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Aishah Shahidah Simmons @afrolez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

They Are Falling All Around Me written by Holly Near, performed by ancestor Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon. She sang it at the celebration of life for Toni Cade Bambara at the Painted Bride Art Center on 12.17.95 ¡Presente Nikki Giovanni! May the ancestors welcome her home. youtu.be/AX3l2mrkP5U?...

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They are Falling All Around Me

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Aishah Shahidah Simmons @afrolez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Despite my deep devastation, I find comfort knowing that Toni Cade Bambara and Nikki Giovanni share the same ascension day. They were linked in life and are now linked as ancestors December 9, 1995 + December 9, 2024

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Aishah Shahidah Simmons @afrolez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

If you haven’t seen the incredible, deeply moving, very insightful Emmy award-winning documentary film, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project by Michéle Stephenson & Joe Brewster, SEE IT❣️ youtu.be/F0xCXuMO7VI?...

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Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project | Official Teaser | HBO

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Aishah Shahidah Simmons @afrolez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Ms. Giovanni battled cancer twice before and was still giving readings and performances within the past month. She was 81 years old. She is survived by her wife, Virginia Fowler, her son Thomas, her granddaughter, Kai •and• all of us who were transformed by her spoken and written words.

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Aishah Shahidah Simmons @afrolez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The legendary Black Arts poet and professor Nikki Giovanni joined the ancestors —December 9, 2024. 29-years to the day from when Toni Cade Bambara joined the ancestors. Bambara included two of Giovanni’s poems “Woman Poem,” and “Nikki-Rosa,” in her groundbreaking 1970 The Black Woman, An Anthology.

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Aishah Shahidah Simmons @afrolez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Toni Cade Bambara’s Spirit, legacy, and written/cinematic words live always, always. Ashé-O. Sadhū. Amen. Ameen Ya Rabbul Alameen.

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Aishah Shahidah Simmons @afrolez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

“Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well?… Just so’s you’re sure, sweetheart, and ready to be healed, cause wholeness is no trifling matter. A lot of weight when you’re well.” “Now here I am: and there I am; & all I am; Free to be anywhere at all in the Universe.” —The Salt Eaters, 1980

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Aishah Shahidah Simmons @afrolez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

“If your house ain’t in order, you ain’t in order. It is so much easier to be out there than in here.” “The revolution begins with the self, in the self.” —The Black Woman, 1970

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Aishah Shahidah Simmons @afrolez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I will not let this sacred day- 12/9/24 come to an end w/o acknowledging 29th anniversary of — daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, cousin, sista-friend, Black feminist author, filmmaker, cultural worker, teacher, &guiding ancestral Spirit —Toni Cade Bambara’s ascension into the ancestral realm.

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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Aishah Shahidah Simmons @afrolez.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

🗣️Philly❣️ Buddhist Peace Fellowship | Kate Johnson, Pamela Freeman, Leslie Booker, & Me— for in-person Philly post election meditation & convo on Tues Nov 26 7-8:30. Free www.eventbrite.com/e/1085288951... 🎗️Space is limited. 🧘🏾‍♀️Feel free to bring your meditation cushion 😷 masks are encouraged

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Aishah Shahidah Simmons @afrolez.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A deep bow of gratitude to you, my cherished sister-comrade-friend @dalitdiva.bsky.social I am grateful to be on this journey with you and honored to write the epilogue to your powerFULL book, The Trauma of Caste

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Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

For all my dhamma practioners out there please follow my wonderful sister @afrolez.bsky.social. She has such a powerful spirit an commitment to black and dalit buddhist survivors. She is amazing and I am so glad she is here! #jaibhim #jaisavitri

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