still not sure if you should buy the SPEAK CD or not? read this great review by the lovely Julie at feministe!
When I first listened to SPEAK!, the spoken word collection put out by the SPEAK! Women of Color Media Collective, I shied away from reviewing it. I was too biased, I worried. I couldn’t be objective. Some of the contributors read (and have written for) this very blog! It was fairer, I decided, to review works by people I’d never met or spoken to.
Blah blah blah. Fuck that. This collection is wonderful.
“I speak to live into my skin… I scream for my family, for my life, for your life, and for the ones to come,” says Adele Nieves in the CD’s opening track, “Why Do You Speak?” She sets the tone for the entire collection, tying personal histories to entire nations, connecting people to peoples. These voices whisper, yell, sing, rhyme, ponder, call, muse (think of the double meaning of the word “muse” – think of a muse channeling her inspiration through her own voice instead of silently bestowing it on someone else). There are so many great moments that it’s hard to figure out which ones to highlight.
And then head over and get you a copy!
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May 28th, 2009 at 3:51 pm #
Looking forward to getting my copy!
May 28th, 2009 at 3:56 pm #
hey woman, have i ever told you how freaking happy i am to hear you’re feeling better????? I saw your amazing comment that you left, and I meant to comment but just got busy and never got around to it and then forgot! but now I remember, and I wanted to just say–I’m SOOOO glad that you’re feeling better–I’m SO glad–having hypothyroidism myself, I know what it’s like to get on that horrible cycle, where they mess around with those stupid counts–you get obsessed, and it becomes a big battle trying to get your dosage up–and they act like you’re trying to steal cocaine or something! I know that mess, and I am just so glad that you, at the very least, are feeling better, and getting a little balance in this fucked up medical system!!!!!
May 28th, 2009 at 3:56 pm #
wow… if i didn’t already know, that is a hella review and i woulda ordered for sure! thanks Julie!
May 28th, 2009 at 3:59 pm #
I know, and you got a GLOWING review, which rocks my world!
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it’s SO great reading all the different reviews because everybody seems to pick out a few different fav’s–
May 28th, 2009 at 4:16 pm #
omg…. i do not read the mainstream feminist blogs, so i read your comment and was like “what the hell is she talking about?” so i had to go over and see… omg… i am just too flattered! BUT… honestly, all credit for the coolness of the answering machine format has to go to Matthew because i didn’t know anything about it until after the fact, LOL. He just recorded me, and then he played around with the recording later and set it that way, which turned out very cool.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:22 am #
YEAH
and teh mentioned radical love and I squeed and then giggled cause i thought of your photo and blood dripping vampire ginas
May 29th, 2009 at 9:40 am #
Meep! *blush*
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:42 pm #
I ordered mine today! I’m making all my friends order one.