Decenter Mixed-Black Artist for Black Lives
We're on hiatus for July but I didn't want to leave you high and dry this month. Allow me to share a recording of a Livestream Panel Discussion we had on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Fellow Mixed-Black creators, Alison Hart (
), Sonia Smith-Kang (Owner,
& President of
Multiracial Americans of Southern California MASC
), TaRessa Stovall (
Swirl Girl: Coming of Race in the USA, memoir
), and Richard B. Pierre (
Film Documentarian) joined me in a discussion of how we decenter ourselves and continue to support Black Lives in our work. I was so honored to have this experience with such an amazing panel. Which would not have happened if not for Alison Hart wanting to get us all together. * * *
You can continue the conversation on our private Facebook group after you listen to this episode at http://facebook.com/groups/militantlymixed
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Alison Hart
National Book award-winning and best-selling author Isabel Allende introduced Alison and her debut novel Mostly White (Torrey House Press, 2018) at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA. Isabel Allende praised Mostly White as: "So compelling it gave me goosebumps from the very first lines." Other works include a poetry collection, Temp Words (Cosmo Press, 2015) and selected poems in Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry in California (Scarlet Tanager, 2016).
Hart’s work centers on her Black and Indigenous ancestors from New England, healing intergenerational/historical trauma, mixed-race identity, and uncovering the brutal truth of American history. Hart studied theater at Tisch School of The Arts, New York University (B.F.A.), and education at Saint Mary’s College (M.A.). She is a mixed-race Passamaquoddy Native American, Irish, Black, Scottish, and English woman of color. Hart is an author, musician, music educator and mother living in the San Francisco Bay Area.