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Art, Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Education, Literature, Palestine, Politics, Turtle Island, verbal medicineHeatwave
by Kelly Curry Ms. Flouncey scratched and fluffed the soft towel Maya had laid out for her in the back seat while Virginia rested her own hands across her lap…noticing for the second time today how she had her father’s hands, long, piano playing fingers and wide fingernails that curved gently down around their edges,…
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Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Education, Green living, Politics, Turtle Island, underground, verbal medicineThe Glint…Built For The Outdoors…
By Kelly Curry It was a cool, bone chilling morning, I could see the clouds drifting over the bay with pockets of sunshine peeking through to bring out silver caps in the waves…pulled my hat down over my ears…can’t believe it’s june…I said to myself…as I went to go meet the tow truck. This was…
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Art, Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Education, Politics, sacred play, underground, verbal medicineDecolonial Interventions in the time of Nazi Realities
In Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent (Random House, 2020), Isabel Wilkerson tells the story of August Landmesser. Depicted in the photo above, he is the one who refused to Seig Heil. This makes me think of Elon Musk at the recent US presidential inauguration. In Blackgirl on Mars (Repeater Books, 2023), I wrote, “The…
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MARIA THANDIE Unveils Bold New Single: “Too Glam To Give A Dam”
A Celebration of Women Empowerment, Identity, and Unapologetic Self-Love Maria Thandie, an experimental and genre-defying artist, is set to release her first single, “Too Glam To Give A Dam”. “Too Glam To Give A Dam” is a powerful anthem for women of color. It focuses on self-acceptance and self-love. It also emphasizes breaking societal beauty…
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Art, Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Education, Health, Palestine, Poetry, Politics, QTBIPOC, revolutionary film, sacred play, underground, verbal medicine
Highlights from the 8th Nordic Trans Studies Seminar
The 8th Nordic Trans Studies seminar took place in Copenhagen, featuring artists and researchers like Luca Aainio, Sall Lam Toro, Yancé-Myah Antonio Harrison and Timimie Märak. Discussions centered on the evolution and institutional validation of Trans studies. Participants emphasized themes of love, coloniality, and sensuality, encouraging a collective demand for accessible expressions of identity and…
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Art, counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Education, Indigenous People, Music, Poetry, Politics, sacred play, Turtle Island, verbal medicineCorrelations: Meetings In The Multiverse
Correlations: Meetings in the Multiverse celebrates Blackness through art, community, and spiritual connection. Hosted by Phyllis Akinyi, the event unites diverse diasporic voices, blending sound, movement, and visual art in an Afrofuturistic setting. Taking place from November 5-10, 2024, it emphasizes cultural synchronicities and the resilience of Black identity.
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Art, Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Indigenous People, Literature, Poetry, verbal medicineOpening Night
Presented at the Japan Society, New York USA Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus October 13, 2023—January 21, 2024 Group Exhibition honoring the Women of the Fluxus Movement, Spatial Poem No. 5 – Open Event Curated by Midori YOSHIMOTO
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counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Education, Indigenous People, Literature, Music, Palestine, Poetry, Politics, PublishingFree Palestine Resource Guide by Buthaina Shaheen and others…
Buthaina Shaheen is a Ph.D. candidate with a focus on the globalisation of Palestine and Israel. She is Palestinian who was born and grew up in Damascus, Syria. She studied, lived and worked in various countries including Syria, Italy and Denmark. She has a Masters degree in ‘Management of Development’ from Turin University, Italy and…
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Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Indigenous People, Palestine, Poetry, Politics, Publishing, sacred play, Turtle Island, underground, verbal medicine, WarWeather Report
We are beyond weeping.
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Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Education, Palestine, Politics, revolutionary film, Turtle Island, underground, War
The Only Way Home is North
Once we got deeper into the months before we started the war, that’s when we really started thinking. I mean, what am I about to do? Is this right, or is this wrong, or is this just because my president wants oil, wants money. There was a lot of confusion going on.
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How to Divorce Your Mother
Don’t tell her. She might not notice. Put her dread out of your head. Pretend she’s not your mother. She snatched you from some place.
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Art, Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Education, Green living, Indigenous People, Literature, Music, Poetry, Politics, revolutionary film
Settler Go Home
This performance poem is In the tradition of Gil Scott Heron, “Whitey on the moon” and John Trudell’s “Look at us” . It explores the emotional terrain traversed when European settlers are spoken about in the same way Black and brown migrants are in western media.
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Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Education, Indigenous People, Literature, Politics, sacred play, Turtle Island, underground, verbal medicine
Pinkus Katz – the only original European tradition is genocide.
I entered teaching with the idea that the classroom could be a place of vision, solutions and self-actualization. What I found mostly were students struggling in various degrees with sometimes extreme conditions of distress. In an industry that reflected the hierarchical structure of our culture, perhaps I was naïve in thinking that schools could be…
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Art, Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Health, Music, Politics, sacred play, Turtle Island, undergroundNew Blue Sun is such a pleasure to behold – it is the soundtrack for our collective healing.
Although “we” had a lot – our own media, fashion lines, restaurants, clubs – there were still gatekeepers. Sure, they may have looked like us – but word on the street always kept many of us vigilante. If you were not you risked being a statistic. We knew about music icons on the DL –…
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Art, counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Education, Health, Indigenous People, Literature, Poetry, Politics, Turtle Island, underground, verbal medicineHeartless
Wendy Babiak identifies as two-spirit and uses the pronoun We: We sent CONSPIRACY OF LEAVES out into the world over ten years ago in the hopes that it might spur humans to recognize each other. We wanted to help humanity see the sacred personhood of trees, but how could it, when it doesn’t even know…
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Bandit Queen Press Productions, Diaspora News, Indigenous People, Literature, Music, Poetry, Politics, Publishing, verbal medicineMy Anthem of Grief
a poet bemoans the world’s betrayal
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Art, Bandit Queen Press Productions, Diaspora News, Education, Green living, Health, Indigenous People, Music, Politics, Publishing, underground, verbal medicineHosting Lands Interludes/Mellemspil w/Lesley-Ann Brown on counterstorytelling
We hope you will join us for the first three sessions of HOSTING LANDS INTERLUDES/MELLEMSPIL on counterstorytelling with author and activist Lesley-Ann Brown on November 2, 13 & 23 2023, 17:00-19:00 We hope you will join us for the first three sessions of HOSTING LANDS INTERLUDES/MELLEMSPIL on counterstorytelling with author and activist Lesley-Ann Brown on…
