Samiya Bashir

graphic featuring a portion of Francine J. Harris' poem

"Everyone is a hero to someone, or a beauty, or a problem, or all of the above," guest host @scryptkeeper.bsky.social shares in episode 1454.

Read "Katherine with the Lazy Eye. Short. And Not a Good Poet" by francine j. harris and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/4rKlDou

My first question was wondering how close this was to Broadway and my second was how close this was to the African Burial Grounds...

Looks like literally one block away and then a 30 min walk down (i.e. close)

We will never know the depths of the devastation Black people endured here
#Reparations

cuz they know what we be talkin bout

we neither of us out here playin we said what we said meow lol

😮‍💨
omg how was that so long ago

Ok so first PERIOD TO *THAT*

But also: CATEGORICALLY WRONG so …

(Insert low but not embarrassingly low Olympic score here)

it’s the death cult of it all that’s just so much

(i mean like … only CERTAIN deaths obvs :: ALL cult tho)

I don’t even know what’s happening here but I’m so Pro It

not 16 💔 whew | this is why

love on him
❤️‍🩹 on allus

& still+also we somehow gotta live our (short/dumb-ass) lives best we can | which is different for everyone

Iguess
Igoes where lives happiness & creation & productivity & (waterside!) fun & well: & LIFE.
(How bout LIFE?!) (heartbeats required)

As someone who grew up in the hippiest of hippy-ass college towns (outside of say Berkeley) in the muhfunhn coke-laced 80s we learned the alt-archy quick: weed creates community; coke creates angry isolated wannabe capitalists. I’m not anti-…do you…but like: are you really having fun? No? Then WHY?!

😂😂😂 calabasas coke is hellarious

“Extra newborns” 😬

“ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS SHINE”
#twentytwentymohfuhnsixyo
#periodt

“ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS SHINE”

Y’all!! This poem sneaks up on me and takes me OUT every time. What exquisite beauty. How absolutely YES. And the broadside too is divine! Such an honor and a pleasure to share this with the world ❤️❤️❤️🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

graphic featuring a portion of Paulann Petersen's poem

"That existential question can feel like judgment or threat, but the poet turns it back toward the daily realities of our own agency," guest host @scryptkeeper.bsky.social shares in episode 1452 of The Slowdown.

Read “A Backstory Beyond My Recounting” by Paulann Petersen: bit.ly/4bLyEta

This is beyond reprehensible

Type J Dilla into Google for a surprise

text graphic featuring a portion of Adrienne Rich's poem

"Our most important journeys often take us through vistas that we hadn’t, couldn’t, even imagine when we took our first steps," guest host @scryptkeeper.bsky.social shares in today's episode.

Read “Diving into the Wreck” by Adrienne Rich: bit.ly/4ttzEIP

1450: Home by Warsan Shire Today’s poem is Home by Warsan Shire.

Really moved by @scryptkeeper.bsky.social's fill-ins on the @slowdownshow.org, showcasing the power of #poetry

Our most important journeys often take us through vistas that we hadn’t, couldn’t, even imagine when we took our first steps. Leaning into adventure forces us to embrace uncertainty.
— Samiya
https://www.slowdownshow.org

As her lawyer looks on, Tammy Middlebrooks, 19, pleads guilty for her role in the lynching of Kerrick Majors, a 14-year-old black boy, in Nashville

Tammy and two other white drifters tortured and murdered Majors after he accidentally broke a $2 vase (Tennessee, 1989). www.reddit.com/r/Historical...

Reposting in honor of #BHM and black boy joy at any age

“No injuries reported” is *chefs kiss*

Meanwhile, February at the cribbo … #bhm

text graphic featuring a portion of Warsan Shire's poem

photograph of poet Warsan Shire

"The crackdowns are beyond devastating, yet the potential for complete societal collapse seems unable to trigger our better natures to see each other’s humanity," guest host @scryptkeeper.bsky.social shares in today's episode.

Read "Home” by Warsan Shire: bit.ly/4ayQf6j

1448: Orchestra by Russell Brakefield Today’s poem is Orchestra by Russell Brakefield.

Love Samiya Bashir’s @scryptkeeper.bsky.social intro—something of an ars poetica by way of Galway Kinnel no less—at Monday’s @slowdownshow.org www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2026...