Poet. Activist. Immigrant. Mother. This is the story of Staceyann Chin. (via First Person) #FirstPersonPBS | The Movement
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Poet. Activist. Immigrant. Mother. This is the story of Staceyann Chin. (via First Person) #FirstPersonPBS | The Movement
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Staceyann Chin on Reels
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Staceyann Chin on Reels
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Voices of a People’s History Pop-Up Performance With Staceyann Chin FREE! Sunday, July 7, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. Hearst Plaza 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, 10023 Featuring the words of Alicia Garza, Angela Davis, Tarana J. Burke, Jill Nelson, and Marge Piercy, this soap-box style dramatic reading from Staceyann Chin will examine the efforts of people throughout the U.S. to achieve life, liberty, and happiness, despite others seeking to limit or deny these rights. This outdoor event is Genera
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Voices of a People’s History Pop-Up Performance With Staceyann Chin FREE! Sunday, July 7, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. Hearst Plaza 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, 10023 Featuring the words of Alicia Garza, Angela Davis, Tarana J. Burke, Jill Nelson, and Marge Piercy, this soap-box style dramatic reading from Staceyann Chin will examine the efforts of people throughout the U.S. to achieve life, liberty, and happiness, despite others seeking to limit or deny these rights. This outdoor event is Genera
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Stayceyann Chin "Feminist or a Womanist"
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Stayceyann Chin "Feminist or a Womanist"
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POV’s A MOTHER APART follows Jamaican-American poet and activist Staceyann Chin as she searches for the mother who abandoned her. Along the way, she discovers that home, love, and motherhood can be on her terms, while healing intergenerational scars. Watch now on the PBS App or at pbs.org/pov. Co-presented with Black Public Media. #MotherApartPBS #POVonPBS https://loom.ly/DetFTj0 | POV
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POV’s A MOTHER APART follows Jamaican-American poet and activist Staceyann Chin as she searches for the mother who abandoned her. Along the way, she discovers that home, love, and motherhood can be on her terms, while healing intergenerational scars. Watch now on the PBS App or at pbs.org/pov. Co-presented with Black Public Media. #MotherApartPBS #POVonPBS https://loom.ly/DetFTj0 | POV
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Letter to the White woman who told me that/Black activists/Do not have the right to stop engaging with her if she says the wrong thing about race—if she has the courage to ask me for language, she says/it is my duty to provide words for her continue the conversation… ****************************** Dear entitled White Woman with too much time on your hands I’m tempted to be flippant in my response to your incredibly insensitive diatribe I’m tempted to craft petty rhetorical questions like/how muc
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Letter to the White woman who told me that/Black activists/Do not have the right to stop engaging with her if she says the wrong thing about race—if she has the courage to ask me for language, she says/it is my duty to provide words for her continue the conversation… ****************************** Dear entitled White Woman with too much time on your hands I’m tempted to be flippant in my response to your incredibly insensitive diatribe I’m tempted to craft petty rhetorical questions like/how muc
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Staceyann reads ‘Passing,’ a poem she wrote at 25. | Staceyann Chin
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Staceyann reads ‘Passing,’ a poem she wrote at 25. | Staceyann Chin
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'We are now a rising tsunami of fury come back to take back what was carried away without consent' — Poet Staceyann Chin paid tribute to Black women activists who came before her | NowThis
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'We are now a rising tsunami of fury come back to take back what was carried away without consent' — Poet Staceyann Chin paid tribute to Black women activists who came before her | NowThis
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Jamaican American poet and LGBTQ activist Staceyann Chin seeks out her elusive mother, traveling across Brooklyn, Montreal, Cologne and Jamaica, while building a new sense of home with her own daughter. A Mother Apart from POV premieres 9 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13, on PBS Wisconsin. | PBS Wisconsin
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Jamaican American poet and LGBTQ activist Staceyann Chin seeks out her elusive mother, traveling across Brooklyn, Montreal, Cologne and Jamaica, while building a new sense of home with her own daughter. A Mother Apart from POV premieres 9 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13, on PBS Wisconsin. | PBS Wisconsin
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Can you be sweethearts with your mom? How we begin the conversation about sexual safety isn’t just about touching. It’s about ideas. And feelings. And it’s very messy sometimes. It shows here in the Excerpt #2 from LivingRoomProtest #66: Any Gender Sweetheart You want! It’s so complicated and difficult talking about freedom and love with a kid—and that shows up in this LRProtest! Talking about gender was easy. Then it got more complicated when we started to address age and other relationships. |
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Can you be sweethearts with your mom? How we begin the conversation about sexual safety isn’t just about touching. It’s about ideas. And feelings. And it’s very messy sometimes. It shows here in the Excerpt #2 from LivingRoomProtest #66: Any Gender Sweetheart You want! It’s so complicated and difficult talking about freedom and love with a kid—and that shows up in this LRProtest! Talking about gender was easy. Then it got more complicated when we started to address age and other relationships. |
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I have so loved this life I’ve lived attempted/some of what I’ve wanted failed at so much/learned more excelled at less than I would have hoped but here I am/committed to living the rest of it/honest/true to myself to those I hold dear hold them near/if they desire it let them go/should they choose whose child am I but a dreamer who did her own reaching fell short/only because the world wasn’t flat That is why so many of us miss the mark of our destiny inequality peppers the path of women people
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I have so loved this life I’ve lived attempted/some of what I’ve wanted failed at so much/learned more excelled at less than I would have hoped but here I am/committed to living the rest of it/honest/true to myself to those I hold dear hold them near/if they desire it let them go/should they choose whose child am I but a dreamer who did her own reaching fell short/only because the world wasn’t flat That is why so many of us miss the mark of our destiny inequality peppers the path of women people
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Black Breath/BlackDeath: Inconsolable. Sad. Angry. | Staceyann Chin
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Black Breath/BlackDeath: Inconsolable. Sad. Angry. | Staceyann Chin
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I haven’t been on in forever. In a world where everyone is trying to hard to be relevant online, I’ve been less present in the rat race. But wanted to say hello today. Share my gratitude. Here’s hoping you’re finding moments where gratitude rings true for you too. | Staceyann Chin
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I haven’t been on in forever. In a world where everyone is trying to hard to be relevant online, I’ve been less present in the rat race. But wanted to say hello today. Share my gratitude. Here’s hoping you’re finding moments where gratitude rings true for you too. | Staceyann Chin
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Not a LivingRoomProtest! This is a celebration of being Black and woman and Strong! Zuri performs an original composition. Staceyann is lightly featured as a background singer and an average dancer. Watch the whole song at YouTube.com/chinpoet! | Staceyann Chin
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Not a LivingRoomProtest! This is a celebration of being Black and woman and Strong! Zuri performs an original composition. Staceyann is lightly featured as a background singer and an average dancer. Watch the whole song at YouTube.com/chinpoet! | Staceyann Chin
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Why are my posts so fucking long? Say who you are in 3 minutes. Recorded in His Story/as mad/woman/hysterical witch losing the ability to regularly lose blood/approaching the end of desire fed by the outward gaze She woman/even when she girl/Black marked as force-ripe/type cast as fast/she not allowed to break/sturdy she is In the absence of a mother/she mothered herself/her grandmother tried/but she old/plus the child resisted the categories/ticked the rainbow & migrated north Became American/r
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Why are my posts so fucking long? Say who you are in 3 minutes. Recorded in His Story/as mad/woman/hysterical witch losing the ability to regularly lose blood/approaching the end of desire fed by the outward gaze She woman/even when she girl/Black marked as force-ripe/type cast as fast/she not allowed to break/sturdy she is In the absence of a mother/she mothered herself/her grandmother tried/but she old/plus the child resisted the categories/ticked the rainbow & migrated north Became American/r
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Items we don’t yet miss/are nonetheless lost in the mud of Melissa/things not used for years/yet they mean the world/the winds hurled them/trees crushed their memory now/we sit in the state of unrecompensed dementia Strangers bring foods we hate/we take transparent bag/form the words Thank you for coming/all the way from Kingston/thank god it is our things here on these exposed foundations/praises be/it wasn’t the capital Only because town people have jobs/money/leisure to bring poor people food
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Items we don’t yet miss/are nonetheless lost in the mud of Melissa/things not used for years/yet they mean the world/the winds hurled them/trees crushed their memory now/we sit in the state of unrecompensed dementia Strangers bring foods we hate/we take transparent bag/form the words Thank you for coming/all the way from Kingston/thank god it is our things here on these exposed foundations/praises be/it wasn’t the capital Only because town people have jobs/money/leisure to bring poor people food
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In these short hours before Melissa arrives/I offer up a poem … The air is still/eerily quiet before every hurricane there is a still/a before/a deceptive silence before the brunt of the beautiful sonogram becomes an angry adolescent storm before she becomes an adult hurricane/huffing with rage at what we have been doing to this planet there is the still/before anyone has died in Jamaica (NOT BEFORE three souls washed away in Haiti) this is before any drownings/here in Kingston/in Montego Bay/in
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In these short hours before Melissa arrives/I offer up a poem … The air is still/eerily quiet before every hurricane there is a still/a before/a deceptive silence before the brunt of the beautiful sonogram becomes an angry adolescent storm before she becomes an adult hurricane/huffing with rage at what we have been doing to this planet there is the still/before anyone has died in Jamaica (NOT BEFORE three souls washed away in Haiti) this is before any drownings/here in Kingston/in Montego Bay/in
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Exhausted/missing the comforts of my familiar. Far from home—wondering where is home/now that borders more dangerous for Brown skin/in Jamaica/in America/we are all struggling to make sense of the new order/the old empire falling/& still/I am grateful for variables that steady me My daughter/wild laughter & kind heart holding me together My Love/in struggle/but not extinguished/the soft skin of seven generations of indigeneity/warm & wrapped all night around me My friendships/more than a century
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Exhausted/missing the comforts of my familiar. Far from home—wondering where is home/now that borders more dangerous for Brown skin/in Jamaica/in America/we are all struggling to make sense of the new order/the old empire falling/& still/I am grateful for variables that steady me My daughter/wild laughter & kind heart holding me together My Love/in struggle/but not extinguished/the soft skin of seven generations of indigeneity/warm & wrapped all night around me My friendships/more than a century
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The practice of gratitude is the axel upon which the very best of me turns. Today, on one of the hardest days I’ve seen, I trace sorrow lines into a litany of gratitude/a daily benediction to stay present/potent/always on my lips. My daughter begins an unbroken line/with laughter/her love of animals/insisting I see them/as beings deserving more than masterhood from a species dangerous to a planet ripping at its own seams/aching to recalibrate/to recover from our hubris/our excess. I say Ashe/for
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The practice of gratitude is the axel upon which the very best of me turns. Today, on one of the hardest days I’ve seen, I trace sorrow lines into a litany of gratitude/a daily benediction to stay present/potent/always on my lips. My daughter begins an unbroken line/with laughter/her love of animals/insisting I see them/as beings deserving more than masterhood from a species dangerous to a planet ripping at its own seams/aching to recalibrate/to recover from our hubris/our excess. I say Ashe/for
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#YBCA100 SUMMIT 2017: Staceyann Chin – Full Presentation
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#YBCA100 SUMMIT 2017: Staceyann Chin – Full Presentation
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Excerpt #1 from #LivingRoomProtest 66: Any Sweetheart You want! The beginning of the conversation was simple. It got more complicated in the latter part. The entire thing is on YouTube. Will try to post part 2 later today. | Staceyann Chin
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Excerpt #1 from #LivingRoomProtest 66: Any Sweetheart You want! The beginning of the conversation was simple. It got more complicated in the latter part. The entire thing is on YouTube. Will try to post part 2 later today. | Staceyann Chin
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I begin with gratitude. For the house in queens last night. I came to you/wings dipped in sadness/& you held me—so gently. The women who read poems were everything. Funny. Earnest. Kind. Your words were a soft place for my own stories to land. So Gratitude. It’s not a light balance to sorrow. It doesn’t carry the buoyancy of joy/the weight of it remains effortful. But I acknowledge it nonetheless. The last days have sat heavy/on my heart/in my belly/on my shoulders/carrying bags from border to b
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I begin with gratitude. For the house in queens last night. I came to you/wings dipped in sadness/& you held me—so gently. The women who read poems were everything. Funny. Earnest. Kind. Your words were a soft place for my own stories to land. So Gratitude. It’s not a light balance to sorrow. It doesn’t carry the buoyancy of joy/the weight of it remains effortful. But I acknowledge it nonetheless. The last days have sat heavy/on my heart/in my belly/on my shoulders/carrying bags from border to b
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Staceyann Chin reads “Tsunami Rising”
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Staceyann Chin reads “Tsunami Rising”
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Staceyann Chin and Cynthia Nixon: The Making of MotherStruck
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Staceyann Chin and Cynthia Nixon: The Making of MotherStruck
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Message from @zurisialechin! So proud of my baby girl. She’s advocating for animals, in this time where there is so little attention to be spared for them. Please share and help us feed the dogs and cats and all the other furries that their humans don’t have enough to share. Many of us Activists, struggle with the question of where resources should go in a crisis. I’m always down for caring for the humans who are affected. But she’s always saying whatever we have, should be shared with our anima
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Message from @zurisialechin! So proud of my baby girl. She’s advocating for animals, in this time where there is so little attention to be spared for them. Please share and help us feed the dogs and cats and all the other furries that their humans don’t have enough to share. Many of us Activists, struggle with the question of where resources should go in a crisis. I’m always down for caring for the humans who are affected. But she’s always saying whatever we have, should be shared with our anima
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💔 How do you raise a child after being abandoned by your own mother? In POV: A Mother Apart, Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ activist Staceyann Chin — known from Def Poetry Slam and MotherStruck! — embarks on an emotional journey across Brooklyn, Montreal, Cologne, and Jamaica to reconnect with her past and redefine what home means. 🌍💫 ✨ A powerful story of motherhood, healing, and forgiveness. Watch A Mother Apart Monday at 10 p.m. on Vegas PBS or stream anytime on our website or PBS app. �
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💔 How do you raise a child after being abandoned by your own mother? In POV: A Mother Apart, Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ activist Staceyann Chin — known from Def Poetry Slam and MotherStruck! — embarks on an emotional journey across Brooklyn, Montreal, Cologne, and Jamaica to reconnect with her past and redefine what home means. 🌍💫 ✨ A powerful story of motherhood, healing, and forgiveness. Watch A Mother Apart Monday at 10 p.m. on Vegas PBS or stream anytime on our website or PBS app. �
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Staceyann Chin - ...And these are only some of the things I believe...
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Staceyann Chin - ...And these are only some of the things I believe...
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These are the inside photos. @acwwsonline 2023. Centering the scholarship of Black women writers/activists/thinkers. San Jose. Costa Rica. Deeply moved by these days journeying along in reflection/in the mirror of my sisters voices/experiences/theories. I was learning at the speed of luz. Using words unfamiliar/cupping my ears under the faucet of Black Women’s mouths. Sweet. Thick. Hips. Hands. Laughter dripping like honey. Pain raw like rock stone. Soon tell you more. Tales of Audre. June. Eula
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These are the inside photos. @acwwsonline 2023. Centering the scholarship of Black women writers/activists/thinkers. San Jose. Costa Rica. Deeply moved by these days journeying along in reflection/in the mirror of my sisters voices/experiences/theories. I was learning at the speed of luz. Using words unfamiliar/cupping my ears under the faucet of Black Women’s mouths. Sweet. Thick. Hips. Hands. Laughter dripping like honey. Pain raw like rock stone. Soon tell you more. Tales of Audre. June. Eula
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Spoken Word: Staceyann Chin performs "Homophobia"
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Spoken Word: Staceyann Chin performs "Homophobia"
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Chat with Staceyann Chin: Brooklyn Review
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Chat with Staceyann Chin: Brooklyn Review
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