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Gatekeepers “have one foot in all the other worlds and the other foot here…” https://www.saramakeba.com/portfolio daily 0.75 2024-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe29b0bddc8fc4ff45b961a/1610767839187-3Y1UENFERTSXSXT1Q99J/rwj.PNG Portfolio “A queer Black girl re-imagines the South Carolina lowcountry as a portal for the fusion of Africana (Gullah Geechee) and Indigenous identity, spirituality, resistance, and ways of knowing.” - Sara Makeba Daise Read more of Be Here Now: The South is a Portal in Root Work Journal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe29b0bddc8fc4ff45b961a/1610766164732-13EB3QXIU7HJ0J8RHJ13/IMG_5019.PNG Portfolio Black artists respond to contemporary challenges around race, policing, and extrajudicial killings of African American people, and explore common threads of our long, shared and unreconciled American experience with race and racial (in)justice. The panel was presented by the the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor NHA, the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, the National Council for the Traditional Arts, and Southwest Folklife Alliance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe29b0bddc8fc4ff45b961a/1610766387925-YVIUQTWAR4Y569MNK7NZ/IMG_5012.jpg Portfolio Jade T. 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Pass it On.” In Episode 1, I introduce the podcast, and start processing and trying to make sense of things that really make no sense at all. Mainly, the Academy, and "what passes for culture and thought on the North American continent." Word to But Some of Us Are Brave. I vent about the absurdity of my experiences in a PhD program, and come to the realization that the academy, nor any other white supremacist patriarchal capitalist systems could every truly validate me, what I know, or what my value is. I then shift my focus to all the spaces and practices that do affirm my knowing and inherent value. In part, the lineages of Black folk who intentionally and lovingly exchange wisdom in affirmation of our freedom. The Spirit and intentional community that has always sustained us. The indigenous practice of citing the folks who've made us possible. Love as a Verb. And as Lucille Clifton told us, "We have always loved each other, Children. Pass it on." This week's Purple & Green segment honors brilliant Black folk--many who are scholars, theorists, artists, creatives, educators, healers, storytellers, witches, root workers, organizers, seers, diviners, & community builders--whose lives and work have poured into and shaped me, affirmed what I know and how I know it, and exemplify love in practice. Brilliant Black Folk Highlighted: Somatic Excavations @somaticexcavations, Tea with Queen & J. Podcast @teawithqj, Inner Hoe Uprising Podcast @innerhoeuprising, Jade T. Perry @jadetperry, Harriet's Gunn @harrietsgunn, Marsha's Plate Podcast @marshasplate, Queer WOC Podcast @queerwocpod, Natoya Hall @minyma, The People's Oracle @peoplesoracle, A Little Juju Podcast @alittlejujupodcast, The Trap Therapist Podcast @thetraptherapist_, Spiritual Homegirl Podcast @spiritualhomegirl, Bag Ladiez Podcast @bgladiez, In Those Genes Podcast @inthosegenespod, The Sexually Liberated Woman Podcast @sexuallyliberatedwoman, Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline, How to Survive the End of the World Podcast @endoftheworldpc, VagEsteem @vagesteem, Ms. Vixen Magazine @_msvixen_ The closing meditation references the story “The Language You Cry In” Also available on Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Podcasts, Breaker, & Pocket Casts This episode was edited by Miya S. 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