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Exhibit K: Inheriting photographs of the Puerto Rican migration

April 6, 2020April 7, 2020
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Join me in this episode when Sami Miranda is at the table. He talks about inheriting hundreds of photographs taken by his grandfather, documenting decades of family life, as well as the Puerto Rican migration to New York City.

Photo taken by Miranda’s grandfather of a soldier stationed in the Panama Canal Zone during WWII

Josefina at her son Ignacio’s grave, who died during WWII

Efua Prince talks with Sami Miranda about poetry and photographs

Now a significant part of the DC writing scene, Miranda says, “Everybody who puts work into their art form deserves support.” Miranda is the managing partner of the American Poetry Museum located in Washington, DC. He is an educator, poet, and visual artist.

photo of Sami Miranda by Monica Liang Aguirre

This week’s Opening Paragraph is drawn from John Murillo’s Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry.

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Exhibit J: Remembering mother’s laundry with Dr. Monifa Love…

March 22, 2020
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At the table with me today is Dr. Monifa Love Asante who shares memories of the basement of her childhood home, which was divided between her father’s dental office and her mother’s laundry room. The house was located near Howard University in Washington, DC. Dr. Love Asante reflects on the ways that African American women have traditionally used laundry and dress as a means of imposing a sense of order and design on an often chaotic world. She remembers the ways that her mother used laundry to pass down cultural values learned from her own childhood in Danville, Virginia.

In the home that Dr. Love Asante grew up in, one had to preserve a sense of order and keep things in their proper places. She also reflects on the ways that integration transformed the aspirations of younger generations. Despite having studied under a master, Dr. Love Asante, like so many of us born to these latter generations, has not brought the high art of fine laundering forward.

This episode available for download on April 13, 2020 via http://womenandwriters.libsyn.com/.

This week’s Opening Paragraph pick, E. Ethelbert Miller’s How we Sleep on the Nights We Don’t Make Love.

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Exhibit I: The beauty (or is it folly) of…

February 27, 2020February 27, 2020
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I wash clothes. I fold clothes. I fight a losing battle to keep those clothes in a drawer and off the floor. Why on earth do I spend so much time in this struggle? Listen as I explain what in the world I’m thinking.

Exhibit I: the beauty or is it the folly of folding kids’ clothes

Opening Paragraph this week features Jesmyn Ward’s award winning novel, Salvage the Bones. A story of loss and motherhood in a world prone to natural disasters.

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Exhibit H: Talking Family and Inspiration with Rion Amilcar…

February 21, 2020February 27, 2020
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Exhibit H: Family and inspiration with Rion Amilcar Scott

On this episode, listen as V Efua Prince talks with Rion Amilcar Scott about how raising two boys serves as both obstacle and inspiration. Having children influences not only when one writes, but the form that writing takes. Get insight into the writing process of one of the country’s most distinct emerging writers. Released Monday, March 30, 2020.

For this week’s Opening Paragraph, Scott reads from his own work, Insurrections and The World Doesn’t Require You, as well as one of his biggest inspirations, a monologue from August Wilson’s King Hedley II.

Presenting Evidence that God Still Loves Women and Writers podcast featuring music by Talitha Gabrielle

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Exhibit G: Housekeeping and the Hybrid Text

February 5, 2020May 18, 2020
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Exhibit G: Keeping house with Sarah Trembath

The state of a room can reflect the state of mind. Join me on March 23, 2020 for Presenting Evidence that God Still Loves Women and Writers as I talk with Dr. Sarah Trembath about the relationship between housekeeping, sharing space, and writing. Dr. Trembath draws connections between the way she keeps house and the form her writing takes. For her that writing often takes the form of a hybrid text.

featuring music by Talitha Gabrielle

In this week’s Opening Paragraph, Trembath reads from Toni Morrison’s The Source of Self-Regard.

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Exhibit F: Exit at Will

February 5, 2020April 3, 2020
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Exhibit F: Exit at will

Sit with me for a few minutes while I think about painting my front door. The front door of a house sees so much action. When I look at it now, I am reminded of the amount of time wasted hollering, while standing at the door waiting for one family member or another to be ready to leave the house. In this episode, released March 16, 2020, I reflect on the tension between the ability to merely open the door and exit at will and responsibility of raising a family.

In this episode’s Opening Paragraph I read from Delia Owens’s Where the Crawdad Sings.

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Exhibit E: Ironing and Invisible Labor

February 2, 2020February 27, 2020
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Exhibit E: Ironing and invisible labor

As the one charged with the care of laundry, there’s hardly been a day in nearly 30 years when I have not been acutely aware of the underwear situation for the people in her family. Join me March 9th on Presenting Evidence that God Still Loves Women and Writers as I consider the cost of invisible work while caring for a treasured silk blouse.

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This episode’s Opening Paragraph is not a paragraph at all. It is the beginning of Remica L. Bingham’s collection of poetry, What we Ask of Flesh. Remica L. Bingham

featuring music by Talitha Gabrielle

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Exhibit C: The Beauty of Chunky Blankets

January 13, 2020February 27, 2020
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Exhibit C: The beauty of chunky blankets

My grandmother spent the latter years of her life making quilts and blankets for those she loved. Perhaps that is why I find myself making blankets for my loved ones now. My favorite are made with really fat yarn–perhaps because I don’t have the patience required to use regular sized wool or perhaps because the fat yarn feels so luscious!

I remember a childhood friend of my mothers said at my grandmother’s funeral, that my grandmother covered us all with her love. The quilts and blankets had become a metaphor and a signature. I still have one of her blankets on my bed and several more in closets.

Join the podcast Presenting Evidence that God Still Loves Women and Writers on February 24, 2020 for Exhibit C. And for this episode’s Opening Paragraph, Prince reads from her own work–“Empty Vessel”. Empty Vessel

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Exhibit B: Food and Family

January 12, 2020February 6, 2020
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Join us February 17, 2020 as my guest, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman talks about food and family. She writes creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in publications including Catapult, The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Bull Men’s Fiction, The Source, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and NPR. Her writing investigates questions of family, identity, race, and religion and, often, how they intersect. You can find her work here: herehttps://medium.com/@sufiyaabdurrahman.

We close the exhibit today with Abdur-Rahman sharing her pick for Opening Paragraph–Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns. The Warmth of Other Suns

featuring music by Talitha Gabrielle

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Exhibit D: Lipstick and Rifles –Ukrainian Women at the…

January 12, 2020February 27, 2020
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Exhibit D: Lipstick and rifles Ukrainian women

Join me March 2, 2020 on the podcast Presenting Evidence that God Still Loves Women and Writers for this wide ranging conversation with Olha Onyshko, a filmmaker born in the Soviet Union who documents the work of women in Ukraine’s struggle to establish and maintain their fragile independence. After watching seamstresses who worked at a Ukrainian opera house make bulletproof vests from scrap metal and grandmothers standing against the Russian back army in Maidan, Onyshko maintains that women have the power to transform the world. Find out more about her film, Women of Maidan. Women of Maidan

featuring music by Talitha Gabrielle

Onyshko selected three very different picks for Opening Paragraph: Jaden Rose Phoenix’s Beyond Human, A.K. Shevchenko’s The Game, and James Ragan’s Womb-Weary. Beyond Human The Game Womb Weary.

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