Black Funk

Tai Chi Chuan: Using the Erotic As Power w/ Dr. Herukhuti

This workshop will cover basic history and theory of Tai Chi Chuan with particular emphasis on the use of Tai Chi Chuan for health maintenance and vitality. Participants will watch and practice parts of the Yang family style form of Tai Chi Chuan.

Date/Time: November, 22nd 4-5pm

Fee: $5-10
Location: Third Root Community Health Center 380 Marlborough Road Brooklyn, NY 11226 Map

For more information, call 917.403.0536 or email here.

Scottie Lowe

We met years ago, at the genesis of our two companies. She was, and still is, a hot, visionary sister who deeply loves her communities. Scottie Lowe is the founder of AfroerotiK, a company that specializes in Afrocentric erotic literature including customized stories that are written on demand for clients who want sex-positive, culturally affirming narratives.

We present to you Scottie Lowe as she answers Essential Questions and shares her goodies with us.

Miriam Makeba - Will Not Be Forgotten, Sang The Soundtrack of Revolution

March 4, 1932-~~November 10, 2008~~ Until her name is no longer spoken

The Folly in The Same-Sex Marriage Wars

by Herukhuti, PhD, MEd
Founder and Executive Director
Black Funk: The Center for Culture, Sexuality, and Spirituality
Editor-In-Chief
http://www.blackfunk.org

There are a number of fucking hilarious aspects to the same-sex marriage wars. Here are several examples:

Amiri Baraka on the 2008 US Presidential Elections

Listen here.

Breaking the Silence: Fulfilling The Promise by Marimba Ani

Amura Onaa tells us that when our Ancestors were being torn apart from each other, we looked into each other�s eyes and made a solemn promise. We promised to reconnect with each other so that this tearing apart would never happen again. It is the Afrikan belief that we are our Ancestors reborn, and through this spiritual rebirth, we gain eternal life. The promise could only be fulfilled by future generations returning as Afrikans who had made this sacred promise to each other. What our Ancestors suffered over centuries, could only have been survived because they had hope. But what could possibly have given them cause for hope? If they had not survived and bore children who bore children who bore children, we would not be here. It is the Afrikan belief that we choose to be born when we are in the spirit world, and that we make a contract to fulfill a purpose in this life. All of this can only mean that we have chosen to be born Afrikan and that we are the hope of our Ancestors. Our purpose on this earth is to avenge our Ancestors and to achieve the victory: Afrikan sovereignty through a Pan-Afrikan world order based on the principles of MAAT. It is our choice to fulfill The Promise to our Ancestors by achieving the victory denied them.

It is now Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Is this the final act of assimilation, accommodation, and integration? Is this how we are fulfilling our promise to the Ancestors? Has America made restitution for what was done to them, still being done to us? Is the Maafa over or has it merely morphed into another, more insidious form of genocide? Are we now experiencing a life-threatening condition of cultural AIDS in which our immune system has turned on itself? Has the Yurugu virus mutated so that it looks like us? Are we participating in our own self-destruction?

What To Do The Day After The Obama Win

by Herukhuti, PhD, MEd
Founder and Executive Director
Black Funk: The Center for Culture, Sexuality, and Spirituality
Editor-In-Chief
http://www.blackfunk.org

We who believe in freedom can not rest.- Sweet Honey in the Rock

It appears Senator (now President-Elect) Barack Obama has won the 44th presidential popular vote election. He will, therefore, be the chief guardian of a political, economic, and military system that has been responsible for the exploitation, murder, kidnapping, marginalization, and/or oppression of millions of folks around the world through many means including chattel slavery, manifest destiny, white man's burden, expansionism, Jim Crow apartheid, compulsory sterilization programs, colonialism, COINTELPRO, etc.

YOUR INNER DARKNESS HALLOWEEN FETISH BALL - NY, USA

DomSubFriends and Paddles Event

Date: Saturday, November 1st 2008
Location: Paddles
Time: 10 PM to 4 AM
Address: #250 West 26th Street (Bet: 7th/8th Ave)
Contact Phone: 646-319-2780
Contact Email: Click Here

"We all have our DarkSide. This is your night to expose it. Come release the Sweet Nectar of your Inner Darkness. This Party will RULE, as hundreds of Kinky SM'ers come out to this event annually. THIS PARTY IS DSF's BIGGEST PARTY OF THE YEAR!

Please wear a costume or dress fetish in order to fit the theme. You're welcome to change into your costume at the club. If you do not have a costume, get a mask. Please, please fit the Costume and/or mask theme.

***BEST COSTUME WINS $$$$$ PRIZE***
*Runner-Up Prize will include a free DomSubFriends membership (or cash value).

WE WILL ALSO HELP TO CELEBRATE the 25th ANNIVERSARY OF PADDLES.

Awesome Gothic, techno, industrial, New Age, ambience, Trip Hop, Rock and other great mixes. We will serve light food, snacks, cake and munches at the party.

Price:
DSF/Affiliate members: Males: $35 Females:$15
Non Members: $40 Non Members: Females: $20

Our parties are some of the best fetish parties around. Most, if not all, walk away feeling they had a great time. As a bonus, many have met play and long term partners at our events. DSF management makes sure of that.

For any question, please e-mail DomSubFriends management or call us at 646.319.2780."

http://www.DomSubFriends.com

Sacred Eros: Discussing Sexuality and Justice - Boston, MA, USA

Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 8:36 PM
Sacred Eros - Topic: Sexuality and Justice
Thursday, October 30, 7:00pm
Arlington Street Church, 351 Boylston Street, Boston MA
(entrance on Boylston Street next to Parish Cafe)
Meet in Perkins Room downstairs

"Come to ASC�s sexuality and spirituality group, where the focus of discussion will be on sexuality and justice. What would a sexually just world look like, and how do we bring it about? How can we deal with the challenges to such issues as reproductive rights, sexual and gender equality, and meaningful sex education with a broader moral and spiritual vision? Join us!"

For more information, contact Desmond Ravenstone.

10 Things That Won't Happen The Day Obama or Palin Take Office

by Herukhuti, PhD, MEd
Founder and Executive Director
Black Funk: The Center for Culture, Sexuality, and Spirituality
Editor-In-Chief
http://www.blackfunk.org

Obama 1. White/European supremacy, white/European privilege, or white/European entitlement will not disappear.

Obama 2. People of African descent around the world will not be under any less threat or targeting.

Obama 3. The wealthy one percent of the world's population will not see any decrease in their wealth.

Obama 4. Bill and Hillary Clinton will not instantly melt.

Obama 5. The streets in poor and working class communities in the United States will not be any safer.

Palin 1. Women's lives will not improve.

Palin 2. Poor and working class children with physical, neurological, or emotional challenges will not be cared for any better.

Palin 3. Conservative Christians will not have any more influence in public policy than they do currently.

Palin 4. The end of days predicted in the Christian Book of Revelation will not occur any faster, although you might wish it so after a month.

Palin 5. In the workplace, women will not be respected any more than they currently are.

No, they will not have to stock more chicken in the White House than during the previous administration. No, they will not have to install a Speak and Spell in the Vice President's office bathroom so that she can read while she's in there. No, Hay Z will not replace the military orchestra at official state functions. No, Joe Six Pack will not be named Secretary of Health and Human Services. No, William Ayers will not be named Ambassador to Al Queda. No, no, no.

In a system worth hundreds of trillions of dollars, do you really think they would put the future and success of that system in the hands of people who were elected by a group of people stupid enough to believe that they would put the future and success of that system in the hands of those kind of people? And if they did, do you think they wouldn't have already determined what was negotiable and non-negotiable regardless of who is elected?