Listen to host and curator Dani Tirrell and guest Milvia Berenice Pacheco Salvatierra talk about creating and falling in love with yourself, and being a dope artist on this week's #IntimateConversation.
“Black Love Looks like the current of the rivers that never stop despite the geography of the terrain.
It looks like a dagger that goes through the bodies and when it comes out becomes songs and dances.
It looks like a glassless mirror that can reflect the invisible walls of systemic oppression and racism.
It looks like open breasts, filled with warm milk that breastfeeds and nourishes the entire humanity.
It looks like Gospel, Calypso, Festejo, Hip Hop, Punta, Blues, Fandango, Soca, Samba, Tango, Reggae, Bossa Nova, Candombe, Batucada, Afrobeat, Culo'e Puja, Currulao, Tamborito, Merengue, Timba, Quitiplas, Cumbia, Chimbangle, Tap and many other rhythms, dances and sounds that are created with or without a drum, but with the rhythm of the drums-beats of the spirit-heart.
It looks like a concentric circle of sister/brotherhood that is supported by the planted roots of our ancestors, which at the same time support the bare feet of their descendants and embrace with their outstretched arms the black diaspora that balances the seeds of historical awareness of black culture between their fingers.
They look at himself as a powerful love, a God love that represents themself as an androgynous being with a skirt made of water surrounding their hips, a bronze armor on their chest, and a crown of fire on their head. It looks like a flexible and permeable love that accommodates and transforms into a multiplicity of forms.
This is how Black Love looks to me.”
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