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Sit in on an intimate conversation between Ebony Noelle Golden, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Sydnie L. Mosley about four works of Womanist literature that have influenced PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells.

Ebony Noelle Golden is a theatrical ceremonialist, culture strategist, entrepreneur, and public scholar. In 2009, Ebony founded Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative, a culture consultancy that devises systems, strategies, and social justice solutions nationally.  In 2020, she founded Jupiter Performance Studio, a space to study and practice Black diasporic performance traditions.   Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Transformational Practice Award, Golden works to incite and ignite the creative capacity of everyday folks in service of liberation and collective wellbeing.  Her practice is rooted in community-design, ritual performance, and leadership development through a womanist and Black feminist praxis. Invoking messy, magical, and medicinal processes, Ebony and her collaborators, work to conjure a better world.  www.bettysdaughterarts.com IG: @ebonynoellegolden

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is cherished by a wide range of communities as an oracle and a vessel of love. Drawing on over 25 years of experience as a writer and facilitator, her inclusive practice finds us and brings us into the ceremonies we have always needed. Her books include: Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (AK Press 2020), Dub: Finding Ceremony (Duke Press, 2020), M Archive: After the End of the World (Duke Press 2018), Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity (Duke Press, 2016) and Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (PM Press, 2016). In 2020-2021 Alexis was awarded a National Humanities Center Fellowship to work on her forthcoming biography The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Alexis recently won the 2023 Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry.  Alexis and her partner Sangodare have received many honors,including an Advocate 40 under 40 feature for their decade of work to create an intergenerational living library of Black LGBTQ brilliance called Mobile Homecoming. Alexis lives in Durham, North Carolina where she nurtures and is nurtured by a visionary creative community while scheming towards her dream of being your favorite cousin.

Sydnie L. Mosley​ is an artist-activist and educator who produces experiential dance works with her New York City-based dance-theater collective Sydnie L. Mosley Dances (SLMDances). She won The Bessie for Outstanding Performer as a part of the ensemble of the skeleton architecture, the future of our worlds, and received a special citation from Mayor Bill de Blasio for using her talents in dance to fuel social change. As an educator, she designed and teaches Barnard College's Dance in the City Pre-College Program. She sits on the Advisory Committee to Dance/NYC. Her writing has appeared in Essence, The Brooklyn Rail, and Dance Magazine.

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Hosting, editing, and production by Kirya Traber
Executive Production by SLMDances

Assistant Production by Ziiomi Law

Production support by Max Van & Lance John

Music produced and composed by Line Neesgaurd, Spring Gang, Ebonie Smith and Counterfeit Madison

Special thanks to Emma Alabaster

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We continue the journey and hear about the place where PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells was developed: the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which is also the neighborhood formerly known as San Juan Hill, and the community engagement process with the Lincoln Square Neighborhood center.

• More information on SLMD’s Community Engagement for PURPLE 
• SLMD’s Community Engagement Curriculum 
• Listen to the full EP: What Does PURPLE Sound Like 
• Lincoln Center’s Legacies of San Juan Hill website

This episode features interviews with: Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley; SLMDances Creative Partners Brittany Grier and Candance Sumpter; and Community partners Jacqueline Wright and Marie Stephen. Additionally featuring excerpts from interview footage recorded in 1985 by New York City’s municipal broadcast television station, WNYC-TV, for Neighborhood Voices, a limited series on changing city neighborhoods, archived by the NYC Department of Records & Information Services.

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We learn about the history of how Sydnie L. Mosley Dances became a collective, the values that guide the work and how those values show up inside their newest work, PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spells.

This episode features interviews with: Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley; SLMDances Creative Partners Jessica Lee, Brittany Grier, Joan Bradford, Candance Sumpter, Rebecca Gual and Lorena Jaramillo; Collaborating Artists: Brianne Ford, Jazelynn S. Goudy, Dyane Harvey, Counterfeit Madison (Sharon Udoh), Rosamond S. King, Amy Shoshana Blumberg and Ianne Fields Stewart.

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Hosting, editing, and production by Kirya Traber
Executive Production by SLMDances

Assistant Production by Ziiomi Law

Production support by Max Van & Lance John

Music produced and composed by Line Neesgaurd, Spring Gang, Ebonie Smith and Counterfeit Madison

Special thanks to Emma Alabaster

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Spotlight in PURPLE, season 2 will be a three episode series following the unique creative process of the world premiere of the creation of PURPLE: A Ritual In Nine Spells - an ensemble performance premiering at Lincoln Center in June 2023.

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Season 2 of Spotlight in PURPLE has been created, hosted, produced and edited by Kirya Traber. Producing assistance by Ziiomi Law. 

Music featured was produced by Counterfeit Madison

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Welcome to Spotlight in PURPLE! This is a gift for you from SLMDances. This podcast is a companion to handmade zines - analog and digital - created for you, our treasured community. With both the zines and podcast, we invite you to indulge in an at home sensory experience. To learn more about SLMDances and Spotlight in PURPLE, visit: slmdances.com/sip

The inaugural podcast episode includes storytelling with SLMDances Creative Partners and a poem by Timothy Prolific Edwaujonte created as a literary contact-improvisation between our ensemble dancing and Timothy's writing.

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This podcast features SLMDances Creative Partners Jessica Lee, Brittany Grier, Joan Bradford, Angelica Mondol Viana, Bianca Paige Smith, and Maya Simone Z. in conversation. The poetry is written and spoken by Timothy Prolific Edwaujonte, with Noah Jackson on bass and Ebonie Smith on drums and production.

Spotlight in PURPLE has been produced and edited by Jessica Lee, Bianca Paige Smith and Lorena Jaramillo, and funded in part by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Engagement.

SLMDances is directed by Artistic Director Sydnie L. Mosley, Strategic Visioning Partner A. Nia Austin-Edwards, and Artistic Visioning Partner Allegra Romita.

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This is Season 1, Episode 1 of the weekly podcast Beyond the Womanist Classroom hosted by Mitzi J. Smith, PhD and co-hosted by Ms. Rebecca Christian.  Dr. Smith is a womanist biblical scholar, professor, and author.  In this introductory episode Dr. Smith discusses Alice Walker's definition of "womanist," the Bible as an artifact of the Black community, and justice.

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It took a month, but Lyvonne is finally ready to share her initial thoughts on Beyonce's RENAISSANCE album! Tune in as she explores her favorite tracks (and the ones she *gasp* skips), plus social commentary on this epic cultural moment. 

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Join Lyvonne and hip hop womanist scholar and master manifester, EbonyJanice Moore, for a conversation on dreaming with ease, inspired by Pearl Cleage's seminal novel, Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do!

For this episode’s supplemental materials, visit patreon.com/lyvonnebriggs (aka Sensual Faith Academy) and join the tier that’s right for you! The Sensual Faith tier supports the podcast and the Lavish Love tier supports the podcast *and* grants you access to bonus content (like book studies, audio essays, and tarot/oracle card readings)!

Join Natasha Beckles and Natalia Nana in conversation with Christena Cleveland. Dr Cleveland is a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and activist. She is the founder and director of the Center for Justice + Renewal as well as its sister organization, Sacred Folk, which creates resources to stimulate people’s spiritual imaginations and support their journeys toward liberation. An award-winning researcher and former professor at Duke University’s Divinity School, Christena lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Her new book is entitled God is a Black Woman. Her new book is entitled God is a Black Woman.

Dr. Cleveland’s website: https://www.christenacleveland.com/

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Sacred Folk website: https://www.sacredfolk.com

LifeUni can be found HERE.

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Join Lyvonne and the Black Ass Spiritualist herself, Juju Bae, for a conversation on love, intimacy, and sensuality, inspired by Sobonfu Somé's seminal text The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the Ways of Relationships.

June is Pride, Black Music Month, Juneteenth, and Summer Solstice! Celebrate with Lyvonne and her very first podcast guest, her pastor(!!!), Rev. Dr. Maisha Handy. They explore new expansive language for Black women to take us to the next level of liberation, transformation, and love!

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Pleasure is a womanist spiritual practice and a central tenet of Sensual Faith. Join Lyvonne as she celebrates the last days of Mental Health Awareness month with a focus on adrienne maree brown's Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good! 

A Tent Talks first. Listen and lean in, as we are joined by the ground-breaking womanist theologian - the Very Reverend Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas. She is in conversation with our previous tent talk guest and theologian, Dr Selina Stone, and our host Reverend Natasha Beckles. They engage in a rare, rich transatlantic conversation exploring eschatology, church and the scars of Christ.

The Very Reverend Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas serves as the Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary (https://utsnyc.edu/eds) and the Bill and Judith Moyers Chair in Theology at Union.  She also is Canon Theologian at the Washington National Cathedral and Theologian in Residence at Trinity Church Wall Street. Dean Kelly's latest book is Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter (November 2021, Orbis Books), She is the author of many articles and books, including Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God, and Sexuality and the Black Church:A Womanist Perspective. You can find her on social media at: @DeanKBD  on Twitter and @EDSatUnion on Facebook.

Dr Selina Stone is Tutor and Lecturer in Theology at St Mellitus College in London and a research consultant. Her PhD completed in 2021 at the University of Birmingham focussed on Pneumatology, Pentecostalism and Social Justice. 

Revd Natasha Beckles is an Anglican priest in the Church of England, who has a background in educational leadership, safeguarding and inclusion. Natasha is curate at St Martin's Gospel Oak, London who has been commissioned to work part-time for London Diocese' Compassionate Communities team, developing and resourcing the mission, partnership working and outreach specifically on the issue of Serious Youth Violence & Contextual Safeguarding. Find her on Instagram at: @natashabeloved

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Isn't it interesting that Mother's Day and Mental Health Awareness Month are both in May? Join Lyvonne as she engages Alice Walker's seminal text (including Walker's 4-part definition of "womanist") as we seek to facilitate intergenerational healing, especially among mothers and daughters.

Connect with Jana through her website:  janalgpeterson.com

NAIITS - North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies

Here are some resources:

• A great conversation on the Syrophoenician Woman from Dr. Mitzi Smith and her colleagues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVy-kp-3jDY&t=4994s
• The book referenced by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
• Dr. Angela Parker's book If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?
• Here are some pages from Mark and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies, edited by Janice Capel Anderson and Stephen D. Moore.  It’s where Jana first read about the particular interpretations of Salome’s dance. https://www.dropbox.com/s/vr93lcqlr7eq31a/Mark%20and%20Method%2C%20121-135.pdf?dl=0
• Lisa Sharon Harper and Randy Woodley on Closing the Narrative Gap - Peacing It All Together Podcast

Jana is reading Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle by Danté Stewart. 

Jana is listening to: Paul Cardall's piano music. 

Jana is inspired by her children, the earth, Spring bringing new life and Lisa Sharon Harper

This week Angel and Zoha discuss Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall.
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Dr Selina Stone is Tutor and Lecturer in Theology at St Mellitus College in London. Her doctorate was on ‘Holy Spirit, Holy Bodies?: Pentecostalism, Pneumatology and the Politics of Embodiment’. Dr Stone’s research and teaching focus on the themes of politics, power and social justice, which she began exploring as a practitioner while working as a community organiser and programme director at the Centre for Theology and Community from 2013-2017. She is a sought-after speaker and consultant, and from 2021-22 is leading a research project on the wellbeing of UK Minority Ethnic clergy in the Church of England, funded by the Clergy Support Trust.

More about Selina HERE.

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Dr. Gafney and I also discuss  why the original Hebrew language is important and how the bias (intentional or invisible) of the interpreters will influence how YOU read the text and think about God.

Learn more about Dr. Gafney HERE   

Buy her book Womanist Midrash and look at her upcoming book The Women’s Lectionary: Preaching the Women of the Bible Throughout the Year.  

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Other resources:  

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This week’s special bonus episode is an investigation of language. How do we spell the word “woman”? A simple question that has led to a long history of letters, re-definitions, hostility, love, and even more questions. We want to hear your voice so please feel free to email us and let us know your thoughts!

Things I Referenced:

• Alice Walker’s 1983 definition of “Womanist”
• All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave - the landmark anthology in Black Women’s Studies
• “Why ‘Womxn’ Isn’t Exactly the Inclusive Term You Think It Is” by Cassie Barradas
• “Stop using the phrase ‘womxn’ to be trans-inclusive. It can be offensive to trans women and non-binary people” by Canela Lopez

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