E63: Brown Girls

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Poetry Cafe's E63 features powerful performances and personal stories from poets Shanna and Dr. T, celebrating Black womanhood, healing through poetry, and community building.

Key takeaways

• Poetry is a vital tool for healing and self-expression.

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Welcome, welcome to this week's episode of one only P-O-E-T-R-Y cafe. My name is Joe C-S-E-T-R-Y Cafe. My name is Joe Seephes. I'm your host with the most sit back, relax and enjoy. On today's show, we have to Shanna and Dr T, sharing some love and light and peace and joy. I took a breath and that was maybe the problem. I was losing oxygen from being so nervous. And you and something clicks. Light switch. Your father said, take this and do with it what you will. And then the poem, the poem came out. Exactly. Right, because you started flowing pretty, pretty easily. You are enjoying what you're hearing and would like some more exclusive content. Jump on our Patreon, The Poetry Cafe. Or slide on over to our website, www. The Poetry Cafe. O.R. G. And pick you up some merch. Thank you. Welcome, welcome back from the break in this part of the show. We have some special interviews, some special information. We want to only, uh, Dr T, aka Dr. Chocchi. Also, T, T, has got some good stuff for us and we're going to jump to the stage for a live reading from the one and only says, sheoma. But first, little something for me. And today these two ladies we have in the studio have been frequently the poetry cafe for quite some time. I just want to give a little bit of shine of their own. Tishana did this dope poem about brown girls with you a little bit later. So often, poetry venues are supported by women, especially black women looking for space to create and share. Just have a good time to let loose. And it's been such honor to carry and hold that space for them. So I wanted to give a little bit of light and love to these ways today today because they come to the portrait cafe for a while and just really investing in the community and sharing their voices and also sometimes it's a little timid little scared but still finally time of energy to make it happen. Remember you know your voice is important is necessary and so are you. Dr. T. Baut some of her students out to the Poetry Cafe field trip not too long ago and it's been sticking around ever since you know just really committed to using her art to to enlighten to share and to grow only herself but also her community. a little bit shy at first but we've been coaxing her along and I'm excited to have her here on the show today to share some of her life and her love and her story about art and how she got to what she is now today. So stick to this day where you're at the Porture Cafe, we're here for you. today. So Tishana, take it away. Thank you. Thank you for having me, Josie. This bomb is called Brown Girl. Brown Girl, that. Brown girl this. This brown girl came through another brown girl hips, brown girl me. And brown girl you. Brown girl talk that talk. Always speaking them brown girl truths. Brown girl snaps and brown girl knaps and. Brown girl weaves like baskets a brown girl. Silk Scarf and pinned, a classic brown girl do be. I'm trying to get like you like brown girl do me brown girls had to do for one another brown girls help build communities. Brown girl fro brown girls be waves can't take brown girls nowhere because brown girls on brown liquor sure gonna misbehave see it's brown girl tea and brown girl drama. Brown girl got that thing on and she got it from a brown girl mama. Brown girl walk brown girl switch brown girls got bleep And Brown girls be lit. Brown girls be twirking and Brown girls be working. Brown girl with a brown bag got brown girls in corporate, but Brown girls be single. The Brown girls are wifie. Brown girls be had a household with two boyfriends. Brown girls be polyamory. Brown girl power. Brown girl fists. Brown girls be stars. Brown girls drive foreign cars. Brown girls put on because Brown girls ain't shy. Brown girls take off like airplanes. Brown girls so fly and we way out of your league see we up one and going for three Brown girls shoot their shot and Brown girls don't miss Brown girls kiss Lithu Brown girls be regal Brown girls wear crowns to royal Brown girls throw tantrums because Brown girls is spoiled out of one comes many got Brown girls by the plenty Brown girls the reason you be drinking sparkling wine in Henney Brown girls be elevating Brown girls be southern city girl Haitian Cuban Mexican Asian, French Asian, Jamaican, Italian, Brazilian. Brown around the world got Brown worth millions. Brown girls be speaking different languages. Some, Brown girls is dangerous. Brown girls speak like blood, like cus, like sis, like yes. Brown girls are gangster. Brown girls flex because brown girls got necks. Brown girls be having these other girls up tight in vex. Wishing they could do with us, Brown girls do see. Brown girls be hoodoo and protect you. Brown girls be voodoo. Brown girls be voodoo and protect you. Brown girls be voodoo. Brown girls, you. Brown girls, you. Brown girls, you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do you do. Brown girls, may hex you. Brown girls be magic, supernatural, it's factual that brown girls don't need permission or reason. We don't wear out, you can wear brown every season. A cold without the flu, her strength is the life she breath into you, God in the flesh so to all my brown girls stay true, never let them tell you what a brown girl can't do. Boom. to brown girls. brown girls. Tayshana how long did you write that poem? Maybe two days, just about two days. I like to edit a lot so the concept comes to me quickly. The thought out process is probably over a day or two. Okay. After hearing I just knew I had to have it on the show, the brown girl poem. Thank you. Phenomena. How long you've been writing poetry? For a very long time I would say when I was about nine or ten I started writing my first piece or 10. That's poetry damn was like. That was your inspiration. Right, right, right. Shout out to Dana Gilmour. Dope. And how long, and what made you continue to write? Like, that was a minute ago, but you still find yourself on stages performing in the middle of Life and Life and I know Life Be Life and that's the reason why I write. That's the reason why I write. That's the reason why I'm having a great day. Life and I feel like and I feel like and I feel like in. I feel like. I'm a great day. If I'm having the lowest points in my life I'm writing about that. Nice. And also in the building we have the Doctor, the T, the supersonic hearing, the shades, the sunlight, um, Forest, Torchy Will, ah, Toche Will, Toche Will. Toche Will. We're getting an addiction lesson today in the Poetry Cafe. Everybody will say it with me one time. Toche Will. That is beautiful. Is that it. Noo Geeville Lane. That's enough for the face that we're in. All right. Flores, Tocille is in the building. Tocille. Is in the building? Tocles, Tocille. Is in the building? Hales, Tocille. Is in the building? Halese, Tocis, Tocille. Is in the building? Halese. How I came to be here in the world. Yeah, but here in the cafe. We participated in a wonderful event known as Poetry is Life, the Field Trip. And that is where our paths met. And you said, there's an adult version of this called the Poetry Cafe, and you provided me with that information. And you said, there's an adult version of this called the Poetry Cafe, and you provided me with that information. And well, the rest is history. because we showed up just as we said we would and I was able to sign up although I did not have a sailor device someone assisted me and you'd be surprised people say they're gonna show up and do not show up no sir so she said we should we would but I hear the all time I'm coming to the next show come to the next show I'm gonna be there I'm gonna be there and then I'm I'm not I was happy that you did show up in Shade Zone. And now jumping to stage. And now jumping to the stage, sage, Chioma. Check it out. Watch a cafe. So this poem is called Collateral Damage and it's really about addiction and one of the things I'm witnessing now is America finally coming to terms with this addiction to violence. It took me years to name this poem after I wrote it and I chose the name Collateral Damage. This poem is for all of those we lost in the war on drugs those souls misguided. pharmacists with their illicit powders and lab coat technicians with their FDA approved capsules. Yes, this poem is for all of those fallen prey to nature's most potent sedative hypnotic. There's a desperate hush moving across our nation. 90% of all pain pills consumed by Americans, yet we only make up 5% of the earth's population.