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Lady Brion - "I talk Black" @wanpoetry

❤❤❤🙋🏽‍♀️💥 Reposted from @pushing_black (@get_regrann) - . . Lady Brion performs her piece “I Talk Black” at Deep Ellum in Dallas, Texas. Brion is a highly decorated spoken word artist from Baltimore, MD. She has won slam competitions, becoming the 2016 National Poetry Slam Champion, and has been written about and featured in prestigious publications. In this piece, Lady Brion explores and celebrates the way Black people use language that defies the norms of colonization. It is a wonderful piece that calls into question the rulers and metrics that white society uses. These rulers and metrics are imposed upon us and we are conditioned to adopt them. They are created to exclude us though, and to achieve by their metrics, we either need to become multi-lingual (which many of us master) or need to reject our Black dialect, phraseology, syntax and flow. This imposition of a colonized standard extends beyond language and is used in other areas of our lives. Lady Brion encourages us to reject that and express our true, anti-colonial selves with language that is “hella Black.” #LadyBrion FOOTAGE SOURCE: @WANPOETRY • For more info or more pieces by Lady Brion, check out her website or social media accounts: • Website: https://www.ladybrion.com/ IG: @ladyBspeaks TW: @ladyBspeaks FB: @ladyBspeaks • • • Join Our Facebook & Instagram Family • Check out our other IG pages: • Pushing Black Store - @PushingBlackStore • Pushing Black News - @Pushing_Black • Main page - @PushingBlack • Follow us on Facebook • Check out our full store - www.pushingblack.com • • #MalcolmX #MarcusGarvey #HueyPNewton #NipseyHussle #ColinKaepernick #IMWITHKAP #MartinLutherKingJr #PushingBlack #ProBlack #ProBlackIsntAntiWhite #unapologeticallyblack #unapologeticallyme #blackempowerment #Blackexcellence #blackculture #blackart #blackartist #hiphop #hiphopart #killeverygram #livecreatively #blackfashion #blackfashionblogger #melaningoddess #melaninmagic #blackisbeautifulGoddessStrong (at Park Hill, Denver) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5utVTAFlaw/?igshid=19rr5spltcn46