Artwork

Innehåll tillhandahållet av Jon Jon Moore & feat. wyLee, Jon Jon Moore, and Feat. wyLee. Allt poddinnehåll inklusive avsnitt, grafik och podcastbeskrivningar laddas upp och tillhandahålls direkt av Jon Jon Moore & feat. wyLee, Jon Jon Moore, and Feat. wyLee eller deras podcastplattformspartner. Om du tror att någon använder ditt upphovsrättsskyddade verk utan din tillåtelse kan du följa processen som beskrivs här https://sv.player.fm/legal.
Player FM - Podcast-app
Gå offline med appen Player FM !

Old Fields, New Orchards: Surviving Poetics with Ra/Malika Imhotep

1:14:45
 
Dela
 

Manage episode 336364247 series 3224625
Innehåll tillhandahållet av Jon Jon Moore & feat. wyLee, Jon Jon Moore, and Feat. wyLee. Allt poddinnehåll inklusive avsnitt, grafik och podcastbeskrivningar laddas upp och tillhandahålls direkt av Jon Jon Moore & feat. wyLee, Jon Jon Moore, and Feat. wyLee eller deras podcastplattformspartner. Om du tror att någon använder ditt upphovsrättsskyddade verk utan din tillåtelse kan du följa processen som beskrivs här https://sv.player.fm/legal.

CW: This episode contains mentions of sexual violence.

“I would like my work to do two things: be as demanding and sophisticated as I want it to be, and at the same time be accessible in a sort of emotional way to lots of people, just like jazz. That's a hard task. But that's what I want to do." — Toni Morrison

"What are the methods... of holding this soft, adaptive, Black feminine flesh thing, this surviving thing. How do you write about it?" — Ra/Malika Imhotep

***

How does capitalism live in our bodies? How did an interest in Ghanaian hip-hop and Pan-Africanism lead Ra/Malika Imhotep to New Orleans, to study and write about Black femininity, queer embodiment, & the performance of labor?

This month, Jon Jon welcomes Ra/Malika Imhotep, Ph.D, a Black feminist writer, performance artist, and cultural worker from Atlanta, Georgia. Ra/Malika's debut collection of poetry, gossypiin, was published by Red Hen Press in April 2022. Ra/Malika's intellectual and creative work tends to the relationships between queer embodiment, Black femininity, vernacular culture, & the performance of labor.

In this conversation, Jon Jon asks them to share their ongoing journey through academic, artistic, and ancestral spaces, and how these spaces have informed their being and creation. And Ra/Malika gives us so much—on self-importance, refusing the demand to translate interiority, what Atlanta taught them about slavery, and why they "want the language to be felt," no matter what they're writing.

Keywords: gossip, peaches, dysfunction, cotton root bark, imposition, atlanta, barbara christian, reproductive labor, 1987

Please become a monthly supporter of abolitionISH—100% pays our guests, producer, and social media director!—at patreon.com/abolitionish.

AbolitionISH: a podcast at the end of the world is a black politics and culture podcast made possible by Producer WyLee (NYC/JHB, @whoswylee) Host Jon Jon Moore (CDMX @incivilitea) and Social Media Director Bug (PHL, @hoetentiial).

--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abolitionish/message
  continue reading

18 episoder

Artwork
iconDela
 
Manage episode 336364247 series 3224625
Innehåll tillhandahållet av Jon Jon Moore & feat. wyLee, Jon Jon Moore, and Feat. wyLee. Allt poddinnehåll inklusive avsnitt, grafik och podcastbeskrivningar laddas upp och tillhandahålls direkt av Jon Jon Moore & feat. wyLee, Jon Jon Moore, and Feat. wyLee eller deras podcastplattformspartner. Om du tror att någon använder ditt upphovsrättsskyddade verk utan din tillåtelse kan du följa processen som beskrivs här https://sv.player.fm/legal.

CW: This episode contains mentions of sexual violence.

“I would like my work to do two things: be as demanding and sophisticated as I want it to be, and at the same time be accessible in a sort of emotional way to lots of people, just like jazz. That's a hard task. But that's what I want to do." — Toni Morrison

"What are the methods... of holding this soft, adaptive, Black feminine flesh thing, this surviving thing. How do you write about it?" — Ra/Malika Imhotep

***

How does capitalism live in our bodies? How did an interest in Ghanaian hip-hop and Pan-Africanism lead Ra/Malika Imhotep to New Orleans, to study and write about Black femininity, queer embodiment, & the performance of labor?

This month, Jon Jon welcomes Ra/Malika Imhotep, Ph.D, a Black feminist writer, performance artist, and cultural worker from Atlanta, Georgia. Ra/Malika's debut collection of poetry, gossypiin, was published by Red Hen Press in April 2022. Ra/Malika's intellectual and creative work tends to the relationships between queer embodiment, Black femininity, vernacular culture, & the performance of labor.

In this conversation, Jon Jon asks them to share their ongoing journey through academic, artistic, and ancestral spaces, and how these spaces have informed their being and creation. And Ra/Malika gives us so much—on self-importance, refusing the demand to translate interiority, what Atlanta taught them about slavery, and why they "want the language to be felt," no matter what they're writing.

Keywords: gossip, peaches, dysfunction, cotton root bark, imposition, atlanta, barbara christian, reproductive labor, 1987

Please become a monthly supporter of abolitionISH—100% pays our guests, producer, and social media director!—at patreon.com/abolitionish.

AbolitionISH: a podcast at the end of the world is a black politics and culture podcast made possible by Producer WyLee (NYC/JHB, @whoswylee) Host Jon Jon Moore (CDMX @incivilitea) and Social Media Director Bug (PHL, @hoetentiial).

--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abolitionish/message
  continue reading

18 episoder

Alla avsnitt

×
 
Loading …

Välkommen till Player FM

Player FM scannar webben för högkvalitativa podcasts för dig att njuta av nu direkt. Den är den bästa podcast-appen och den fungerar med Android, Iphone och webben. Bli medlem för att synka prenumerationer mellan enheter.

 

Snabbguide