blackgirl on mars: notes on a life in copenhagen (or how my alienation brings me closer to people).

Check this important program by my friend Rayner Ramirez on child labor in the United States of America. 

'what to make when your child asks for a sibling.' by the lab 2004 Hi Lesley-Ann, I am fine. Hope you are well.I hope it is not a virus.We are  trying to finalize things  at school for the year. I just got back from reviewing with my students for the coming June   U.S.History Regents. Now we will be rated based on how our students do on the  yearly exams.The City of NY  under new administration  just offered us a new contract dating  from the year 2009 when  the former mayor Bloomberg refused  to grant   us one.I know each year I say I will be leaving but it is not  easy to retire and live off the measly pension that  the teaching profession gives. Hey, my offer for you  to visit Panama is still  there . Just tell me when you want to visit and I will see if I can  plan to make  the trip .  Here in the States sometimes i cannot  understand how this country is still so racist.Everyday ...

Miracles Do Occur

That's my Daddy, so don't F@ck with Me!  Happy Birthday Daddy, although I am late. You ought to be forefront in my consciousness, because from you I learn. I thank you for doing your best by me. I thank you for the talent and enthusiasm you had for life. I thank you for attempting to raise me under almost impossible circumstances. And I shine and continue to shine for YOU. I love you Daddy. Happy Birthday. Click here --for all you organ enthusiasts  & you get to hear him on the keyboards. Yes, he's the shit. Like I am. It's about to be on. 

download Dubby's Area 51 here:  http://indy.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/23144/dubby-area-51.html

Jeannette Ehlers from her "Whip It" performance This Blackgirl is in heaven right now. I am so looking forward to this event: Not only because of the subject & content, but due to the fact that I will also be participating. Big up the organisers for making this happen here in DK.  SPIRITUAL REVOLUTIONS & “THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA” BE.BOP 2014. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS MAY 02-31 BERLIN Ballhaus Naunynstraße. With the friendly support of Heinrich Böll Stiftung MAY 15-18 COPENHAGEN SPIRITUAL REVOLUTIONS & “THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA” BE.BOP 2014. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS Thursday May 15 Keynote by Walter Mignolo: Say it Loud!: Re-Existences, Re-Surgences and  Re-Emergences  University of Copenhagen,  Amager Auditorium 22.0.1  16:00-18:00 Say it Loud! Nikolaj Kunsthal Reception at Jeannette Ehlers’ exhibition  19:00-21:00 Performance by Charo Oquet Engungu in White - A Celebra...

There was some serious Ancestor action going on this past Saturday at Kimia Cafe! I had the PLEASURE  to perform with Aisha Fukushima and her Raptivism project, Afrikan Hip Hop Caravan & Joseph Agami .  The performances were stellar and I am stoked to have been a part of it! Special thanks to Pardis for making this all happen & to all the folks that came out to support us! farvel from DK, Lesley-Ann 

"In New York I was TWO", 2010 NYC photo by D.Cowell "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled." Ways of Seeing, John Berger.