ayana
Vocalo.org host/producer
Favorite Music
Curtis Mayfield, Black Merda, Rotary Connection, Fear Itself, Donald Byrd, Van Hunt, Windy City, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Dells, Dorothy Ashby, Johnny Nash, Tokyo Police Club, Honeycut, Willie Hutch, Junk Science, Median, Galactic, Kenna
Favorite Movies
Wattstax 1 & 2, Godfathers & Sons, Malcolm X, Gene Kelly & Rita Hayworth in "Cover Girl", Dead Presidents, anything Kurasawa, Spaghetti Westerns, Set it Off, Blaxploitation flicks (if only for the soundtracks), Charly, The Landlord, The Inkwell, Love Jones, Enter the Dragon, Killer of Sheep, Bonnie & Clyde, Black Girl
Favorite Books
"The Book of Disquiet"--Fernando Pessoa, "Divided Soul"--David Ritz, "Right On: From Blues to Soul in Black America"- Michael Halalambos, "Sweet Flypaper of Life"--Roy DeCarava & Langston Hughes, "The Bluest Eye"--Toni Morrison, "The Wretched of the Earth"--Franz Fanon, "Nervous Conditions"--Tsitsi Dangarembga, "The God of Small Things"--Arundhati Roy
favorite Websites (other than vocalo.org!!)
"Everyone
as an Artist"
--Joseph Beuys, 1979
My Interests
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Shout Box
Do you have any solutions for homelessness? Not looking for a total cure (that might be unrealistic) just something that may have been overlooked...What would you do personally to help?
Type an answer, then listen for it !on-air.
(11/21 10:02)
Do you think homeless people are responsible for their own predicament? Why or why not?
As with all of us, I imagine there is a measure of personal responsibility, a measure of fate -- and a pinch of chance thrown in there.
There are factors beyond an individual person's control that can add up and put them in a situation where they are homeless. A young person my choose to leave their home because they are being abused--they have agency in choosing to leave a crappy situation, but they didn't ask for the crappy situation, you know? I think it's complicated.
It's a bad idea to entirely blame a homeless person for being homelessness--but people do that to justify refusing to help homeless people. Lame.
(11/21 11:08)
Do you have any solutions for homelessness? Not looking for a total cure (that might be unrealistic) just something that may have been overlooked...What would you do personally to help?
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