The good news is how creative, fierce, loving, brave, bold, funny, beautiful we are as we navigate, resist, transgress, and dispute white supremacy culture. This page is dedicated to a few of the many ways we have found to express our commitment to survive and thrive and be - with and for each other and ourselves and spirit and earth and wind and rain and fire.
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MUSIC JOY
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The Resistance Revival Chorus
sings This Joy That I Have |
Nina Simone
sings I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free) |
POETRY & WRITTEN WORD JOY
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If you have not already, please immerse yourself in the poetry of NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green, who has released The River Speaks of Thirst, an audio album of her poems for a listening experience of joy.
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Danielle Spratley suggests these marvelous pieces to read:
- Some Thoughts on Mercy by Ross Gay
- To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall by Kim Addonizio
- Dinosaurs in the Hood by Danez Smith
- Shea Butter Manifesto by Eve L. Ewing
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Anything written by Alexis Pauline Gumbs brings joy. One of her latest books is Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. In this book, she draws lessons for us humans based on the subversive and transformative lessons of marine mammals. In her chapter Refuse, she salutes the mammals who have escaped human observation altogether, offering "all my love to you who preserve the mysteries. Whom the empire of binaries will never define. All of you who love with a depth beyond recognition, nurturing freedom over understandability, valuing life as so much more important than simple comprehension. Thank you. Thank you for loving me without even knowing what on Earth I am" (page 110). |
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