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Welcome to the 2026 Highlights & Takeaways. This is our 2026 Highlights & Takeaways Episode! We’re reflecting back on the last three collections of episodes and how they’ve transformed us. 

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SHOW NOTES!

Special Guests from our 2026 Season:

The Navigating Artivism Collection with special guest, Y? - https://www.creativeexpressions.co/ & https://www.whynotshowlove.com/ 

The Knell of Poetry Collection with special guest, Elisabeth Houston -  https://litmuspress.org/product/standard-american-english/

The Quotidian Radicality Collection with special guest, Jessica Valoris - https://www.jessicavaloris.com/

R-F/C Study Group guests from our 2026 Season:

Phinees Roberts - https://phinestro.com/ 

Tanya Byker - https://www.tanyabyker.com/home

Tobi Orisarayi - https://www.biglil.co/

Katherine Henderson - https://paintedponistudio.com/

Karlee Raye - https://www.facebook.com/KarleeRayeMusic

Christina Davis - https://artistchristinadavis.com/

It's our R-F/C 5-year anniversary! We love what we do! With the opportunity to meet and learn from amazing Beings who give us inspiration, insight, and knowledge. Thank you for being here with us on this adventure! Let's keep this work going! Please subscribe, like, and share with your networks! You can also support our work by donating 10, 20, 50, 100 bucks via https://artivismexperts.wixsite.com/rfc-lands

Welcome to Part Three of the Quotidian Radicality Collection. We are exploring somatics, ritual, place-keeping and playing cards. And we’re asking, “How do you practice liberation on a daily basis?” Today we are further pondering on how we be free with Christina Davis! 

Christina Davis is a fine artist, muralist, curriculum developer, and arts educator based in Lynchburg, Virginia. A Lynchburg native, she has rooted herself deeply in the city — building her own family and garden there — and that sense of place, growth, and living things runs through everything she makes.

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SHOW NOTES:

Buy 'How We Be Free, a Black fugitive study kit' via Jessica Valoris' website https://www.jessicavaloris.com/

Christina Davis https://artistchristinadavis.com/

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Welcome to Part Two of the Quotidian Radicality Collection. We are exploring somatics, ritual, place-keeping and playing cards. And we’re asking, “How do you practice liberation on a daily basis?” Today, we're chatting with Jessica Valoris, an interdisciplinary artist and community facilitator based in Washington, DC. She weaves together mixed media painting, installation, ritual performance and social practice, to create sacred spaces. Inspired by the earth-based and syncretic traditions of her Black American and Jewish ancestry, her art activates ancestral wisdom, personal reflection, and community study.

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Buy the 'How We Be Free, a Black fugitive study kit' from Jessica Valoris via her website https://www.jessicavaloris.com/

Omolara Williams McCallister https://www.omolarawilliamsmccallister.art/

Toni Morrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTAQHbLFi84 

Deborah Thomas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggjrs8J2lyw 

Sojourner Truth https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/301989

Washington Project for the Arts https://wpadc.org/

Alternate ROOTS https://alternateroots.org/

Humanities DC https://humanitiesdc.org/

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Welcome to Part One of the Quotidian Radicality Collection. We are exploring somatics, ritual, place-keeping and playing cards. And we’re asking, “How do you practice liberation on a daily basis?”

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Jessica Valoris https://www.jessicavaloris.com/

Alexis Pauline Gumbs https://sangodare.podia.com/breathing 

Angela Davis' Women, Culture, & Politics (1989) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/37353/women-culture-and-politics-by-angela-y-davis/ 

Victor Turner’s From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play  https://monoskop.org/images/7/79/Turner_Victor_From_Ritual_to_Theatre.pdf

The People's Forum https://peoplesforum.org/events/course-the-artist-must-take-sides-culture-the-movement-past-present-future/

Sun Yuan and Peng Yu's "Can’t Help Myself" at the Venice Biennale in 2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Help_Myself_(Sun_Yuan_and_Peng_Yu)

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Welcome to Part Three of the Knell of Poetry Collection. We are exploring how we use language for liberation. And asking, "What strategies are writers using to topple the colonizer’s tongue?" During Part Three, we invite some of our R-F/C comrades to join our discussion! Today we are further pondering on language as a tool for liberation with Tobi Orisarayi, Katherine Henderson, and Karlee Raye!

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Opening music "Crown" by @TheMilkyWayans 

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ABOUT OUR R-F/C COMRADES!

Tobi Orisarayi was born and raised in Los-Angeles. Former Junior Olympian and couture designer, he now lives in New York where he is a guest commentator on TMZ. He's a 2024 Tin House Fellow. 2023 PEN America Emerging Writer Finalist. And his fiction has been recognized by A Public Space and the New Yorker. https://www.biglil.co/ 

Katherine Henderson is a Bedford, Virginia based painter. Formally educated at Brevard College in western North Carolina, Katherine studied sculpture and art history. She is currently pursuing an MFA in painting from Savannah College of Art and Design. Her most recent body of work is predominantly oil painting, with experimental acrylic and resin projects on the side. Currently, her work is transitioning from bright, expressive landscapes to dramatic figurative and narrative paintings. https://paintedponistudio.com/

Karlee Raye is a singer-songwriter based in Central Virginia known for her powerful voice and heartfelt lyrics. She recently released her album “World Won’t Stop”. Her performances mix classic country, soft rock, pop, and more. https://www.facebook.com/KarleeRayeMusic

SHOW NOTES

Study Guide for Standard American English by Elisabeth Houston 
https://litmuspress.org/resources/teaching-guides/standard-american-english-teaching-guide/

No Logo by Naomi Klein
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312429270/nologo/

Ours by Phillip B. Williams 
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726148/ours-by-phillip-b-williams/

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Welcome to Part Two of the Knell of Poetry Collection. We are exploring how we use language for liberation. And asking, "What strategies are writers using to topple the colonizer’s tongue?" With special guest, Elisabeth Houston (who also goes by Eli) is also EL_S_TH H__ST_ON is also “baby” is also “not baby.” They work across poetry, video, and live performance. Check out “baby” as they tumble through Standard American English (Litmus, 2022) and parachute into secret and not-so-secret performances. Performances have been staged at – uggghhhhh – The Hammer Museum (LA); Montez Press Radio (NYC); El Grafo Grafo (Tijuana); and Good Press (Glasgow). Poke through the internets and stalk them at www.elisabethisonline.com.

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Elisabeth Houston's Standard American English -  https://litmuspress.org/product/standard-american-english/

Study Guide for Standard American English - https://litmuspress.org/resources/teaching-guides/standard-american-english-teaching-guide/

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Welcome to Part One of the Knell of Poetry Collection. We are exploring how we use language for liberation. And asking, "What strategies are writers using to topple the colonizer’s tongue?" 

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Welcome to Part Three of the Navigating Artivism Collection. We are further pondering on how Artivists thrive in an economic system built on racial capitalism. And how Artivists reconcile and navigate capitalist practices when trying to subvert them. In this episode, Phinees Robert and Tanya Byker join us to ponder! 

Phinees Roberts https://phinestro.com/ 
Tanya Byker https://www.tanyabyker.com/home

Phinees or “Phinestro” earned his moniker for his multi-instrumental abilities and leadership approach to music, unifying others through art, culture, and forming an authentic community. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Phinees is a Haitian-American award-winning film composer and music producer renowned for his diverse musical talent and creative collaborations. In addition to his remarkable career, Phinees is dedicated to pushing boundaries in music and empowering artists to find their unique voices in the industry.

Tanya Byker is an associate professor of Economics at Middlebury College. Her research falls in the areas of Labor and Development Economics under the umbrella of Economics and Gender. As an applied micro economist, she uses data analysis to explore the interrelated choices individuals and households make about education, work, and fertility. The policy contexts she has examined span paid leave, reproductive health, childcare subsidies, and most recently the environment.

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SHOW NOTES

Check out Segregated By Design, a film that examines the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy. The site includes info about about the book that the film is based on (and that Tanya referenced in the podcast): The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
https://www.segregatedbydesign.com/

The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/hidden-rules-of-race/33D38E05DCD5B288BBC4090CC900A967

The Economics of Race in the United States
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674368187

Artists at Work: Rethinking Policy for Artistic Careers
https://www.sup.org/books/sociology/artists-work

Freedom From The Market
https://www.mikekonczal.com/freedom_from_the_market.html 

The ELVIS Act
https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2024/3/21/photos--gov--lee-signs-elvis-act-into-law.html

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Welcome to Part Two of the Navigating Artivism Collection. We are chatting with Y?, an interdisciplinary artivist who uses creative expression & cypher pedagogy to activate his highest potential serving communities through art, education, and culture.

Learn more about Y? https://www.creativeexpressions.co/ & https://www.whynotshowlove.com/
Contact Y? via [email protected]

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Opening music "Crown" by  @TheMilkyWayans  

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SHOW NOTES

Learn more about the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) model:
https://www.investopedia.com/tech/what-dao/

Y? mentioned the book "The Body Keeps the Score"
https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/

"Pedagogy of the Oppressed"
https://files.libcom.org/files/Paulo%20Freire,%20Myra%20Bergman%20Ramos,%20Donaldo%20Macedo%20-%20Pedagogy%20of%20the%20Oppressed,%2030th%20Anniversary%20Edition%20(2000,%20Bloomsbury%20Academic).pdf

"Theatre of the Oppressed"
https://revolutionary-socialism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Augusto-Boal-Theatre-of-the-Oppressed-20081.pdf

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Welcome to Part One of the Navigating Artivism Collection, where we are asking: how do Artivists thrive in an economic system built on Racial Capitalism? And how do Artivists reconcile and navigate capitalist practices when trying to subvert them?

This podcast is funded by Dannie & janet and your donations! Help keep our podcast going by making a donation via the RFC landing page https://artivismexperts.wixsite.com/rfc-lands. Tap the Donate button! Help us continue this fruitful work. 

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1. Example of local cooperative in Charlottesville, VA: C'ville Arts Cooperative Gallery https://www.cvillearts.org/our-artists

2. Reach about The United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives https://www.usworker.coop/en/. USFWC national grassroots membership organization for worker cooperatives and democratic workplaces. Our mission is to build a thriving ecosystem for worker-owned and controlled businesses and their cooperative leaders to power movements for racial justice and economic democracy.

3. Resource worth checking out: https://www.art.coop/ Art Coop is working for a future in which artists closest to the pain of an extractive economy know their power and use it to dismantle the current system. They resource a community of artists committed to building the art worlds we want. Art.coop is located in the U.S. but is rooted in the international Solidarity Economy movement. Through their site, you can also find courses at https://creativestudy.com/solidarity-economy. Creatives around the world are working together, placing people and the planet over profit to create thriving homes, businesses, investments, and creative work.

4. Learn more about trust-based philanthropy at https://www.trustbasedphilanthropy.org/.

*Thanks to Kritikos Anti-Racist Reading Group for sharing these resources:

5. Extraction as white supremacy | Moving towards anti-extraction practices in the arts
https://www.creativeknow.org/bopawritersforum/extraction-as-white-supremacy

6. What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway? | Nonprofit Quarterly
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/what-does-it-mean-to-dismantle-racial-capitalism-anyway/