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AirGo is excited to present The Notebook Suite, a series of conversations with writers about liberation, craft, and radical imagination co-curated by poet Nate Marshall. This episode features return guest adrienne maree brown, a writer, movement worker, facilitator, and thinker who has deeply shifted the philosophies and tactics of contemporary liberation work.

adrienne is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of "We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice," "Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good," "Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds," and is the co-editor of "Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office." She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. We talk about her emergence as a writer, the public accountability and revision process that was necessary for her newest book, the challenges of public visibility, and much more.

SHOW NOTES

Emergent Strategy Ideation institute - https://alliedmedia.org/speaker-projects/emergent-strategy-ideation-institute

We Will Not Cancel Us - https://www.akpress.org/we-will-not-cancel-us.html

Unthinkable thoughts blog post - http://adriennemareebrown.net/2020/07/17/unthinkable-thoughts-call-out-culture-in-the-age-of-covid-19/

Autumn Brown - https://iambrown.org/bio/

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📸 by anjali pinto

AirGo is excited to present The Notebook Suite, a series of conversations with writers about liberation, craft, and radical imagination co-curated by poet Nate Marshall. On this volume of the suite, the guys welcome back AirGo alum Hanif Abdurraqib. Hanif is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio who is the author of five books, including the forthcoming "A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance." He breaks down his car music listening route, the borderless insistence of his curiosity, the power of speaking loudly and clearly in his hometown, and much more.

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Lost Notes - https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/lost-notes

Object of Sound - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/object-of-sound/id1548596327

68to05 - https://www.68to05.com/

Ross Gay - https://www.rossgay.net/about

Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace concert film - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkKOIQwTiKE

Danez Smith - http://www.danezsmithpoet.com/bio-encore

Franny Choi - https://www.frannychoi.com/

Sam Sax - https://www.samsax.com/

Cam Awkward Rich - https://www.cawkwardrich.com/

Bobby Crawford - http://bostonpoetryslam.com/find-a-poet/poets/bobby-crawford

Love and Basketball - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur83i6_BjbE

Vievee Francis - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/vievee-francis

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📸 by Megan Leigh Barnard

The guys get to chop it up with the ebullient and brilliant Jamilah Lemieux. Jamilah is a writer, editor, and social critic who has been a leading voice in the popularization of Black feminism over the last decade, shifting the conversation through her blogging; contributions to Essence, Mic, The Guardian, Colorlines, The Washington Post, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation and The New York Times; appearances on CNN, ABC, CBS, BET, Buzzfeed, MTV2, and MSNBC, Desus and Mero, The Breakfast Club, and more; and her ever-present and active Twitter. She talks about returning to the page, the sharpness of the critique that Black women face, the heartbreak of being attacked by Black men on the internet, dinner at Farrakhan's house, and much more.

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Follow Jamilah: https://twitter.com/JamilahLemieux

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf - https://bookshop.org/books/for-colored-girls-who-have-considered-suicide-when-the-rainbow-is-enuf/9780684843261

Surviving R Kelly - https://www.netflix.com/title/81069393

Wesley Lowery - https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery

Toni Cade Bambara - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Cade_Bambara

Demetria Lucas - http://www.demetrialucas.com/

Luvvie Ajayi - https://luvvie.org/

Rembert Browne - https://twitter.com/rembert

Eve Ewing - https://airgoradio.com/airgo/2017/8/10/episode-102-eve-ewing-returns

A Little Juju - https://www.itsjujubae.com/

Black Male Privilege checklist - https://projecthumanities.asu.edu/content/black-male-privilege-checklist

Our Kind of People - https://bookshop.org/books/our-kind-of-people-inside-america-s-black-upper-class/9780060984380

The Spook who sat by the door - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BynXfREPG8

Afro American Patrolmen’s League - https://interactive.wttw.com/dusable-to-obama/afro-american-patrolmens-league

Toni Morrison - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/books/toni-morrison-dead.html

Zora Neale Hurston - https://www.zoranealehurston.com/

dream hampton - https://www.dreamhampton.com/

Miles Marshall Lewis - https://twitter.com/MMLunlimited

Mom and Dad are Fighting - https://slate.com/podcasts/mom-and-dad-are-fighting

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On this bonus episode, listen to audio from an IG Live on 1/15, in which the guys break down the Behind the Scenes of their interview with the legendary Angela Davis.

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Check out another wonderful podcast, The Lit Review, hosted by Chicago organizers Page May and Monica Trinidad - www.thelitreview.org/

Intro contains audio from "Crooklyn," produced by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest and was featured in the 1994 film.

Yup, it's real–we can't believe it either. The guys have the extraordinary privilege and honor of talking with legendary Black revolutionary Angela Davis. She discusses her experience this summer during uprising, the remarkable popularization of abolition, the significance of addressing gender violence and inequality in the fight for liberation, and much much more. Wow!

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Grace Lee Boggs and Jimmy Boggs - http://boggscenter.org/

Audre Lorde - https://alp.org/about/audre

Fumbling Towards Repair - https://www.akpress.org/fumbling-towards-repair.html

Creative Interventions toolkit - https://www.creative-interventions.org/tools/toolkit/

George Jackson - http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/rodneyjackson.html

Attica Brothers - https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2011/sep/15/remembering-attica-forty-years-later/

Without Guarantees by Stuart Hall - https://www.google.com/books/edition/Without_Guarantees/MYcFKbUl0zkC?hl=en&gbpv=0

Frank "Big Black" Smith - https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/us/frank-smith-71-is-dead-sought-justice-after-attica.html

Critical Resistance - http://criticalresistance.org/

Mike Davis essay on PIC - http://archive.li/RF45D

INCITE! - https://incite-national.org/

Southern Negro Youth Congress - https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/southern-negro-youth-congress-1937-1949/

Mariame Kaba - http://mariamekaba.com/

Barbara Ransby - https://barbararansby.com/about-2/

Robin Kelley - https://history.ucla.edu/faculty/robin-kelley

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Intro contains audio from "Crooklyn," produced by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest and was featured in the 1994 film.

📸 by kk ottesen

Each month this year, we're going to revisit an episode from the 260+ episodes in the AirGo Archives and bring that conversation back to the forefront. For the final #GoBack of the year, we're excited to share the first conversation we ever had on the air in Chicago, a week before the first official episode of AirGo. We tried to find our rhythm and played some songs we were bumping at the time. Check out this never-before-heard (except for live on the air) gem from the AirGo archives!

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AirGo is excited to present The Notebook Suite, a series of conversations with writers about liberation, craft, and radical imagination co-curated by poet Nate Marshall. On this last episode of 2020, we get to learn from Elizabeth Mendez Berry. Elizabeth is an editor, writer, and funder who is currently the Vice President and Executive Editor of One World, an imprint of Random House in New York. She's also the cofounder of Critical Minded, an initiative supporting cultural critics of color, and the Unicorn Fund, which offers resources to artists and others who have been targeted for speaking out. We talk about the transformative potential of criticism, her experience as a music writer for VIBE, and much more.

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Jeff Chang - https://jeffchang.net/

Black Star Film Festival - https://www.blackstarfest.org/

Greg Tate - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-critic-who-convinced-me-that-criticism-could-be-art

Karen Good Marable - https://twitter.com/kgoodmarable

Toni Morrison - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/21332/toni-morrison/

One World Lit - https://www.oneworldlit.com/

Haki Madhubuti - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/haki-madhubuti

Richie Perez - https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/29/nyregion/richard-perez-is-dead-at-59-advocate-for-minority-rights.html

Love Hurts by Elizabeth Mendez Berry - https://elizabethmendezberry.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/LOVE-HURTS-for-site-2.pdf

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Photo by Rog and Bee Walker (instagram.com/papermonday)

Our movement has been fighting hard to #DefundPolice all year long! As we come to the end of 2020, the #DefundCPD Campaign hosted a celebration and discussion on December 16 at 6pm CT about the campaign so far, featuring #DefundCPD campaign organizers in conversation with abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, and special guests from other defund police campaigns from the Midwest to the South.

Follow the campaign: https://www.facebook.com/defundcpd

Sign the demand to #DefundCPD if you haven’t already: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-to-demand-defunding-of-the-chicago-police-department

Watch the whole event here: https://www.facebook.com/defundcpd/videos/200794354995963

AirGo is excited to present The Notebook Suite, a series of conversations with writers about liberation, craft, and radical imagination co-curated by poet Nate Marshall. On this episode, we have the pleasure of talking with Chicago legend, WBEZ journalist, and writer Natalie Y. Moore. The author of popular and necessary books The South Side, Almighty Black P Stone Nation, and Deconstructing Tyrone, Natalie talks about how she maneuvers complex responses to her work, how telling the story of segregation helped her report on the pandemic, and much more.

Shoutout to our friends over at Scene On Radio, aPeabody-nominated podcast from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Subscribe now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scene-on-radio/id1036276968

SHOW NOTES

The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250118332

The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang - https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/almighty-black-p-stone-nation--the-products-9781569768464.php

Natalie Hopkinson - https://www.nataliehopkinson.com/

Chana Garcia - https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/3/21/18483831/remembering-my-friend-chana-and-why-black-women-must-stand-up-for-their-health

Metropolitan Planning Council - https://www.metroplanning.org/index.html

Our Equitable Future: A Roadmap for the Chicago Region - https://www.metroplanning.org/uploads/cms/documents/cost-of-segregation-roadmap.pdf

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AirGo is excited to present The Notebook Suite, a series of conversations with writers about liberation, craft, and radical imagination. We kick the series off by chopping it up with brilliant poet and suite co-curator Nate Marshall. Author of poetry collections Finna and Wild Hundreds, Nate is a longtime friend of the show and professor at Colorado College. He shares what he's wrestling with in his writing right now, as well as some questions for us to ask the folks we're going to be talking with throughout the suite.

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Coffee and Books with Marc Lamont Hill - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coffee-and-books/id1522592619

The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America by June Jordan - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/68628/the-difficult-miracle-of-black-poetry-in-america

Phyllis Wheatley - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley

The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - http://digitalemerson.wsulibs.wsu.edu/exhibits/show/text/the-american-scholar

Jamila Woods - http://www.jamila-woods.com/

Sarah Kay - https://kaysarahsera.com/

Nina Simone on Freedom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySYRI4wXUpo

Imagine the Angels of Bread by Martin Espada - http://www.martinespada.net/uploads/6/9/9/8/69989673/imagine_the_angels_of_bread.pdf

Buy Finna today! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610570/finna-by-nate-marshall/

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