Last week’s Brilliance Remastered Webinar (the Spill Intensive) was miraculous. We investigated our long-held narratives, decisions we had outgrown, and systems of oppression we had internalized and addressed them on intellectual, creative, and on the deep level of what Audre Lorde calls the “non-european consciousness” (sometimes also known as the subconscious). We also found enduring affirmations, core sources of inspiration and boundless power in our spiritual and community-activated practices and beliefs. I am so excited about the intellectual lives these brave visionaries are living and I am honored beyond words to be part of what sustains their work! Really I don’t want this intensive to be over, but the praise dance of what it felt like is staying with me always! This last collective poem of the Spill Intensive outflow includes the realness we are taking with us into the future and the ancestral chorus says uh huh!!!
uh huh
enduring affirmations from the Spill Webinar Participants
daily practicing of heart attunement
(uh huh) (uh huh) (uh huh)
listening to what love demands
(be still) (be still) (and know)
my heart is open and speaking
(yes) (yes) (yes)
gardenias in the hands of my grandma
(alright) (uh huh) (enough)
our boundless creative life force
(uh huh) (amen) (ashe)
i am enough. we are enough
(amen) (ashe) (say that!)
sistering is on purpose!
(mmhmm) (uh huh) (oh yeah)
directed by desire!
(amen) (ashe) (all the way)
water and wishes everywhere
(uh huh) (that’s right) (that’s right)
dancing the freedom into being
(mmhmm) (uh huh) (ooowee)
soul stirring songs in my heart
(uh huh) (that’s right) (amen)
full belly breathing
(uh huh) (uh huh) (at last)
when we laugh we laugh all over
(oh yes) (oh yes) (oh yes)
alive all the way through my cheekbones
(YASS!) (uh huh) (that’s right)
Fannie Lou’s courage in my mouth
(uh huh) (amen) (amen)
joy in my hair follicles, bliss in my pinky toe
(that’s right) (that’s right) (uh huh)
letting this animal body loves what it loves
(mmhmm) (uh huh) (all day)
remembering that we are stardust and using that magic moment by moment
(again) (again) (again)
conspiring with the ancestors to let the writing flow
(amen) (ashe) (do that!)
the embers of houses built on fear burned to the ground
(yup) (yup) (yup)
miracles and magic in the mundane
(uh huh) (alright) (okay)
love is the ultimate lifeforce
(amen) (uh huh) (ashe)
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Yes!!! If you love all of that sign up for this week’s 3 day intensive based on Spill! Details here:
How She Knew: The Fugitive Epistemologies Intensive
Weds-Friday, January 4-6, 2017 6pm-9pm Eastern
*epistemologies = ways of knowing
The Spill Series is a group of 10 webinars activating the literary archive, technology and text of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity as a resource for our far-flung community of freedom seekers. (You don’t have to have read Spill to participate, but you might as well read it anyway 
Fugitive Epistemologies is based on the first chapter of Spill “How She Knew” and honors black women’s intimate ways of knowing. Drawing on the chapter’s literary influences (Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks) and using the chapter itself as oracle and meditation, the purpose of the intensive is to start the new year and time of this renewed blatantly violent global regime with access to forms of knowing that go beyond the dominant news media, beyond intellectual reaction catch phrases and beyond the systemic pull of institutions to make fear fundable.
This online intensive is for freedom-seekers who are interested in intimate knowing, knowing otherwise, refusal as knowledge and trusting forms of knowledge that have been criminalized. Some of the forms of knowledge we will explore together will include working with dreams, divination, internal and external meditation and recipes.
Registration is limited. Reserve your spot with a $50 deposit here and write “How She Knew Intensive”: 
Full tuition is sliding scale $185-225. Payment plans are available. Your deposit goes towards the full tuition.
Email brillianceremastered@gmail.com with your goals for the course by Monday January 2nd.