Manifestations: Grieving Pt. 2 (Episode#6)

Host Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle/Olomidara Yaya discusses the theme of grieving. From discussing how grieving can be a way to access honoring the dead by aiming to live our lives more fully in the present and the difference between letting go of the past/the colonial violence within being told to forget the past.  Hinkle/Yaya explores her grieving methods of 2016 and how it relates to what it means to be creative in the face of massive loss of lives, separation from loved ones, and having dreams deferred.  She discusses the difficulty of what it means to be creative during this time of grieving and offers some catalyst for how we can channel that grief into actions that extend outside of the market of productivity during this time.  She asks listeners to do something that will allow them to thrive in the midst of death and destruction something that may seem like the most insignificant and mundane yet life-giving at the same time.  Hinkle/Yaya also reads an excerpt from James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk, published by Dial Press in 1974. The featured passage discusses Fonny's interior turmoil as he tries to process being jailed for a crime that he did not commit while he has a baby on the way. During this selected passage  Baldwin paints a powerful portrait of Fonny trying to make a bust of his beloved fiancé Tish, but awakens within the belly of the prison industrial complex.  Hinkle/Yaya meditates on this passage and how it relates to mass incarceration, theft of time and life, and what it means to find a way to thrive in the face of massive injustice.