โWe need poets now more than ever. We need people to keep records and to dream and to ramble and make trouble and be disruptive. We need that the same way we need water. [...] We need joy, right, poetry produces joy too, we need all that.โ - jamal rashad on #AudioEvidence vol. VI
Listen to the most recent episode of #AudioEvidence: Volume VI featuring @flowrriot editor of #Imagoes Queer Anthology โ โWhat is in the book is work from queers across the spectrum. Older queers, trans folk, black folk, brown folk.โ Now streaming, tune in
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โThat is where I see the most importance because these are voices that have been silenced or misrepresented historically. These are voices that can see, right, that are given a different sight because of their positioning within the societyโ #AudioEvidence Volume VI now streaming
Something I appreciate about queer literature & about black literature is the insight that that existence in the margins gives the writer. The way that the eye is sharpened to the hypocrisies of the society based on the fact that they have been excluded from privilege. @flowrriot
Listen to #AudioEvidence: Volume VI featuring @flowrriot โ โI refer to a chapbook as a poets mixtape [...] This ability to look back at a particular point in time, right, cuz itโs also like a time capsuleโ โ now steaming on @Spotify & @anchor // tune in ๐
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โComing back I find myself constantly having to remember what used to be here. A lot of my poetry now is also an interrogation of what used to be here and a lot of sorting through the myths and the truths of my childhood and my relationship to the city.โ @flowrriot #AudioEvidence
โA lot of the DC that I grew up in is gone now...โ @flowrriot on #AudioEvidence: Volume VI ~~ now streaming on @anchor & #spotify ๐
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Listen to the most recent episode of #AudioEvidence: Volume VI featuring @flowrriot Jamal Rashad speaking on his evolution as a poet & the importance of centering other queer poets of color. He reads some of his poems & details the queer anthology imagoes.
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โI do think that youโll find black people in America, as they strive to throw off the shackles of mental colonialism will also probably reflect an effort to throw off the shackles of cultural colonialism & they may begin to reflect desires of their own w/ standards of their own.โ
โWe love everybody who loves us but we donโt love anybody who doesnโt love us. Weโre nonviolent with people whoโre nonviolent with us... but we are not nonviolent with anyone who is violent with us.โ #MalcolmX on Volume V of #AudioEvidence // #HumanRights
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Listen to the most recent episode of #AudioEvidence: Volume V honoring freedom fighters Malcolm X & Yuri Kochiyama. This episode aims to highlight Malcolm X after his travels abroad during the mid-1960โs, including to the holy city of Mecca. Now streaming!
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โHow do I gain some type of populace audience appeal to get people into my museum and at the same time satisfy the necessary elitism that defines good art?
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This dichotomy between high art and low art, this questioning.โ -Chiori Santiago on Volume IV of #AudioEvidence ๐ ๐๐ฝ
I think part of the problem that these artists face is that theyโve been restricted by traditional categories, what do you do with this work? It seems to me that at this point museums are forced to try to come to terms with what is high / what is low?