At the turn of the weekend I began to feel sick, suspecting that my lack precautions playing with my friends sick baby daughter probably was a misstep on my part.
Woke up on radio Saturday was beginning to get that familiar body ache, this is the second cold of this year, immunity probably not at it’s best.
This week continues in perpetual scattered thought mode, unable to focus, this feeling has been pretty consistant since the turn of the new year.
Saturday January 28, 2012
Saturday Morning Live, formally on CKLN now officially Radio Regent www.radioregent.com. It is our first time back in the studio at Regent Park Media Focus since 2011, which feels like a minute. Norman Otis Richmond a.k.a Jalali my Cohost http://normanotisrichmond.wordpress.com/ We decide that we are going to do a freestyle first hour, and and begin with John Coltrane, our Special Guest Norman interviews Victor Bains-Marshall discusses music and the struggle with drug addiction. It was great to have a JP back in tech-ing the show, gave us much motivation, and helps the push to get more hands helping out on the show.
Etta James will always be remembered.
Podcast: to come.
Off to The 
Vibe Collective at CIUT 89.5fm www.ciut.fm, so off to Hart House in the heart of University of Toronto. I have been on the show for about a year, and I am quite excited about the building on vibe with the co-hosts of the show that has been o the air for about 4 years.
In studio today, we speak to Frances-Anne Solomon C.E.O and founder of Caribbean Tales who has partnered with TIFF.net to have a screenings of the film Better Mus Come for Black History Month, Next Weekend at Tiff LightBox. We also interview Adam Vaughan taling about the road ahead in a Rob Ford regime.
The Vibe Collective Saturdays from 3pm to 5pm LIVE on CIUT 89.5FM
Bringing good people and good music together. Vibing about important *issues, *music, *news *(the kind you don’t hear in most other places!) With Jams, Malinda “Docuvixen” Francis, Adnan Hussain and Deejay Corey Dawkins
Podcast to come.
After the show, Adnan somehow convinced me to go eat a tongue sandwich. I started to eat meat again since my trip to Haiti, and now, since I haven’t had tongue before I say why not. The walked to the restaurant the Global Warming Winter, had us walking through gust of wind through the U of T buildings.
We sit to eat and get a little too intense waiter, you know the ones a little to eager, down your throat ones, I guess it is an art, but dude was little to much. After the tongue sandwich and pint, Blizzard was coming down. Global Warming Winter, means that there might be any season throughout the day. I am beginning to feel sick. By the time I get home, the sickness has sunk in.
Sick Days
January 29th, 2012
The next two days I am on the couch sick, where I drink Ginger Tea, eat Garlic, and watch movies with my Mother. I end up spending endless hole on the internet because thinking even makes achy. This week I move from thinking about the Tar Sans and the Pipelines (“They are craving up a continent, decapitating mountains, digging holes deep to the core, moving lakes and rivers.. These people crazy” I am starting to count how much I say this a day”) to thinking mostly about the upcoming accolades that the movie The Help. So I re-watched the video of Melissa Harris-Perry speaking about her book: Sister Citizen: Shame Stereotypes and Black Women in America.
January 30th, 2012
Despite being sick on Monday, armed with my ginger tea, now newly out of Walnut Studios, my local remote office will no questioned will become The ONE – The Only Cafe: http://www.theonlycafe.com/ , Danielle Smith who on team lets not Avoid Taxes anymore, Monday Morning Work Dates, looking forward to it to weeks to come. She is a massage therapist she is lovely.
What came up is another topic that comes up a lot, gentrification which is really a really nice word for land grab and population relocation, this is global affect of neoliberalism which is happening world wide. For example downtown people are being displace by high price condos and homes, so on affordable that folks are leaving the city. Who is moving out and who is moving in, or just buying property. Gentrification is apart of mediating location between classes within the global class structure. So my question if folks are moving to smaller cities, where are folks who are being displace going?#neoliberalmadness
http://newsone.com/world/associatedpress6/jean-claude-duvalier-pardon-haiti/
Carter G. Woodson started it all with Negro History Week.
http://uhurunews.com/story?resource_name=february-is-african-liberation-month
Global Montreal/ Congolese Citizens will appeal to Supreme Court in suit against Canadian Mining : http://www.globalnews.ca/money/money/congolese+citizens+will+appeal+to+supreme+court+in+suit+against+canadian+mining/6442570955/story.html
Random Video Clips
The Muppets Attack Fox News
January 31st, 2012
Out of bed thoughts: I have been working throughout the city full-time as a freelancer for 7 years now, and really don’t know how I did it, or even how to measure success, because the work totally counters every facet of capitalist version of success. All I know is that it is insanely hard to do film/art within this capitalist/framework, it actually totally counters it. I have finally come to a space where I am used to the perpetual crazy feeling, and the barrage of questions that make you feel even more insane, Like are you planning to buy a house, or getting marry, why aren’t you seeing anyone, are you planning to have a baby, are you going to every make it big?, which sometime causes self doubt on what you are doing.. How do you explain that making it big is not the goal… and that integrity has no quotable price… I pretty much sacrificed any semblance of a social life that would be recognizable for me to explain to you. I pretty much work through all illnesses and self insecurities which I am getting better at, with letting go a lot of my ego, but still…this year my hope I will find complete comfort in solitude, in being able to escape this perpetual insanity, this is my journey of nomad storyteller…
CBC Radio as I do many mornings Junior Manon inquest, Police testimony quote: “I don’t know how he died, he was fighting then he was just dead”, my mother muttered something disgust in her voice while she knitted. I got up to turn off the radio.
This afternoon, I have a meeting with Kim Katrin Crosby, we have been planning this for awhile looking back I don’t know when this dialogue began, but today the universe gave us time to start along this path. The discussion was perfectly in line with the constant thinking around the images that that are out there in the mass media of Women of Colour. The excitement that I have for exploring this topic has me forgetting that I feel like a big bag of poop today. We spoke like we were old friends which is a good sign when you are going to embark on a media project together.
Kim Katrin Crosby, Follow on here on Twitter @QueerGiftedBlak
People Project, http://queergiftedblack.blogspot.com/
Tumblr: http://queergiftedblack.tumblr.com/
Here is one of many projects, that she mentioned check it: http://thebrownggrrlzproject.tumblr.com/
What is Brown Grrlz Project?
“The Brown Grrlz Project is a collective dedicated to the advancement of “femme of centre” cis womyn, queer womyn, two-spirit people, intersex people, trans folks of colour.” The Brown Grrlz Project is dedicated to challenging the way that hegemonic society defines and oppresses Femme identified womyn of colour. We do so by creating intentional spaces where Femmes Of Colour act as authors of their own experience and are valued and recognized, by affirming and sharing science and knowledge created by Femmes of Colour. Through sharing knowledge, publishing and research, we intend to prioritize the knowledge of feminine womyn as a tool to educate and identify opportunities to create a system that honors ‘femmeness’ as held by racialized and aboriginal women. Through activism we combat structures of privilege with built networks of leaders and community members, dedicated to building a society beyond exclusion. We also provide support for traumatic outcomes of oppression through community building, skill sharing and community based education. We affirm our value through creating spaces for us to celebrate ourselves.”
This White dude, sat down as like most people nowadays without and sign of eye contact in the screen of his Blackberry, to add to the general collective alienation. This wasn’t the strange part. What was strange was as I continued to write my email, I hear the dude comment on on the film strip that is part of the design that encircles my arm. I look up, but he is still deep in his phone. I look over to see if he wants to have some sort of conversation, but still in his phone he continue to describe it. So weird. I beginning to become angry so I start to put on my sweater. So I tweeted about it. I left the One and Only Cafe.
“At a cafe after finished a meeting, fininishing my ginger tea this white guy sits down and comments on my tattoo without looking at me once, huh?????
@docuvixen on Twitter · via Twitter
Now that would have been finished but the roller coaster of conversation continued from my twitter observation, to follow is worth mentioning.
Tim Wise – The Pathology of White Privilege
Readings: A detailed history of this monster is in Harriet Washington’s book, Medical Apartheid.
*trigger warning*
intense racialized violence against Black womyn “J. “Marion Sims is called “the Father of Gynecology” due to his experiments on enslaved women in Alabama who were often submitted as guinea pigs by their plantation owners who could not use them for sexual pleasure. ~via KimKatrinCrosby on Facebook~
Haiti Refuses Monsanto Seed Donation
http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/haiti-refuses-monsanto-donation/
Music Video Playlist:
Aaliyah feat. Timbaland – Try Again
Kyauna Clarke – “Say Something” check her
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