Dancing on Desks asks educators what would happen if we were teaching, learning, and living in ways that engage justice-full, liberatory, and abolitionist teaching and learning practices in our schools and beyond. The stories, experiences, and voices of educators and students, school staff and caregivers are centered. Your hosts are monét and Erin. Let's get free, y'all.
We’re here with a little announcement about how we will be spending this season. Our biggest lesson from our Season of Pleasure?
We need a season of rest.
We’ll be thinking and chopping it up with each other and seeing what emerges when we have space to imagine while not creating our podcast.
Thinking within and beyond this election season, how will you sustain your own rest this year? What might take seed for you?
Thank you to Jay Gillen from the Baltimore Algebra Project for sharing what now ancestor Mr. Harry Belafonte taught him about rest.
You can stay connected with us by following us on our Instagram @dancingondesks (https://www.instagram.com/dancingondesks) and website dancingondesks.org (https://www.dancingondesks.org/) and by emailing us at us@dancingondesks.org (us@dancingondesks.org).
Free Palestine. Free Congo. Free Sudan.
Music
Our Dancing on Desks Theme Song is composed and arranged by Mara Johnson and Elliott Wilkes
“Groove Theory (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TX1FDGOh5w),” Prod. ae beats
14 Jun 2024
Season 3, Episode 7, Pt. 1 | We Remember Each Other
This is the first of our two-part finale to our Season of Pleasure, a season throughout which we have sought to understand our relationship with pleasure while simultaneously witnessing and confronting genocide across our world. With poet and activist June Jordan’s words, “What shall we do, we who did not die?” in our minds and spirits, we hear from Zeina and Fatma, two mothers living in London who organize with Parents for Palestine, a group of parents who organize marches, actions, and teach-ins that include young children calling for the end of the genocide and occupation in Palestine. How do we talk about genocide with our youngest children? How do our personal rest and pleasure principles sustain collective liberation and education as the practice of freedom?
Share your thoughts with us at us@dancingondesks.org (mailto:us@dancingondesks.org), leave an audio message, or slide into our DMs on IG @dancingondesks (http://www.instagram.com/dancingondesks).
Transcript (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yrdB7tHF4x9KG-P03W0hv-r0nNbRCakW-QcNNDJ9gfo/edit?usp=sharing) Available Aug. 2
INTELLECTUAL INHERITANCE
-Follow Parents for Palestine on Instagram @parentsforpalestine (https://www.instagram.com/parentsforpalestine)
- Ghassan Kanafani, The Land of Sad Oranges (http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/sad_orange.pdf) (1962)
-adrienne maree brown, Pleasure Activism (https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html) (2019)
-Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation (https://www.versobooks.com/products/2615-abolition-geography) (2022)
-June Jordan, “Some of Us Did Not Die” (https://archive.org/details/someofusdidnotdi00jord) (2001)
-The Combahee River Collective Statement (https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/) (1977)
-”50 Years of Combahee”, Black Women Radicals (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riq_EWvsLlQ) (2024) — A special thank you to Jaimee Smith, founder and executive director of Black Women Radicals, for allowing us to use an excerpt from her May 22, conversation with Combahee River Collective co-founders Barbara Smith and Demita Frazier.
-bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003)
-“Lineages of Deviant Caretaking” (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dancingondesks/episodes/Sesason-3--Episode-5--Lineages-of-Deviant-Caretaking-e2gqnne/a-ab20mgq), Dancing on Desks (2024)
MUSIC
-Our Dancing on Desks Theme Song is composed and arranged by Mara Johnson and Elliott Wilkes
-“Arabic Oud” prod. @aldisjaminii_ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TnANpid7ac&list=PLzAjbIkNoEMk0v3jtnOTcPgvivo7_lTGh&index=9)
-“Jamila” prod. @montymusic311 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkUmPkrdmD8)
-"I’ll Be Free" prod. @Rhamzandays (https://youtu.be/HFY16AB5jCg?feature=shared)
-“Joyful & Upbeat Background Nasheed” vocal only prod. Quran Lofi (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnZfZXu978E)
-"Calming Background Nasheed" vocal only prod. Quran Lofi (https://youtu.be/nehIgnWAVF4?feature=shared)
-“Soulful Nasheed” without music promoted by @ncnasheeds (https://youtu.be/BeDQYh6dtqU?feature=shared)
-“Small Talk” prod. yogic beats (https://youtu.be/1oyeoomwWq0?feature=shared)
-“Relaxing & Calming Nasheed” vocals only provided by NoCopyrightNasheeds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4eDY0n58RY)
-“Haven” prod. rémdolla (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwjIwoZJ4vA)
-“Stunt” prod. rémdolla (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DT_hBJHyq4)
-“Burst” prod. rémdolla (https://youtu.be/QRNJFthVLss?feature=shared)
-“Don't Save Me” prod. sadcg (https://youtu.be/l7DeQoSCblA?feature=shared)
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3 May 2024
Season 3, Episode 6 | Tap Into Tenderness
What pleasure becomes possible when we commune with nature, our bodies, and each other? Educator, activist and organizer, researcher, writer, scholar, Zumba dancer, a very reluctant high school sax player and first-chair, only chair vibraphonist shea wesley martin joins us in this episode where they think with us about all things community. shea contemplates how we story community, learn and write in community, and how we find pleasure in community.
Also, they have another special educator workshop Yours, Truly coming up and would like to welcome you to the space! Find more details by following them on Twitter and on Instagram @sheathescholar.
Share your thoughts with us at us@dancingondesks.org (mailto:us@dancingondesks.org), leave an audio message, or slide into our DMs on IG @dancingondesks (http://www.instagram.com/dancingondesks).
Transcript (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q1PZWJY2yZBCGZzslJU-9at8O1-7DsDT3uIu4L-r3jk/edit?usp=sharing) [Available From June 14]
COVER ART
The cover art for this episode’s title card is a collage created by collagist Anna Almore. Anna is also a Dancing on Desks Hivemind member.
CONNECT WITH SHEA & THEIR WORK
Twitter: @sheathescholar (http://twitter.com/sheathescholar)
Instagram @sheathescholar (https://www.instagram.com/sheathescholar)
https://www.sheawesleymartin.com/ (https://www.sheawesleymartin.com/)
INTELLECTUAL INHERITANCE
-The Black Interior: Essays (https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/black-interior), Elizabeth Alexander
The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture, Kevin Quashie
-Punished for Dreaming, Bettina Love
-Kimberly C. Ransom, “A Conceptual Falsetto: Re-Imagining Black Childhood via One Girl’s Exploration of Prince” (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kimberly-Ransom-2/publication/320036587_A_Conceptual_Falsetto_Re-imagining_Black_Childhood_Via_One_Girl%27s_Exploration_of_Prince/links/641dddc2315dfb4ccea7b6a7/A-Conceptual-Falsetto-Re-imagining-Black-Childhood-Via-One-Girls-Exploration-of-Prince.pdf), Journal of African American Studies (2017)
-Zinn Education Project (https://www.zinnedproject.org/)
-Teaching for Change (https://www.teachingforchange.org/)
-Social Justice Books (https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/)
-Woke Kindergarten (https://www.wokekindergarten.org/)
MUSIC
-Our Dancing on Desks Theme Song is composed and arranged by Mara Johnson and Elliott Wilkes
-vibraphone, original music prod. Elliott Wilkes
-Victoria Monét “On My Mama” (monét clipped wings Remix) (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KiXe2fN_Fv93OF7mo9v_eHKuEc68wOq1/view?usp=share_link)
-“Mortal” prod. rémdolla (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kLUkgCtQRJNnrkQFImaVrAY8zTyIsav1/view?usp=share_link)
-"Jazzaddicts" prod. Cosimo Fogg (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kvE7C9h3BgSvKqsJdV7od2Ci-nlxy4hT/view?usp=share_link)
-Go-go instrumental prod Marci Jay (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j65uN2klaz14i6VgxYxINgqf5Uqcoyu4/view?usp=share_link)
-Noire #1 prod. Pedro (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GrxuY7qY58c9K5Y67Vue6t7uKYjhxWLE/view?usp=share_link)
-“Raio de Sol” prod. Wonderlust Beats (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kDR4NQ8V02nYehq6UEHoTHD96FxkUVIE/view?usp=share_link)
-"Reprise / Those Eyes" prod. yogic beats (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-oryjrhKfZ4I-w1xeEFR0yp9kdJLLSpx/view?usp=share_link)
-"Marry Me" prod. Fred Irie (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PPmIdIUTcTe4n-0y77DzSu8s2j13tTzC/view?usp=share_link)
-"Seus Olhos" prod. Fred Irie (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XhHCHktB9yEdgD43krcEfzDBpMUTsRBy/view?usp=share_link)
-"Soul Searcher" prod. yogic beats (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qlYdBrh5xTYtb6gV6ds-ukvfV-pRdStb/view?usp=share_link)
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