Dancing on Desks

Dancing on Desks
Dancing on Desks

Dancing on Desks asks educators what would happen if we were teaching, learning, and living in ways that engage justice-full, liberatory, and abolitionist teaching and learning practices in our schools and beyond. The stories, experiences, and voices of educators and students, school staff and caregivers are centered. Your hosts are monét and Erin. Let's get free, y'all.

  1. Season 3, Episode 7, Pt. 1 | We Remember Each Other

    14 JUN

    Season 3, Episode 7, Pt. 1 | We Remember Each Other

    This is the first of our two-part finale to our Season of Pleasure, a season throughout which we have sought to understand our relationship with pleasure while simultaneously witnessing and confronting genocide across our world. With poet and activist June Jordan’s words, “What shall we do, we who did not die?” in our minds and spirits, we hear from Zeina and Fatma, two mothers living in London who organize with Parents for Palestine, a group of parents who organize marches, actions, and teach-ins that include young children calling for the end of the genocide and occupation in Palestine. How do we talk about genocide with our youngest children? How do our personal rest and pleasure principles sustain collective liberation and education as the practice of freedom?   Share your thoughts with us at us@dancingondesks.org, leave an audio message, or slide into our DMs on IG @dancingondesks. Transcript Available Aug. 2 INTELLECTUAL INHERITANCE -Follow Parents for Palestine on Instagram @parentsforpalestine - Ghassan Kanafani, The Land of Sad Oranges (1962) -adrienne maree brown, Pleasure Activism (2019) -Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation (2022) -June Jordan, “Some of Us Did Not Die” (2001) -The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977) -”50 Years of Combahee”, Black Women Radicals (2024) — A special thank you to Jaimee Smith, founder and executive director of Black Women Radicals, for allowing us to use an excerpt from her May 22, conversation with Combahee River Collective co-founders Barbara Smith and Demita Frazier.  -bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003) -“Lineages of Deviant Caretaking”, Dancing on Desks (2024) MUSIC -Our Dancing on Desks Theme Song is composed and arranged by Mara Johnson and Elliott Wilkes -“Arabic Oud” prod. @aldisjaminii_  -“Jamila” prod. @montymusic311 -"I’ll Be Free" prod. @Rhamzandays -“Joyful & Upbeat Background Nasheed” vocal only prod. Quran Lofi -"Calming Background Nasheed" vocal only prod. Quran Lofi -“Soulful Nasheed” without music promoted by @ncnasheeds -“Small Talk” prod. yogic beats -“Relaxing & Calming Nasheed” vocals only provided by NoCopyrightNasheeds -“Haven” prod. rémdolla -“Stunt” prod. rémdolla -“Burst” prod. rémdolla-“Don't Save Me” prod. sadcg

    1 h y 13 min
  2. Season 3, Episode 6 | Tap Into Tenderness

    3 MAY

    Season 3, Episode 6 | Tap Into Tenderness

    What pleasure becomes possible when we commune with nature, our bodies, and each other? Educator, activist and organizer, researcher, writer, scholar, Zumba dancer, a very reluctant high school sax player and first-chair, only chair vibraphonist shea wesley martin joins us in this episode where they think with us about all things community. shea contemplates how we story community, learn and write in community, and how we find pleasure in community.  Also, they have another special educator workshop Yours, Truly coming up and would like to welcome you to the space! Find more details by following them on Twitter and on Instagram @sheathescholar.  Share your thoughts with us at us@dancingondesks.org, leave an audio message, or slide into our DMs on IG @dancingondesks. Transcript [Available From June 14] COVER ART The cover art for this episode’s title card is a collage created by collagist Anna Almore. Anna is also a Dancing on Desks Hivemind member. CONNECT WITH SHEA & THEIR WORK Twitter: @sheathescholar Instagram @sheathescholar https://www.sheawesleymartin.com/ INTELLECTUAL INHERITANCE -The Black Interior: Essays, Elizabeth Alexander The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture, Kevin Quashie -Punished for Dreaming, Bettina Love  -Kimberly C. Ransom, “A Conceptual Falsetto: Re-Imagining Black Childhood via One Girl’s Exploration of Prince”, Journal of African American Studies (2017)  -Zinn Education Project -Teaching for Change -Social Justice Books -Woke Kindergarten MUSIC -Our Dancing on Desks Theme Song is composed and arranged by Mara Johnson and Elliott Wilkes -vibraphone, original music prod. Elliott Wilkes  -Victoria Monét “On My Mama” (monét clipped wings Remix) -“Mortal” prod. rémdolla -"Jazzaddicts" prod. Cosimo Fogg -Go-go instrumental prod Marci Jay -Noire #1 prod. Pedro -“Raio de Sol” prod. Wonderlust Beats -"Reprise / Those Eyes" prod. yogic beats -"Marry Me" prod. Fred Irie -"Seus Olhos" prod. Fred Irie -"Soul Searcher" prod. yogic beats

    59 min
  3. Sesason 3, Episode 5 | Lineages of Deviant Caretaking

    8 MAR

    Sesason 3, Episode 5 | Lineages of Deviant Caretaking

    We call this episode, lovingly, the auntie auntie auntie episode (or the niece niece nibling episode) shouted at the top of our lungs. We scream their names in the key of care, of reclaiming our bodies, lives, and pleasure(s) for ourselves (and our time). In this episode we talk with Anna Almore and Erica or ET, two friends and educators, about their moments of what Anna calls deviant caretaking, the act of choosing pleasure, accountability to one’s deepest self over what work as teachers, teacher-educators, and students demands of one’s self. Anna and Erica share about lessons learned one night at a strip club and releasing themselves from the disciplining of settler colonialism’s projects of school, capitalism, misogynoir, and respectability—led by a long inheritance of aunties who showed them how to do thee things. And as nieces and aunties themselves, they reflect on what they now teach another generation, finding that the lessons and blessings their nieces and relatives give them to be the most urgent ones of all. Share your thoughts with us at us@dancingondesks.org, leave an audio message, or slide into our DMs on IG @dancingondesks. Cover art by Anna Almore  Transcript Finalized May 3 Intellectual Inheritance - bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress - Cathy Cohen, “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” GLQ (1997) - Cathy Cohen, “Deviance As Resistance: A New Research Agenda for the Study of Black Politics” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race (2004) - Hoodrat to Headwrap podcast with Ericka Hart and Ebony Donnley, "Resting My Eyes (with a pistol in my apron): Tricia Hersey's Ministry is About More than Naps" -Audre Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power” -Kimberly C. Ransom, “A Conceptual Falsetto: Re-Imagining Black Childhood via One Girl’s Exploration of Prince” Journal of African American Studies (2017)  - Keffrelyn D. Brown - Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes  Music - “Godspeed” prod Jovian  - “Warm Brandy” prod kitxnx - "5AM In Ibiza" prod ossy - “Stagnant” prod rémdolla - “Levitate” prod Bailey Daniel - “Another Day” prod Jovian - “Marigold” prod by Qué Soul - “Island Girl” prod by JayRewind/@RMLUR - “Wham” prod by Slappy Boy

    1 h y 12 min
  4. 27 FEB

    Season 3, Episode 4 Bonus Track | A Boycott. A Refusal. A Commitment.

    In a follow-up to our fourth episode, “Gimme My High School Experience,” we share about our process and the way we make decisions about what we include--and what we don’t--when we’re creating our podcast. We’re boycotting companies that are supporting the US-backed genocide in Palestine by Israel. We share ways that you can join us in calling for a free Palestine and we close with a poem by the indomitable Black feminist poet, writer, and scholar-activist June Jordan.  Call U.S. Elected Officials ⁠U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights Fund Palestine Survival  Islamic Relief USA Doctors Without Borders To Learn More Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation, by Raja Shehadeh Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, by Noura Erakat The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, by Rashid Khalidi Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, by Angela Y. Davis Intellectual Inheritance “Apologies to All the People in Lebanon,” June Jordan, The Poetry Foundation A Palestinian is killed while with a group waving a white flag. Israel says it will look into it, Associated Press  Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, PennSound (April 23, 2001) History of the Question of Palestine, United Nations Israel-Hamas War, Associated Press The Walt Disney Company Donates To Support Humanitarian Relief Following Terrorist Attacks In Israel, Walt Disney Company  U.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts, Council on Foreign Relations What’s BDS, the movement to boycott Israel with a new social media following?, The Washington Post Music “Tone” prod. by rémdolla  “Memorial” prod. by rémdolla Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

    10 min
  5. Season 3, Episode 4 | Gimme My High School Experience

    2 FEB

    Season 3, Episode 4 | Gimme My High School Experience

    We continue our Season of Pleasure with this conversation with high school students Aleya, Kyree and their college instructors Beylul and Jill, who learn and teach at the Early College Academy Program with Coolidge High School and Trinity University in Washington, D.C. They share about the abundant pleasure that emerges when we learn in community, seek to see ourselves and each other in our teaching, and root ourselves in education as the practice of freedom. If pleasure can happen in the classroom, what does this look and sound like? We invite you to share your reflections. What can pleasure look and feel like in spaces of education? What is bringing you pleasure and rest this month? Send your thoughts to us at us@dancingondesks.org, leave an audio message, or slide into our DMs on IG @dancingondesks. Participate in Black Lives Matter Week of Action this Feb. 5-8, 2024. Find out what’s happening in your area at: https://www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com/woa.html Transcript Finalized March 1, 2024 INTELLECTUAL INHERITANCE Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire  Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, Zaretta Hammond Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Asking a Different Question, Gloria Ladson-Billings Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Peter Liljedahl Saul Wiilliams at NuBlu NYC, @trishesmusic (TikTok) Meet the Robinsons, Walt Disney Pictures (2007) My School DC - Coolidge HS “Israel kills dozens of academics, destroys every university in the Gaza Strip,” via Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor Myleik Teele’s Podcast, #174: Let It Be Easy: Reducing the Addiction to Struggle MUSIC Dancing on Desks theme song composed and arranged by Mara Johnson and Elliott Wilkes “Can’t Go Back” prod by rémdolla (Yebba x Sampha type beat) “Change the World” prod. Bailey Daniel (Outkast type beat) “Soul Cry” prod by  Kulture Kat “Loving You Mine” prod by Jonah Bru “Tone” prod by rémdolla “Sanctuary”  prod by rémdolla jazz slow “Opal” prod by rémdolla  ”110” prod by roku beats “Evenings in Cali” prod by loopy “Nineteen” prod by marvin “Tea” prod. by Metz Music

    56 min

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Dancing on Desks asks educators what would happen if we were teaching, learning, and living in ways that engage justice-full, liberatory, and abolitionist teaching and learning practices in our schools and beyond. The stories, experiences, and voices of educators and students, school staff and caregivers are centered. Your hosts are monét and Erin. Let's get free, y'all.

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