You have unlikely allies. Have you found them?During quarantine, we’re forging systems of mutual aid with unlikely allies: birds, plants, cats, and trees in our immediate vicinity. Emergent Strategy and adrienne maree brown. Baby hummingbirds

My Queer Ramadan

May 12th, 2020 40m 54s

Welcome to season 2 of Diaspora Babes! Continuing the theme of making home, I read some selections from #myqueerramadan series I have been writing for Ramadan 2020. Read the full series and get regular updates here.Tell us what excited you, fr

Gathering and Coming Home

May 5th, 2020 30m 31s

Welcome to season 2 of Diaspora Babes! Today I offer an exploration of the center, the home inside you, the gathering that takes you from it, and brings you home. Tell us what excited you, frustrated you, challenged you, or touched you by voice

Diaspora Babes Radio Waves

Mar 2nd, 2019 31m 23s

Sit back, relax, and enjoy the sweet sounds of the first Diaspora Babes Radio Waves installment. Enjoy recently released tracks by queer artists of color. Their songs are accompanied by their thoughts on ecstatic experiences reached with music

You Are Love

Feb 14th, 2019 48m 5s

A message on love for Valentine’s Day. I talk about posts by @virginalvigilante @bunnymichael and @jessica_lanyadoo and read from adrienne marie brown’s Emergent Strategy. Revolutionary, queer love. Trauma. Do you worship fear? Do you let other

The Role of the Artist is to make the Revolution Irresistible: Ja’Tovia Gary

Feb 9th, 2019 53m 34s

Ja’Tovia shares the quotation from Toni Cade Bambara, “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” She also shares her thoughts on cyclical time, looking back to move forward, Afro-surrealism, her relationship with Orishas Y

Give Your Art Permission To Be Itself: Form and Content

Feb 4th, 2019 29m 25s

Why is it easier to be radical in our idea and yet stick to traditional media? I explore hegemony of form, self worth, colonial media, and giving art and yourself permission to come as you are. With guest contributions from Chloe and Fatem. T

Art as a Social Relation: Alice Sparkly Kat

Jan 26th, 2019 40m 33s

I have a conversation with queer POC astrologer Alice Sparkly Kat on art as a social relation, fan fiction universes, and navigating community and branding as an artist surviving under late capitalism. What is our dreaming space in 2019?IG:

How Do You Lose Yourself?

Jan 21st, 2019 26m 1s

How do you lose yourself in art, work, music, love? This episode is inspired by Neptune, the planet that represents dissolving into the collective. This year will have three Jupiter squares to Neptune, and I made this episode in the wake of the

Your Art Is All Of It

Jan 11th, 2019 28m 4s

What about when you’re not making art? Follow us on Instagram @diasporababes Music by Layle Omeran.

Decolonize Your Practice

Jan 7th, 2019 39m 45s

What might it look like to decolonize your art practice? Here I offer a variety of perspectives from myself and others on decolonizing your creative practice. I include Frantz Fanon, quotes from Rocío aka @d0glover69, and adrienne marie brown a

Your Friends Are How We Will Win

Dec 28th, 2018 32m 3s

“The art you love” part of our tagline is here! Today I talk about friends—real and imaginary—fascism, critical connection, and......... Harry Potter. Instagram @diasporababesMusic by Layle Omeran

Your Art is Important

Dec 21st, 2018 21m 4s

Episode 1! Do you doubt yourself and your creative practice? I’m here to remind you that you and your art are important. Music by Layle Omeran @layleomer