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The Ready State
"mami wata" Discussed on The Ready State
"Black kids were swimming to burn their skin them never to show up at these places again and that happened all over this country for years the history of the sierra club even is is is messy when you go back to its roots and people if you have that in your history right if you have that cultural in your history and your family you're in it's passed down. You don't go to these places or these spaces. Bad shit might happen to you. Of course you're going to learn to become learn to think that. Yeah maybe that's not for me or that is quote unquote in white activity. Or why would you be doing that white thing etc. That's one of the beautiful things about racism. Is it a few as a system if you teach long enough. And if it operates long enough the people who are subjected to it actually start to believe it. And that's what i would like to vessel some that. I wanna be a part of breaking. And i also implore people who have power in those spaces to understand that like yeah i as a black man who's visible in these spaces can can say things and get people's attention but it's people it's the people with real power the people who have real access. They can do ten billion times more than i can buy affecting their circles in having these conversations and figuring out ways to expand landscape and provide more access just with the things that they have in their toolbox. They don't have to go and join some special thing or formulated. Some big club organization. It's just like okay. What do i have access to that. I can help to change this even a little bit. Do you see any change at all. In the wake of the george floyd murder or any other trigger that the power players in the outdoor industry which i assume are like the patagonia 's north face and the all the ski company's right like i assume at a business level those companies would obviously play a huge role in this. Who do things doing a good job. He's doing a good job better job now or any job i think. Pentagon patagonia has taken some great steps. I've seen the way they have given platforms so there are lots one thing i can say is is. There are a lot of people of color. Indigenous people black people that have formulated groups to advocate for themselves. And do outreach. And what is cool. That i'm seeing are the brands who are locating the people that are doing it right and giving them a chance to have their voices amplified and to use their platforms to engage. More had been doing a great job with it. They have this podcast. They're doing called the trail ahead with an outdoor trail runner from from portland and A black woman and it's just so cool. The conversations that are being had and that these conversations are being amplified on the planet patagonia platform for people who normally wouldn't get to listen in and learn how various types of people engage in these spaces. I think the denigrate job. I mean i full disclosure. I sit on the board now burton snowboards. They invited me onto the board in november prior to that had never been a black person person of color. Who sat on that board. Would i have gotten that. Call up if it wasn't. George floyd i don't think so and i'm honored and humbled that never use thought would happen especially in the wake of jake burton's passing so i am so grateful to be able to get to to see their enthusiasm in wanting to build anti-racism and build inclusion more importantly into the culture of the brand in being an inclusive brand and that takes time to lab to build that into the dna of your brand. But they are looking to do. So i'm the scandalous Of america say they just they put a person of color on on their board recently. And i think people are learning like okay. The only way that we're going to be able to learn about these things is if we actually have the perspectives invoices of from within the bypass community. Helping us actually make decisions acting in a way that holds a mirror to us to show us like if you don't know you're blind spots putting the same people in the room that all have the same blind blind spots and saying like okay. Let's all this problem. Let's have a diversity initiative great. I've seen people posting like videos of like. Here's the diversity initiative and i'm looking around the pictures of mike. Is this like onion post. 'cause there's this you know so it's it's welcoming in those voices being okay with giving up a little bit of that power but as i tell people or brands that i consult like stop thinking about it from a place of giving up power and start thinking of it from a place of sharing power tree. An intern by sharing power. Creating more power. Giving yourself more fuel the opportunity to be a better brand in and in the end the more profitable brand. Because i tell people all the time You might want to look at the numbers of the demographics of this country and Where we're going to be in five ten fifteen years. You could continue to put your head in the sand and pretend like it's not a thing but Es numbers do not lie and these landscapes are going to need to be expanded for you to continue to function as a brand for your thing to be. Viable was just going to leave without you. Like i say we have lots of friends. We've met once. I haven't fallen you for a minute. You become the voice of my young you know shredding angsty teenage ripper self. You are a musician. You producer you host. You're going to act act as a stretch. I i make cameos from time to time. Count instead car county and it's feels like you really have just come into your power. I mean really feels like you're organized. What are you besides stoked and we will have all the links to that. Because if you're listening to this and wanna change support this organization. What are you fired up about right now. Sort of in the in the near future. That's feeding yourself because you are really sort of have that problem you can do so many things so well thank you for recognising the problem part of it because my management and agent would be like thank you see. We're not the only ones hawaii back in focus. Choose choose choose. Choose choose so we can get the bags. I'm excited. there's a. there's a brand that. I am a partner in called mami wata. It is a clothing brand out of south africa. A surf wear brand. Everything is made on the continent and it is sort of reimagining. The lens of how we we share what surfing looks and feels like from the perspective of the largest surfable continent on the planet and what surfing looks like across africa and now basically a lifestyle brand from an african spin and we just launched a book called afro surf that really tells the story of indigenous black culture.
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"mami wata" Discussed on Ideas
"Mommy watson. i absolutely identify and hope to identify with. Nicky and alex plane. Those two positions. I first conceptualized of this play while being in a nightclub watching this young black woman own herself empowerment and express herself through these highly sexualize moves on pole. Blew my mind away to see her. Challenge everything that we had been told growing up about what it means to be woman what it means to be respectable what it needs to be beautiful. And that's where nicki was born so identify that in the sense that as a queer woman who's grown up in jamaica grown up in canada and all over the world. I want to position myself always in embodying my own liberation. What does that mean that means for me to be able to constantly be navigating negotiating my sexuality from a place of self love and a place of self acceptance and celebration it means being able to make room for others were also navigating their multiple identities in means a challenge. My own internalised colonization and the ways in which even as queer identifying person. I may project colonialism's onto other members of our community in the form of homophobia in the form of abuse of my own power in situations where have power as a mother as a teacher as a lecturer as an artist. So in those ways. I identify with nikki. Nikki power and the ways in which. I am growing into growing into identifying with her. Is that when. I was watching that young woman on the poll there there emerged in me deep colonial respectability politics that made me in some parts of my body feel embarrassed that made me in some parts of my body feel ashamed. Feel the shame that i was taught about exposing my own body and so in those ways i'm also trying to grow into a a space of feeling confident and empowered within my own body which is partly why in playing the character of niki and went through long sessions of training physical training but also psycho emotional training to be able to be on stage in such a the almost naked. If you ask me and be able to to be in that character as much as i can. of course. i'm still growing into that. So in a lotta ways. Nikki is also where i aspire to be that to be in nickel rock star The size of a bone pinch sweep up from the all showed the entire village. Some people said it had the seashells i-it's was unmoved some said it had seaweed for legs on c. Sadden for the people inside the church of the right as carl for by book the shirt of the right to did with wa wa wa up poor ring true every dura we've done. I'm witness to stop com worn nickel phrase michael dunn kizzee. Unbe mickey were gone when tom com four. Nico frames were god. My word is primarily about healing. My people and when i think of healing my people i think of what we retain in our bodies being the descendants of africa african mythologies for me represent the direct link to our being nissen. The stories that i write are meant to remind myself and african peoples that no matter what the processes of being diaspora is what the processes of being oppressed what the processes of being silenced. All the things that we've experienced through centuries of a failed colonial experiment no matter what we retain within us the essence of our humanity which comes directly out of africa. When you are in jamaica you can breathe that and feel that even as the legacies of colonization are visible. The people are constantly in joyful rebellion of those legacies. And that's what african spirituality signify for me. You're listening to an episode of ideas titled which hunt produced by taio barrow. Our guests were debbie young. Nita freika and sean. Stewart the excerpts of audio drama you heard throughout the episode are from salt pepper theaters around the world in eighty plays de be young need to freak out performed all the characters in the play to hear the full play and others in this series head of the soul pepper theater company website which we will link to through our site. Cbc dot ca slash ideas. There you will also find a full list of production credits. The audio producer of soap peppers around the world in eighty play series is gregory sinclair for more details about this episode. Please visit our website. Cbc dot ca slash ideas. You can also find us on twitter and on facebook. Lisa i you. So is our web producer. Danielle do val is our technical producer. This senior producer nikolic church. The executive producer of ideas is greg. Kelly.
Ideas
"mami wata" Discussed on Ideas
"A new hunt for queer people percentage as your lord that is so nobody hama street and think that i'm going to i'm disrespect we displace because there is no space for them. Kind of the area is is club enough years. No since maurice tomlinson file a constitutional challenge against the blood club buggery la we hear the pussy which we feel like we must play our part against homophobia and bigotry. Because really unsually personally which is jeddah. I'm six like watt in se solidarity. We invited brad as i'm systemise this year spears on the edge with us today dances shaking and so the pussy which is space for queer women exclusively predominantly but one. Niki does is. She invites all the queer men. Queer queer in terms of sexualities queer in terms of gender queer people's. She invites you to have an action within the pussy. Which on that saturday nights and what she is saying to the community is that yes absolutely we can have. Our focused spaces are dedicated spaces for example a space that's dedicated to queer women but within that were also in solidarity and allies ship with each other and can share a spaces that welcome everyone. She's also making a political statement to the queer community about the divisions that the queer community has inherited out of colonialism those divisions around gender those divisions around who identifies in what ways that they identify those divisions around i'm how different members of quit communities perform or genders and performer sexualities. And she's really also saying let's. Let's let's question that. Lets question that talking about the colonizing liberating then really. Our communities should also reflect that and we we should be able to be in collective space particularly as we're all the recipient of hetero normative colonial violence no pursue which is and said at the gears and brecon bab accord. I've mercy as birkin babba corp. Listen with jeff at the on main not for poor people. Money doesn't say does not teeth. Why russian politicians were arms to poor people. So that m can't he'll eat outta does not say though shut not kill pussy with cheese and what about slavery by the industry. Every i'm flavor ranks eighteen thirty five english statute proclaimed to an enslaved african population in the british colony of jamaica eighteen sixty four the offenses against the person act article seventy six on natural offenses. The law says who so ever shall be convicted of the abominable crime of buggery committed either with mankind or with an animal shall be liable to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for term not exceeding ten years since the buggery law is a part of the eighteen sixty one offenses against the person's after and not law it criminalizes sex between men between two men and because of that law if any one in jimmy data child woman a younger or young boy or woman who is buggered. The sentence initially less than that a free so because or or Parlementaire and they didn't want to Remove the buggery law because they do remove the butler that would mean in. Their opinions are what they think. They're they're making sex between two men A thing something that can be legally done and as is. It is Illegal if persons are caught or even presumed to be having sex with with men. There's a possibility that can be charged for and we've made several attempts to try to get government to Repeal these laws but it has always been challenging challenged by the church specifically.
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"mami wata" Discussed on Ideas
"You're listening to an episode of ideas called which ideas is heard on. Cbc radio one. In canada. Across north america on sirius. Xm in australia on abc radio national and around the world at cbc dot ca slash ideas. You can also hear us on the cbc. Listen up or wherever you get your podcasts iowa. I at you know you're smart freddie friends who always seem to have the best celebrity gossip. I'm talking about the ones who always know. We should be watching or reading or listening to or what have you can pick their brains every week. Pop chat is a brand new podcast. But does exactly that and feels like spending time with your best friends. So join me. Alina mahmoud and a panel of the smartest culture critics that i know as we dissect the discourse but also have a great time doing it. This is the latest installment of a series of episodes featuring soul pepper theater companies around the world in eighty place. You can hear all of the plays in the series on the sole pepper website. Tickets are pay what you can and free for frontline workers and people under twenty five she mami wata and the pussy witch hunt is a one woman play written produced and performed by jamaican canadian to be young. Any tough rica. It's a play that confronts the relationship between church and state in jamaica and the devastating impact. That relationship has on the lgbtq community ideas producer. Taya barrow takes us deeper into the play as part of our collaboration with seoul. pepper theater. Note that there are descriptions of sex and sexuality in this episode listener discretion is advised after leaving her community of little rock. For the city of kingston nikki finds a job working as a dancer at a club called the pussy. Which is a i have. Your comments and outpost see after get to notable. Severe weather is a warm and inviting place where everybody knows neom. I'm glad woah calm. So the nightclub is called the pussy witch and the idea is that through the divine feminine. There is space for reclamation all women hood not as a homogeneous reality but as a heterogenous re reality. So we are. We are multiple. There is no one black. Womanhood and nikki is one example of reclaiming that feminine divine through the erotic through being an iraqi ban sir and through making the poll and alter making the poll a place of worship and though the woman's body that which is to be worshiped a so the pussy witch. Is that black woman who is really Grounded in her own expression her own liberated expression of her black womanhood however she defines that whether she defines that in in a gender queer way whether she defies at in a non binary way whether she chooses to identify herself as queer or not really the pussy which is is about empowerment. And i'm using absolutely using the metaphor and the motif of of the pussy to represent that the pussy which is also a space where the similarities between the church and secular world became very clear. When i think of the rituals that are occurring in the she mami wata. Those rituals are occurring in the church. Pasta m is sermonizing. They are occurring in the nightclub. The pussy witch because nikki is also sermonising and the rituals for me. Point two or humanity is a social creature we gathered together and we make meaning of our lives. We give movement meaning. We give speech. Meaning we give visuals any kind of visual representation. Meaning so whether we're deeply engaged in some sort of orthodox religious tradition giving meaning through our body movements giving meaning to the stories we tell or we're in let's say the pussy witch you know moving about a poll giving meaning to those movements and being stimulated by those movements having desire what i see common in. Those spaces is people people. This is what we do. We make ritual. We make meaning the question. I hope that audiences ask themselves is what meanings do i want to make of my own life and what meanings will allow other people to make of is. We don't have to make the same meaning. I absolutely envision collective spaces that are safe for old people's that are safe for queer people's and that's part of what i'm reaching towards in she mami wata in the pussy which they gather on that particular saturday night and because the police have started.
Ideas
"mami wata" Discussed on Ideas
"And why you fix your uniform. We kizzee niki is to liz. Beyond young he feels betrayed because they didn't tell him that they were lovers years. No i suspect that you were to some home is nasty again to the dr is yes oh going to. I'm going to tell purrs nas together out. Talk to me on these years. We've been friends on. Both of you are a southern gal. Not my friend anymore. Watch on c. into q. Them with to kill but he also feels betrayed. Because he's caught between the homophobia that he's been taught and the potential impact of their actions on them. You know again. Spoiler alert Michael's mom was was was murdered And it's it's rumored in the community that she was murdered off because of her sexuality because she was seeing someone in the community and so michael without even understanding what his body is experiencing the trauma. That's been retained in. His body has a complete trauma response. Really what's happening is his fear of losing. His friends emerged but he does not understand that. Just like don't talk to all put to to hold. I knew all you could do this to me when they kill the poor view. War by going to out to be to to to everybody like michael please. Michael pleases do that to us. Kizzee talk to michael till my collecting in china. Go on tell anybody where his best friends talk to my conal. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm really guedes tell really went to tell you all we don't would know. Oh my god kizzie. We can't stand little rock. It's not see if if people find out about me and you got only knows. What do you remember. Remember what they say about michael and member what happened to our kissy kissy. What what if. What if any do tell everybody. Oh god we can stay here kizzie. we have to. We have to. We have to leave. You have to leave. Come comic relief comic comical kingston kizzie mahathir anti in kingston. And mahir. say there's hooley other people in kingston just like me and you. Yes we can to kingston. We have to go far far far away. From here you will come with. Mackenzie com kissy mouth some money. Save up from graduation and we use it and we can take the robot taxi unweakened leave tonight before michael tell everybody liquor rock t that he would really tell will. We can't risk. We have to leave okay. Why don't meet me tonight. Underneath a guava tree in tone nine o'clock cuff some money and an going take it from underneath the bed and we can go kingston together. Yes kizzee please. Please please just meet my nine o'clock underneath a guava tree irate this experience of having to flee your own home because you don't feel safe there anymore. It's not uncommon within the g. q. Community jamaica a few years angle. We supported two women that they were to get out. Who had to leave. jimmy can. They had to leave because their lives were being threatened by persons in their community. They they were moving around. So it's whenever. They moved to a space on persons in those communities. Find out that they're together or or assume that they're together their targeted and person scheme in on them and were trying to rob an trying to harm them on would would Would threaten to rate them because they see that they are in a relationship with someone off the same sex just last year. There was another couple of reached out to us to support them with moving to another country to save for because they've been experiencing extremely extremely unsafe situations. They live in a rural parish under funny enough. They live next door to a police officer. A woman police constable. Who phone that there to get the. I'm have been threatening them. They had to move from that community to another one. That was very very far from where they were. So they're not a space where they don't know anyone and they still feel unsafe because this police officers sending them threatening messages on the really really need to leave jamaica because they don't feel safe to we've seen and we've heard stories of women who are Very senior and wanted to leave the country because there is nothing here that the think conflicts.
Ideas
"mami wata" Discussed on Ideas
"Nikki to be left on the beach but we do get a sense by the end of the played that maybe nicky came to the planet or was given to the land by the mommy wanted to accomplish something very specific without any spoilers to affect some sort of social change a died. This side psalm. Team bowl see wait. She good wine call themselves. She wore avery. Bindi keep kieburtz turkey. Amy twelve one year weeks one. Eight band represe. Dr thirteen black pants. Black league also much of my work invites into the world that i create the yemen jar. Or hsun oria in this piece of mami wata emerges and mummy water com is an ancient african spiritual tradition or rather traditions. That honor diverse. Pantheon of women want to spirits and eighties. Mother wants is often. The translation cited for their name. Mummy wanted lives all bodies of water and an embodies the complexity and the multiplicity of water itself. I mean just think about that. It's incredible without water. There is no life and and with water. Come storms hurricanes and floods and soon amies. Mummy wanted possesses. The most enchanting beauty and shares characteristics with the euro by default worries says hsun ocean is the river goddess of childbirth and erotic love and the mo is the mother goddess of the sea and is a goddess who defends and protects women. And there's often like the image of snake nearby in the snake just happens to be my favorite animal as well so in this story. We centers around the mommy watts up but calls on the energies of of yemen. John and And ocean through the stories of nikki and the plays other three characters. Anita freika is attempting to decolonize the harmful ideas. Around not just spirituality but sexuality in jamaican society as well. Mike allen ever done said that they go into weird for us by six farm classroom so that we can use the body through new. I'm plus i've a and to ask it kizzie. You look so beautiful today. But i call you a uniform set on me you kizzie. We don't don't sit down under dirty grown men. Don't miss thoat kizzee. Do you like it. When i taught you right here. So and do you like it. When i talked to rape here. Does it be nice. No that's is not the question of how you the question i have for. You is higher. There is a scene in the play. Where michael who is Best friends with kizzee nikki and ever done. They're like a crew. He walks in on them in the bathroom. Kissy kissy i hear somebody coming in the batch. Get up gets up quick. His ghetto get up get. Oh so it's just my on this point. They're they're in their last year of high school. So what's that about maybe sixteen seventeen seventeen eighteen. Were there between succeed in eighteen. Let's say and his reaction is really ely explosive and emplo sieve at the same time. It's really such a very challenging moment. In the play for me. Michael sees kizzee and together kissing and he feels entirely betrayed for a number of reasons. Kizzee why you to earlier. I said what you two are doing here. Are you to kind of girl on girl nastiness near then. Wise kizzie are to us..
Ideas
"mami wata" Discussed on Ideas
"Your friends lead you astray wanted. Elliot's for of old hall asserted individual was made a fruit sharing that god. It's not about me. It will not only. Was he the snake who copy late to the purse to god said to. The woman before. Nine to multiply with mon cannot breathe with congregation. God created book. He told about the truth and he listened to the serpent. Will the popularity at the kind that brings me congregation sean. That brings me to the topic of today's show on this earth. This kit relegating the gay agenda as reach a critical stage punch. We're told that we must exercise. Tolerance runs for the undone by you. Let me remind you team congregation. If he's an abomination for a bond known to be the copy woo-mahn abomination for to leave the months. We assess one thrown off To say months we ethan mon- assets. He's the spirit is the speed of the congregation. The confused beaumont one back to dirty nacion wash with lord. Put the dad. Can you please praise the lord praise. The lord does get liquid conference earlier with the ceremony can weakness. Can i get the weakest. The homophobia preached within the church becomes even more dangerous. because there's very little distance between the power of the jamaican government and the influence of the church. It is racked up tunnel up inside or or law is shawna. Stewart's is the grants and partnership manager with we change in jamaica. A community led feminist organization that advocates for lesbian bisexual. queer women. She spoke to us from kingston or timing teheran's prime minister. They are very afraid to upset the church because churches their largest Boop supporters so the whenever the church would have different marches saying they're against homosexuality and the are The protecting the sanctity of the family and in their opinion the family is among the women and children. And they're protecting us and be are going against that. They think affect their sanctity of the family and the parliamentary parts of it. They are very much surprised to meet their always at those protests and martinez and just shouting and chanting and just making people. Very afraid folks. They're adding to defy. We know that we.
Monocle 24: Meet the Writers
Monocle Reads: Warriors, Witches, Women
"Let's let's talk about this new book of yours which is is fascinating and your goddess has come from really diverse cultures. Tell us about them. Because you've got one from the Shinto religion of Japan you've got got us from Bikini Fussier you've got ancient Greece. Of course tell us a little bit about some of those are tried costner as widely as possible because I think We generally know about the goddess of Ancient Greece and Roman as classic. Go says is but I tried to go with other big little bit deeper went to Mexico and Egypt and Australia and China and kind of eastern Europe I wanted to. I wanted to take in more and more stories. Make more colorful more diverse. I also tried to kind find goddesses who wouldn't necessarily straight wouldn't necessarily even female they'll kind of gender fluid ones in that to Your favorites to write about. I think my absolute favorite who was kind of a new one to me Mami Wata his an African go she's water originally Pantheon of water goddess and. I was really interesting fussy because look she looks fantastic. She's she's half woman. Half Fish is a mermaid character. She loves herself. She's in love with her own reflection. She's beautiful money she brings people money. She's she's kind of happy joyous Goethe's also already. I loved to story in how evolved so she started off as an Oscar award good as but then her story taken through Africa and codified by traders from Europe and then when the slave trade started and thousands and thousands of Africans were taken to America makes it the terrible terrible conditions in the Americas and they took her with them and they worship her made a really specific way of worshipping her through an intense dumps and go them through the tough days in America and in the Americas and gradually she became criticized and became Pau voodoo religion. And it's just that story of. Her story tells the story of people to And how all of this mutates through time it's particularly pertinent telling it from a feminist perspective at this post metoo time. How long is the book been in the works? I mean was me to something that spoke to as you were writing it absolutely. Yeah the informed it that beautiful kind of me to inform the also kind of rising in witchcraft. Catch on the news. That'd be these little groups of young women who were who went to Heck Donald trump not really kind of inspired me and just to this is. It's a new take old stories. These old archetypes for something very modern new and and me too as well. I think a lot of things. That's the story of Cassandra. Who is kind of illustrates the maitre movement beautifully? She was a great Prophet. Who was after? She refused to have sex with somebody and so she was cursed. Older prophecies were true but none of them believed and that really Kinda resonates within me too movement. I mean it's interesting. Isn't it because as women we can be revered as God says or absolutely reviled as witches? Yeah absolutely and I think sometimes some of these stores in one person would be revered as a God s and you know within sentras or even decades. They've been vilified literally demonized and turned into this figure of height because they symbolized an older religion or they symbolize something that historians or writers coming despised so so that their stories are kind of turned around and they yeah they they were even one person could be could represent both of those than yeah. Yeah I'm interested in Shinto. Tell me about your Japanese goddess. Love my Japanese go to. It's I know it was you may. So she was a some nothing good s she's a good of stumps of dawn. Mirth and revelry and she. She's just fun. Some party go almost she but she saved the country because the goddess. I'm Tera it's going into hiding in a cave. And the son of summer had disappeared from the country it needed to be brought back again so I may know. Zoom went outside the cave. She got MIRA and she did dumps and she took clothes off she wasn't wearing any underwear antidepressants on the drum. And and the some good a curious about this she came out the case and then they wrote about the start of the case and she was she was out again in the summer shining again. And I just. I love the kind of lightness that story and the fun. And she's not this serious munificence with with long has his cut flights about the. She's a real person that really resonates. I think absolutely who doesn't want to dance in the sun with no nicotine. Yes exactly that. Wouldn't she really party and an I love the fact that still today kind of drumming groups named for her she. She's inspired the drums in Shinto ceremonies. And I love that. I love her. She's alive three music today. A wonderful