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Prismatic: An Audio Series

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Prismatic does more than tell you stories. Hosted by Josh Gwynn (@regardingjosh), Will Johnson (@willnotgoquietly) and Tsige Tafesse (@astoldbytsige), the show goes further than the news, right past whatever pop culture gossip is flooding your various feeds, and straight into that gooey part under your rib cage where those warm, weighty feelings fumble and flutter around all day. This is urgent, in-your-face, need-to-know-right-now stuff about you and me. With storytelling kept at its center, each episode builds up an important archive of knowledges, spaces, people, words, feelings, art, stories, affirmations, laughs, mantras, prayers, and love for ourselves. Prismatic wants to open up eyes, minds, and hearts and capture all the ways we have learned to survive.
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Episodes

Ep. 3: "Viral"

We were gone for a second but we're back with the jump off. Josh, Tsige and Will discuss the X-Men franchise and the newest movie X-Men: Apocalypse and how Storm isn't given her 10s. Will praises Dirty Chai Tea. Tsige gives us a piece of Ethiopia. We then consider what it's like to exist in the digital space. What are our personal rules for survival? Tsige got the chance to sit with Visual Artist Riya Jama in a frank discussion of her viral video, her life, and using art as a weapon against the ...

Jun 17, 20161 hr 13 min

Ep. 2.1: "A Lil' Gem of Light"

Welcome back to Prismatic. This is a Gem: a bite-sized episode without all the structure, but with all the same storytelling. A little bit to tide you over until the next main episode. This is the one where Tsige (@astoldbytsige) talks to Yetunde Olagbaju(@ye.tunde on Instagram) about resilience, isolation as the birthplace of community and the work of the artist, institutional fuckery, traveling while black&queer, online communities, how misogynoir has no borders, and making art that takes ...

May 22, 201617 min

Ep. 2: "Desire"

Welcome back to this episode of Prismatic. This week Josh, Tsige and Will can’t help but discuss Beyoncé’s Lemonade and their visceral reactions. The Prismatic Team have a roundtable about the politics of desire and the line between prejudice and preference. Who’s voices and bodies are being excluded and why? How does our social location effect our decisions regarding love? Josh chats with Shannon Shird and Alexis Mena, artists and community organizers, who discuss their experience as a black, q...

May 14, 20161 hr 14 min
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