Recollect Season 2 Episode 1 Unchoking the Breath of a Tree: A Conversation w Performing Artist Ebony Golden

Recollect: Black Women Decolonizing thru Story & Nature

In this episode it’s December 18, 2021. Yep, you guessed it, it is a nice global warming seventy degrees out. Performance Artist, brilliant, beautiful one, Ebony Golden and I are at the big table at Her Story Garden Studios. We testify ourselves to revelations about letting go of systems (like nonprofit structures) that cut off the breath of the tree. She shares her work around “the edge effect” where disparate systems come together and make a whole new ecology. We talk about leaving your mother’s ecologies to go do what others think is impossible, but our Black womanhood knows is possible as long as people don’t go fucking with you. This is just Part One y’all. You are in for a treat for a couple of weeks because in this conversation and the ones to follow, we raise the dead, sing with them, we talk to who ain’t here yet, and we toddle on off to have a cup of sorrel drink and do our creative living work.

Let me tell you, Ebony Noelle Golden unflinchingly pursues justice as an artist, scholar, and culture strategist. She calls Houston, Harlem, and Durham home. Her current performance projects include: The Keeping, (commissioned by Weeksville Heritage Center) and In The Name Of The Mother Tree (commissioned by Apollo Theater). Her current cultural organizing projects include: Watering (W)hole (a Black feminist climate justice project) and The Freedom Fellowship (a cultural reparations project). https://www.bettysdaughterarts.com/

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