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Zina's Buqalah
by Zina Bee
(Pronounced: Zee-naa's Boo-kaa-laa)A duty to memory and possibly. A virtual space for folks to tell those stories that you'd never hear about in school, the narratives that have been silenced, pushed to the side, and often manipulated or even erased. It's for the narratives that confront dominant culture and norms, and for the stories that we carry in our veins, those that speak to our healing and liberation. And it's most definitely, a nod to our ancestors. Instagram @zinas.buqalah. Music produced by @Monk_HTS & @Evaclear_Music.
Episodes
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The Artist's Responsibility: A Fireside Chat with Equipto
Equipto is a rapper and political activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In his teens, he founded Bored Stiff, a long-running hip hop group -- and led the Frisco Five hunger strike outside San Francisco's Mission District police station, to protest police brutality and killings of unarmed...
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A Duty to Memory: October 17th, 1961
On October 17th, 1961, less than a year before Algeria won its independence – the French state committed a massacre in the heart of Paris. During a peaceful march, over 12,000 people were arrested in a matter of hours. Algerians were beaten, shot with live ammunition, and their bodies thrown into...
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Voices from the Streets - Volume 1
As we mark 2 years since the start of this most recent phase of genocide against the people of Palestine and Gaza, people took to the streets of Oakland - demanding an arms embargo. A dozen people shared their reflections, drawing connections to indigenous peoples and working class struggles from...
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The Politics of Football - From Algeria with Love #DZ
In honor of our elder and football legend, Rachid Mekhloufi, who passed away at the age of 88 on November 8th, 2024. Allah yerhamo. For the 1st ever Algerian football team, who for the last 4 years of the battle for independence, became ambassadors for the cause and traveled the world to raise...
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"We the 3arabs": How Media Tales Shape our Reality
Excerpt: "We the 3arabs, the villains from distant lands in so many of your action films, the terrorists and their oppressed wives, the enemy of the free world and your human rights… those of us who apparently keep traumatizing the west, who will be asked to reassure you (time and time again)…
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Town Business - Honoring & Protecting Oakland's Sacred Legacy
In this episode, we sit with Raheem Divine 🎙️ - a poet, journalist, sociologist & educator born & raised in Oakland, Califas. We spoke of the legacy of the Black Panther Party, the town’s charm & the ways it operates as a portal, the role of culture & the importance of a holistic approach in...
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Fusion of Nations Round Table (Live on July 14th)
This episode was recorded live at La Peña Cultural Center, as part of a benefit show for displaced families in Palestine, Sudan and Congo. Podcasts guests include Turha'ak from Community Ready Corps, Tina of Gabriela Oakland, Maisa of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, Jesus from Stop Cop City...
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Seeds of Resistance Round Table (Live on May 4th)
This episode was recorded live on May 4th, at the Eastside Arts Alliance in Oakland, Califas - at the "Seeds of Resistance" benefit show. Juan from @burnthewagon and I had a vision - of bringing both of our podcasts to a live audience, on the same day. To amplify voices from different nations &...
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Groovy: A Poet in Service of his Word & Collective Liberation
Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, educator, organizer, and movement worker. His work centers on issues of mass incarceration, extrajudicial killings of Black people and human rights. He has taught at detention centers across the country. His published collections include Someone’s Dead Already…
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A Palestinian's Right to Return & Resolve to Stay
A rich episode with Nadya Tannous, host of Arab Amp Folktales. Nadya is a passionate community organizer, writer and researcher, born and raised in the Bay Area (Unceded Ohlone Territory), with a focus on refugee rights, inter-community empowerment, and returning land to the people and people...
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Photos Worth A Thousands Words: Looking Back to Move Ahead
In this episode, we hear from photographer and prison abolitionist Nick DeRenzi. He takes us back to his first days with a camera, and through the years as an artist, community organizer, and movement documenter. They say a photo can tell a thousand words, and Nick doesn't stop there. Listen in…
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Still Here: Land Rematriation is Queer Liberation
In this episode, Vick takes us back to the beginnings of the Sogorea Te' Land Trust, breaks down the history and importance of shellmounds (sacred burial sites) for the Ohlone peoples, and calls on us to (re)build our relationship with the land. They take us back to the first missions that were...
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"From the Block to the Top": A Hip Hop Journey
To kick off this season (an ode to those born and raised in the Bay Area), Khafre Jay takes the mic. He's a change-maker, community organizer, nonprofit worker, and Hip Hop Artist . As a Bay Area, Hunters Point activist fighting for racial and socioeconomic justice, he empowers community members…
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Season 2 Trailer: An Homage to the Bay
This season is for those born and raised in the Bay Area, for their stories, contributions and lived experiences. For their expectations and their demands; especially from those of us who are guests and settlers here. Guests will include artists, healers, educators, community organizers and…
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One Year Ago Today
This podcast is both a call to remember what’s always been sitting deep within our bones, and an invitation for new stories to emerge. It's an opportunity to speak ourselves and our futures into existence. It’s for the stories that you’d never hear about in school, for the words that move us…
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Autonomy, AfroFuturism and Making Her Own **** Blueprint
Edxi Betts is a Black, Blackfeet descended trans Pinay multi media insurrectionary artist and organizer. She is also a creator and self distributer of zines, as well as a published writer. She creates both art and media for the sake of propagating resistance culture, counter narrative, and...
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Moms' Night Out: Art that Makes a Difference
Jackie Fawn has always been drawing and at one point couldn't stop herself from drawing during her lunch breaks. Today, you can see her art all over Turtle Island... from street murals to café walls and t-shirts and across many indigenous-led frontline struggles. For me, this indigenous and...
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Black Joy in Birth Keeping, Holistic Wellness & Abolition
In this episode, Ashley breaks down the spiritual nature of birth keeping and what it means to carry the legacy of her granny midwife from the south. She calls to a collective remembering of the ancestral knowledge and practices that have been passed on for generations, and of deep breath…
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A Femme Audio Engineer Take-Over
For this episode, I sat down with Victoria "Kiki" Fajardo of Studio X, a women of color owned and operated recording studio in Oakland, Califas. She is a recording and mixing engineer, an archivist in sound restoration and preservation. Her focus is in creating a great and comfortable recording…
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"Rezbien": All In with Do It Ourselves Records
In this episode, Dioganhdih (they/them) breaks down the process of self-releasing an entire hip hop album through their label Do it Ourselves Records. The 2-spirit indigenous lyricist, MC & producer, hailing from the Akwesasne Mohawk nation, speaks of the tensions at the border that is crossing...
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Home In This Lifetime: The Liberation of Palestine
Welcome to the 2nd episode of the first season of Zina's Buqalah! In this episode, I sat down with Diyala Shihadih of the Palestinian Youth Movement. Born and raised in the Bay Area, this Palestinian community organizer breaks down the history of the occupation of her homelands, the importance of...
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Soul Journeys & Collective Story Making
We have Chirelle LeTrese as our guest for the first full episode of the first season of Zina's Buqalah. And what a gift this first episode has been. We speak of collective story-making, connecting the physical to the spiritual, inner child healing, soul journeys, intersectionality, and how…
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What is a Buqalah?
Pronounced "Zeena's Boo-kaa-laa". A buqalah is a clay water pitcher used to tell the future, and the poem that is recited during the ritual. It's an ancient tradition held down by aunties, grandmas, and elders across Algeria today. The poems were recited in darija, an Algerian Arabic vernacular...
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October 17th: A Duty to Memory
I launched the Instagram page for this podcast on October 17th because I wanted to share a piece of our history that has been intentionally silenced and hidden from view. October 17th, 2021 marked the 60-year anniversary of a massacre committed by the French state. Although it happened in plain...
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Welcome to Zina's Buqalah [Trailer]
Salaams y'all, and welcome! This podcast is for the stories you never heard about in school, the ones that were systematically buried, erased, manipulated, silenced, or stolen. It's a call to our collective memory, an invitation and a homecoming to the stories we carry in our veins. Every story…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
(Pronounced: Zee-naa's Boo-kaa-laa)A duty to memory and possibly. A virtual space for folks to tell those stories that you'd never hear about in school, the narratives that have been silenced, pushed to the side, and often manipulated or even erased. It's for the narratives that confront dominant culture and norms, and for the stories that we carry in our veins, those that speak to our healing and liberation. And it's most definitely, a nod to our ancestors. Instagram @zinas.buqalah. Music produced by @Monk_HTS & @Evaclear_Music.
HOSTED BY
Zina Bee
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(Pronounced: Zee-naa's Boo-kaa-laa)A duty to memory and possibly. A virtual space for folks to tell those stories that you'd never hear about in school, the narratives that have been silenced, pushed to the side, and often manipulated or even erased. It's for the narratives that confront dominant...
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