TIFFANY LETHABO KING on The Black Shoals [with brontë velez], Part One /315

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🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week For The Wild Podcast presents Part One of a two-part conversation between brontë velez and Dr. Tiffany Lethabo King. Circumferencing Dr. Tiffany Lethabo King’s book The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies, brontë and Tiffany explore sacred laughter, Black and Indigenous feminism, sexuality, liberation, ceremony, and protocol. This simultaneously intimate and expansive dialogue allows us to rethink the stories and structures we’ve been told regarding Black and Indigenous relations. Guided by a unquantifiable love and trust in Black and Native freedom dreams, Tiffany prompts us to explore ritual, space, and connection as antidote.

Recorded in January of 2021, this interview is a companion piece to a project called Can I Get A Witness, a collaborative transmedia project between For The Wild and Lead to Life.

Tiffany Lethabo King is an Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University which is located on the ancestral lands of the Mvskoke Creek. While here, she is also grateful to be able to touch the Georgia soil where her maternal and paternal ancestors survived slavery and created New Worlds of possibility. Her research is situated at intersections of slavery and indigenous genocide in the Americas. King is the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. King is currently working on a project tentatively titled Red and Black Alchemies of Flesh: Conjuring A Decolonial and Abolitionist Now.

Music by Larkhall, Stoney Creation, and MonteQarlo. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

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0:49.2	Hello, my name is Bronti Villes, and I am so humbled to introduce this special episode
0:56.5	on for the wild. In this conversation, I join as a guest host to interview the brilliant
1:03.5	and phenomenal and heart-centered and generous and right on time, Tiffany Lathabo King.
1:12.0	My ancestors were saying, no, we also felt that too. We also felt Indigenous genocide,
1:18.4	and that shaped our experience of enslavement and thoughtful. So that's the kind of
1:22.5	curiosity that I'm talking about. Tiffany Lathabo King, she they is a descendant
1:28.8	of African people enslaved in the US South. She grew up in Lenape Hoken, and currently works
1:35.2	resides on monican lands. King is an associate professor of women gender and sexuality studies
1:41.6	at the University of Virginia. She is also a co-director of the Black and Indigenous Feminist
1:48.0	Futures Institute funded by the Mellon Foundation. Tiffany is the author of the Black Sholes,
1:54.2	Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies, published by Duke University Press in 2019.
2:01.2	If you ain't got your copy, pick it up. For you, a loved one, one of those free book
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