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Welcome to \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/ourcreativefutures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Our Creative Futures\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a KQED Arts & Culture series that takes stock of the arts in this unpredictable climate. \u003ca href=\"https://artskqed.typeform.com/Artist2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share your story here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Alora Lemalu and two friends packed their clothes in a car and left their hometown in Missouri for the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back home, Lemalu and her friends felt alone, without any spaces where they could safely connect with other queer people of color. “The decision to come out here was because of the lack of community that any of us had in Missouri,” says the 27-year-old Oakland resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tumblr and other social media platforms gave Lemalu a window into what queer spaces were like in the rest of the country. By watching \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SqvD1-0odY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Paris is Burning\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and competitions on YouTube as a teen, she learned more about voguing and ballroom scenes in places like New York and the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seeing these women, specifically Black trans women, perform was amazing,” she says. “It was so graceful and so beautiful. But it was also so empowering. In vogue and ballroom you have to have nerve and a certain amount of self-belief and attitude that carries you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also learned that vogue was a lot more than just a dance style. Voguing is deeply rooted in the Black ballroom scene of 1970s and 1980s New York City, where queer and trans people of color formed houses—chosen families that provide their members with protection, offer emotional and material support and celebrate each other’s growth as dancers, musicians and artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alora Lemalu\"]‘In vogue and ballroom you have to have nerve and a certain amount of self-belief and attitude that carries you.’[/pullquote]Houses face off in ballroom competitions that include multiple categories and cash prizes. Categories can change from ball to ball, but typical ones include runway, where contestants pull up with ornate outfits they create themselves; selling face, where the emphasis is on the make-up and attitude; and of course, vogue performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vogue performance is the opportunity for dancers to come in and give it their all, each with their own style, using their own original techniques and those crafted and refined by previous generations. Hand performances come together with spins, duck walks and drops as the commentator injects energy into the crowd and hypes up each performer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw5jn1xrfnY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfweekly.com/music/gay-and-transgender-divas-battle-for-stardom-in-bay-areas-ballroom-scene/\">ballroom scene grew across the West Coast in the ’90s\u003c/a>, and that legacy lured Lemalu to the Bay—along with the promise of being able to live safely as a queer person of color. Once she and her friends made it to California in 2017, they began taking classes and going to functions. Eventually, Lemalu was adopted into a house and expanded her chosen family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was through attending small events that she met Ashlee Banks, Shireen Rahimi and Guerrilla Davis. The three artists are close friends who’ve been part of the scene for years. Banks, a.k.a. Ashlee Basquiat, is a dancer and currently the lead youth wellness coordinator at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland LGBTQ Community Center\u003c/a>; Rahimi, a.k.a. Hype Kitty, is a choreographer, dancer and event producer; and Davis, a.k.a. Guerrilla Pump, is a photographer, DJ and organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wearetheoneswevebeenwaitingfor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For\u003c/a>, a mutual aid collective that provides \u003ca href=\"https://www.mic.com/life/arm-the-girls-is-empowering-bipoc-queer-trans-femmes-to-fight-back-81225542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">self-defense gear\u003c/a> and other forms of assistance to trans femmes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1360px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_1.png\" alt=\"Three people stand in front of Lake Merritt in Oakland and pose while looking at the camera.\" width=\"1360\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_1.png 1360w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_1-800x528.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_1-1020x674.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_1-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_1-768x507.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1360px) 100vw, 1360px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Shireen Rahimi Ashlee Banks and Guerrilla Davis. The three have become close friends after meeting through the Bay Area ballroom scene. They now work together to create balls that tackle issues that are disproportionately affecting Black and brown queer people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since 2020, the three have worked to transform the voguing scene in the Bay Area—organizing balls, renegade parties and teaching dance sessions promoted by Oakland to All, a platform the group created back in 2017. Each of these events is produced with intention, centering issues like mental health, substance abuse and efforts to resist police brutality. By doing so, Oakland to All is building on the legacy of balls from the 1980s and 1990s that connected voguers to HIV/AIDS testing and treatment at a time when queer Black and Latinx communities had limited access to these resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our prerogative has always been to provide a safe space for people to just exist,” says Davis. “For trans femme people who exist in the world and get stares and catcalled, balls are one of the few spaces that you can exist without all the bullshit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902890\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13902890\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/D7A4052.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/D7A4052.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/D7A4052-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/D7A4052-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Set it off” OTA Performance contest at Back with a Vengeance Ball at Lake Merritt Amphitheater on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Bringing Together a New Generation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Banks, Rahimi and Davis have supported Lemalu and other young members of the scene by organizing mutual aid funds for emergencies, helping to find housing and connecting them to mental health resources. 2020 was an especially rough year as pandemic health restrictions severely limited balls and other in-person events at a time when Lemalu and her friends felt the world was falling apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lemalu wasn’t the only one feeling this way. Banks, Rahimi and Davis heard from young people all over the Bay Area who said they needed some sort of space to come together, see each other, dance and hype each other up. “The kids were asking for balls. The kids are asking for sessions,” Banks says. “We wanted to give them that, but we also wanted to make sure everyone was safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trio had to make sure any event they organized was outdoors to protect against COVID-19. Securing an all-ages space was crucial because ballroom is an important outlet for many queer and trans young people under the age of 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Guerrilla Davis, co-founder of Oakland to All\"]‘For trans femme people who exist in the world and get stares and catcalled, balls are one of the few spaces that you can exist without all the bullshit.’[/pullquote]On Aug. 30, 2020, the trio, along with other community groups, threw the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/lake-merritt-amphitheater/amerikkka-is-burning-ball-830-oaklandca/981801608930387/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amerikkka is Burning Ball\u003c/a> at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater. The categories were designed to address the racial reckoning following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. One category asked voguers to honor victims of police brutality such as Breonna Taylor and Eric Garner, as well as slain trans women such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.advocate.com/crime/2020/3/24/trans-businesswoman-shot-death-while-being-treated-ambulance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monika Diamond\u003c/a>. Another \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/lake-merritt-amphitheater/amerikkka-is-burning-ball-830-oaklandca/981801608930387/\">asked participants to create a bizarre look\u003c/a> that showed their “resourcefulness, ingenuity, and creativity focused on protection and survival from the rona or police brutality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The turnout and energy that pulled through exceeded what any of the organizers ever expected. Although there were plenty of balls in the Bay Area before Amerikkka is Burning, few had sought to engage the younger generations that came of age during the pandemic and weren’t around to experience what the scene was like in the ’90s and early 2000s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rahimi remembers meeting young people from all over the region, from places like San Jose, Antioch and Palo Alto—something she had rarely seen before. “2020, we connected and changed the motherfucking game, for lack of a better word,” Rahimi says. “That’s when a whole new generation birthed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13902900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13902900\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/D7A4265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/D7A4265.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/D7A4265-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/D7A4265-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaiah Wilder competes in the “Set it off” OTA Performance contest at Back with a Vengeance Ball at Lake Merritt Amphitheater on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Community Care Through Mutual Aid\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After Amerikkka is Burning and other events at Lake Merritt, Oakland to All was getting requests for more balls. The community support was there, but now the question was where to throw the events, Davis says. While Lake Merritt provided an option that was both outdoors and open to all ages, the group was concerned about safety around the lake following a series of shootings in the area in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"arts_13913116\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/continental-club-2-1020x574.jpg\"]Last April, the group threw a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbf9XodvELr/\">Battle of the Bay Ball\u003c/a> at the Continental Club, a historic venue in West Oakland that hosted many notable Black blues and R&B artists for decades and reopened at the start of 2022. Plans to have a second ball at the Continental in May were scrapped after the nonprofit Hip-Hop for Change and other event organizers in Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13913116/hip-hop-for-change-boycotts-continental-club-over-alleged-discrimination\">accused the club’s new owner of racism, homophobia and sexism\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next Oakland to All ball—The Kunty Mental Ball—will take place on Thursday, May 26, at \u003ca href=\"https://omnicommons.org/\">Omni Commons\u003c/a>, a community center in Oakland’s Temescal neighborhood and a hub for mutual aid collectives like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/northoakland_mutualaid/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Oakland Mutual Aid\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://eastbayfoodnotbombs.org/\">Food Not Bombs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdow0IwJ3Wo/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each ball is made possible thanks to a support network that Banks, Rahimi and Davis have built across the Bay Area since before COVID-19. Friends volunteer to run the sound system and bring chairs; audience members’ donations go to the cash prizes for performers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of mutual aid is more than just raising money,” adds Davis. “It means what resources do we have and how can we share [them] together so that we are all empowered together so we can all survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland to All has also partnered up with public health nonprofits, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpep.org/\">CAL-PEP\u003c/a>, which offers health services for sex workers. Agencies like \u003ca href=\"https://www.acbhcs.org/\">Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services \u003c/a>connect ball-goers with HIV/AIDS testing, mental health services and substance abuse treatment during the event. 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Balls across the country have prioritized HIV/AIDS education and healthcare access since the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“HIV/AIDS has affected this community the most,” Rahimi says. “Coming into the conversation is mental health.” A 2022 survey from The Trevor Project, a nationwide group that focuses on suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/political-targeting-the-pandemic-exacerbate-mental-health-struggles-of-lgbtq-youth\">found the pandemic has exacerbated mental health issues for queer and trans people of color\u003c/a>. Greater isolation played a part, and so did homophobic and transphobic attacks and a rise in \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/legislation-affecting-lgbtq-rights-across-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anti-LGBTQ+ legislation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From their daily conversations with young people in the scene, Banks, Rahimi and Davis have noticed a similar pattern locally during the past two years. They’ve also noticed more folks dealing with substance abuse. They say the stigma and lack of information about available resources have made it difficult for people to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11908813\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/022222-COVID-Kids-Mental-Health-AJ-CM-12-1020x680.jpg\"]“Substance abuse and mental health go hand in hand,” Rahimi says. Crystal meth has really taken a toll on the scene, she adds. “We’ve lost people that are legends and icons, and those that are up-and-coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why the group is putting mental health front and center in the Kunty Mental Ball. The name itself is a reminder that caring for one’s mental health is an indispensable part of self-empowerment. All the categories will be related one way or another to mental health. Several are asking participants to involve green (representing the green ribbon, symbol of mental health awareness).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the face category, voguers will have to “meet [their] reflection in the mirror and send [themselves] loving and self-affirming affirmations.” The tag team performance category invites dancers to show how they are physically, mentally and emotionally present for a loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group hopes that what happens on the runway will impact life outside of it. “We can still have fun and teach other. Care for each other,” Banks says. “You’re around people that are telling you it’s OK. That are telling you, ‘I’ll go with you. If you need me to hold your hand, I’ll hold your hand.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1364px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_3.png\" alt=\"Three people stand in front of Lake Merritt in Oakland and pose while looking away from the camera, to their right.\" width=\"1364\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_3.png 1364w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_3-800x529.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_3-1020x675.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_3-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_3-768x508.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1364px) 100vw, 1364px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rahimi, Banks and Davis all found their chosen family through the ballroom scene and it was this network of support and care that got them through some of their toughest moments. Their hope is that Oakland to All help younger generations of queer people of color find the resources they need to care for each other. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alora, who came to California to seek refuge in the Bay Area’s ballroom scene, has now found an additional layer of comfort in the balls organized by Oakland to All. She doesn’t just talk to Banks, Rahimi and Davis, she also receives their care and love—and the love of so many others. Both her talent and mental health are valued and looked after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in a place where life is kind of overwhelming, but I’m finding so much groundedness in ballroom,” she says. “There’s just so much collective trauma both in this country and in the air. All of us are going through it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Houses face off in ballroom competitions that include multiple categories and cash prizes. Categories can change from ball to ball, but typical ones include runway, where contestants pull up with ornate outfits they create themselves; selling face, where the emphasis is on the make-up and attitude; and of course, vogue performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vogue performance is the opportunity for dancers to come in and give it their all, each with their own style, using their own original techniques and those crafted and refined by previous generations. Hand performances come together with spins, duck walks and drops as the commentator injects energy into the crowd and hypes up each performer.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Fw5jn1xrfnY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Fw5jn1xrfnY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfweekly.com/music/gay-and-transgender-divas-battle-for-stardom-in-bay-areas-ballroom-scene/\">ballroom scene grew across the West Coast in the ’90s\u003c/a>, and that legacy lured Lemalu to the Bay—along with the promise of being able to live safely as a queer person of color. Once she and her friends made it to California in 2017, they began taking classes and going to functions. Eventually, Lemalu was adopted into a house and expanded her chosen family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was through attending small events that she met Ashlee Banks, Shireen Rahimi and Guerrilla Davis. The three artists are close friends who’ve been part of the scene for years. Banks, a.k.a. Ashlee Basquiat, is a dancer and currently the lead youth wellness coordinator at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland LGBTQ Community Center\u003c/a>; Rahimi, a.k.a. Hype Kitty, is a choreographer, dancer and event producer; and Davis, a.k.a. Guerrilla Pump, is a photographer, DJ and organizer with \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wearetheoneswevebeenwaitingfor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For\u003c/a>, a mutual aid collective that provides \u003ca href=\"https://www.mic.com/life/arm-the-girls-is-empowering-bipoc-queer-trans-femmes-to-fight-back-81225542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">self-defense gear\u003c/a> and other forms of assistance to trans femmes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1360px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913695\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_1.png\" alt=\"Three people stand in front of Lake Merritt in Oakland and pose while looking at the camera.\" width=\"1360\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_1.png 1360w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_1-800x528.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_1-1020x674.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_1-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_1-768x507.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1360px) 100vw, 1360px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Shireen Rahimi Ashlee Banks and Guerrilla Davis. The three have become close friends after meeting through the Bay Area ballroom scene. They now work together to create balls that tackle issues that are disproportionately affecting Black and brown queer people. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since 2020, the three have worked to transform the voguing scene in the Bay Area—organizing balls, renegade parties and teaching dance sessions promoted by Oakland to All, a platform the group created back in 2017. Each of these events is produced with intention, centering issues like mental health, substance abuse and efforts to resist police brutality. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Substance abuse and mental health go hand in hand,” Rahimi says. Crystal meth has really taken a toll on the scene, she adds. “We’ve lost people that are legends and icons, and those that are up-and-coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why the group is putting mental health front and center in the Kunty Mental Ball. The name itself is a reminder that caring for one’s mental health is an indispensable part of self-empowerment. All the categories will be related one way or another to mental health. Several are asking participants to involve green (representing the green ribbon, symbol of mental health awareness).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the face category, voguers will have to “meet [their] reflection in the mirror and send [themselves] loving and self-affirming affirmations.” The tag team performance category invites dancers to show how they are physically, mentally and emotionally present for a loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group hopes that what happens on the runway will impact life outside of it. “We can still have fun and teach other. Care for each other,” Banks says. “You’re around people that are telling you it’s OK. That are telling you, ‘I’ll go with you. If you need me to hold your hand, I’ll hold your hand.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1364px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13913693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_3.png\" alt=\"Three people stand in front of Lake Merritt in Oakland and pose while looking away from the camera, to their right.\" width=\"1364\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_3.png 1364w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_3-800x529.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_3-1020x675.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_3-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/OTA_Lake_Merritt_3-768x508.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1364px) 100vw, 1364px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rahimi, Banks and Davis all found their chosen family through the ballroom scene and it was this network of support and care that got them through some of their toughest moments. Their hope is that Oakland to All help younger generations of queer people of color find the resources they need to care for each other. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alora, who came to California to seek refuge in the Bay Area’s ballroom scene, has now found an additional layer of comfort in the balls organized by Oakland to All. She doesn’t just talk to Banks, Rahimi and Davis, she also receives their care and love—and the love of so many others. Both her talent and mental health are valued and looked after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in a place where life is kind of overwhelming, but I’m finding so much groundedness in ballroom,” she says. “There’s just so much collective trauma both in this country and in the air. All of us are going through it. But the one thing that literally keeps us going is meeting every week and just voguing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read more stories from \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/ourcreativefutures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Our Creative Futures\u003c/a>\u003cem> here. Have something to share? Tell us about how \u003ca href=\"https://artskqed.typeform.com/Artist2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the pandemic has impacted your art practice or community\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>¡Hella Hungry! is a weekly conversation with Bay Area foodmakers, exploring the region’s culinary culture through the mouth of a first-generation local.\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You won’t find any tasteless gimmicks at YumBobYum’s Taco Tuesday pop-up inside \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.smokinwoodsbbq.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smokin Woods BBQ\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Telegraph Ave. in Oakland. Instead, you’ll find a neighborhood of folks converging over daps, playful shit talking and life-giving doses of habanero shrimp.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each week, the Black-owned barbecue joint becomes a makeshift taqueria operated by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/yumbobyum/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chef Bob\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (real name Gibran Garcia) and his staff of helpers who feed Oaklanders plates of his Southern Creole, Jamaican and Mexican remixes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’ll feel jubilant while filling up on jerk chicken tacos—made with harmonizing notes of smoked spices, sweet tang and Red Stripe-marinated pollo piled over two chewy tortillas. With a full bar available, you might order a round of dark Mexican lagers and a shot of tequila to go with it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the real showstopper is the gumbo taco, which Garcia prepares using his family’s Creole roux recipe and includes shrimp, crab, chicken, rice and a variety of slow-simmered veggies. It’s the only spot in the Bay where the magic of a gumbo pot gets strained then poured into an edible corn vessel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s not this chef’s only claim to fame, though. The dude offers an array of other out-the-trunk specials, including his original oxtail birria tacos with consomé (made with whole oxtails that he chops and stews for 5 hours), elote popper fritters and fried cheese quesadillas that come with your choice of protein—I recommend the vegan soyrizo to balance out the carne you’ll be sure to consume your body weight in during your stay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/Cah_RhsPjz2/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you’re unaccustomed to the combination of a grilled flour tortilla with an outer layer of crunchy double-fried cheese, the gooey warmth of additional melted cheeses inside and a dash of red salsa on top, it’s a peak nirvana I’d argue no traditional quesadilla can achieve.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With enough clout to attract regular customers from as far away as Sacramento, this really is that spot—a word-of-mouth function with a lively sports bar atmosphere, where homies gather to hold space and joy despite all of life’s stressors.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And Chef Bob is just getting started. Eventually, he plans on selling his own gumbo seasoning, as well as a homestyle carne asada rub and an all-purpose spice. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here’s what he has to say as an underground king of the Bay Area’s gumbo game.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">********\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>KQED: How did you become interested in culinary arts?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I started off cooking at home with my mom. Food is big in my family, so my mom taught me her grandmother’s recipes from Louisiana—Creole style cooking. Later, my first actual job was at Cheeseboard Pizza Collective in North Berkeley. I got fired because I was a high school kid who didn’t take it seriously; a few no shows and no calls and they kicked me out. Then, about 8 years ago, I started cooking my family’s gumbo—a two-pot gumbo—during Christmas. That was a big step for me. I was in college studying film at the time, and food was in my life but not really a serious passion yet. I worked at Raleigh’s on Telegraph [for a few years] and learned a lot. Then, I worked at Smokin Woods BBQ. During the pandemic, I wanted to make more money so that’s when I started selling plates from my house and it kicked off. I still work [at Smokin Woods] as a line cook on Wednesdays through Fridays.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913599\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/chefbob_bob-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The chef, Gibran Garcia, holds a food tray of freshly made gumbo tacos while standing in the kitchen, with two cooks behind him\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/chefbob_bob-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/chefbob_bob-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/chefbob_bob-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/chefbob_bob-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/chefbob_bob-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/chefbob_bob-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/chefbob_bob-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/chefbob_bob-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Bob holding his gumbo taco creation, with a side of roux. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Where does your name Bob (or YumBobYum) come from?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That’s just a nickname I came up with out of nowhere in high school and it stuck. People just know me as that. When I got into cooking more seriously, I added the “chef” part because I felt like I deserved it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What inspired you to combine elements of Southern cuisine and Caribbean flavors with Mexican food here in the Bay?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was born in Berkeley. My dad lived in Oakland. My mom’s side is Black Creole from Louisiana, where I learned how to cook. My dad’s side is Black and Filipino. My dad was actually born in the Philippines and moved here as a young kid. A lot of what I cook is what I like about the Bay’s food scene. It’s a giant melting pot. There are so many different mixtures of people from different backgrounds. You can Yelp any random country’s type of food and cuisine and find a place within a short drive of where you live. I like to do that. I always eat all types of food. Brazilian, Peruvian, Sengalese. That’s the Bay. I grew up going to taco trucks and taquerias. My dad used to live in the 40s in East Oakland, and my friend’s mom used to always make us Mexican food. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13913201,arts_13896380']People assume [my food is] just gonna be the same Creole or Cajun twist, but it’s not just that. It’s my personal twist. I just like to make things that I enjoy eating myself. Like the oxtail, that’s Jamaican. I’ve never been to Jamaica, but I just love the food. I make things up. Anytime I debut a new menu item, it’s a great experience for me. I have a new menu item for this week, which is a chicken flauta. I usually get inspiration from elsewhere, but the flauta idea was just like, I haven’t had a flauta in hella long and we just fixed the deep fryer so I wanted to test that out. I had the ingredients and just made one from scratch on the spot. Usually what I end up doing if I have down time on my break is I’ll just make things for my coworkers or bartenders to try. I said fuck it, why not. I’ve never made a flauta.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Where do you go to find good gumbo, oxtail and birria around here?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t really eat gumbo unless it’s made at home with my family. There are so many things that can go wrong, and I’m accustomed to the way we make it. Oxtail in the Bay is one of the hardest things to find, too. It’s just hard to find a place where the consistency is solid. There’s a truck by Lake Merritt that serves oxtails. I forget the name, but it’s the best I’ve had out here over the years. As far as birria, my favorite place started as a pop-up called La Santa Torta in Jack London. It’s one of the few birrias where I don’t need the consomé. I could just straight-up eat the birria by itself. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What are the struggles and challenges you’ve experienced in the Bay Area’s food industry as an independent foodmaker?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of places don’t have soul anymore in the Bay. With gentrification, it’s hard to keep authentic places going. Some pop-ups will lose their space because rent went up, or because people in the area didn’t catch on quick enough and their finances didn’t last. We lose out on some good food for that reason. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>¡Hella Hungry! is a column about Bay Area foodmakers, exploring the region’s culinary cultures through the mouth of a first-generation local.\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you order at \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sideshowkitchen.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sideshow Kitchen’s\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> street-facing window in North Oakland, you might hear Larry June’s “Smoothies in 1991” lazily playing in the background. Above the counter, a collection of old-school Mac Dre, Spice 1 and Tupac albums overlook the cash register like a holy trinity of Bay Area saints. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The workers move rhythmically—cranking out burgers, frying fish and tossing fries—while the owner, Mike Beatrice, pours draft beers and takes orders with the collected coolness of someone accustomed to swinging a V8-powered machine.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At this neighborhood kickback, you can grub on the popular Sideshow Burger, a double beef patty with all the fixings. Or you can mess around and get the 12-piece Hyphy Hot Wings, which come dolloped with their housemade “Hyphy Hot Sauce” of mild peppers, smoky Jamaican jerk seasoning and other spices. Or you can try my personal favorite, the Hella Hyphy Fried Chicken Sandwich—a heavenly stack of fried chicken, jalapeño-infused coleslaw, honey mustard and, of course, more of that saucy Hyphyness, all piled on a soft La Jolla bun. You’ll definitely want a side of the paprika-dusted crinkle-cut garlic fries, too. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">No matter what you decide, the choices at Sideshow are aplenty (yup), so it’s impossible to leave the place feeling empty-stomached (nope).\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Beatrice\"]“I want to preserve that [spirit]. This is for the community, the people who deserve it and have been here for a long time. This is for the real Town people.”[/pullquote]The restaurant’s hyphy-era vibes are unmistakable, and they’re as flavorfully sprinkled with Bay Area culture as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907726/e-40-goon-with-the-spoon-bay-area-rappers-food-entrepreneurs-hustle\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">E-40’s ice cream\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> brand—a dessert option that Beatrice hopes to offer soon. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently celebrating its five-year anniversary—and having just signed a new five-year lease—the spot feels authentic and lively, with an aim to not only serve smackin’ plates, but to represent the local community.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13913216\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13913216\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SideshowKitchen_Mike-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Man holds up two peace signs while standing in front of his restaurant named Sideshow, with hand painted sign behind him that says hot food\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SideshowKitchen_Mike-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SideshowKitchen_Mike-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SideshowKitchen_Mike-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SideshowKitchen_Mike-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SideshowKitchen_Mike-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/05/SideshowKitchen_Mike.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sideshow Kitchen founder Mike Beatrice has been a North Oakland resident and business owner for the past 15 years. \u003ccite>(Alan Chazaro)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Over the years, more commercialized shit has popped up around here and Emeryville, and it loses the Bay Area spirit,” says Beatrice, who runs the restaurant with his wife Salma and best friend Jose Luis Leon, who functions as the head chef. “I want to preserve that [spirit]. This is for the community, the people who deserve it and have been here for a long time. This is for the real Town people.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I sat down with Beatrice to get a sense of what makes his restaurant worth a trip to the North Pole.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">********\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>KQED: Tell us about yourself and your history with food. What inspired you to get into the culinary arts? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I grew up with my pops in the restaurant business. I’m originally from the East Coast, and my first experience was working in [my dad’s] restaurant when I would get in trouble at school. I’d get suspended and have to wash dishes and do grunt work, cleaning bathrooms. The chef would bring his son, too, and I saw that that kid got paid, but since I was on punishment, I wasn’t getting paid. So I wanted to get money and started taking it more seriously. After that, I always kept a restaurant job growing up. I’ve also worked night clubs, bartending, fine dining. From 2016 to 2020, I ran \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/oakalndhomegrown/\">Homegrown Oakland\u003c/a> as a smoothie and salad shop. I decided to close that during the pandemic and focus on Sideshow. Now I’m here everyday.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What’s your connection to the Bay Area? When did you arrive here, and what’s your favorite thing about the Bay’s culinary scene?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I moved to San Francisco from East Boston when I was younger. Fifteen years ago I settled into this specific neighborhood. I live right down the street and have been here for hella long. At first I felt a little lost in California coming from the East Coast. But as soon as I pulled up in Oakland, I felt like it was home. It felt like what I grew up around—independent people just hustling and grinding. It felt natural to me.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In terms of food, the Bay has lots of folks who aren’t classically trained chefs, and I appreciate that. That creates a rawness from the heart and soul. The people here are cooking what they grew up with, maybe something their grandmothers would cook. It’s also just so diverse and competitive. There are lots of people making burgers and fried chicken everywhere, so you have to figure out what sets you apart. It’s a hybridization of many things.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CHHb-VjgVxQ/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>As an Italian American from the East Coast, has anyone ever questioned the name choice behind your restaurant?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To keep it simple, no. I lived and breathed all the culture I’m portraying. I grew up driving a [Mustang] 5.0 and my brother had a [Camaro] Z-28. We rode motorcycles and dirt bikes. We had a studio growing up and used to rap, and I always listened to Bay music. It’s a natural representation of myself. Even though I moved here from the East Coast as a teen, I still grew up in this lifestyle and would always go to sideshows, drove the cars, was at the events. To me, this is normal life. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While we were [building out the restaurant], people were always slapping music outside, and we were thinking of a name at the time, and since there was basically just a sideshow happening right there in front of us, the idea was super organic and natural and on the fly. We rolled with it, and we haven’t stopped. I know it’s a bold name, but ever since we started out, local people pull up on us to see if we check out. Sideshow is a neighborhood spot. We’re preserving the culture, not erasing it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What has been a highlight for you during your time at Sideshow Kitchen?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just knowing that we made it through COVID and made it even better than before. We went from nothing happening at all to finding a way to build it back ten times stronger. 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Mac Dre, J Stalin, Yukmouth, Fab, Keak da Sneak, those are the pillars. Nowadays, I like Offset Jim [now 22nd Jim], AllBlack, G Pop. G is a local dude, lives right in the neighborhood. I listen to him a lot. Depending on my mood I might be slapping Luniz or Berner. Also Pac, let’s claim that. And The Jacka, RIP. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I like the vision and hustle of all those artists. I love watching anyone go from something small to something huge. That’s why I always fuck with Bay Area rap. I grew up in the East, and it’s more industry—more rappers are signed to major record labels. But in the Bay, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13907726/e-40-goon-with-the-spoon-bay-area-rappers-food-entrepreneurs-hustle\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">people are independent and selling out the trunk\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Everyone bites that style now, but it started out here.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oh, and Larry June. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/DazieGrego.MAIN_-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912168\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/DazieGrego.MAIN_-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/DazieGrego.MAIN_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/DazieGrego.MAIN_-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/DazieGrego.MAIN_.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dazié Grego. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Dazié Grego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note\u003c/strong>: Welcome to \u003ca href=\"https://poets.org/national-poetry-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Poetry Month\u003c/a>. Twice each week in April, KQED Arts & Culture will present a poem by a Bay Area poet. 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South\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We are the children who have no written language\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We hieroglyph pilgrims of the ocean\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We Voo Doo Prince\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Eyes weeping willows\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Green moss and forgotten days of mounting lions\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>who still know our names.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>They pace behind bars\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>in zoos\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Not unlike to many young Black brothers\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The growls disturb the once sweet dreams\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We hear them under covers\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Can’t reach for the hand of God\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>but passed the hand of mothers\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hoard the love that’s in your heart\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>then 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src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/download-1-e1650386603715-800x935.jpg\" alt=\"Poet Dazié Grego wears a black sweater while posing and looking directly into the camera.\" width=\"600\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912130\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/download-1-e1650386603715-800x935.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/download-1-e1650386603715-160x187.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/download-1-e1650386603715-768x897.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/download-1-e1650386603715.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland poet Dazié Grego. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Dazié Grego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis Harshaw: What inspired this piece?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dazié Grego: This poem was born in an attempt to identify the moment in our history that an African womb became “a cotton womb.” One giving birth to an African child. The other producing a Black slave. “Born of cotton wombs” was a thought that I felt compelled to complete. I investigate the origin of Blackness throughout many of my poems. In other words, I am inspired by exploring how our survival in this country has caused Africans to transform into Black Americans. I see the Middle Passage as the first major catalyst in producing that change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When you write or perform, do you feel a connection to your ancestors? If so, can you describe that feeling?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poetry is the language my ancestors speak. Often, I have said that I don’t possess the gift of writing. It is a gift that possesses me. Some of my best work was written as if I was being dictated to by an outside force. That force is the collective voice of my ancestors. It tells me who I am, and whose I am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the role of poetry in society?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poems are playgrounds for our words and a refuge to our emotions. They are the essence of empathy, mirrors we use to reveal the true nature of our humanity. Poetry is where society looks in order to experience us as our highest selves. It is the origin of self-revelation. When all other forms of communication have failed, we write and read poems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dazié Grego performs on May 14 and 15 at 3pm at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library as part of Skywatchers, a Tenderloin performance art ensemble of which he is an associate artistic director. \u003ca href=\"https://www.abdproductions.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Grego’s 2020 poetry collection ‘Black Faggotry’ (Nomadic Press) is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/p/blackfaggotry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available here\u003c/a>, and his spoken word album ‘Make Me Black’ is \u003ca href=\"https://www.daziegrego.com/commercial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/DazieGrego.MAIN_-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912168\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/DazieGrego.MAIN_-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/DazieGrego.MAIN_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/DazieGrego.MAIN_-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/DazieGrego.MAIN_.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dazié Grego. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Dazié Grego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note\u003c/strong>: Welcome to \u003ca href=\"https://poets.org/national-poetry-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Poetry Month\u003c/a>. Twice each week in April, KQED Arts & Culture will present a poem by a Bay Area poet. This \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/poetry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series\u003c/a> is curated by \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rightnowish\u003c/a>\u003c/em> host \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pendarvis Harshaw\u003c/a>, who also speaks with each poet about their work. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Middle Passaged,’ by Dazié Grego\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Born of cotton wombs\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Softly whipped\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>to coffin\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nappy hair to prune\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>in hopes to stop the laughin’\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Blistered foot is doomed\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>to walk, another day\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Uneducated tongue\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>careful what you say\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Broke shoulders spend your life\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hesitant but look\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See not what holds today\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>but pray for what’s been took\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We connect to our ancestors\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>through the dialect we speak.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We protect our broken English\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Our so called “poor” grammar\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Because more important than any language\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>is the oral history we must keep\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>It is swimming between our tongues\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>and the very roof of our mouths.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>It is an accent from Africa, United States\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>North or South\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We are the children who have no written language\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We hieroglyph pilgrims of the ocean\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We Voo Doo Prince\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Eyes weeping willows\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Green moss and forgotten days of mounting lions\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>who still know our names.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>They pace behind bars\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>in zoos\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Not unlike to many young Black brothers\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The growls disturb the once sweet dreams\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We hear them under covers\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Can’t reach for the hand of God\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>but passed the hand of mothers\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hoard the love that’s in your heart\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>then look for some from others\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>He thrashes his hips against his lover\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Refuses to turn over\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>and become receptive\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Believes that death is born of absorbing\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>His lovers own dying seed\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nothing grows.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Wearing skin\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>like withered leaves\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Press your ear to my chest\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear the mischievous wind\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>left seeping,\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>heart keeping\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kisses left by breath\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>that can not be perceived\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Do not forget\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>the beloved can always leave\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Water thrusts spilling blood of pirates\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>with swords unsheathed\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Froth on the shore\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Un-drying saliva of Africans bones and names\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>that will never be retrieved\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I look to her call out cousin\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>scream “uncle”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cry do you remember me?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Was it the vessel, the ocean, or pale skins\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>that stole you from me?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>No tears travel from the green in my Atlantic\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I middle passaged tenderly.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/download-1-e1650386603715-800x935.jpg\" alt=\"Poet Dazié Grego wears a black sweater while posing and looking directly into the camera.\" width=\"600\" height=\"700\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13912130\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/download-1-e1650386603715-800x935.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/download-1-e1650386603715-160x187.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/download-1-e1650386603715-768x897.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/download-1-e1650386603715.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland poet Dazié Grego. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Dazié Grego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis Harshaw: What inspired this piece?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dazié Grego: This poem was born in an attempt to identify the moment in our history that an African womb became “a cotton womb.” One giving birth to an African child. The other producing a Black slave. “Born of cotton wombs” was a thought that I felt compelled to complete. I investigate the origin of Blackness throughout many of my poems. In other words, I am inspired by exploring how our survival in this country has caused Africans to transform into Black Americans. I see the Middle Passage as the first major catalyst in producing that change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When you write or perform, do you feel a connection to your ancestors? If so, can you describe that feeling?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poetry is the language my ancestors speak. Often, I have said that I don’t possess the gift of writing. It is a gift that possesses me. Some of my best work was written as if I was being dictated to by an outside force. That force is the collective voice of my ancestors. It tells me who I am, and whose I am.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is the role of poetry in society?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poems are playgrounds for our words and a refuge to our emotions. They are the essence of empathy, mirrors we use to reveal the true nature of our humanity. Poetry is where society looks in order to experience us as our highest selves. It is the origin of self-revelation. When all other forms of communication have failed, we write and read poems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Dazié Grego performs on May 14 and 15 at 3pm at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library as part of Skywatchers, a Tenderloin performance art ensemble of which he is an associate artistic director. \u003ca href=\"https://www.abdproductions.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Grego’s 2020 poetry collection ‘Black Faggotry’ (Nomadic Press) is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nomadicpress.org/store/p/blackfaggotry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available here\u003c/a>, and his spoken word album ‘Make Me Black’ is \u003ca href=\"https://www.daziegrego.com/commercial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On its last day of business, longtime customers lined up outside Miss Ollie’s to put in one last order of Bajan-style fried chicken, drink one final rum punch and pay their respects to a restaurant that has been a haven for Afro-Caribbean food lovers in Oakland for the past 10 years—\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13910410/miss-ollies-oakland-closing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">especially for the city’s Black, brown and queer communities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thankfully, chef-owner Sarah Kirnon made it clear that this wouldn’t be the end of the road for Miss Ollie’s. Though it has been less than a week since she \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CcT1R1BoHn4/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">finished clearing out\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the old dining room, Kirnon is already moving on to the next iteration of her business: a takeout window that’ll be run out of a commissary kitchen in Uptown Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once the lease is finalized, Kirnon will announce the exact location, but she says it’s already a “done deal.” The as-yet-unnamed outpost won’t be called Miss Ollie’s—for now, Kirnon is reserving that name for the catering component of her business. But starting in June, the new takeout spot will serve a short, rotating menu of Miss Ollie’s favorites on a to-go basis. Which means devotees of Kirnon’s oxtails and fried chicken will still have a place where they can go to satisfy their craving.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People still want Miss Ollie’s in their homes,” Kirnon says. “It’s hard to lay her to rest.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13912155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/004_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022.jpg\" alt=\"Woman in a face mask takes an order from customers at the bar counter of a restaurant.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/004_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/004_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/004_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/004_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/004_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/004_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Sarah Kirnon takes an order at her Old Oakland restaurant Miss Ollie’s a few weeks before it closed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reached by phone while on vacation in Barbados, Kirnon says one of the lessons she took away from the pandemic is that the sit-down restaurant model in the U.S. is fundamentally broken. She now wants to shift toward “micro spaces” that offer a more sustainable business model. The new takeout spot won’t have dine-in service at all, though it will set up some tables outside on weekends. It’ll open at 11am each morning and close whenever everything sells out. And the menu will be simple and concise—just a daily special plus one or two additional staples. The idea is for customers to be able to swing by on a certain day of the week for saltfish and ackee, and a different day if they want to snag a bucket of fried chicken.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What we did for the last 10 years, these are the top dishes that worked for us, and we’re going to showcase them on a daily basis,” Kirnon says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For customers who do want more of the intimate, communal experience that Miss Ollie’s used to provide in Old Oakland, Kirnon plans on hosting a chef’s table once a month. For that one night only, the restaurant will open for in-person dining, and Kirnon will put together a tasting menu of, as she puts it, all the “weird Caribbean food” that she was never able to offer on a regular basis—dishes like the sea urchin and Dungeness crab porridge she used to serve when Miss Ollie’s first opened. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910462\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13910462\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/002_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Sarah Kirnon holds a plate of Caribbean patties.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/002_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/002_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/002_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/002_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/002_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/002_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new coffee shop would provide a showcase for Miss Ollie’s popular Caribbean patties. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As challenging as the past three years have been, Kirnon expects the new takeout window to be a big success. There was such an outpouring of support in the weeks after she announced that the restaurant would be closing, Kirnon says, that she already has six big catering gigs lined up. And she feels ready now to explore new ways of creating community that aren’t your traditional full-service restaurant.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of those new ventures will be a Caribbean patty and coffee shop that she hopes to open in downtown Oakland, not far from the old Miss Ollie’s location. (She has signed a letter of intent on a space and is now waiting for a response.) The idea, Kirnon says, will be to provide a showcase for her popular Caribbean patties. She’ll also sell her Creole doughnuts and coffee sourced from a company in Haiti—just drip coffee with condensed milk, Kirnon says. (“We’re not trying to do lattes.”) And there will be Caribbean drinks—sorrel, sea moss, tamarind juice and ginger beer—made and bottled at the Uptown commissary kitchen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13910410,arts_13904416']The cafe will also offer a selection of the kinds of traditional Caribbean sweet cakes and other sweets that Kirnon’s great-grandmother and grandmother (the original “Miss Ollie”) used to make in Barbados: dense coconut bread sweetened with brown sugar; black cake marinated in rum and molasses to be served during Christmastime; and conkies, a tamale-like steamed sweet made with pumpkin, cassava, yucca and sweet potato.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both locations will also sell bottles of Kirnon’s fiery pepper sauce and the green Bajan “seasoning” she uses for her fried chicken.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kirnon says the cafe could be ready to open as early as later this summer if she’s able to secure a space for it. But the takeout window should be ready to start slinging fried chicken and oxtails by the beginning of June.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We’ll throw a big party for Juneteenth,” Kirnon says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For updates on both the cafe and takeout window openings, follow Miss Ollie’s on \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/missolliesoakland/\">Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On its last day of business, longtime customers lined up outside Miss Ollie’s to put in one last order of Bajan-style fried chicken, drink one final rum punch and pay their respects to a restaurant that has been a haven for Afro-Caribbean food lovers in Oakland for the past 10 years—\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13910410/miss-ollies-oakland-closing\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">especially for the city’s Black, brown and queer communities\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thankfully, chef-owner Sarah Kirnon made it clear that this wouldn’t be the end of the road for Miss Ollie’s. Though it has been less than a week since she \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CcT1R1BoHn4/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">finished clearing out\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the old dining room, Kirnon is already moving on to the next iteration of her business: a takeout window that’ll be run out of a commissary kitchen in Uptown Oakland. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once the lease is finalized, Kirnon will announce the exact location, but she says it’s already a “done deal.” The as-yet-unnamed outpost won’t be called Miss Ollie’s—for now, Kirnon is reserving that name for the catering component of her business. But starting in June, the new takeout spot will serve a short, rotating menu of Miss Ollie’s favorites on a to-go basis. Which means devotees of Kirnon’s oxtails and fried chicken will still have a place where they can go to satisfy their craving.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People still want Miss Ollie’s in their homes,” Kirnon says. “It’s hard to lay her to rest.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13912155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13912155\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/004_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022.jpg\" alt=\"Woman in a face mask takes an order from customers at the bar counter of a restaurant.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/004_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/004_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/004_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/004_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/004_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/004_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chef Sarah Kirnon takes an order at her Old Oakland restaurant Miss Ollie’s a few weeks before it closed. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reached by phone while on vacation in Barbados, Kirnon says one of the lessons she took away from the pandemic is that the sit-down restaurant model in the U.S. is fundamentally broken. She now wants to shift toward “micro spaces” that offer a more sustainable business model. The new takeout spot won’t have dine-in service at all, though it will set up some tables outside on weekends. It’ll open at 11am each morning and close whenever everything sells out. And the menu will be simple and concise—just a daily special plus one or two additional staples. The idea is for customers to be able to swing by on a certain day of the week for saltfish and ackee, and a different day if they want to snag a bucket of fried chicken.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“What we did for the last 10 years, these are the top dishes that worked for us, and we’re going to showcase them on a daily basis,” Kirnon says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For customers who do want more of the intimate, communal experience that Miss Ollie’s used to provide in Old Oakland, Kirnon plans on hosting a chef’s table once a month. For that one night only, the restaurant will open for in-person dining, and Kirnon will put together a tasting menu of, as she puts it, all the “weird Caribbean food” that she was never able to offer on a regular basis—dishes like the sea urchin and Dungeness crab porridge she used to serve when Miss Ollie’s first opened. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13910462\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13910462\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/002_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022.jpg\" alt=\"Chef Sarah Kirnon holds a plate of Caribbean patties.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/002_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/002_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/002_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/002_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/002_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/002_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new coffee shop would provide a showcase for Miss Ollie’s popular Caribbean patties. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As challenging as the past three years have been, Kirnon expects the new takeout window to be a big success. There was such an outpouring of support in the weeks after she announced that the restaurant would be closing, Kirnon says, that she already has six big catering gigs lined up. And she feels ready now to explore new ways of creating community that aren’t your traditional full-service restaurant.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of those new ventures will be a Caribbean patty and coffee shop that she hopes to open in downtown Oakland, not far from the old Miss Ollie’s location. (She has signed a letter of intent on a space and is now waiting for a response.) The idea, Kirnon says, will be to provide a showcase for her popular Caribbean patties. She’ll also sell her Creole doughnuts and coffee sourced from a company in Haiti—just drip coffee with condensed milk, Kirnon says. (“We’re not trying to do lattes.”) And there will be Caribbean drinks—sorrel, sea moss, tamarind juice and ginger beer—made and bottled at the Uptown commissary kitchen.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Pre-pandemic, there were plans to move to this same venue when it was still called The Uptown, so it also feels like a full-circle moment for the crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13911661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13911661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"smiling audience members enjoy a show in a darkly lit music venue\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members at a Smartbomb show at The Legionnaire on Dec. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sarah Arnold)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everyone has two years of energy stored up to let go,” he says. “Everyone’s been releasing themselves a little bit by a little bit, but there’s still a lot of energy that everyone needs to collectively release. I feel like dancefloors and shared community music events are these ultimate places for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Smartbomb curated a program combining all live music, short films, performances, and visual arts they showcased with VHS. After Crybaby, they’re booked to spin records at Oakland’s Bar Shiru on April 27, and they have a VHS episode scheduled to arrive sometime in May or June. The goal, as always, is to create new opportunities for artists all over the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s only going to be the beginning of a new, post-pandemic musical movement that’s going to happen in Oakland,” Garcia says. “It’s going to be a lot of artists, a lot of collectives, a lot of events, a lot of groups, that are all going to be a part of it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Also on hand will be regular Smartbomb crew members like \u003ca href=\"https://www.flatspot.tv/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Flatspot_.\u003c/a>, who’ll be doing live special effects; Mejiwahn, who runs the Oakland record label \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/hot-record-soci-t\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Records Societe\u003c/a>; and Oakland music producer Pass Doo. Together, they’ll celebrate what Smartbomb has always been about: building a community of interdisciplinary artists who appreciate each other’s craft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Crybaby show will be our opportunity to reconnect on those special levels of experience with our community, feeling unified in space and sound again,” Garcia explains. Pre-pandemic, there were plans to move to this same venue when it was still called The Uptown, so it also feels like a full-circle moment for the crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13911661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13911661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"smiling audience members enjoy a show in a darkly lit music venue\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/W2A4715.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Audience members at a Smartbomb show at The Legionnaire on Dec. 21, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sarah Arnold)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everyone has two years of energy stored up to let go,” he says. “Everyone’s been releasing themselves a little bit by a little bit, but there’s still a lot of energy that everyone needs to collectively release. I feel like dancefloors and shared community music events are these ultimate places for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Smartbomb curated a program combining all live music, short films, performances, and visual arts they showcased with VHS. After Crybaby, they’re booked to spin records at Oakland’s Bar Shiru on April 27, and they have a VHS episode scheduled to arrive sometime in May or June. The goal, as always, is to create new opportunities for artists all over the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s only going to be the beginning of a new, post-pandemic musical movement that’s going to happen in Oakland,” Garcia says. “It’s going to be a lot of artists, a lot of collectives, a lot of events, a lot of groups, that are all going to be a part of it. I’m lucky to be in existence with all these people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Smartbomb takes place at 8pm on Wednesday, April 13, at Crybaby in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://crybaby.live/event-details/11960655/smartbomb-with-ovrkast-xyla-astu-alora-4d-flatspot-abby-imperial-and-more/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13911721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Clay.MAIN_.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13911721\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Clay.MAIN_-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"An African-American woman in a blue shirt smiles in a selfie.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Clay.MAIN_-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Clay.MAIN_-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Clay.MAIN_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Clay.MAIN_-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Clay.MAIN_.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" />\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland-based poet Meilani Clay. \u003ccite>(Meilani Clay)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note\u003c/strong>: Welcome to \u003ca href=\"https://poets.org/national-poetry-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Poetry Month\u003c/a>. Twice each week in April, KQED Arts & Culture will present a poem by a Bay Area poet. This \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/poetry\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">series\u003c/a> is curated by \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rightnowish\u003c/a>\u003c/em> host \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pendarvis Harshaw\u003c/a>, who also speaks with each poet about their work. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“Birthright,” by Meilani Clay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>i tired of writing poems for white people\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>so i gave birth to one they can’t read\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>a copper-skinned poem\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>revised for 37 weeks and 5 days\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>a poem with my exuberance\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>wound helix around each curl\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>l\u003c/em>\u003cem>aughing loud toward the sky\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>a poem with my resistance\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>etched into a tiny furrowed brow\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>i gave birth to a poem with my rage\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>alchemized into a gilded voice\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>never backing down\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>never silent on command\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>a poem with my hope\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>sewn carefully to its sternum\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>a little patchwork yet certain all the same\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>i gave birth to a poem\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>that doesn’t know any words\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>but synonyms for love and freedom\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>a poem that careens down sidewalks\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>ecstatic shrieks prayers laid at the highest altar\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>this poem’s eyelids\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>are lined with the silk of my faith\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>this poem is invincible\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>still, one day, though i gave birth to this poem\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>this people’s poem\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>i know someone will try to read her, anyway\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>failing they will demand i translate\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>but the poem i birthed\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>was never meant for their understanding\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>for between the lines of this poem’s lashes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>i placed a single dream:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>a future that is this poem’s\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>and this poem’s alone\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>to write\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13911723\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-1020x1275.jpg\" alt=\"Meilani Clay\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13911723\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-1920x2400.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland poet Meilani Clay, whose book ‘and the creek don’t rise’ was published in Dec. 2021. \u003ccite>(Meilani Clay)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis Harshaw: What inspired this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meilani Clay: Early in the pandemic I was in the audience of a Zoom fundraiser for Marcus Books with some of the dopest poets (e.g. Chinaka Hodge, Danez Smith, so forth) and someone there—I feel so bad I can’t for the life of me remember this person’s name—talked about writing a poem about a concept or person, where instead of naming it, you say “this poem is/does/etc,” and then proceeded to share incredible examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had been trying to successfully write a poem about my almost 3-year old (at the time) but they all came out hella corny or just not what I was trying to say. After hearing this poet, I was able to use that setup to craft the love letter to her I had been aching to write.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did it feel to birth this poem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It felt like a release! Much in the same way her actual birth felt, I let out this huge sigh of relief that I had managed to get her earthside safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You came up in Bay Area poetry circles (Youth Speaks). How does it feel being an adult doing this art in the Bay now? Any difference? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s interesting about my journey is that I haven’t been able to participate much in the adult poetry scene in the Bay. I came back home during a time in my life where I was really struggling to write, then that snowball of grad school, career, family took me even further from the work and I’ve been coming back into myself larger during this pandemic, where the human connection so vital to any of the arts has been missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that to say, I feel new to this, even though I’m true to this. But I’ve been blessed to be connected to ridiculously smart and creative people who bring me into the fold. 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Twice each week in April, KQED Arts & Culture will present a poem by a Bay Area poet. This \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/poetry\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">series\u003c/a> is curated by \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/rightnowish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rightnowish\u003c/a>\u003c/em> host \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ogpenn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pendarvis Harshaw\u003c/a>, who also speaks with each poet about their work. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“Birthright,” by Meilani Clay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>i tired of writing poems for white people\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>so i gave birth to one they can’t read\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>a copper-skinned poem\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>revised for 37 weeks and 5 days\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>a poem with my exuberance\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>wound helix around each curl\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>l\u003c/em>\u003cem>aughing loud toward the sky\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>a poem with my resistance\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>etched into a tiny furrowed brow\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>i gave birth to a poem with my rage\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>alchemized into a gilded voice\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>never backing down\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>never silent on command\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>a poem with my hope\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>sewn carefully to its sternum\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>a little patchwork yet certain all the same\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>i gave birth to a poem\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>that doesn’t know any words\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>but synonyms for love and freedom\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>a poem that careens down sidewalks\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>ecstatic shrieks prayers laid at the highest altar\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>this poem’s eyelids\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>are lined with the silk of my faith\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>this poem is invincible\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>still, one day, though i gave birth to this poem\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>this people’s poem\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>i know someone will try to read her, anyway\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>failing they will demand i translate\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>but the poem i birthed\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>was never meant for their understanding\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>for between the lines of this poem’s lashes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>i placed a single dream:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>a future that is this poem’s\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>and this poem’s alone\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>to write\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13911723\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-1020x1275.jpg\" alt=\"Meilani Clay\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13911723\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-768x960.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-1920x2400.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/04/Image-from-iOS-2-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland poet Meilani Clay, whose book ‘and the creek don’t rise’ was published in Dec. 2021. \u003ccite>(Meilani Clay)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pendarvis Harshaw: What inspired this?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meilani Clay: Early in the pandemic I was in the audience of a Zoom fundraiser for Marcus Books with some of the dopest poets (e.g. Chinaka Hodge, Danez Smith, so forth) and someone there—I feel so bad I can’t for the life of me remember this person’s name—talked about writing a poem about a concept or person, where instead of naming it, you say “this poem is/does/etc,” and then proceeded to share incredible examples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had been trying to successfully write a poem about my almost 3-year old (at the time) but they all came out hella corny or just not what I was trying to say. After hearing this poet, I was able to use that setup to craft the love letter to her I had been aching to write.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did it feel to birth this poem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It felt like a release! Much in the same way her actual birth felt, I let out this huge sigh of relief that I had managed to get her earthside safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You came up in Bay Area poetry circles (Youth Speaks). How does it feel being an adult doing this art in the Bay now? Any difference? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s interesting about my journey is that I haven’t been able to participate much in the adult poetry scene in the Bay. I came back home during a time in my life where I was really struggling to write, then that snowball of grad school, career, family took me even further from the work and I’ve been coming back into myself larger during this pandemic, where the human connection so vital to any of the arts has been missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that to say, I feel new to this, even though I’m true to this. But I’ve been blessed to be connected to ridiculously smart and creative people who bring me into the fold. I’m on my way back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" />\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More information about Meilani Clay’s recently published poetry book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781889292823/and-the-creek-dont-rise.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>and the creek don’t rise\u003c/em>, can be found here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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