Hey Beautiful People 👋🏿,
On this episode, it is a live recording of my Trappings of Masculinity Roundtable where I had the opportunity to discuss with five Black men from various sectors of youth work and community activism about the trappings of masculinity within the patriarchy and how they redefine it for themselves and the youth they serve.
Additionally, it’s a new milestone for THE CHAIR. This is our first episode that is over an hour (an hour and 8 minutes). Take your time with it and it is the only episode released this week!
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Don’t forget! The Nurses Roundtable is this Friday at Just Bookish discussion begins at 630pm. It’s Free! RSVP so we have the right seat count.
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Happy National Poetry Month Fam! We hope you’re having a creative and cathartic April, and want you to come share all that you have with us as we celebrate the close of the month ✍🏾🎤
And to make the event even more special, we’re collaborating with the @wocweekend crew as they gear up for their 20th Anniversary this coming June! Rumor has it they’ll be raffling off All-Inclusive Passes to th Weekend 👀
So, mark your calendar, tag your crew and come spend a lil’ time with us on Thursday, April 30th. Doors and the List open at 7pm. No cover and light appetizers on us (there’s a full dinner menu and bar available).
Hey Beautiful People,
Next Month is Women’s History Month and my next Live Roundtable! It will be Friday March 13th 6-8pm at Just Bookish!
For Women’s History Month, I wanted to have a conversation with men, specifically Black men to talk the about the trappings of masculinity. This conversation is necessary to discuss how men are taking accountability and responsibility for themselves and the education of other men about the patriarchy.
It is Free to attend! RSVP so we can arrange the proper amount of seating. Come join us as these beautiful souls decide to sit in THE CHAIR.
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This month, The Poet’s Cauldron celebrates another year of holding space for truth, culture, and community.
In honor of Black History Month, post Valentine’s Day reflections, and the many ways love lives in the body and the spirit, we’re turning up the heat with poetry that remembers, resists, heals and desires.
Yes, that includes Erotic Poetry!!!
Come celebrate the legacy, the love, and the liberation with us. 🔥🖤 The cauldron is going to be HOTT!
$20 SUGGESTED DONATION
Bio:
D.Ruff is a 2 time Boston Music Award Spoken Word Artist Of The Year nominee. D is a Roxbury-bred artist, performer, educator, and host. He co-hosted “if you can Feel It, you can Speak It” Open Mic movement for fourteen years. “Feel it, Speak it” is the only monthly Nonelitist and non-pretentious open mic dedicated to providing a platform of expression to the queer communities, and invites EVERYONE to bless the mic, regardless of their identity and talent. His work can be found in the CBS News, Museum of Science, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Boston Globe, GBH and much more. He has also released his first book, “Staying on 94: Tales from a Misguided Soul” in the Fall of 2012 and is setting up for re-release in 2026. Most of his poems stem from personal experiences and observations, and therefore range in topics from love and heartbreak to inequality and culture. D.Ruff performs with inspiring passion in hopes that someone of color, will also want to find a way to express themselves, find that “tribe” and do it all, with the intention of leaving all the hurt, pain, and negativity, right where it was showcased.
IF YOU CAN FEEL ITTTT!
A mighty voice, a breathing force- to be reckoned with.
Slide 1: Flashback clip of @d_ruff3 as the featured poet at the second pull up poetry event ever (Backyard BBQ)!
Slide 2: the Sol Inspired duo (@sol_e_soul & @messagefrommessi ) w/ D Ruff (plus Dafknee aka St’aphney)
Slide 3: gotta have one of those, “oh. You caught me off guard” “make sure you get my good side” pics. Type shit, type shit…
Slide 4: festivity details. Crystal sounds bowls, moor feature energy!, tasty refreshments & moor
See yall soon
Welcome to MySpace where those who INSPIRE are a key focus. Introducing Novembers local legends @icethestylespecialist & @d_ruff3 ‼️
Ice Brown is the Founder and CEO of HOUSE OF BLVCK ICE Estate— a style development firm and cultural bank bridging fashion, street dance, and storytelling. As a stylist, author, and artist, Ice builds worlds where creativity and ownership meet, inspiring a new generation to live in essence, purpose, and authenticity through her philosophy, The Cold School of Thought.
D.Ruff is a 2 time Boston Music Award Spoken Word Artist Of The Year nominee. D is a Roxbury-bred artist, performer, educator, artivist, and host. He co-hosted “if you can Feel It, you can Speak It” Open Mic movement for fourteen years. “Feel it, Speak it” is the only monthly Nonelitist and non-pretentious open mic dedicated to providing a platform of expression to the queer communities, and invites EVERYONE to bless the mic, regardless of their identity and talent. His work can be found in the CBS News, Museum of Science, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Boston Globe, GBH and much more.
See yall in 2week!
What a night 😍😍😍 Happy 16th Anniversary to @feelit_speakit Open Mic Boston! 🎤🎶
It’s been a joy serving drinks and sharing nights filled with amazing music, poetry, and talent for the past 18 months. 🍸 Thanks to @jhadamazi for being an inspiration for all of us and for your talented team @d_ruff3 & @artbyphree 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
Cheers to many more years of creativity and community! 🥂
#OpenMicBoston #BostonEvents #LiveMusic #PoetryNight #BostonTalent #AnniversaryVibes #2BarDrinks #BostonBartenders #CheersBoston
BIG LOVE to @nancyazc for joining us virtually as last month’s feature!
Come join us tomorrow for our last open mic at the Civic Pavilion!!
We are celebrating 16 years and we would love for you to celebrate with us!!!
It’s Finale time family!!
It’s also our 16th Anniversary!!!
And who better to celebrate with and close out our stay at The City Hall Pavillion… none other than Letta Neely (@lettaneely ) will be blessing our space as our feature for November!!
See you Sunday November 9th!
Flyer by: @crazygoodz
If you haven’t pulled up to the mic yet, now is the time to do so.. Do not miss this close out!!
As always, thank you Mayors Office of Arts and Culture for affording us the opportunity to bring our mic to City Hall!
For Malcom X’s Centennial Bornday (100th) @solinspiredopenmic & @pulluppoetry had the honor & pleasure of curating performances for the occasion @blackmarketnubian facilitated IN THE HEART OF ROXBURY, DUDLEY AKA NUBIAN SQUARE in front of the legendary mural which features a painting of Malcom in his Little days strolling through Dudley with Shorty
IF YOU CAN FEEL IT!,…(finish the line in the comments)
Being in Roxbury, it was only right to make some Roxbury noise so we brought out the loudest one in the area who grew up a few blocks away, the amplified wordsmith D Ruff @d_ruff3 (he don’t Neva want a mic yall, he must like screaming at ppl 😂 real Roxbury ish #nosa)
Delivered as always, we got a few clips of brothas pieces but to get the full pieces, you gon have to be wherever he gon be at. Sometimes to get the full gift, you gotta be present🎁 I happen to KNOW you can catch him at THE NEXT SOL INSPIRED, OUR NOVEMBER 29TH FEATURE‼️
Major love to Black Market @blackmarketnubian for their continued installments of legacy & culture in the city. Stage in the middle of the beloved Dudley hit different! Live band helping the message carry through the sound vibrations. Literally had ppl walking up pointing out their family members (neighborhood legends) on the mural. Word to the cars & buses beeping as well as the pedestrians locking in🫶🏾. We was outside indeed
It’s that time again!!!
Pull up and join us this Sunday October 12th to experience this month’s feature, traveling all the way from San Francisco!!
We are super excited to welcome Nancy Azcona to the mic!!
Entry and Food are always free! The mic list goes out at 6pm!
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Nancy Frenesy Azcona is a Queer, Trans, Two-Spirit multi-disciplinary artist who has taken their lived experiences and chosen to face the world through the bravery of vulnerability.
Nancy self-published their first chapbook, Corazón De Seda, a collection of poems spanning across the author’s adolescence into young adulthood, in 2021. Their second collection of works, Hija De Tu Madre/Atrevida, is out now, published by Game Over Books. They are published in two anthologies and have performed for events/organizations such as the Pay It No Mind Showcase, Body of Art Showcase, Identity Portrait Short Film for the Connie Norman Foundation, and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation Re.Mixer. Nancy is a two-time fellow at The Heart of It Writing Retreat.
You can find Nancy staring at birds or a new bloom, boiling water underneath the Redwoods, teaching their MadLibs workshop, or strategizing for the newest level of Overcooked. Oh also at @NancyAzc on virtually everything!
