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Welcome, Christina, thank you for joining us. If you could please introduce yourself with your name, your pronouns, your age, and the organizing or cultural work you do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570#t=0.0,13.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570/transcript/94400/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christina Brown \n\nThanks for having me. I'm Christina Brown. I use she her pronouns. I'm 36. I forgot how old I was. And, yeah, this is already a hard question, because I've recently had a reflection that I haven't really done unpaid organizing since like 2020. But a majority of my cultural work these days looks like organizing folks with material wealth and class privilege to undermine their own material interests, towards the sharing of land, wealth and power. But generally speaking, invested in Black liberation in all the ways that we can be freer. So yeah, I think that's where I am on this date.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570#t=13.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570/transcript/94400/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins  \n\nThank you. Okay. And so what led you to Black feminism?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570#t=60.0,65.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570/transcript/94400/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christina Brown  \n\nWhat led me to Black feminism? Um, so, my mother, first of all, Deborah Brown accidentally led me to Black feminism. I have this very pivotal memory of myself on Christmas Day. She got me this beautiful kitchenette. I'm sure she spent all night putting it up. And I woke up and I was like, Oh, what is this? Just like, Merry Christmas. And I'm like, Oh, this is great. The boys got they got a Super Nintendos. Can I can I have that? That seems more more fun. And I think she was taken aback but not betrayed. And at five years old, in central Ohio, she, the next day, took it back, and got me a Super Nintendo. Um, so my mother like not, gender policing me at a young age, ended up meaning a lot because other folks within my family started to, you know, comment on my appearance comment on my lack of desire to play with toys, right? My disdain for pink. And she always not just protected me from that, but affirm that however I wanted to be myself was valid. So that was super pivotal. And then from there, it Black feminist scholars, so ended up at an institution where I was led to feminism through the lens of whiteness. Then Dr. Carolyn Norwood. She had a Black feminist studies course. And I didn't even know those words went together. Same with Dr. Nikki Taylor. So I think there have been different iterations of Black women practicing it in real time, and then the scholarship being later tied to the, to the theory, or no praxis I should say.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570#t=65.0,172.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570/transcript/94400/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins \n\nYeah, thank you. And so what is a significant moment in your Black feminist journey?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570#t=172.0,181.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570/transcript/94400/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christina Brown  \n\nOh, my goodness. Um, so I think. Yeah, in undergrad, I had really bad politics, right, like, I was very much introduced to my understanding of Black freedom through a Black hetero, patriarchal understanding of freedom. And there was this point on campus where the Black students, one big monolithic group of people who were organizing, right, we were fighting to keep the autonomy of our Black Cultural Center. And while we were fighting for that, we had these mostly white, at that point, gay identified strictly group of folks who were fighting to not simply be housed in the Women's Center. So we were organizing at our institution at the same time for like our own nuanced political identity, because they tried to find it all as multiculturalism. And in that period, it was in the mid 2000s. We started to have to reconcile, like our own just patriarchal group, think around Black identities. And got really called out for it. And I think once by the time that I was like, actually introduced to Black feminism, I started to understand the multiplicity of identities right. And that we were all in the same struggle. So that was super pivotal. And I think the more that we started to organize in Ohio, specifically post Trayvon Martin, we started to see like more insertions of like the varied risk endangered identities that we've experienced and the and the need to like, work through how we've internalized the norming of violence and exclusion within organizing spaces specifically so I think those spaces brought me to Black feminism. And then seeing happy ass Black feminists brought me to Black feminism like, oh, it's not just like study, it's like struggle, it's joy, it's cookouts, it's groups. Yeah. Like also just finding spaces where people are like, Oh, we're creating home and we still live in white supremacy and capitalism we're fucking lit. So I think all those things are very pivotal. Oh Allied Media Conference is like where I started to see that more visibly as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570#t=181.0,332.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570/transcript/94400/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins\n\nSo what led you to come to the Get Free conference? And what are you hoping to get out of it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570#t=332.0,341.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570/transcript/94400/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christina Brown  \n\nYeah, I always Yeah, I've been following for a long time. And I was like, Oh, that'd be nice. If I went and actually Black woman who's like we got we got a room at the table for you, you want to come? So an invitation from a Black woman. Beautiful. And I think what I was hoping to get from it was, I think more real time yeah, just like real time, examples of how to move through the smog, like, like the real, like, crisis that we're in, and, and still be whole. I've felt very disoriented within the last three and a half to four years. And I am plagued by cynicism and like, grief. So I think coming here and hearing how people are like, doing the hard things, and like living their lives as we're doing the hard things. In the conditions that we're in, I was just hoping for that. And I guess the last thing is, I'm starting to reconcile with like, what it means to age with my political identity and how isolating it can be if you're like unpartnered that you don't have children, but you still want to feel a part of something. So I think this is actually like a bit of a homecoming and like trying to like find family at a reunion in some ways.\n\nDartricia Rollins","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570#t=341.0,437.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570/transcript/94400/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thank you. And so my last question is, what Black feminist future are you building?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570#t=437.0,444.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570/transcript/94400/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christina Brown  \n\nUm, I hope the one that I hope the Black feminist future I'm building is one where, like, if you're Black, you already look like Black feminist praxis is the standard right, across. Yeah, whatever our gender expansive identities are so that one where the kinship is not fictive fiction, right? Like it's that we actually have like a substantive politic of care and a practice of care across geography. Yeah, we're like, we see ourselves aging. A place where we don't justify like, our, our, our adulthood and aging by like, hetero patriarchal standards and norms. I hope I'm building a Black feminist future where people can like, define whatever that means for themselves. So long as it's not upholding harm. And they can like realize whatever they want their their time on this burning ball to be. So yeah, and I and I hope I'm building a future where people are like, actually excited about the future because it feels a little difficult to think that way. Right now. So yeah, I guess the rest I'll figure out along the way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570#t=444.0,533.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570/transcript/94400/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dartricia Rollins  \n\nAbsolutely. Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570#t=533.0,535.0"},{"id":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570/transcript/94400/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christina Brown  \n\nWow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://georgiadusk.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3340/collection_resources/151061/file/278570#t=535.0,536.21501"}]}]}]}