The Fire This Time: Storytelling as Resistance

🔥 The Fire This Time: Storytelling as Resistance ✍️

Your story can spark change. Join us for a transformative workshop inspired by the bold voice of James Baldwin, where we’ll explore the power of storytelling to confront oppression and envision liberatory futures. Featuring the poetry and wisdom from 8th Poet Laureate of San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin and poet/public intellectual Ahsante Sankofa-Foree!

💡 In this workshop, you’ll:

• Discover how storytelling has fueled movements for justice.
• Craft and refine your own story of resistance and resilience.
• Imagine futures of equity and liberation through Afro-Futurist inspiration.

🌟 This space is open to BIPOC visionaries, white allies, and people of all gender expressions ready to use their voice as a tool for change.

About Tongo Eisen-Martin:

Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He is the author of “Someone’s Dead Already”, “Heaven Is All Goodbyes”, “Waiting Behind Tornados for Food”, and “Blood on the Fog”. In 2020, he co-founded Black Freighter Press to publish revolutionary works. He was San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate.

About Ahsante Sakofa-Foree

Ahsante Sankofa Foree (Dhey/Dhem : It/its) is an iteration of Black Being making home in occupied lands of Cowlitz, Multnomah, Kathlamet and many other nations of the Nch’i Wána (“The Big River”) or so called Portland, Oregon. Its works focus on the inarticulable miracles of Black epistemes, affects, ontologies and praxes. They are becoming, always learning, none of which it relishes reconciling beneath abstract meritocratic matrixes. Its most prized achievements are the moments of joy and solemnity they create with other such iterations of Blackness.

Hosted on Zoom!