Category: spoken word
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we are the people who are darker than blue (art space – new haven, ct)
If your mind could really see You’d know you’re color the same as me Pardon me, brother, as you stand in your glory I know you won’t mind if I tell the whole story Get yourself together, learn to know your side Shall we commit our own genocide Before you check out your mind? I…
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we be darker than blue (a jetsonorama + jess x. chen collaboration)
backstory (as told to Ralf): There is an art space in Brooklyn (BRIC) which hosts a once monthly poetry slam. The MC is poet and Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe poetry director, Mahogany L. Browne. BRIC will also be hosting the first night of the Women of the World Poetry Slam in March. I was invited to do a…
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“ain’t i a woman?”
In 1851 Kingston native Sojourner Truth electrified audiences at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, OH with an extemporaneous speech on the value of womanhood known as “Ain’t I a Woman?” Having been invited to create a mural for the O + Festival in Kingston, New…