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Their Wildest Dreams?Art and ActivismIn this episode, Sandhya talks with playwright and powerhouse activist Regina Evans about tree spirits, Mary Harris, and rest as resistance. And all of it ties to ancestors, I promise.
Regina Evans is an artist who is determined to find her way in this, sometimes difficult and sometimes lovely, world.
Link to the book that launched this podcast: Rebels, Despots, and Saints: The Ancestors Who Free Us and The Ancestor — Chalice Press
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2023-05-0846 minTheir Wildest Dreams?Ancestry and PoetryIn this episode, Sandhya talks with poet and friend Tai Amri Spann-Ryan about oatmeal, ancestors, and who he pays tribute to in his writing and spiritual practice. Tai Amri is a Black father, poet, gardener, educator and Ifa practitioner.
Connect to Tai Amri’s work at Tai Amri
Link to the book that launched this podcast: Rebels, Despots, and Saints: The Ancestors Who Free Us and The Ancestor — Chalice Press
Sign up for Sandhya’s twice-a-month newsletter on Ancestors and Activism here: https://mailchi.mp/df50b81c7454/ancestors-and-activism
To learn more a...
2023-04-2442 min
Mindful U at Naropa University86. Tai Amri Poetics: Beautiful AsheTai Amri:
"I started Allies in Action at Naropa while I was there as a student, and also was the editor of Tendril, which was a journal on diversity. And that really came out of my feelings of like, man it’s really hard being black in Boulder, and being black at Naropa was also very difficult. And — and I was getting triggered all the time, and micro-aggressions, which I didn’t have language for at the time - I just like, I’m not gonna be able to graduate from here if I don’t do something to try to...
2022-07-2046 min