Happy Birthday Ida B. Wells!!!

It is Ida B. Wells Day!!!

Shield. For Ida B. Wells by Alexis P. Gumbs. 

In honor of Ida B. Wells Day (July 16th), here is an encore presentation of a meditation comes from this warrior for the transformative light of truth.  I see you bright thunder!

Listen to the meditation here: http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/88260018735/todays-meditation-comes-from-the-great-ida-b 

If you want to get access to all of the meditations streaming find out how here:  http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/about 

Also get your limited edition copy of the collage “Shield” for Ida B. Wells this week in celebration with a donation of $35 or more.  (Only 20 copies exist!)

Remember to put “Ida B. Wells Poster” in your donation note!

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Support When We Free

Ida B. Wells funded her revolutionary investigative journalistic publications Southern Horrors and A Red Record about the next steps for freedom after emancipation through the supportive fundraiser of Black Women’s Clubs in the early 1900s. Now, we too are funding When We Free our revolutionary independent film about spiritual freedom after emancipation by reaching out to our most aligned and devoted community!!! YOU! Celebrate Ida B. Wells, independent media and the possibility of our collective freedom by donating and spreading the word!!! http://www.gofundme.com/ba5bqg

And then tune in to #idaslegacy at 2pm ET on twitter for a conversation convened by Echoing Ida and Ebony Magazine featuring Kimberly DrGoddess Ellis (and moderated by yours truly)!

 

 

Passing the Hat for When We Free Filming Weekend!!!

We making a film. (So) We passing the hat! Check out this online revival and get some soul-stirring perks when you donate towards cast, crew, location, costumes and food for When We Free's upcoming filming weekend!!!!

http://www.gofundme.com/ba5bqg

When We Free is a short film about Rose Hill, a recently freed black community’s first camp meeting since emancipation. They search for balance between the spiritual traditions they have brought across the Atlantic and those they learned in bondage. When We Free engages the various choices free Black folks made in Rose Hill concerning spirituality and religion when “Master” was no longer directly in charge or involved.

To find out more about the film visit: http://whenwefree.jroxmedia.com/current-projects/when-we-free-the-film/

This film is the Omiero (the holy water infused with herbs in “New World” Ifa/Yoruba/African spiritual practice) preparation internally and externally for Africans in diaspora to consider the Earth based spiritual practices of their ancestors. What do we need to break and to draw; to keep and to relinquish so that the Holy Spirit, the divine, can fully be present? What chains need to be broken and what needs to be awakened so that Africans in diaspora can have access to unbound spirit? How can even the religions of the colonizers and enslavers be reconnected to their own Earth based roots? When We Free is a cleansing and clarifying ritual that questions the source and sustenance of our freedom and spiritual roots.

The filming of When We Free will be a transformative community ritual that uplifts our ancestors and contributes to the conversation about what spiritual practices our freedom requires in the current moment.  We are raising money to house, feed, transport, and offer stipends to cast and crew and for equipment, props, location fees and supplies.

              JOIN THE NUMBER

$15Choose this level and see your lovely name in the credits.

 

WAVE A HAND$25Choose this level and get a custom freedom comic from Lex and see your name in the credits.

 

MAKE A FAN$50Get an 8.5 by 5.4 postcard print of Shapeshift pictured below (Lex's collage for Harriet Tubman) and your name in the credits.

 

 

TAKE A STAND$100Choose this level and get a postcard print of Shapeshift and a custom haiku from Lex and your name in the credits.

 

STAND AND SHOUT$175Choose this level and get full sized signed glossy print of Shapeshift and a custom freedom comic and your name in the credits.

 

PRAISE DANCE$300Choose this level and get a signed Shapeshift glossy print and a freedom reading video chat with Lex and your name in the credits.

 

 

DIVA DEACON$1,000Get a signed Shapeshift glossy print, a freedom reading with Lex, a custom lifechanging summer reading list fine-tuned to your freedom, and co-producer credit.

 

DOWNRIGHTDIVINE$3,000Get everything plus a freedom workshop for your community facilitated by Lex and Julia when we are in your town and executive producer credit!

 

IMMORTALIZED$3,001Get everything and A custom blues song or spiritual composed and written by Alexis and Julia/Sangodare and executive producer credit!

 

Happy Birthday June Jordan!!!: Meditation and Collage

Happy Birthday June Jordan!!!!

In honor of June Jordan's Birthday (July 9th)  Here is an encore release of our first meditation is based on June Jordan's "Poem for South African Women." This is available for 24 hours!!! Share with your friends and loved ones!  Remember the multitudes that breathe through you.  (And if you listen to the VERY end you will actually hear June Jordan laugh!)

Listen here :  http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/post/86567549445/our-first-meditation-is-based-on-june-jordans

If you want to get access to all of the meditations streaming find out how here: http://blackfeministbreathing.tumblr.com/about 

Also get your limited edition copy of the collage "Wholehearted" for June Jordan today in celebration and support of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind with a donation of $35 or more.  (Only 20 copies exist!)

Remember to put "June Jordan Poster" in your donation note!

If you want to be notified about future meditations and are not on the email list yet sign up here: http://eepurl.com/ThvM5