Indie Women's Music - All of the sistah's in the Womyn's Music Festival Scene,Teena Marie,Monet, Goapele, Mary J Blige, Sonia Sanchez, Janet, Kafele, Nedra johnson, Ms Fish, Lenny Kravitz, Seal, Ugochi,the older version of Macy Gray, Lucy Smith, Alexis Suter
Movies
Chorus Line, Chicago, West Side Story, All That Jazz, (starting to see a theme?)
Eve's Bayou, Daughters of the Dust, The Two Faces of Eve
Books
right now it's all about Spirited - by Lisa C. Moore and Walk Like a Man (Laurinda Brown).
Sula - Toni Morrision, Beloved - Toni Morrison, What Looks Like Crazy... - Pearl Cleage, anybody's poetry collection - Cheryl Clark, Emmanuel Exavier, sharon bridgforth - bulljean stories, love conjure blues.
Heroes
The everyday girls doing the down and dirty grassroots work to effect social and conscious change and yet nobody knows your name
Those who love women unconditionally and without apology
Butches who can't pass
Femmes who refuse to pass
Trans that dare to pass and
Men who can accept all of that
C.C.'s Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Networking
Body type:
More to love!
Zodiac Sign:
Gemini
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
Post grad
Occupation:
Always a teacher and mentor
C.C.'s Schools
Spelman College
Atlanta, GA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: English Literature
Minor: Performing Arts
2006 to Present
Cuny Queens College
Flushing, NY
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Creative Writing
Lammy nominated for best lesbian poetry - Body Language, anthologized in Best Lesbian poetry and Best Black Women's Erotic Poetry, Spirited and many others. Slam Champion - 5th annual Gwendolyn Brooks Competition, women's music festivals
Founder and Artistic Director for POW-WOW, Inc (www.POWWOWChicago.org) Book talent for our weekly spoken word venue on Tuesday nights. Producer of large scale benefits and special events for non-profits
C.C.'s Companies
POW-WOW, Inc Chicago, Illinois US Founder and Artistic Director
About me: Full- figured humble Diva (claiming the title but reinventing the definition). Lately that's what comes out of people's mouthes when they greet me (I'm finally learning to own it with humility and honor). Cause I have a mission and I work hard against naysayers and those who can't help that they can't see the vision - so it's my job not to fall into the limits of how high they view the sky but to pull them up with me so that they can view the world from a different altitude.
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?... Your playing small doesn't serve the world... The above speech by Nelson Mandela was orignally written by Marianne Williamson."
Who I'd like to meet: In a private conversation with just me and her - Maya Angelou for saving a stocky little black girl's life with poetry that spoke to me (Still I Rise, Phenomenal Woman) and Nikki Giovanni for helping me understand the complexities of (To Be a Gemini). All the fierce other Gemini's who can relate to the ying and yang of themselves like Prince, Lenny Kravitz, Patti Labelle, Angelina Jolie, and others - they validate my genius and my suffering everyday.
I want to go back in time and have lunch with Lorraine Hansbury and Zora Neale Husrton,
have a pajama party with Audre Lorde and Pat Parker,
Nurse back to health Essex Hemphill and Bayard Rustin
update my passport and travel in exile with James Baldwin on a private plane to anywhere other than here.
Learn a move or two from Josephine Baker and Alvin Ailey.
I want a one on one encore performance from living legend -Judith Jamison who gave an s-curved colored girl dreams of flying without wings so much so that I "Cry" from this "Revelation"
I want to have tea and crumpets with new world women artists like Amy Tan and Sandra Cisneros - with the generation x'ers who dare claim their space agmonst the y chromosoned genders who consistantly need to rationalize the world according to how large things appear in phallic
terms.
c.c. ~ i was blown away by your performance at NWMF. mostly, i was so happy to meet you! you are such a beautiful soul and i truly hope we can perform TOGETHER sometime soon. chicago is only 3 hours from here! thank you for the beautiful inspiration. much luv, liz
TGIF Have a great weekend Yesterday, I recieved your book that I purchased in the mail. I read Dr. Butch or Stud, loved it, can't wait to read more MyHotComments
Hey C.C....Just came across a picture we took at the park while I was in Chicago back in July...Thought I'd stop thru to say hi and send you my love...I'll be in touch soon so we can talk about some things... love ya dearly...
hey, cc! happy birthday! i was in chicago last weekend, but i don't have your contact info anymore so i couldn't holla at ya. hope you're well...best wishes, ami
