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December 03, 2005
Journeys of Spirit
Friend and I attended a wonderful showing of photographs & screening of a multimedia presentation... Journeys of Spirit, at New Spirit Church in Berkeley.
I felt extremely blessed. Extremely enriched. I left wondering if there existed—could possibly exist—a part of me that was not touched.
One of the multimedia pieces was a celebration of black women, in honor of Rosa Parks. My experience of it touched directly on a conversation I had last night, the topic of which can be summed up with example questions like: Why are there sexist gay guys? Why are there homophobic blacks?
We were wondering, who do you have to be before you're guaranteed to get it? Do black gay women get it? I mean, do you have to be left handed too? A Mac user as well? What does it take before you understand that it's all the same?
Of course the answer has more to do with how much education you've had access to than how many injustices you've faced, but the point is that as this celebration of black women—a beautiful work of photos set to song— unfolded, I felt celebrated. "Nobody's smarter than you, sister", "Nobody's more qualified than you" the song sang, affirming that we are all equal before god and the law.
So I laughed and cried and joyed multiple times. I'm asking Des for the DVD for Xmas. He'll probably read it here before I get a chance. Des, buy me the DVD for Xmas. I'll give you the number to call.
And this way, we'll get a chance to share it still. After going, I think he really would have liked it... but who can know ahead of time? Photos, video, DVD, all in one night! All things he's been working on with his computer and such.
Anyway, there was so much more today, but it's late and I'm dead tired and I have a phone meeting in the morning. And then a wine tasting in the afternoon :-) Yay. Ok, sleep. Now.
Posted by Josh A. at December 3, 2005 11:02 PM