anti-oppression. racial trauma & healing. community care.
On the evening of August 17th on Occupied Duwamish Territory, I had the delight and honor to 'set the table' for people to bear witness to a lineup of formidable and loved artists who offered bold, erotic, and generous repertoires. These are artists who have been (in varying degrees) pushed to the margins, harmed, and …
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FREE ADMISSION. Invite your friends! Through music, storytelling, and poetry, we will explore the dynamics and issues exclusive to the minority experience in the United States. While it is necessary to talk about immigration, systemic oppression, stereotypes, etc., we easily get "in our heads" with these matters and still miss the person's face by focusing …
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https://soundcloud.com/gabestorres/phenomena-gabes-torres Note from creator: Here is a poem I wrote about my ongoing dissatisfaction being partnered with white people. It is also a poem about what white people might experience when they pursue or when they are already in dating, marital, et al. relationship with a racialized / non-white person. Whenever I date a white …
I prayed a lot when I was younger. And whenever I did, I imagined praying to a god with an Anglicanized countenance. A white god. A white Jesus. As a first generation Filipina, my experiences with religion in the Philippines were never without the influences of Spanish Roman Catholicism, American Protestantism, or the mixture of …
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