DJ Emancipation is an Egyptian professional joy enabler with the music your ancestors dreamed to. In the next few hours, DJ Emancipation takes us on a worldwide journey through her favorite tracks in celebration of International Women’s Day.
You can find her at www.djemancipation.com and on IG @thedjemancipation
Click here to listen to the show. 1:59:50 min. This audio file will be available until March 21, 2021.
Women of Color Perspectives On Self Care
In this past year we have seen young activists take to the streets, the screens, and promote social justice work from their homes. WOC of especially are incredibly active in their respective spaces because of their passion and true desire to create change in communities. However, as it is important to highlight their work we can also draw inspiration from how they celebrate and care for themselves. How do they practice love for themselves in order to contribute to spaces the way they do. Today I had the honor of speaking with Anastasia Cusack-Mercdez an organizer for the Downtown Women’s Action Coalition based in the Los Angeles Community Action Network and Rani Hanstad an organizer for South Asians for Black Lives in Seattle to discuss their accomplishments but also how they create a culture of care for themselves. Therefore we will have the opportunity to learn from their experiences to better our own understandings of social justice work through self-work.
Bios:
Anastasia Cusack Mercedez:
Stasi is a 22-year-old artist located in Los Angeles California. She works as an organizer for gender justice with the Downtown Women’s Action Coalition, and with the Arts and Culture Department; both are based out of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, a housing non-profit in Skid Row. In these positions, healing practices are integral to the work. The Downtown Women’s Action Coalition cultivates space for healing to take place in every meeting as well as through regularly scheduled healing circles, and the Arts and Culture department uses art as a form of expression and healing. In this work, as well as throughout every day of life, Stasi uses music as a mode of healing practice. She plays piano, sings, and more recently starting writing music as well.
Stasi just released a song, give it a listen on spotify!: “Mine”
Rani Hanstad:
Rani (she/her) was born and raised in south and central Seattle, but also spent four years of her childhood living in Bangalore, India. She has a strong passion for racial, gender, and educational justice which led her to apply to a Master’s of Education Policy program at the University of Washington. Outside of school, Rani organizes with Seattle South Asians for Black Lives, a group of people committed to decolonizing their behaviors and unlearning anti-Blackness. She hopes that her work continues to contribute to systemic educational change so that Black and Brown students and communities can thrive. On the weekends and in her free time, she loves watching Bollywood movies with friends, drinking boba in the ID or on the Ave, and taking care of her cat and houseplants.
Links:
South Asians for Black Lives: @sa4bl
LA CAN: @lancanetwork_official
Intro Song: “Green Tea Ice Cream” – Linda Diaz
Outro song: “Mine” – Anatasia Cusack Mercedez:
Hosted by Jaagmit Dhami
Click here to listen to the show. 55:39 min.
Siblings in Liberation: African and Asian American Feminist Solidarity
What are the radical possibilities of catalyzing cross-racial feminist solidarities, imaginations, and substantive realities? What revolutions must we create within ourselves to dismantle our prejudices, discrimination, and silences to create the world we want to see?
We’re featuring audio from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s event Siblings in Liberation, Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities, which celebrated the editorial collaboration between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective that found a home in AAWW’s digital magazine The Margins. Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities is an ongoing monthly series of critical essays, conversations, poetry, fiction, and more. The series looks to Black and Asian American feminist histories, practices, and frameworks on care, community, and survival as the tools and strategies to build towards collective liberation.
This hour features remarks and discussion with Jaimee Swift of Black Women Radicals and Tiffany Diane Tso, Senti Sojwal, Salonee Bhaman, and Rachel Kuo of the Asian American Feminist Collective; a poetry reading by Cecile Afable and Zuri Gordon; and a conversation between sex work activists Kate Zen and SX Noir.
Hosted by Lily Philpott
Click here to listen to the show. 58:00 min.
Upstar Records
Sistah Boom: Forty Years in the Streets
Chana Wilson, Producer and Host
Click here to listen to the show. 29:00 min.
Mosaic America’s Galorious
Host: Priya Das
Participants in order of appearance:
Charlene Eigen-Vasquez, Justina Palafox, Rosanna Alvarez, Van-Anh Vo, Shikha Malaviya.
Gratitude to Adriana Rueda, Lisa Riley, Chuck Alexander.
Mosaic America participants – Priya Das (VP Programming Strategy). Usha Srinivasan (President).
Mosaic America is a project of Sangam Arts
Click here to listen to the show. 57:59 min.
Global Black Feminism
Listen to a kitchen-table conversation with Black transnational feminists Coumba Toure, Hakima Abbas, and Vanessa Thompson discussing the values, principles, and visions of global black feminism and the contradictions they face as they engage in the multifaceted activism.
Host: Margo Okazawa-Rey
Click here to listen to the show. 55:43 min.
Women Who Rock, Part 1
Women Who Rock, Part 2
Producer, Christina Aanestad, pays tribute to the life and creative genius of Wickie Stamps, featuring music and interviews.
Click here to listen to the show. 55:59 min
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