“What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you sicken and die of them, still in silence?”
—Audre Lorde
For the series premiere of #DESUSandMERO, it's only right our first guest is a BX luminary.
U.S. Rep. @AOC joins us Thursday, February 21 at 11/10c, only on @Showtime.
Having a kid has transformed the way I understand many things, among them being an increased recognition that providing universal daycare is one of the most important & transformational things we could do as a country. It would change the lives of so many people in untold ways.
We're now accepting applications for Spring 2019 awards: 20 $5K awards to artists and writers with a child under 18 #artistparents#writerparents https://t.co/Y59dnQUmC1
Did a TED talk about Rage and women navigating social ideas about how, when, and where we can say what’s important to us and why we want change. This is what anger tells us. There are so many racialised gender stereotypes about anger, all of them silencing in different ways.
We're still loving these mosaic artworks by artist Rico Gatson at the MTA 167 St B/D subway station in the Boogie Down. Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Gil Scott Heron, Sonia Sotomayor, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, and Reggie Jackson.