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  Original Air Date: 4/30/2009 12:00 AM UTC

  Poetic "License"

  Join me and some of the hottest poets out there for an open mic Sippin On Ink style.
  
  
  Reppin the west coast is none other than Damnyo da "Genius Chyld". Conceited or just speaking the truth? I’ll let you be the judge of this multi-faceted poet, Serafemme artist and producer of numerous poetry events in LA. She was also the slammaster and coach for the LA Slam Team in 2006 and is the author of "Trap'd". www.myspace.com/damnyo2729
  
  
  
  Reppin “Speak No Evil” in Orlando is the peoples poet “Zero”. He was the host/feature Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity's annual Love Jones Poetry night for the next 11 years. He is a regular house poet and the main promoter for Orlando's Premier Poetry Venue - Speak No Evil - every 1st Wed of the month. Zero maintains a positive attitude towards life realizing that as Zero, his positive mentality turns 1 single person into a 10 with multiple blessing just by standing beside them and speaking. Now that’s some math for ya. www.myspace.com/despeaknoevil
  
  
  
  Reppin Georgia and the“Spitfire Poetry Group” is “Epiphany”. Stepping onto the stage in 2003 this poet has found her “release” . With Sonya Sanchez as her literary idol, Epiphany believes, “life is art and poetry is the ultimate expression. www.myspace.com/epiphanyspits
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  • poetry
  • epiphany
  • zero
  • damnyo
  • speak no evil
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• Original Air Date: 4/23/2009 12:00 AM UTC

  Steven G. Fullwood

  
  
  Meet Steven G. Fullwood , founder and publisher of Vintage Entity Press www.vepress.com, the author of FUNNY (2004), co-editor of Think Again (2003), co-editor of To Be Left With the Body (2008), and the forthcoming The Magician's Assistant's Dilemma (2010). For over a decade, his writing has appeared in Library Journal, Black Issues Book Review, XXL, Vibe, and Lambda Book Report. Fullwood is also an archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, and founder of the Black Gay and Lesbian Archive. In 2005 he was honored with a New York Times Librarian Award.
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  • vepress
  • steven g fullwood
  • to be left with the body
  • funny
  • fire and ink
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• Original Air Date: 4/16/2009 12:00 AM UTC

  Samiya Bashir

  
  
  Samiya Bashir is the author of "Gospel" and "Where the Apple Falls", a finalist for the 2005 Lambda Literary Award. Bashir edited two groundbreaking anthologies: "Best Black Women’s Erotica 2" and "Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art". She has published three chapbook poetry collections: "Wearing Shorts on the First Day of Spring", "American Visa" and "Teasing Crow". Bashir is a founding organizer of Fire & Ink, a writers festival for LGBT writers of African descent, and is an alumni fellow of Cave Canem: African American Poetry Workshop/Retreat. She has served as James Cody Scholar for the James Dick Foundation for the Arts and as Writer in Residence at SoulMountain; Bashir is currently Artist in Residence with The Austin Project. Her poetry, stories, articles, essays and editorial work have been widely published.
  
  Join us as we discuss her latest book "Gospel" an ecumenical resistance song in four parts. We enter at the crossroads, tripped up by trickster deity Eshu-Elegba. A chorus of crows, led by Norse god Odin’s raven messengers Hugin & Munin, guides us into each movement. In this passionate follow-up to 2005’s Lambda Literary Award finalist, Where the Apple Falls, Bashir’s poems challenge truth to stare down the power of fear and paralysis.
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  • samiya bashir
  • gospel
  • poetry
  • where the apple falls
  • lambda literary award
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• Original Air Date: 4/11/2009 7:00 PM UTC

  The Forbidden Project: Is Butch-Butch Lesbian Dating, the New Down Low?

  
  
  Join me, Naya'Hri N. Zaire-Suhalia and Shonia Brown for Forbidden Love, a four-part discussion series focusing on stud/stud and stud/transgender attractions and relationships. This live broadcast will include featured guests, Kaysen Jaymerson Jordan, Tawanna Sullivan and other guest panelists.
  
  
  
  Kaysen Jaymerson Jordan was raised in Baltimore, loves the arts, and is currently looking for more active ways to become more involved with the LGBTIQ community. Currently, a student at Bowie State University, he is pursuing a B.A. in Graphic Design. At an early age, he knew he wanted to be in the world of digital media, film, and other forms of creativity and is now taking his hobby seriously. Now at the age of 24, he is finally living his life the way he sees fit.
  
  
  
  Tawanna Sullivan is one of the founders of KUMA.net, a Web site which encourages black lesbians to write and share erotica. Her work has appeared in "Longing, Lust, and Love: Black Lesbian Stories," "Iridescence: Sensuous Shades of Lesbian Erotica," "Purple Panties, Best Lesbian Erotica 2009" and "Spritied: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity." Her sotry "Just Deserts" will appear in the upcoming anthology, "Swing! Adventures in Swinging by Today's Top Erotica Writers." She lives in New Jersey with her partner.
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  • butch on butch dating
  • lesbian411
  • sippinonink
  • 7807
  • forbidden love
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• Original Air Date: 4/9/2009 12:00 AM UTC

  Dr. Herukhuti

  
  Meet Dr. Herukhuti a sociologist/anthropologist, sexologist, educator, shaman, BDSM practitioner, artist, cultural animator, and author. He is the founder of Black Funk, a sexual cultural center dedicated to providing a space for the exhibition and exploration of sensual awareness, sexual consciousness, erotic power, and pleasure. Herukhuti has contributed to the development of the perspective known as Afrocentric, Decolonizing Queer Theory.
  
  
  
  Join me in discussing his latest work "Conjuring Black Funk: Notes on Culture, Sexuality and Spirituality, Vol. 1". It is a fiery collection of essays, poetry, creative non-fiction, and experimental writing that challenges conventional thought, offers alternative perspectives, and suggests ways of practicing Afrocentric, queer liberation/transgression. This book is an important contribution to Black Queer Theory, Black Feminist Thought, and Afrocentric Thought.
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  • Tags:
  • sex
  • education
  • bdsm
  • queer theory
  • Herukhuti
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• Original Air Date: 4/2/2009 12:00 AM UTC

  Pamela Sneed

  Pamela Sneed is is a New York based poet, performer, writer, and actress. Join us as we discuss "KONG" her latest book of poetry.
  
  These poems are histories, written but mainly unwritten, showing how social movements constructed around race, gender, & sexuality impact the individual. It is about family, ancestors and pioneers, healing, hope, and love. KONG shifts effortlessly between the comedic and the critical while never losing sight of the author's aim: to offer a work that is transformative, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual.
  
  Primarily inspired by Sneed's two trips to Ghana, West Africa, KONG uses both the film "King Kong" and the journey of an African man kidnapped from his homeland as metaphors. At its heart, KONG is a resilient protest work, and a luminescent and universal call for freedom.
  
  
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  • lesbian
  • poet
  • performer
  • writer
  • pamela sneed
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