mbegu ya ardhi
(see)d of the earth in swahili
I welcome you to The Body Politic my weekly newsletter and a p(art) of The Watering W(hole).
An evolving art praxis (root)ed in Quee(a)r Ancestral Tech(know)logy - Mami Wata and the ancient ancestral tech(know)logy of restoring memory.
This is my creative journey in restoring memory, discernment and restoring the Black body, which is inherently quee(a)r in its nature, to a w(hole)ness it has never known. My gift is knowing and understanding the Afrikan body. I see beyond the corporeal. Water is the medium and healing is the modality. How do we anchor our bodies of water before wading in the water of others? How do we shore up our boundaries, while leaving space for flow to go, allowing us to reprogram, evolve and return to the knowledgeable beings and intentional communities we have always been?
By restoring ritual, spirit, and unlocking pre colonial ancestral practice.
The plan is a weekly offering that moves with ebb and flow and touches each aspect of the 5 senses which is key in letting the body lead, (see)ded from the (root)ed self, a vessel, your body of water and the ancient memory we as Afrikan bodies hold and can unlock.
The Watering W(hole) is a container for healing in which the modality can change as we move through different aspects of Black body as it connects to the earth, spirit, ritual, healing which creates that foundation for community that has been outside of our grasp.
For example Black Beauty School is now a praxis that will sit within the container of The Watering W(hole) where we can actually decolonize Afro hair practices and restore them to community care pulling them away from capitalism, allowing it to provide that embodied foundation that will help us fight for liberation.
These iterations while here in digital space are meant to be a living breathing curation, that lands in Afrikan communities allowing us to begin the process of healing our sacred ancestral bodies poisoned by the dominant culture and their salacious need for power and greed.
With Deep Mami Wata Love
Be(SPOKE)curry
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