Emma Dabiri

Awoke(cast) - Podcast about the intersection between activism, politics and spirituality

Peeps here's the podcast episode.  It was recorded 4 years ago but I never broadcast it and fucking hell, it feels more relevant and necessary  today then it did then ! So this is its big fat overdue debut!!!

  In my conversation with Jeremy Weate the centre director of Tabula Rasa Retreat, we discuss the Iboga tree which is central to the Bwiti  spiritual practices in West-Central Africa mainly Gabon Cameroon, and the Republic of the Congo and its use in expand...

Podcast

Way back when, in the world of 2016 I started an NTS podcast about the intersection between spirituality and activism. I came increasingly to believe the latter really needed to be animated by the former and wanted to explore this idea through a series of conversations with people who were knowledgable in different spiritual traditions and whose ideas intrigued me. 

Life being what it is and the pressures of work what they are I only recorded two episodes neither of which I ended u...

Disobedient Bodies Book Club Zoom link

Hey folks

Really looking forward to our next book club meeting tomorrow Thursday August 27th 9pm. We will be discussing Don't Touch My Hair //  Twisted (if you're in the US). Ill be in conversation with Beatrice Vundla for about 30-40 mins and then we'll have questions and open conversation for 20-30 mins. Here's the zoom link Emma Dabiri is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Grab a vino and see ye there x

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Hey all, 

How you all been? It's been a busy week for me as I've been working on a new project,  one close to my heart, which I can tell you all about next week. 

My schedule has distracted me from the fact that it's also over a week since my Twitter sabbatical began, and boy, am I'm feeling a lot better for it! However, despite the reprieve its also made me realise how many interesting people I connect with on there  (including many of you), so I will undoubte...

Twitter

Good evening friends, 

I hope you are well during this strange sweltering summer! For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed - I'm not there ! I have something important (and exciting) that I'm working on and was finding it too distracting a space, but in truth, I was also finding it depressing and uninspiring - so much hate, which is incentivised by the way the platform works, I just needed a break - that sub optimal frequency is so far where my energy's  ...

disobedient bodies bookclub

Evenin crew !

Come on now don't be shy - let me know if any of you want to be in conversation with me for our next disobedient bodies book club.  Doesn't matter if you've never done anything like this before - it'll be a great first experience and we can prep beforehand, equally you might be a seasoned pro as a host, just holla, let me know why your up for it and Ill select one person. Would be great if you could let me know in the next couple of days. 

Also, heads up I ...

Disobedient Music vol. 1

A likkle soundwave to sooth ye through the night, or indeed the day.

music is a conduit for so many forms of power, and one of the most potent instruments for both revolution and joy

mix by disobedient bodies collective... 

Don't Touch My Hair // Twisted

Hola 

How are you all? Well I hope. 

Our third disobedient bodies text is going to be Don't Touch My Hair. It hadn't occurred to me to do my own book but I had quite a few requests for it so thought why not.

I also thought it might be fun to have one of ye (ye = 'you' plural for my non-Irish crew,  rather than a reference to the presidential hopeful husband of Kim K lol) in conversation with me. If anyone is up for it, shoot me message and we'll take it f...

Update

Hi Patrons, 

I received some very sad news last week that my father had passed away. 

I just wanted to let you know whats been going on and to explain that I'll be taking a little time off. I'll be in touch again very soon but Disobedient Bodies book club will be postponed this month and will be back for August. 

Much love my friends.

Take real good care of yourselves 

Emma x  

The 'White Club' The Problem with 'White Guilt' by Julian Obubo

New post over at Disobedient Bodies https://disobedientbodies.com/other-voices/f/the-white-club-problem-with-white-guilt-by-julian-obubo

Facilitators for next book club sessions

Hola, 

I hope you're all well. I wanted to ask if any of you were interested in facilitating some of the zoom break out sessions for tonight's discussion of Trick Mirror, which you will have received a zoom invite to if you're signed up to the disobedient bodies mailing list. If you haven't received the email, holla and I'll email it direct. 

In terms of the breakout rooms, it's just being on hand to help lead the conversation and perhaps offer some prompts to encourage ...

Where Does Whiteness Come From ?

Race is just a social construct... but what does that mean ?

Hola, 

Over the last week I've been made some resources p about the invention and construction of race which I've postd IG  and I wanted to make that information available to you all here incase you're not Instagram and also just as somewhere to have these ideas consolidated and to discuss further with you all if you want. 

New writing up on www.disobedientbodies.com

Given the nature of this piece and the context, it would be obscene to have it behind a paywall so please check out first disobedient bodies essay over at  https://disobedientbodies.com/other-voices/f/when-will-it-end-the-racist-lynching-of-george-floyd and thank you so much to all my patreons for your support. 

When Will ...