Defining Resistance and Finding Community
In this clip, Felix redefines resistance as one’s preparedness to take action, and shares a practice for manifesting intention.
Generational Knowledge
Generational Resilience
In this clip, Kowan and Felix discuss the benefits of elder mentorship and the persistence of structural racism.
Gentrification in the CD
Black Seattleite shares her thoughts on gentrification in the Central District.
Reminiscing the CD
Older generation Black Seattleite reminisces about what the Central District looked like in the past and how much it has changed.
The Villages and the Elders That Raise Us
Two Black women discuss their experiences growing up in tight-knit communities and having elders in their lives to guide them.
Stratifying Blackness
Two Black women share how they have experienced how class stratifies the Black community and creates judgmental rifts.
Our History Really Isn’t That Far Away
Two sisters discuss how the history of slavery isn’t as far away as some people would like to believe.
Look for Words That Build People
Grandmother and her grandson discuss how language can be changed to nurture, uplift, and encourage people to be themselves rather than demean and confine people to labels.
Light-skinned
Grandmother and her grandson share their experiences as lighter skinned Black people and the way people perceive them.
Uses of the N-word
Grandmother and her grandson discuss uses of the n-word and how they to use it or not.
A Word That Has Been Used Against Us, We Start to Use Against Each Other
Grandmother and her grandson discuss the n-word and how sometimes it is used by Black people to separate and degrade even within the Black community.
Intergenerational Experiences With the N-word
a Black grandmother and her grandson share their different experiences with the n-word and how those experiences inform their perspectives on how it is used in the present.
Intergenerational Learning
Black student discusses what it looks like to learn from community elders and be able to meaningfully engage their knowledge of history.
How Old Were You When You Realized You Were Black or Race Was a Thing?
Two Black men share stories of when they first “realized they were Black.”
What I Lost Being in These Mostly White Spaces
Black woman shares her experiences growing up in and going to majority white schools and being in majority white spaces.
It Stops Here
Older Black woman shares with her younger dialogue partner what it looks like to experience years of racism and work to heal.
First Time I Ever Said That in an All Black Space
Black woman shares the impactful moment where she participated in an ice breaker for Interrupting Privilege and, for the first time in an all Black space, identified as part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Duality of Black Seattle
Children left and didn’t come back; Duality of Black Seattle: drugs + gang violence vs gentrification
Understanding the History to Reimagine the Future
Were tighter knit community now dispersed in Kent, etc; need smart people to reimagine.
Connecting With Other Black People Who Are Similarly Questioning
Black mother sharing stories of connecting with other Black folks like her, daughter sharing desire for intentional communities.
I Realized How Much I Internalized My Stress Trying to Keep Everything Afloat
Black mother sharing story of cumulated stress w her daughter
