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Thank you for joining us. Could you please introduce yourself with your name, pronouns, age, and the organizing or cultural work you do?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=1.0,12.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Samantha Elizabeth Master \n\nThank you for having me. Thank you for holding this space. My name is Samantha Master. My name is Samantha Elizabeth Master. My pronouns are Hershey like the chocolate. I'm 35, and I am a communication. I'm a communicator for Organizing Black, where we organize Black 18 to 35-year-olds in Baltimore City. And so it is my I am tasked with the responsibility of talking to Black 18 to 35 year olds about freedom and liberation and the world we deserve and want to build. And I am the co-founder and co-lead of Free Black Mamas DMV. We are a bail fund, a community-led, Black woman-led, Black directly impacted, formerly incarcerated woman-led bail fund that works to bail out Black mothers and caretakers of all gender identities, who cannot afford bail, who can't afford restitution, or who are entrapped in court fines and fees. And then I'm a community auntie, and so I am the neighborhood candy and condom lady, I am the person that's gonna be like, get off the corner, or ya'll need something to eat. And so I very much take my cultural work as being a community auntie.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=12.0,103.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins \n\nThank you. And work with the youth? So it seems like your work? Your life is very much youth-centered.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=103.0,113.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Samantha Elizabeth Master\n\nYes,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=113.0,114.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins  \n\nyes,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=114.0,115.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Samantha Elizabeth Master  \n\nIt has been, and I don't know how I got here. I don't know how I got there. But I'm very glad that I get to be in spaces where I get to honor the wisdom of folks younger than me, and learn a lot from them, and also share my experiences.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=115.0,135.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins  \n\nThank you. And so my first question is what led you to Black feminism?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=135.0,142.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Samantha Elizabeth Master  \n\nYou know. My mama inadvertently led me to Black feminism. The most pointed and poignant memory I have of my childhood is being maybe five or six years old. My daddy had blacked my mama's eye. And they both worked for the federal government. And so she didn't call the police on him because he would lose his job if she did. That was like the big fear around, even though she was surviving abuse, physical violence, she wouldn't call the police on my dad. And one day, so we used to go to hotel rooms on the weekends. And one day, we went to this Hampton Inn on Central Avenue right outside of DC. And this woman saw her with a Black eye and child in tow. And she wouldn't accept payment for the night stay. She just wouldn't. And she gave me a roll of quarters to play Mrs. PacMan and my mom let me have Froot Loops for dinner. And watch, I think we had like Nickelodeon in the hotel room or something like that. And that was just like a pointed moment where I remember another Black woman looking at my mother and saying you can be safe here. And so while my mom was actually like it, to me is like, interestingly both feminist and anti-feminist in the ways that Black mamas can be. Right? There's certain things girls don't I grew up, there's things girls don't do. There's girls don't kiss girls, girls wear dresses, right? There's a very gendered archetype of the way my mother taught me how to be a girl. But also she was after she left my dad. She was the sole breadwinner. She worked 14 hours a day. She never she never married like she or she never got remarried. And she was like, No, I don't want these niggas around me. Right. Like, I want my own autonomy. And so I think seeing that led me to be more curious about what Black women were saying about the world and where I stood in that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=142.0,292.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins  \n\nThank you. And so what has been a significant moment in your Black feminist journey?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=292.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Samantha Elizabeth Master \n\nHmmm. That's such a good question. And there's so many to name. Certainly. So I think one really big moment for me was finding, I didn't come out when I came out as queer in maybe 2003. I was 14-ish at the time. And I didn't come out into a white world. My friends were all Black queer girls, and sissies, and studs, and trans girls and femme queens. I remember finding Smile, which is now Serving and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders, which is like queer drop-in center in DC. We used to skip school all the time. Skip school, I graduated school with a 1.29 GPA because I was out of school, constantly skipping school to go down to Smile to be at the drop in center. And there I found a book of Black lesbian and gay fiction called Black Like Us. And I was like, Oh, wait, we've been here for 100 like this into in the early 2000s. It was Black people aren't queer like the rhetoric which is very different because it was a very, to be Black is to be anti-queer. And so finding this book that documented literally. Paul Robeson's wife, love letters to her lesbian lover. That documented Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes's love letters and then like lovers quarrels and spats. Finding Richard Nugent's \"Smoke, Lilies Jade\" was a short story he wrote about a Black bisexual man during the Harlem Renaissance and FIRE, which was a like a literary publication that artists like finding that at 15 really shifted my worldview. I was like, Oh, we've always been here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=300.0,435.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Samantha Elizabeth Master \n\nAlso, the formation of the Black Youth Project 100 was a really, before then I was doing some work with H with queer and trans HBCU students, I use to organize queer and trans youth to fight for more inclusion on their campuses. And I will say that, in 2013, when the Zimmerman verdict came down, I was in Chicago with what would become the Black Youth Project 100. And hearing these really rich, active, loaded, delicious, heavy debates about do we say queer. This is in 2013. And then making a really calculated political decision to be a Black, queer, feminist political home was a really huge part of my own politicization and my own Black feminist journey.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=435.0,490.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Samantha Elizabeth Master \n\nAnd I would say actually, in along those ways, the things that have grounded my Black feminist journey is my Black women friendships. Be that my god sister, who, you know, is so funny, who taught me how to be a femme, like, who taught me what it meant to be femme. And what that meant for like to be a Black queer femme, was grounding. My friends, Erica, and Carol and Shreeka, and Tarika and those folks like, who don't have the lang, who didn't who weren't like we weren't studying the same text, but they were living as themselves. And I was like, Oh, this is also what it means to be a Black woman, you can, you are a Black woman and you are masc. You are Black trans man who knows what it's like to live as a Black woman and also to experience the world as a Black man. Those things grounded my Black feminist journey and really helped me see that there are many Black feminisms and I would say one of the biggest, I think one of them, if I had to name a most significant moment is taking a Black feminism class at Morgan that was led by a professor who was a Spelman alum, so talk about like full circle, who's also here who's leading a Black queer feminism fellowship at Morgan now. And having a Black, queer feminist educator, explicitly, having like 16 weeks to just sit in that space really changed my life. And so I am so grateful that Black women have been with me at my like, I don't know what I'm doing. I am lost in the sauce. And that Black feminists have brought me out on the other side of like, we don't have have all the answers. But what we know is that a world where our lives are centered is a world that's better for everybody. That's been like the clarion call for my journey.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=490.0,610.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins  \n\nAnd so, what led you to come to Get Free other than it being in your city? And what are you hoping to get out of your weekend here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=610.0,623.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Samantha Elizabeth Master \n\nUmm. Paris asked, Paris Hatcher, who is the Executive Director and the visionary behind Black Feminist Futures, asked me to be on the steering committee. And I said, Yes. So that was one thing that led me here just to be very explicit. But in this political moment, I think. I know, that convening spaces with Black feminists with Black gender-full people around what our shared liberatory future looks like, is always radical and revolutionary work. It's always necessary. And the more intentional we can be about being in these spaces, it will create the groundwork that will lead to whatever alternatives to the state, alternatives to lack of care, the ability to build care. These are the grounding spaces of relationships and where relationships are made and fortified. And relationships are what's going to sustain us as individuals, us as movement workers, and then us as community. And so I came to feel. I have felt, and I came to feel like a family reunion, and all of the things that brings with it. Right, like, I am excited for the conversations that will be held. One of the things I think is so interesting is as Angelica was talking about Black mens role in Black, like our Black future, and like, you could feel the tension in the room. And that was so curious. Like I was like, Yes, this is something we've actually been talking about for the last 50 years. Right. And so I'm so excited to kind of invite a new generation of people into those kind of long standing conversations. I'm excited to see what the kind of what we freedom dream together. I'm excited to learn from brilliant folks like y'all about what are the new technologies that we can be using to ground and hold our work. I'm excited to see folks is I ain't seen in years. I'm excited for hugs, and getting all of that I'm getting all of those things. And most importantly, I'm excited for what this means for the next 50 years of Black feminism.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=623.0,792.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins  \n\nAnd so, what Black feminist future are you building?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=792.0,799.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Samantha Elizabeth Master \n\nI am building a Black feminist feature with no police, prisons, rape, sexual violence. Where Black children can be without fear. I am building I am a part of building a Black feminist city where everyone who exists here in the city of Baltimore can live with dignity and humanity and the resources they need to survive and thrive. I'm building a Black feminist future where there's a whole lot of ass shaken and cookouts and good food and where love is at the center.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=799.0,852.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564/transcript/94406/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins  \n\nThank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151055/file/278564#t=852.0,856.62299"}]}]}]}