[Dialogue] listening to 5 non-white, non-male mother-leaders declare

[Karen Sims]

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On May 13, 2012, at 9:28 AM, steve har <stevehar11201 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lucy Hurston
> Ruby Dee
> Alice Walker
> Sonia Walker
> Zora Neale Hurston
> Their Eyes Were Watching God is 75 years old.
> 
> Five black women making declarations
> Mother-leaders all
> Talking together, speaking freedom into Existence for our time,
> Speaking stories into Existence for our time,
> Moms granting being for our time
> Moms giving blood and birth to the earth...says Sonia Sanchez
> And taking a risk to speak their experience for others
> 
> Reminds me of Kaye Hayes 1972  Freedom Lecture which Walt E just
> digitized for the new Archives and Kaze Gadway whom Mike May just put
> on TV
> 
> In the 21 C the Freedom Lecture seems to go public and declare in this way
> Exposed, Disciplined, Lucid, Sensitive... and on a podcast or video clip
> 
> Fabulous story-making,  grist for a new  ICA spoken-word leadership
> style of story-makers for the  future 50 ICA years, for the 20
> somethings and 30 somethings not old white guys.
> 
> Grist for those who can rise to the challenge that Brian Stanfield
> recounts in his  book "the Courage to Lead" when the Joe Pierce is
> asked in the Lusaka Airport: Anything to declare, Mr Pierce?
> 
> Know how to speak into the microphone with your own words?
> Got anything to declare these days?
> These black women-mothers definitely know how to risk and have
> something to declare
> 
> Where to watch and listen; about an hour
> http://www.booktv.org/Program/13343/Panel+discussion+of+Zora+Neale+Hurstons+quotTheir+Eyes+Were+Watching+Godquot.aspx
> 
> I'm interested in learning how to speak declarations like Joe Pierce
> did in the 20th C but this for a 21st C global culture especially for
> the young ones, the children and their children.
> 
> I'm interested in practicing my spoken word digital story-making
> skills to declare freedom into existence in this century, looking for
> a digital story-making workshop. Seems like an essential skill for the
> ICA-USA 50 year future to me. I just might have something to pay
> forward.
> 
> How about you?
> 
> Happy Mothers Day,
> 
> --
> Steve
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