“Wasp’s Nest” has been the catalytic point that I keep referring back to this year as “when” I started to realize that my mind was changing and my heart was full of things that I needed to cement in totality. Wasp’s Nest is where I met Maij. From this meeting we’ve had conversations about my removal of “pole” from 400 Degreez to my frustration/opinions with the term “sex work”.
Those conversations led us here, to putting some of these critiques and satire on wax. This is the first part of a multi-part release. The nature and the tone by which we discuss some of the topics is triggering and I wanted to make sure I released these with care and concern; but also because I know much is arguable and I’m really not trying to argue with people who I just don't like or respect artistically.
I fucks with
, they are family— that’s my dawg now, shout out to our connect . Thank you for putting this on wax with me the world needs this smoke. Thank you Tiara for holding me down and lifting me up so that this work is accomplished.Here’s to burning up the things that we no longer need.
Cite & Source
Classes, education and friendship with Carmine Black (footnote for “how you do one thing is how you do all things”)
Van der Kolk, Bessel A. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. New York, New York, Penguin Books, 2015.
Stallings, L. H. Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures. University of Illinois Press, 2015
The Heaux History Project (@Heauxhistory) • Instagram Photos and Videos. www.instagram.com/heauxhistory/?hl=en.
Intimate dialogues between Jé Exodus Hooper and Maij Vu Mai (footnote for language around “being disinterested in power”)
Jade T. Perry (footnote for “get your things” in educational containers/spaces)
Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York :Continuum, 2000. (footnote for dialogues around the colonialist banking models for education and learning)
Somé, Malidoma Patrice. Ritual: Power, Healing, and Community: The African Teachings of the Dagara. Penguin/Arkana, 1997. (footnote for dialogues around ritual building)
Taylor, Sonya Renee. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc, 2021. (footnote for dialogues around engaging with the body)
Wynter, Sylvia. "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument." CR: The New Centennial Review, vol. 3 no. 3, 2003, p. 257-337. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/ncr.2004.0015.(footnote for dialogues around objective truth vs. adaptive truth)
Lorde, Audre. Uses of the Erotic. Out & Out Books, 1984. (footnote for dialogues around conjuring the erotic as power)
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