Review By Lesley-Ann Brown, When I first heard about The Electric Smoothie Lab Apothecary – I felt a thunderbolt of inspiration go straight through me- what a brilliant idea! The most genius of ideas are often the most obvious, the most transparent; and Kelly’s passion for moving nutrition through our communities (itself inspired by the… Continue reading Until the Streets of the Hood Flood with Green
Category: Books
UniVerse by Dajenya
UniVerse is the first collection of the early poems of the passionate and outspoken poet, Dajenya. Inspired bydirect personal experience as a queer woman born to an African-American father and a Euro-American mother at a time, (1953), when such marriages were rare, Dajenya’s poetry takes on issues of race, sexuality, spirituality, trauma, drug recovery, friendship, and her… Continue reading UniVerse by Dajenya
Immigrant Blues By Aletha Dale McCullough
Immigrant Blues is a polemic against systems that rob people of their freedom, dignity, and power. These poems address the persecution faced by undocumented workers; the murder of Indigenous, Black, and Trans women; the lingering effects of colonial hegemony; and women’s responses to issues such as domestic violence, poverty and the search for identity. Immigrant… Continue reading Immigrant Blues By Aletha Dale McCullough
Abena Songbird
Abena Songbird, is a songwriter, singer, poet, and member of the Missisquoi Abenaki tribe of Vermont. When she lived in Oakland, she worked with the Upper Room and performedwith her band, The Songbird and the Moor. Her CD is entitled They’re Calling Us Home is available fom Freedom Voices. More recently Abena has worked for… Continue reading Abena Songbird
Until We Are Strong Together: Women Writers in the Tenderloin
Caroline E. Heller PROLOGUE IT TURNED INTO SOMETHING TRUE TO YOU I lived an ordinary life among down-to-earth routines. And yet I felt two things very strongly: I felt, however ordinary those routines, that I stood at the Iyric center of my experience, and that I wished to make a visionary claim for that experience.… Continue reading Until We Are Strong Together: Women Writers in the Tenderloin
About the Tenderloin Reflection and Education Center
TREC was established in 1982 as a center for creative arts and reflective thought to empower homeless and economically disenfranchised people. The program operated under the umbrella of the St. Anthony Foundation until it spun off and was established as a separate non-profit in 1990. TREC uses the arts to help transform participants’ lives, to… Continue reading About the Tenderloin Reflection and Education Center
Muslim American Writers at Home
STORIES, ESSAYS AND POEMS OF IDENTITY, DIVERSITY AND BELONGING $22.50 USD This timely collection allows us to hear firsthand the amazingly diverse voices of North American Muslim writers speaking for themselves. Stereotypes are overturned on every page. Shaped by an impressive interweaving of cultures, languages and ethnicities, these writers reflect on what it means to find… Continue reading Muslim American Writers at Home