As she says in “Formation,” “I might just be a black Bill Gates in the making.” On the surface, Lemonade may tell the story of Jay Z’s infidelity, but to say that makes it sound as though you’re getting the latest issue of Us magazine or some other celebrity gossip rag. Lemonade is not that. You couldn’t say Beyoncé slays on this album if this were merely a tell-all complaint. No, Lemonade tells the story of marital infidelity in such a way that Beyoncé – as the narrator of these songs – becomes a stand-in for all women who have been betrayed, particularly all black women who have been denigrated as second-class citizens (or worse). The album’s title is drawn from Jay Z’s grandmother, who is shown in the film at her 90th birthday party: “I was served lemons, but I made lemonade.” Spin magazine calls Lemonade “a visual tale of grief, resurrection, and black female empowerment” and goes on to say: On first listen, Beyoncé’s new album Lemonade is all about Jay Z’s cheating. But the 65-minute film accompanying the music makes the personal political by visually empowering black women, celebrating Deep Southern culture, and referencing the Black Lives Matter movement, Malcolm X, and Hurricane Katrina. Beyoncé is not just a single woman scorned — she represents a scorned demographic, or as the film directly quotes Malcolm X: “The most neglected person in America is the black woman.” The visual album features the work of British-Somali poet Warsan Shire; the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner, who hold photos of their dead sons; and appearances and contributions from African American celebrities and artists from Serena Williams to Kendrick Lamar. Jay Z also appears near the end of the film, and Ivy Blue Carter, Beyoncé and Jay Z’s young daughter, makes more than one appearance. The cinematography and some of the actual scenes in the visual album strongly echo Julie Dash’s revolutionary 1991 film, Daughters of the Dust. According to The Washington Post, Daughters of the Dust is “widely recognized as the cultural antecedent” to Lemonade. NPR interviewed Dash about last year’s rerelease of her film. When asked how she responded to Lemonade, Dash said: I was, in a word, enthralled. I was stunned. My mouth was hanging open a gap. I was so taken by the music, the visuals, the non-linear story structure. I was – I was in heaven. . . . I was very pleased. I was very pleased. To learn more about the album and to participate in a lively, ongoing discussion about it, go to Twitter and use LemonadeSyllabus as your hashtag. To read the lyrics to each song and learn the behind-the-scenes back story to the evolution and composition of each song, visit Genius.com. The Atlantic also offers a substantial and insightful analysis of the album. If you want to get deep into the heart of what Lemonade represents and whether Beyoncé is contributing to the liberation of African American women, you might want to explore the debate started by the nuanced and not always positive view of the album and film offered by African American cultural and feminist critic bell hooks. Her commentary – “Moving Beyond Pain” – sparked considerable discussion. The website Feministing is a good place to explore this lively conversation and to peruse a variety of responses to hooks’s assessment. Visit thestoryweb.com/beyonce for links to all these resources and to watch the video for “Formation.” At the end of the day, Beyoncé slays. As she says at the end of the album, you know you’re it “when you cause all this conversation.”
Numa Tacada Só falamos (e muito!) de tudo o que rolou no Grammy 2017. Teve Beyoncé rainha (vcs nadinha), Adele levando tudo pra casa, Rihanna e seu cantil, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars deuso, Chance The Rapper estreando na premiação e muuito mais. Também tentamos entender como Adele ganhou da Beyoncé e montamos uma lista de quem merece apresentar o Grammy 2018. Sugestões? Temas? Dúvidas? Email: numatacadaso@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/numatacadaso Segue a gente também! @beviabone @henriquegu @marinaviabone Produção @raimomarcelo Links: Crítica do Frank Ocean sobre o Grammy: http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/musica/produtores-do-grammy-criticam-frank-ocean-cantor-reage-em-carta-aberta-20920124 Discurso Beyoncé - http://mdemulher.abril.com.br/famosos-e-tv/grammy-2017-leia-na-integra-o-discurso-inspirador-de-beyonce/ Discurso da Adele dedicado para Beyoncé: https://omelete.uol.com.br/musica/noticia/grammy-2017-adele-dedica-premio-de-album-do-ano-a-beyonce-assista/ Nomes para guardar: Warsan Shire - poeta feminista e negra Músicas: “Work” - Rihanna ft. Drake “Formation” - Beyoncé
"It's really difficult to write a short biography, but especially difficult in a post-truth era." Jason Ikpatt is a 23 year old Nigerian man-boy who grew up in the South. His life draws inspiration from the disenfranchised, the rejected, the solemn, the absurdists, the outrageous, the Wu Tang Clan, and his lovely gem of a mother. His poetry draws inspiration from Kahlil Gibran, Warsan Shire, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman, the Wu Tang Clan, and his lovely gem of a mother. At the present moment, he is a friend, a son, a brother, an armchair intellectual, an above average pickup basketball choice, fiercely independent to the point of loner-ism, somehow also fiercely dependent on everything to the brink of uninhibited universal love, a sub-par bike mechanic, a jazz club stank face head-nodder, a road-trip instrumental freestyler, a decidedly naive optimist, an actual former desert mystic, and an early tax filer. He resides in Austin, Texas with his bamboo plant and three succulents.
Olá amigos, o podcast hoje é sobre o sétimo episódio da primeira temporada de Class, série do universo de Doctor Who. Foi necessária todas as andanças de Quill? E quem são os governadores? Ouçam e deixe sua opinião nos comentários. Participantes: Vinícius Viana, Denise Ferreira, Pedro Henrique Costa e Jéssica Laíse. Poema Casa, de Warsan Shire. Link […] O post PODCAST: Class 1×07 apareceu primeiro em Universo Who.
How does it feel when your body doesn't fit the definition of "desirable," when no one around you looks the way you look, when taking up space seems like an insult toward the people around you? For this episode, we wanted to consider these questions in the context of eating disorders and how living in a racialized body complicates the mainstream narrative of who gets them. Our guest, Portland-based pop-up chef and caterer Salimatu Amabebe, was kind enough to speak with us about her experience with eating problems and how it informs her own body consciousness, her feelings about desirability, and her career as an independent chef. (Thank you for the title, Warsan Shire.) Produced by Alan Montecillo. Music by AF the Naysayer and Blue Dot Sessions. Want to help us continue to make more episodes like this? Support us on Patreon! Links du jour Eating Disorders Do Not Discriminate via Slate Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat Mixed Fat Chick Diagnosing the Asian American Eating Disorder via Mochi Mag Nalgona Positivity Pride Trans Folx Fighting Eating Disorders
There’s been a rising trend in the number of people opting to pursue post-graduate qualifications -- could this be a sign that a Bachelor’s degree is no longer a solid bet to secure future financial security? Tune in to find out what the sisters and featured guest, Thandi, think about this. In this episode, the ladies also dish on Kylie Jenner and Tyga’s relationship, as well as the superbug threat. Minority spotlight: Warsan Shire Sources Just graduating from university is no longer enough to get a job http://theconversation.com/just-graduating-from-university-is-no-longer-enough-to-get-a-job-36906 Could superbugs become deadlier than cancer? http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2016/05/superbugs-deadlier-cancer-160519185639075.html Does Tyga owe Kylie Jenner money following difficult break up? Rapper 'borrowed more than $2million from star' http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/tyga-owe-kylie-jenner-money-8058264 Warsan Shire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsan_Shire
Although late to the to the #Lemonade dissection game, the Ladies of NYAC discuss a less explored running theme in Beyonce’s last two albums – her collaborations with brilliant African writers; Chimamanda Adichie on self-titled Beyonce and Warsan Shire on Lemonade. Joined by book blogger extraordinaire and longtime listener/supporter Darkowaa (@AwoDeee), we talk about our favorite tracks off the Lemonade album, the pros and cons of being featured in such high profile work, the limited visibility and reach African works of art have in Africa, and what it takes for African artistry to gain a wide following. Resources: Articles about Warsan Shire • http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-writing-life-of-a-young-prolific-poet-warsan-shire • http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/arts/music/warsan-shire-who-gave-poetry-to-beyonces-lemonade.html?_r=1 African books for Western eyes • http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/african-books-for-western-eyes.html?_r=0 Chimamanda’s Sister • http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/04/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-sisterhood How not to talk about African Fiction • http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/06/how-not-to-talk-about-african-fiction Mentioned: Eat Drink Lagos Brunch Club • http://eatdrinklagos.com/the-lunch-club/ Brittle Paper – Resource for finding Literature by African writers • http://brittlepaper.com/ What we are reading/listening to/watching: Drake’s Views Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo Diana Gabaldon’s Lord John and the Private Matter Starz’ Outlander Netflix’s Grace and Frankie Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House Show was mixed by Ifeoluwa Olokode, and theme music is "Ayo" by the über talented Femi Leye.
SA-RA-VÁ O Lado (B)lack dessa semana comenta o lançamento que tirou o ar de muita gente. Lemonade, o novo disco da Beyoncé. Neste episódio Luiza Braga, John Razen, Daniel Diogo e Rafael Chino falam sobre o contexto deste disco, a estética da filmagem, as formas de distribuição e muito mais. Cola o ouvido na caixa de som que a trilha sonora desse episódio está demais. Comentários, dúvidas, críticas, sugestões, declarações de amor? Pode jogar aqui:contato@ladoblack.com.br Esse podcast só é possível graças ao apoio do É Pau É Pedra. Para se manter informado sobre nossas novidades e conteúdos e quer conversar conosco, seguem os LINKS EPEP: Email: epep.oficial@gmail.com Fanpage do Facebook: www.facebook.com/epauepedra Twitter: twitter.com/o_epep Tumblr: epauepedra.tumblr.com/ Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCkxnB4jeF2UdcPOv1SU6meA Google+: plus.google.com/u/1/115167454771942315554/posts Ouça também os podcasts do Anticast, se torne um patrão e venha participar dessa bagaça!!!! Anticast: www.b9.com.br/podcasts/anticast/ Não Obstante: itunes.apple.com/br/podcast/naoo…id975972187?mt=2 Três Páginas: itunes.apple.com/br/podcast/tres…id985893610?mt=2 Projeto Humanos: www.b9.com.br/podcasts/projetohumanos/ Visual+mente: itunes.apple.com/br/podcast/visua…d1044918624?mt=2 Página do Balão de Fala: balaodefala.com.br Grupo do Balão de Fala: facebook.com/groups/balaodefala Qual é a boa? Warsan Shire: http://goo.gl/V8dyYa | https://goo.gl/U5u9bh Djamila Ribeiro: https://goo.gl/D2q9Te Amistad: https://goo.gl/w7UDDl -- Este podcast é parte da plataforma anti-fascista AYOM. Conheça mais em ayom.media
TRIGGER WARNING: Discussions about rape/sexual assault, violence against women, depression, & anxiety. This week on Bag Ladiez real men are real dicks, a powerful video shows men reading some “mean tweets” to female sports commentators (#notjustmean), Warsan Shire’s poetry and writing shines in Beyonce’s epic #LEMONADE, we mourn the loss of a young woman in Delaware #RIPAmy, discuss the rumors of Hamilton THE MOVIE??? During “What’s Your Baggage” we discuss spirituality and how an amazing workshop at a Harriet’s Apothecary evhelped us! We’re putting in our bag a local Mexican restaurant and a campaign to bring a little joy to mothers in immigrant detention this Mother’s day. And finally we’re “Unpacking a Bag” from listener Karla about dealing with immigrant parents, anxiety/depression, and college all at the SAME DAMN TIME. As always links for all the stories mentioned can be found below, thanks for listening! #MoreThanMean-Women in Sports 'Face' Harassment: https://youtu.be/9tU-D-m2JY8 5 Things to know about Warsan Shire: http://bit.ly/24lf1N9 #RIPAmy: http://bit.ly/1VW35jd Hamilton the movie: http://bit.ly/1N1j7Wu Erika Totten is a BAMF: http://www.toliveunchained.com/ Mama’s Day Message: http://mamasday.org/ Mental Health America on Talking to Parents: http://bit.ly/1Tf9VtV
**NOTE** The LARB Radio Hour can now be downloaded as a separate podcast. It will no longer appear on the LA Review of Books podcast. This week's show features crime and mystery writer Gary Phillips, who discusses the changing publishing landscape in genre fiction, diversity in genre fiction, and the 'Black Pulp' and soon to be released 'Asian Pulp' anthologies that he created. Also, television writer and producer Betsy Borns talks about the success of comedian Amy Schumer, Russian studies professor Boris Dralyuk talks about one of his favorite Ukrainian crime writers, and writer Meri Nana-Ama Danquah reads a poem by Kenyan-born poet Warsan Shire.
The Ride or Die Project is about storytelling. Utilizing the mediums of theatre and film we are embarking on a research-informed process into the under-documented narratives of women Hip Hop culture has dubbed "ride or die." This mixtape* has been made to honour the individuals who trusted us with their stories, experiences, insights and wisdom to help us write the first draft of our play Other Side of the Game. This draft will be featured at the Piece of Mine Festival on September 13th, 2013. For more information, please visit www.therideordieproject.com * Important Note: This mixtape is a compilation of music, poetry and scenes that have inspired our process in various ways. None of the artists featured are formally associated with the project. Track Listings: 01. My Life – Mary J. Blige 02. Brown Eyed Warrior – Lal 03. Sweet Justice – Jill Scott 04. These Streets – Tanya Stevens 05. Lioness On The Rise – Queen Ifrica 06. Soldier Of Love – Sade 07. Part II (On The Run) – Jay Z ft. Beyonce 08. I’ll Be There For You – Method Man / Mary J. Blige 09. Bonnie & Shyne – Shyne ft. Barrington Levy 10. Grow – Zaki Ibrahim 11. Gotta Man – Eve 12. Queen of the Pack – Patra 13. Ladies Night (Remake) – Lil’ Kim ft. Da Brat, Angie Martinez & Left Eye 14. No More Drama – Mary J. Blige 15. Didn’t Cha Know – Erykah Badu 16. Diva – Beyonce 17. Bad Girls – M.I.A. 18. Images – Nina Simone 19. Other Side Of The Game – Erykah Badu 20. One Is The Magic Number – Jill Scott 21. Mattalike – Zaki Ibrahim 22. I Gotta Find Peace Of Mind – Lauryn Hill 23. For Women Who Are Difficult To Love – Warsan Shire
A fascinating conversation between Bernardine Evaristo, Guest Editor of Poetry Review, and contributing poets Edward Doegar, Sophie Mayer, Richard Scott and Warsan Shire, about 'Offending Frequencies', the winter 2012 issue of Poetry Review. Recorded at Keats House, London, on 24 January 2013. Produced by Michael Sims and Michael Umney. Music: 'Tara' by Salam (http://www.wmrecordings.com/releases/wm016.htm)
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