This is the first of our two-part finale to our Season of Pleasure, a season throughout which we have sought to understand our relationship with pleasure while simultaneously witnessing and confronting genocide across our world. With poet and activist June Jordan’s words, “What shall we do, we who did not die?” in our minds and spirits, we hear from Zeina and Fatma, two mothers living in London who organize with Parents for Palestine, a group of parents who organize marches, actions, and teach-ins that include young children calling for the end of the genocide and occupation in Palestine. How do we talk about genocide with our youngest children? How do our personal rest and pleasure principles sustain collective liberation and education as the practice of freedom?  

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Transcript Available Aug. 2

INTELLECTUAL INHERITANCE

-Follow Parents for Palestine on Instagram @parentsforpalestine

- Ghassan Kanafani, The Land of Sad Oranges(1962)

-adrienne maree brown, Pleasure Activism (2019)

-Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation (2022)

-June Jordan, “Some of Us Did Not Die” (2001)

-The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)

-”50 Years of Combahee”, Black Women Radicals (2024) — A special thank you to Jaimee Smith, founder and executive director of Black Women Radicals, for allowing us to use an excerpt from her May 22, conversation with Combahee River Collective co-founders Barbara Smith and Demita Frazier. 

-bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003)

-“Lineages of Deviant Caretaking”, Dancing on Desks (2024)

MUSIC

-Our Dancing on Desks Theme Song is composed and arranged by Mara Johnson and Elliott Wilkes

-“Arabic Oud” prod. @aldisjaminii_ 

-“Jamila” prod. @montymusic311

-"I’ll Be Free" prod. @Rhamzandays

-“Joyful & Upbeat Background Nasheed” vocal only prod. Quran Lofi

-"Calming Background Nasheed" vocal only prod. Quran Lofi

-“Soulful Nasheed” without music promoted by @ncnasheeds

-“Small Talk” prod. yogic beats

-“Relaxing & Calming Nasheed” vocals only provided by NoCopyrightNasheeds

-“Haven” prod. rémdolla

-“Stunt” prod. rémdolla

-“Burst” prod. rémdolla
-“Don't Save Me” prod. sadcg

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