Purpose does not have to be a grand thing . . .
"your girl is going through it. I can't say if it's all these planetary transitions, the continued attack of white cishetero patriarchy, my brain [...]
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04, 2022
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12, 2021
PURPOSE is taking a journey to transform ourselves
Nine years ago today, I sent an email naming and claiming PURPOSE Productions. Even then, I knew PURPOSE wasn't mine. I never had [...]
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06, 2020
A #LiberatedLifestyle Statement: Open Letter to Arts Organizations Rampant with White Supremacy
Nana Chinara is a gleaming glitterbeam, movement art conjurer, and PURPOSE-full Organizer. This excerpted letter embodies Nana's brilliance and power supported and affirmed by [...]
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06, 2020
How is PURPOSE Productions doing?
How are you? This is a question I've asked and been asked more frequently in the last three months than I have experienced in [...]
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09, 2018
From Manifestation to Mothering: A New Mission
I will never forget the first day I met Alexis Pauline Gumbs. I had heard tales far and wide of her genius, her sweetness, [...]
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03, 2018
Black Joy . . . FOUND
from Dance Black Joy: Global Affirmations and Defiance In February, I had the pleasure of attending the third convening organized by the Collegium for [...]
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02, 2018
Reflections on a Portrait of America
I often remember, in moments when I saw Michelle Obama on television, wondering: how much is she not saying? what silences lie behind those [...]
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11, 2017
Check us out in November’s Dance Magazine
I had a great time interviewing with Dance Magazine's Ryan P. Casey about PURPOSE's thriving practices, and offering tips for negotiating and naming your [...]
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06, 2017
Would you rather be safe or FREE?
We are creating cultural innovators and sustaining cultural legacies... no, actually we are cultivating the cultural innovators that will sustain our cultural legacies. A [...]
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05, 2017
FROM THE TEAM: Reflections on the Journey
We're nearly one month away from our #bawse skills workshop! We've been sharing glimpses of the experience on the #PURPOSEgram - from quotes that [...]