TIFFANY LETHABO KING on The Black Shoals [with brontë velez], Part Two /316

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🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week For The Wild Podcast presents Part Two of a two-part conversation between guest host 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 week we are cradled to explore where Black and Indigenous relations can meet beyond the wound. Part Two spans further inquiry into shoals, the physical desire to belong to Earth, agency, eros, spiritual correction, the pleasure and potential of failure, and that which cannot be translated, but instead has to be experienced or co-witnessed to be understood. Research for this conversation was curated by jazmín calderón torres.

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. Can I Get A Witness “traces two queer black latinx femmes, brontë velez and Stephanie Hewett, dancing before and being danced by the ecology, memory, and stories of the Tongass National Forests and Glacier Bay in southeast Alaska–unceded Haida, Tsimshian, Tlingit territories, scored by field recordings and music, interviews with Tiffany King, Wanda Kashudoha, and Kasyyahgei, with a Groundtruthing Oracle by jazmín calderón torres.

Music by Jiordi Rosales and Ashia Karana. 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 Vales, 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.
1:12.3	The land that members you, right? The land that's made this space for you and members you,
1:17.9	it's calling and calling you towards it. Tiffany Lathabo King, she they as a descendant
1:25.3	of African people enslaved in the U.S. South. She grew up in Lenape Hoken and currently works
1:31.7	resides on monican lands. King is an associate professor of women gender and sexuality studies at
1:38.2	the University of Virginia. She is also a co-director of the Black and Indigenous Feminist Futures
1:44.9	Institute funded by the Mellon Foundation. Tiffany is the author of the Black Sholes Offshore
1:51.2	Formations of Black and Native Studies published by Duke University Press in 2019.
1:57.6	If you ain't got your copy, pick it up. For you, a loved one, one of those free book
2:04.4	libraries in your neighborhood, get your copy. As a scholar and teacher, she is committed to thinking
2:12.9	about how centuries-long relationships between Black and Indigenous peoples have provided openings
2:19.4	to alternative past, present, and futures. Black and Indigenous liberation struggles
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