14 episodes
Diaspora Babes Diaspora Babes
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Diaspora Babes is a podcast for queers of color on maintaining your creative practice and engaging art, community, and liberation.
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Unlikely Allies: Plant Comrades, Creativity, and Care
You have unlikely allies. Have you found them?
During quarantine, we’re forging systems of mutual aid with unlikely allies: birds, plants, cats, and trees in our immediate vicinity.
Emergent Strategy and adrienne maree brown. Baby hummingbirds. Unexpected roosters. Ecosystems of care. Ancestor trees.
Featuring contributions from
Isabel Peña she/they @botanicabrava
Alina Perez she/her @alina.perezz
Alex Mendez she/her
Nasseem they/he @dendrophile666
Thank you!
Tell us what excited you, frustrated you, challenged you, or touched you by voice note or at diasporababes@gmail.com
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Music by
Layle Omeran @layleomer
AlmanaK Bandcamp IG @almanak_ab -
My Queer Ramadan
Welcome to season 2 of Diaspora Babes! Continuing the theme of making home, I read some selections from #myqueerramadan series I have been writing for Ramadan 2020. Read the full series and get regular updates here.
Tell us what excited you, frustrated you, challenged you, or touched you by voicenote or at diasporababes@gmail.com
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Music by
Layle Omeran @layleomer
AlmanaK Bandcamp IG @almanak_ab -
Gathering and Coming Home
Welcome to season 2 of Diaspora Babes! Today I offer an exploration of the center, the home inside you, the gathering that takes you from it, and brings you home. Tell us what excited you, frustrated you, challenged you, or touched you by voicenote or at diasporababes@gmail.com
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Music by
Layle Omeran @layleomer
AlmanaK Bandcamp IG @almanak_ab -
Diaspora Babes Radio Waves
Sit back, relax, and enjoy the sweet sounds of the first Diaspora Babes Radio Waves installment. Enjoy recently released tracks by queer artists of color. Their songs are accompanied by their thoughts on ecstatic experiences reached with music and how they use music to connect to others. The artists, their included tracks, and the time stamps:
AlmanaK, Belly of the Beast 0:00
Yummy Online, Playstation 2:50 月曜日 6:03
Sukha, Euphoria 9:33
Idrys, Joyaux 13:56
Layle Omeran/ 7afsa قالولي 20:04
Mia Listte, Bella 27:32
Contact info:
AlmanaK
https://soundcloud.com/almanakspeaks
Instagram @almanakmusic_
https://www.dardishi.com/events
Performing March 10 in Glasgow and in Paris May 9th and May 14th
Yummy Online
https://soundcloud.com/onlineyummy
Instagram @terrorist.us
Remsta23@gmail.com
Sukha
Instagram @Susankhan
https://soundcloud.com/susankhan-sukha
Idrys
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCndCfl1PEkw5PYr9_Q81vYQ
https://idrys.bandcamp.com/
Instagram @idrysrhodes
Layle Omeran/ 7afsa
Instagram @laylomer
Mia Lisette
Instagram @missmialisette -
You Are Love
A message on love for Valentine’s Day. I talk about posts by @virginalvigilante @bunnymichael and @jessica_lanyadoo and read from adrienne marie brown’s Emergent Strategy. Revolutionary, queer love. Trauma. Do you worship fear? Do you let others sacrifice you to their fears? I also use tarot and talk about the Ace of Cups and our internal fountain of love. This episode is more improvised than usual, so let me know your thoughts on IG at @diasporababes, by email at diasporababes@gmail.com, or send me a voice message on WhatsApp or Anchor. I love you, babes.
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The Role of the Artist is to make the Revolution Irresistible: Ja’Tovia Gary
Ja’Tovia shares the quotation from Toni Cade Bambara, “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” She also shares her thoughts on cyclical time, looking back to move forward, Afro-surrealism, her relationship with Orishas Yemaya and Oshun, centering Black women in her work, and much more.
From her website:
Ja’Tovia M. Gary (b. Dallas, TX. 1984) is an artist and filmmaker currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Gary’s work seeks to liberate the distorted histories through which Black life is often viewed while fleshing out a nuanced and multivalent Black interiority. Through documentary film and experimental video art, Gary charts the ways structures of power shape our perceptions around representation, race, gender, sexuality, and violence. The artist earned her MFA in Social Documentary Filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Www.jatovia.com
IG @j_______g_______
Twitter @jatovia
Follow the podcast on Instagram @diasporababes
Music by Layle Omeran
Customer Reviews
Insightful and serving so much realness
Though I don’t consider myself an artist, this podcast raises so many important questions about how you define your practice and how to love and accept through art...which isn’t easy!! And Amal’s voice is so soothing!! Love you queen
Church!
My new place of worship. Where I come to think on and celebrate my souls journey and the community that represents me. I have much love for the wisdom and work put into this.
Genuine, Passionate, Inspiring
This is THE podcast for queer creative people of color. How to survive capitalism, how to value and love yourself while working in community. All the questions are here. The episodes are very relaxing as well as inspiring. Magic, beauty, witch things, art, and justice. Take a listen.