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Burning Man: Rebirth on the Playa-Part I
Posted by Tyra Fennell in Blog, Kommunity Kiki, Tyra's World on September 7, 2015
Scene 1: Rebirth on the Playa
“Everyday you are born again Tyra, so make it count.”
During the first week of September 2015, I spent 5-days on an incredible journey to gain a better understanding of myself by utilizing 10 principles: radical inclusion, gifting, de-commodification, self- reliance, communal effort, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation and immediacy.…
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Black Love Takes Over Bayview
Posted by Tyra Fennell in Arts & Economic Development, Blog, Kommunity Kiki, Tyra's World on July 20, 2015
My mother who has always rocked an Afro, was active in the National Welfare Rights movement in the 1960s and heavily involved in acts of civil disobedience on campus in the name of civil rights at Alabama A&M University. When my sister and I were little, my mom with all of her consciousness abhorred the lack of positive Black images available to little Black girls. …
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Diary of a Mad White Ally
Posted by Tyra Fennell in Blog, Kommunity Kiki, Politics on July 1, 2015
I came across a letter my friend, from my New York record industry days, Chris Sealey wrote to his fellow white brothers and sisters. I found it both refreshing and sad. Refreshing cause the chillest white dude I knew is still chill as ever but sad because I often feel he is an anomaly in his honest assessment of white privilege.…
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