By Dr. Herukhuti This is part 3 of my review of the Afropunk Festival 2016. For part 1, click this link: In the End, There Was the Beginning: Afropunk Festival 2016 A Review (Part 1) – Living Colour, Fishbone, and Bad Brains Share Stage. For part 2, click the link: Home Is Where You Are, No Matter What:ContinueContinue reading “Fashion and Beautiful Young Bodies, A No Movement Make: Afropunk Festival 2016 A Review (Part 3) – Is this It?”
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Home Is Where You Are, No Matter What: Afropunk Festival 2016 A Review (Part 2) – Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Make an Appearance, Kinda
By Dr. Herukhuti This is part 2 of my review of the Afropunk Festival 2016. For part 1, click this link: In the End, There Was the Beginning: Afropunk Festival 2016 A Review (Part 1) – Living Colour, Fishbone, and Bad Brains Share Stage. As I walked among the mass of people attending Afropunk Festival 2016–sometimes pressed so closeContinueContinue reading “Home Is Where You Are, No Matter What: Afropunk Festival 2016 A Review (Part 2) – Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Make an Appearance, Kinda”
In the End, There Was the Beginning: Afropunk Festival 2016 A Review (Part 1) – Living Colour, Fishbone, and Bad Brains Share Stage
By Dr. Herukhuti I hate reading the kind of review that I’m about to write–rambling and all over the place, creating a labyrinthine world so complicated that I don’t want to live within for more than a minute. But fuck it. I attended Afropunk Festival 2016 in Commodore Barry Park, Brooklyn New York over theContinueContinue reading “In the End, There Was the Beginning: Afropunk Festival 2016 A Review (Part 1) – Living Colour, Fishbone, and Bad Brains Share Stage”
Taking the Pulse after LGBT Pride: An Interview with 2015 Bisexual Grand Marshal J Christopher Neal
By Dr. Herukhuti J. Christopher Neal is an artist, educator, youth leadership professional, and community organizer. He’s the founder of FluidBiDesign, a New York-based organization serving the needs of sexually fluid people of African descent through MenKind, a support and discussion group for men, online community, and cultural programming. His brilliant artwork can be seenContinueContinue reading “Taking the Pulse after LGBT Pride: An Interview with 2015 Bisexual Grand Marshal J Christopher Neal”
Decolonizing Environmentalism: Fossil Fuels, Slavery, and White Supremacy
By Dr. Herukhuti When I hear the word “fossil,” I think of elementary school trips to the American Museum of Natural History. Seeing displays of dinosaur bones and other remnants from the period when dinosaurs walked, flew, swam, crawled, and however else they moved on the earth. Fossils are the remains of the bodies of dinosaurs andContinueContinue reading “Decolonizing Environmentalism: Fossil Fuels, Slavery, and White Supremacy”
Decolonization is Not a Metaphor: The Basics of a Genuine Anti-Colonial Position
From Onkwehón:we Rising “These goals, once accomplished, would wipe out the the material basis for the existence of the white nation, which only exists by dint of genocide, enslavement and occupation. Only after all of this will it be possible to negotiate a future for the former occupying nation, but such negotiations must take place between theContinueContinue reading “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor: The Basics of a Genuine Anti-Colonial Position”
Decolonizing Tai Chi, Yoga, and Meditation Education: Part 2
By Dr. Herukhuti Click the link to read part 1 of this series. Tai chi chuan is a Taoist martial art tradition originating in China that uses energy called chi, philosophical principles from the I Ching, and the physics of the human body to make things happen. I share tai chi with my students by teachingContinueContinue reading “Decolonizing Tai Chi, Yoga, and Meditation Education: Part 2”
Decolonizing Tai Chi, Yoga, and Meditation Education: Part 1
By Dr. Herukhuti I started learning tai chi chuan, yoga, and meditation when I was fourteen. At the time, I had no idea what that would be for my life. Learning the three systems was a part of the educational program at the Junior Engineering Club (JEC), an innovative and radical STEAM-program in the Bedford-StuyvesantContinueContinue reading “Decolonizing Tai Chi, Yoga, and Meditation Education: Part 1”
Chickens, Please Come Home to Roost: The Clintons and Black People
By Dr. Herukhuti One of the most controversial statements Malcolm X made was his response to the murder of an imperialist, white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchal US president whose public image had been spun into a liberal friend of Black people, John F. Kennedy. According to Abayomi Azikiwe in an article for Global Research: “In March of 1964,ContinueContinue reading “Chickens, Please Come Home to Roost: The Clintons and Black People”
What’s Happening at CCSS – Winter 2016
2015 Recap Last year was an incredibly productive period for the Center for Culture, Sexuality and Spirituality (CCSS). Our webjournal reached tens of thousands of people in 113 countries, territories, and nations around the world with articles by activists, thought leaders, artists and healers such as Andrea Jenkins (poet, oral historian, and trans activist) andContinueContinue reading “What’s Happening at CCSS – Winter 2016”