We are back in the cypher! Audio Nuggets is where True Narratives calls us to listen more deeply. In this listening, we are tending to the meanwhile. True Narratives are the throughline — a living mosaic of resistance, love, creativity, and becoming. During Black Futures and beyond, we are asking ourselves: Who must we be for the future we say we want?
We welcome Courtney Dowe for this episode, “True Narratives: I Am Because She Is.” Courtney is a songwriter, a poet and a lover of art and self expression. Courtney has breathed life and music into places and spaces between subway stations and the Kennedy Center. In protest, prayer and houses of healing. Always guided by her mother’s musical spirit, Courtney has grown her voice into a vessel for human rights, dignity, and collective memory — naming brutality, confronting persecution, and fighting for justice.

Her liberation is practiced, embodied, and disciplined by love and sharpened by truth. Courtney reminds us that art is testimony, and despair will not have the last word. This conversation is an invitation. An offering. An invitation to recognize that our voices are not just expressions — they are responsibilities. We are building base. We are people who arrive whole — with joy, grief, humor and memory. We are a people who refuse to be contained by myths.

This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.