Potion Flow

Welcome to //[[Potion Flow]]//.

This project is an interactive exploration of Blackness and womanhood, through media, literature, and academia. It is always growing, just as the Black girl experience is. There is so much to say and so little space to say it - still, this project tries to capture just a small sip of a vast ocean of experience. The [[goal]] of //Potion Flow// is to put on display for you a multitude of ways in which Black women and girls create, empower, and intellectualize their diverse and complex existences.

It's your job to make a[[ #BlackGirlMagicPotion]]. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8qeneX2VfoE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> Put anything you want in it: art, music, protest, books, food, something else, or [[nothing else]].

One important lesson that you need to learn is that there is no universal "secret ingredient" in a [[ #BlackGirlMagicPotion]]. Every Black woman is one of a kind, every Black girl special in her own way. You can choose to put nothing in your potion, if you really want; still, here's hoping you at least explore some of the possibilities. [[no potion today ->No, I'm done]]

What kind of art are you putting in? [[Tune-eric -> music]] [[Cinema(on) -> movies]] [[Brown Wri(t)ce -> writings]]

''“As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.”'' – Angela Davis <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/oDR1aPNQVhs" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> //Black women have been beyond essential to the struggle for human rights and Black liberation. Their contributions to the movements of their time cannot be understated, but often are. The richness of intersectionality (coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw), womanism (by Alice Walker), and other theories and praxises of organizing have left an indelible inpact on social activism. You cannot have Black power without the courage and strength of Black women.// ''Want to add more to your potion? '' [[Yes]] [[No, I'm done]]

//Blackness around the world, especially in the United States, is tethered to the history and practice of new forms of Christianity. Though Christianized against their will, our enslaved ancestors took the Holy Bible, the Gospel, and the Word of God and made it into a vehicle for healing, divine inspiration, and liberation. Many of the most prominent civil rights leaders came from the church, and houses of worship continue to [[baptize]] Black people into not only spiritual tradition, but a supernatural destiny for the future - a freer tomorrow.// <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/nxH7oND0AYY" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> "I am because we are, and we are because God is." -<a href="https://www.myspbc.org/">St. Paul's Baptist Church</a>, VA ''Want to add more to your potion? '' [[Yes]] [[No, I'm done]]

//There is magic in Black music, Black performance. When we hear the beats and the rhythm and the lyrics, there is a special experience, one full of pride and wander and cammraderie.// <iframe src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/6xjSL37CPslGFz9ZciJZbY" width="300" height="380" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe> ''Want to add more to your potion? '' [[Yes]] [[No, I'm done]]

<img src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/shFK8eD0YEwYs9.SX3Nz0w--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9MzYwMDtoPTI0MDA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/73db1461098a18119b01e8f1e4916318"</img> //Black women bring stories to life. As actresses, directors, and producers, they perform in stage and in front of cameras for audiences far and wide with stories and narratives from both the mainstream and the margins, adding the vast canon of performance art in the world of creativity.// <img src="https://th.bing.com/th/id/R14aaf0ff7da980210449abc92c49df73?rik=QrOJ1Qv3JkQArg&pid=ImgRaw"</img> ''Want to add more to your potion?'' [[Yes]] [[No, I'm done]]

//Black women are some of the most creative people in all of human history. Poets and novelists from all over the world draw on the stories and styles of Black women - there would be no great literature, no retellings of our history, without their contributions, oral and written.// <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/H3X2EwKgOk0?start=26" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/aLaVIFQV1yA?start=26" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> ''Want to add more to your potion? '' [[Yes]] [[No, I'm done]]

What else are you adding? [[a dash of art]] [[an ounce of courage]] [[a cup of soul]] [[a heap of sustenance]]

Thank you so much for coming to //Potion Brew//! I very much hope you enjoyed looking at all the ingredients compiled here, and I encourage you to come back for more! I very much appreciate you taking the time to make your #BlackGirlMagicPotion - know that there is so much more out there, and I hope you get to experience as much of it as possible <3 -Jonathan Newby GSWS 290

''What are you putting in your potion first?'' [[a dash of art]] [[an ounce of courage]] [[a cup of soul]] [[a heap of sustenance]]

''"Baby, I didn't even ask you to swim - I told you to keep your eyes on me."'' <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/tJDIDI6ikRU" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> [[(back to church) ->a cup of soul]] ''Want to add more to your potion? '' [[Yes]] [[No, I'm done]]