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This is the first show of Mandrake Society Radio podcast, Season 5, and I really want to thank you for being a part of this experience of documenting a special story. It is a Dallas story. It is a African-American/Black story. It is a story of understanding sexual orientation and gender. It is about working [...]
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Author and performance poet, Samiya Bashir, talks with me about her new collection of poetry entitled, Gospel, published by Redbone Press. Her previous work, Where the Apple Falls (2005), was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her works have been featured in Essence Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Black Letters Book Review, and Vibe Magazine just to name [...]
Austin author, Samiya Bashir, is about to tell you in her own words about Gospel, her new book of sensual, spiritual poetry from Redbone Press. From the RedBone Press site: Samiya Bashir is the author of two collections of poetry, Gospel (2009), and Where the Apple Falls, which was a finalist for the 2005 Lambda [...]
A unique festival for LGBT writers of African/African-American descent is happening this fall in Austin, TX. The event, Fire and Ink III: The Cotillion, will be October 8 – 11th, sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin/Center for African & African American Studies and allgo. I’ve been waiting for this event and I’m looking [...]
