#YesYesYes Consent-Themed Poetry Show, Sifu Hotman on Night Vale Radio, Other Updates

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A few big updates:

On Wednesday, May 20, this consent-themed spoken-word show will be happening at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. Performers include Keno Evol, Thressa Isobel, Kevin Yang, Simone Williams, Kenny Ngo, Sophie & Ally, and See More Perspective, as well as Chava Gabrielle and me. Here’s the FB event page.

Chava approached me about collaborating on this event a few months ago, and it’s shaping up to be very cool. Sponsors include great organizations like TruArtSpeaks, The Aurora Center, The Sexual Violence Center, Line Break Media, and Intermedia Arts, and we’ll be doing some audience-centered interactive stuff too. It’s also good timing; if you missed my brand new poem, “Consent at 10,000 Feet,” check it out here.

This past Friday, the Sifu Hotman song “Matches” was featured on Welcome to Night Vale. If you don’t know, Sifu Hotman is a collaborative hip hop project featuring me, producer Rube, and rising indie-rap star deM atlaS. And Welcome to Night Vale, apparently, is the most popular podcast in the world. A friend suggested we submit some music, and we did, not thinking much of it. But now that they’ve played it, the response has been overwhelming. It’s so great to have this project in particular get a big second push, because I think it’s one of the best things I’ve ever been involved with. If you missed it during the first run, you can get it here.

Update: as of right now, Sifu Hotman’s “Embrace the Sun” is also the #1 best-selling hip hop album on Bandcamp. So that’s cool.

Lots of other stuff happening, as always. First of all, thanks to Daniel Rangel for the new header photo; more media coming soon. Also, we’re still pushing the big #7UpForSocialChange campaign over at TruArtSpeaks, and I’m so excited about that work. Lots of new projects in the works. Lots of shows coming up, especially once we get into autumn. In the meantime, I want to plug my Twitter feed, where I try to share not only updates on my own work, but link to as much cool stuff as I can. That’s the best place to keep in touch. Please do.