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counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Education, Indigenous People, Literature, Music, Palestine, Poetry, Politics, Publishing
Free Palestine Resource Guide by Buthaina Shaheen and others…
Buthaina Shaheen is a Ph.D. candidate with a focus on the globalisation of Palestine and Israel. She is Palestinian who was born and grew up in Damascus, Syria. She studied, lived and worked in various countries including Syria, Italy and Denmark. She has a Masters degree in ‘Management of Development’ from Turin University, Italy and…
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Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Indigenous People, Palestine, Poetry, Politics, Publishing, sacred play, Turtle Island, underground, verbal medicine, War
Weather Report
We are beyond weeping.
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Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Education, Palestine, Politics, revolutionary film, Turtle Island, underground, War
The Only Way Home is North
Once we got deeper into the months before we started the war, that’s when we really started thinking. I mean, what am I about to do? Is this right, or is this wrong, or is this just because my president wants oil, wants money. There was a lot of confusion going on.
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How to Divorce Your Mother
Don’t tell her. She might not notice. Put her dread out of your head. Pretend she’s not your mother. She snatched you from some place.
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Art, Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Education, Green living, Indigenous People, Literature, Music, Poetry, Politics, revolutionary film
Settler Go Home
This performance poem is In the tradition of Gil Scott Heron, “Whitey on the moon” and John Trudell’s “Look at us” . It explores the emotional terrain traversed when European settlers are spoken about in the same way Black and brown migrants are in western media.
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Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Education, Indigenous People, Literature, Politics, sacred play, Turtle Island, underground, verbal medicine
Pinkus Katz – the only original European tradition is genocide.
I entered teaching with the idea that the classroom could be a place of vision, solutions and self-actualization. What I found mostly were students struggling in various degrees with sometimes extreme conditions of distress. In an industry that reflected the hierarchical structure of our culture, perhaps I was naïve in thinking that schools could be…
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Art, Bandit Queen Press Productions, counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Health, Music, Politics, sacred play, Turtle Island, underground
New Blue Sun is such a pleasure to behold – it is the soundtrack for our collective healing.
Although “we” had a lot – our own media, fashion lines, restaurants, clubs – there were still gatekeepers. Sure, they may have looked like us – but word on the street always kept many of us vigilante. If you were not you risked being a statistic. We knew about music icons on the DL –…
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Art, counterstorytelling, Diaspora News, Education, Health, Indigenous People, Literature, Poetry, Politics, Turtle Island, underground, verbal medicine
Heartless
Wendy Babiak identifies as two-spirit and uses the pronoun We: We sent CONSPIRACY OF LEAVES out into the world over ten years ago in the hopes that it might spur humans to recognize each other. We wanted to help humanity see the sacred personhood of trees, but how could it, when it doesn’t even know…
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Bandit Queen Press Productions, Diaspora News, Indigenous People, Literature, Music, Poetry, Politics, Publishing, verbal medicine
My Anthem of Grief
a poet bemoans the world’s betrayal
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Art, Bandit Queen Press Productions, Diaspora News, Education, Green living, Health, Indigenous People, Music, Politics, Publishing, underground, verbal medicine
Hosting Lands Interludes/Mellemspil w/Lesley-Ann Brown on counterstorytelling
We hope you will join us for the first three sessions of HOSTING LANDS INTERLUDES/MELLEMSPIL on counterstorytelling with author and activist Lesley-Ann Brown on November 2, 13 & 23 2023, 17:00-19:00 We hope you will join us for the first three sessions of HOSTING LANDS INTERLUDES/MELLEMSPIL on counterstorytelling with author and activist Lesley-Ann Brown on…