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SHH's Mentally OddcastGuest: Sumiko SaulsonSumiko Saulson is a Bram Stoker Award® Finalist for Poetry for The Rat King (2022, Dooky Zines) and Melancholia (2024, Bludgeoned Girls Press). Elgin Award Nominee (2022). 2018 Afrosurrealist Writers Award, and 2021 Ladies of Horror Readers Choice Award winner. Their novel Somnalia: The Metamorphoses of Flynn Keahi is available on Mocha Memoirs Press.This week, we talk scary movies, church v state, aliens, magical thinking, and whether neo-pronouns are as new as they say. Also demons, The Rat King, and movies that made us realize we were bi. 2025-04-172h 12
Sudden Fictions"Nemesis" Host: R. B. Wood Sumiko Saulson is a Bram Stoker Nominated poet for their 2022 collection The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry (Dooky Zines), and an award-winning author of Afrosurrealist and multicultural sci-fi and horror whose latest novel Happiness and Other Diseases is available on Mocha Memoirs Press. Winner of the HWA Scholarship from Hell (2016) BCC Voice "Reframing the Other" contest (2017), Mixy Award (2017), Afrosurrealist Writer Award (2018), HWA Diversity Grant (2020), HWA Richard Laymon Presidents Award (2021), Ladies of Horror Fiction Readers Choice Award (2...2023-06-0208 min
adé x dynamism x afrosurrealist research bureauMutual Aiding And AbettingOpening Track from BNBA Volume 4!
Listen to the full beattape on bandcamp and spotify:
- https://afrosurrealistresearchbureau.bandcamp.com/album/black-noise-for-black-august-volume-4
- https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/dynamism/black-noise-for-black-august-volume-42022-08-3002 min
adé x dynamism x afrosurrealist research bureauearthday tune upa meditative earthday offering2022-04-2306 min
adé x dynamism x afrosurrealist research bureauarrowfire moon // soundscape meditationfinal installment of 2021 new moon meditation series.2021-12-0302 min
International Local Music ExchangeNorth Carolina music: across the genresSongs and artists are in order as follows: No Worries - ZENSOFLY, Austin RoyaleComing Around - Ins KinoBoyfriend - MaashoNot Another Love Song - The Lo$t Generation Blue as the Day - Blue CactusCountry Boy Shit - Stephen JalionBreak*Worthless - Tiger BeachChemical - 10cellphonesRaleighwood Hills - Lesthegenius, Sonny Miles, Jaxson FreeDevil on a Root Monster - Magic Tuber StringbandCarolina Girls - Belis, TiaCorineBreak*Pork Chops - Marco Butcher Walk With Me - T...2021-11-0156 min
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Life Out of the Box245. What is Artechouse?It's storytime friends! In today's episode, we share one of our favorite experiences in Miami at the Artechouse museum—an immersive digital art exhibit that blew our minds. In partnership with NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway, artist Vince Fraser, and poet Ursula Rucker—Artechouse opened our eyes and showed us the potential that natively digital art has to change the way we experience art... and the way we understand each other for the better.
Artechouse: https://www.artechouse.com/art-activism-with-afrosurrealist-vince-fraser/
Vince Fraser: https://twitter.com/vince_fraser
Ursula Rucker: https://twitter.com/urucker
LOOTB...2021-06-2931 min
Demond Does6Q w/Sumiko Saulson: Black Woman in HorrorSumiko Saulson is an author Afrosurrealist and multicultural sci-fi and horror. Zhe has won multiple awards and also writes a column "Writing While Black" for the San Francisco BayView. Zhe is a contributing author to the upcoming anthology SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire.One of the things you'll be amazed by this episode is the catalyst to pursue a writing career and the tragic circumstances surrounding zher family. We talk about how the myths about black authors who write horror and it's history.And we talk pronouns.You'll definitely want to hear this one!...2020-09-2330 min
The BIG WeSeason 2 Episode 3: Beyonce is an Afrofuturist: Your Guide to the Renaissance of ReturnAfrofuturism is everywhere! Allow Calvin and Anasa to be your guides to the Renaissance of Black storytellers who are accessing their imaginations to liberate the past, present and future… Nerd out with us on Beyonce’s return to the Continent, Black identity and storytelling at the Emmy’s, the nuanced magic of David Makes Man, Ta Nehisi Coates’ brilliant new Afrosurrealist novel, and more!
Don’t miss this episode’s Afrofuturist Afterparty playlist of our fave Afrobeats from across the continent and the Diaspora on Spotify. Send us more recommendations! @thebigwepodcast on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and hello@thebigw...2019-10-031h 21
The BIG WeEpisode 6: Season Finale!In our finale episode of this season, Calvin and Anasa share their thoughts, heartbreaks, and meaning making of the #GameofThrones Finale. Plus: ancestral storytelling through food, #afrosurrealist back to the future, and a surprise ancestry reveal from Calvin!
Tweet us @wethebigwe - What’s a food that tells the story of your ancestors? & Email us your alternate Game of Thrones endings askthebigwe@gmail.com
Stay tuned for Season 2 - possibly in....Ghana!2019-05-231h 09