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mrade genius facilitator adrienne maree brown describes bold as the current black power movement and beautifully contextualizes yesterday s miracles here http adriennemareebrown net blog 2014 12 06 black love as a radical commitment in preparation for the paradoxical and necessary task of bringing black feminist breathing into a moment where as black folks we are collectively remembering and struggling with eric garner s last words i can t breathe i offered myself and the participants this meditation maybe it can be a healing part of your journey back to breath c h ant breathe dedicated to eric garner and to margaret garner s daughter take a deep breath everywhere you see a star i return to the place where you learned how to breathe where night washed itself into your dreams return to the place where you learned breathing was bigger than you or your fears of dogs bats and sea creatures and would continue all night long without you trying to keep it going human freedom is like that unstoppable as the ocean at night sometimes the crashing is just louder like right now ii we are feeling it in our chests right now the underwater knowing of upside down justice that has to right itself that hasn t righted itself the sinking feeling that the chokehold of the state is more persistent than the ocean it is not iii if i could i would bring all our people right next to the ocean to just sit and breathe with the ancestors just listen knowing all this sand was bone and the stars are just us reflected across the black history of the universe iv i want every last breath to be a tide going out so we can imagine some baby somewhere gasping into time with an unbroken custody of air i don t want the choking struggle the staccato of bullets shattering the song of what we know but sometimes even as the ocean slaps the sand it sounds shocked to me shoreline shaping impact this is happening again v i imagine eric garner becoming the ocean like margaret garner s baby awakening stream how all blood flows back to the salt in this water how something unstoppable screams posted by lex at 11 24 am no comments friday december 05 2014 it will not always be this way prophecy poem or impermanence after phillis frontispiece remastered collage by alexis pauline gumbs last night after laying our bodies in the street in protest while advocating and praying for our comrades who had been arrested while grieving and grieving the loss of black lives the audacity of state violence while remembering the police murder of fred hampton and honoring the resilience of our beautiful communities 5 black women gathered in the name of phillis wheatley 230 years ago today phillis wheatley peters the first black person to publish a collection of poems in the united states witness to the american revolution acquaintance of a queen and a president died free cold and poor somewhere in boston our conversation blessed by the literary and historical expertise of dr tara bynum ranged from the possibility of ordinary black life in a context where just being a live and black is framed as not just extraordinary but abnormal to speculations of the layered and syncretic spiritual cosmologies present in wheatley s work and her correspondence with her friend obour tanner to morissonian as in toni reflections on the normalcy of evil to raw honesty about slave funded academic institutions that continue to enslave black scholars to just wondering where our friends are and if they are okay inspired by wheatley s invocation of the sacred nine in her poetry we mused a while and generated resources of laughter love epic realness star knowledge movement history tragedy song and hymns to share with each other as a reminder that the institutions that harm us are not our only sources of power we are resources for each other finally we created this poem together out of our outrage at this moment and our faith that our lives and our world can be different this is a prophecy poem offering on the date of phillis wheatley s ascension may all of our ancestors receive it and join us in transforming life on earth prophecy poem impermanence after phillis by the participants in bright black broadcast 3 phillis wheatley black bodies disappearing into death state sanctioned choke holds it will not always be this way the impossibility of breathing it will not always be this way i listen to my ancestors when they say it will not always be this way to steady my steps i have to pray it will not always be this way it cannot always be this way it will not always be this way it will not always be this way i will continue to say it will not always be this way as i smile remembering what s gone is for yesterday liberation is possible perhaps not today it will not always be this way hasten the change no more lives should pay it will not always be this way y all must got me f d up it will not always be this way you must not know who taught me to pray it will not always be this way trickster teacher chaos clay it will not always be this way i m gonna be here anyway it will not always be this way it will not always be this way there is more than one way gather the children and tell them it will not always be this way remind each other that it will not always be this way name your babies it will not always be this way the ancestors promise it will not always be this way baptize in the name of it will not always be this way we make joy because it will not always be this way i was born to love and play it will not always be this way we will dance into the black light of a brand new day it will not always be this way itwillnotalwaysbethisway if you want your own limited edition print of the frontispiece remastered collage of phillis wheatley you can get on with your next 35 donation to eternal summer of the black feminist mind be sure to include wheatley print and your current address with your donation posted by lex at 6 03 am no comments friday november 14 2014 the vessel freedom dimensions after and with benjamin banneker last night was the first brilliance remastered bright black broadcast and it was miraculous guided by the brilliance of benjamin banneker and some of his enduring texts we engaged the rhetoric of our integrity the equations of our freedom the core beliefs that inform our problem solving the locations of the planets and the trajectories of our own orbits in relationship to creativity freedom institutions work family and everything else at the end of our time together we created our own three part group poem in response to benjamin banneker s a mathematical problem in verse a beautiful poem about some drunk people who have plenty of confidence and specificity take that respectability politics as a way of reflecting on the dimensions of our freedom the vessel by the participants in bright black broadcast 1 benjamin banneker after benjamin banneker s a mathematical problem in verse i the diametrical proportions of freedom seven answers for every one question three loves for every one life one breath for every thousand years one thousand heartbeats for every one connection one circle for one change one thousand stars for every one night sky ii the depth of freedom deep enough to fill sound deep enough to dance in technicolor deep enough to invite the whole family and community in deep enough to get baptized in every single day deep enough to hold our energy iii freedom capacity it can hold my imperfections it can hold our pain it can hold our hands it can hold our dreams it can hold the past and the future at the same time it can hold heart it can hold space it can hold light posted by lex at 3 47 am no comments tuesday october 07 2014 the spill intensive sustainable strategies for exceeding the boundaries of the academic industrial complex webinar october 20th 24th 9pm est from brilliance remastered the spill intensive sustainable strategies for exceeding the boundaries of the academic industrial complex webinar october 20th 24th 9pm est rodney ewing my country needs me by hortense spillers coming out of the insights of the recent shape of my impact back to school webinar the spill intensive is an experimental space for those visionaries who want to honor the ways their inspiration spiritual imperatives and accountability to oppressed communities exceed the boundaries of the university system using an innovative curriculum based on sista docta alexis pauline s decade of work on the brilliant excess of the language practice of black feminist literary critic hortense spillers the spill intensive invites 9 webinar participants to inhabit scenes of stolen freedom interrogate internalized capitalist default practices and activate practices that make tangible space in our lives and in the world for the unruly brilliance that our ancestors and our communities demand the intensive will meet online every night for 1 hour and 30 minutes at 9pm est oct 20th 24th fee 200 reserve your spot with an email to brillianceremastered gmail com explaining what you hope to get out of the course and your 50 deposit posted by lex at 3 28 pm no comments monday september 29 2014 register now for the juneteenth freedom academy for facilitators nov 1 2 in durham nc we are the facilitators compact anachronistic speakeasies of the justice movement we make it smooth entertaining energizing and cool to do the impossible in a t wo hour workshop in an all day training though a weekly series at a weekend retreat how can we achieve more than the packaging of oppression and the production of cute funding digestible deliverables what is the spiritual work of holding space for visionary encounters those sacred spaces where what it is possible imagine shifts where we become real to each other and spoken into history as june jordan developed the poetry for the people curriculum she and her community of poet facilitators practiced the technology of what they called an experimental and hopeful community that was safe enough for the transformative process of the truth to happen jamaican theorist sylvia wynter teaches that after humanism the ceremony must be found for how we human dehumanized beings relate to each other as we dismantle the oppressive logics that have been holding us back the juneteenth freedom academy for facilitators offers the proposition that we the facilitators are the experimental hopeful people making ceremony for a love that has not been spoken yet and for a triumph that is not supposed to exist and since we are designing the rituals to reclaim our lives since we are continually creating site specific breathing installation invitations for ancestors and future to speak since we are accountable to the anarchic potential of what it will mean when this particular irreplaceable set of beings in this particular space on this particular day face the possibility of our collective freedom the juneteenth freedom academy for facilitators is a space to support the work of facilitation as spiritual and creative work and to provide the necessary forms of sacred sustenance that makes the practices of listening opening our hearts being present being transformed and activating infinite love for our communities possible and likely on a regular basis and not just in the space of the programmed events that we are facilitating the juneteenth freedom academy for facilitators is dedicated to facilitating the possibility of freedom in all of our interactions and relationships and in the matrix of our daily lives we believe that powerful facilitation is not based on charisma mirco management fancy machines or a dazzling show we believe that the power of facilitation and the accountability of the facilitator is to 1 do what it takes to be fully present to the moment and the people 2 co create a context where the people can be fully present to the moment themselves and each other 3 co create and activate a context where everyone can be present to spirit ancestors and possibility if you are looking for a space to recenter your facilitation as a sacred practice with a cohort of transformative visionaries join us in durham nc nov 1st 2nd for a two day retreat transformative training if you are available to participate in the weekend training register here https docs google com forms d 11xixdctsmovaeehp83tp871rnszragzcryfts egfde viewform usp send_form offer your 75 deposit here and be sure to include the note juneteenth deposit your registration is considered complete once you have completed all required questions on the registration form and offered your deposit if you are not available for the training you can register as an individual auditor and get the workbook reader that participants will be using in november and sign up for a 45 minute session with alexis pauline gumbs about taking your facilitation to the next level offer your 75 here and be sure to include the note juneteenth auditor if your organization would like to bring alexis to lead a transformative facilitation workshop customized to the mission and needs of your organization email alexispauline gmail com to schedule a training testimonials from some of my favorite collaborators alexis p gumbs is the facilitator you ve been waiting for her generosity of spirit thought and action creates a circle around you which allows you to grow into your own potential as a leader and visionary if you believe another world is possible but you wish someone would take you by the hand and help you get to the threshold alexis is the person who can help guide you to the place where your own feet will begin to take hold i have been fortunate enough to watch alexis facilitate hundreds of meetings workshops and groups over the last fifteen years and with each passing year i am aware that she grows more into herself and more into connection with all of us i wish that everyone would have the opportunity to sit in a room with alexis and have her reflect their light back to them i can think of no better gift you can give yourself or your team than to spend some time learning and growing with her elizabeth anderson charis circle executive director co facilitator with alexis since high school sister dr alexis is the most insightful creative and compassionate workshop facilitator i have ever witnessed and collaborating with her was soul inspiring joy filled and transformative for me in so many ways alexis gives herself so fully to the responsibility of transformative facilitating that her every action within it is a meditation a master class in the practice and rewards of pedagogies of presence love truth and justice elevating every one and every thing around her to higher ground dr eric pritchard co facilitator of guardian dead ancestor accountable intellectual practice what a profound experience it has been for me to have access to the unique and inspirited works of dr alexis pauline gumbs through her imaginative thoughtful loving critical and layered facilitation dr gumbs is able to 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