Much love to The Barr Foundation, National Arts Strategies, Indigo Arts Alliance, Tender Table, WMPG and Flo Edwards for making this happen.
Ep. 1 – Hair and Memory –
In these three vastly different retellings of memories, each recounts intimate moments, matriarchs’ deaths, and relationships, remembering these connections to history, family, identity, and intimacy.
The first piece we will listen to is a poem by Edwige, who is an Artist in the New England Area. They recount the memory of a volatile lover through intimate touching of their hair.
The second is Flor, who speaks about family lineage through the practice of brushing and braiding hair.
And the final one is Athena, who reminisces on the memories she made with her mother before the HIV virus took her life.
Ep. 2 – Sandra Guzmán Interview – coming soon
Sandra Guzmán is a Caribbean-born Boricua raised in NJ, who is an an Afro-Indigenous storyteller, culture writer, literary editor, and documentary filmmaker whose work reclaims and re-centers narratives of people and communities outside the margins. Her work has appeared on Shondaland, HULU, NBC, and CNN, and is multimedia and multifaceted. Sandra is also the editor of the international anthology of Latin American women writers, Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women. Which is where I was introduced to them; their editing of culled stories on colonialism, identity, gender, memory, and resistance is illuminating.
Ep 3: Boricuaness – coming soon
Ep. 4: Kids from Taller – coming soon
Ep. 5: Indigineity – coming soon
Ep. 6: Diaspora Pa’lante Collective members – coming soon
Ep. 7 – TBD – coming soon
