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The Bad Sista

Rebel Girl with a Blaster

About Me

A historian at heart, reporter by (w)right, rebel by reason, Walidah Imarisha is a spoken word artist and aspires to be a revolutionary.Walidah has toured the country several times performing, lecturing and challenging. She has facilitated poetry and journalism workshops third grade to twelfth, in community centers, youth detention facilities, and women’s prisons. The author of two chapbooks, “children of ex-slaves: the unfinished revolution” and “This Back Called Bridg,” Walidah is also the bad half of the poetry duo Good Sista/Bad Sista, and has co-authored with her partner Turiya Autry two chapbooks: "Good Sista/Bad Sista: Can YOU Tell the Difference?" and "Action-packed!".She has shared the stage with folks as different as Kenny Muhammad of the Roots, Chuck D, Saul Williams, war resister Stephen Funk, Ani DiFranco, John Irving, dead prez and organizer and revolutionary Yuri Kochiyama. She has appeared on Puerto Punx Ricanstruction’s second album Love and Revolution and toured nationally and internationally with them.Walidah was one of the editors for the first anthology to be released about Sept. 11 and the aftermath, Another World is Possible, and has had essays featured in Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics of Hip Hop, Letters From Young Activists, Daddy, Can I Tell You Something, Revolution She Wrote, Word Warriors, and The Quotable Rebel.One of the founders and first editor of the political hip hop publication AWOL Magazine, Walidah spent six years on the board of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors. She does anti prison organizing with the Human Rights Coalition, a group of prisoners’ families and former prisoners.A punk rocker at heart till she dies, Walidah has had the honor of being part of the Puerto Punx band/collective Ricanstruction. In 2004, she was one of three black women who founded Afropick, a quarterly show of political punk bands of color in Philadelphia that is going strong and staying brown, loud and proud.Lastly, she is also the editor and co-producer of the Katrina documentary Finding Common Ground in New Orleans and went on a west coast tour in May 2007 with the film and New Orleans organizer Suncere Ali Shakur.Walidah also hates writing bios with a passion, and knows that concerted consistent and real organizing work is way more important than all this other ego pumping shit. But hey, we still live in a capitalist society where you gotta pay the bills, right? At least for now (evil yet still revolutionary laugh). www.walidah.com

My Interests

instigatin, talkin shit and tryna to growMy poem Hairpeace..me and others speaking at an anti-nazi rally we held in Portland in October... ..Me performing at Hip Hop for Palestine benefit, Rotunda, Philly 2006.. ..Me performing at Hip Hop for Palestine benefit, Rotunda, Philly 2006My post-Katrina documentary Finding Common Ground in New Orleans (check it out at www.myspace.com/channelzeromedia)Malene Younglao's "Rebel Radio": If you look close, you can see me and my afro in it!A silly video me and DJ Ian Head made together -- get fuckin' familiar with Knobby!

I'd like to meet:

fomentors, rebels, outlaws, poets, revolutionaries, radicals, artists, musicians, rabble rousers, troublemakers, the usual suspects

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My Blog

Youth Poetry feature Oct. 24 Come and support!

Just wanted to let you know that I work with a group of students at De La Salle High School. They are some of the most incredible poets and organizers and people I know. Anyway, they are doing their f...
Posted by The Bad Sista on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:08:00 PST

Good Sista/Bad Sista in Seattle!

That's right, Good Sista/Bad Sista are going to be rocking it in Seattle, and we are so excited to rock it at Ladies First, a phenomenal monthly event that benefits an amazing organization CARA, Commu...
Posted by The Bad Sista on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:28:00 PST

FREE Hip Hop Show Portland: X-Vandals, Mic Crenshaw, Syndel

This is a show that my poetry and booking partner Turiya and myself have organized, and we are so excited about the line up and the talent. We think it's going to be an amazing night of FREE conscious...
Posted by The Bad Sista on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:26:00 PST

You can’t do it alone

So my myspace is more fun now, more geeky gotta bust out the geek. And I gotta give so much love to Khingz County for the song Black Han Solo, making a space revolutionary brown romantic geeks everywh...
Posted by The Bad Sista on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:25:00 PST

RIP Sean

I haven't posted up in a really long time. The words have dried up. My friend Sean died two weeks ago. He took his own life. He was facing a prison sentence. I never thought I could hate the prison sy...
Posted by The Bad Sista on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:53:00 PST

Lost Souljahs: Remembering Bashir Hameed and Hasan Shakur

On Aug. 31st, I received an email that Black Panther Party political prisoner Bashir Hameed passed away after 27 years of wrongful incarceration because of his struggle for liberation. He passed away ...
Posted by The Bad Sista on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:56:00 PST

Grassroots Gustav Update Website

common ground relief and independent journalists are working to do regular updates from the ground, letting folks know what is going on:http://www.commongroundrelief.org/gustavas they said in update, ...
Posted by The Bad Sista on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:07:00 PST

Amy Goodman Arrested - Is the World Going Fucking Insane?

It's seriously getting to the point where I am bracing myself when I'm opening up my email now. I just received this forward, Democracy Now journalist Amy Goodman was arrested at the RNC. I'm guessing...
Posted by The Bad Sista on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:00:00 PST

Gustav and Those Who Must Not Be Forgotten

this email is from an organizer drewchristopher in philadelphia, who has done a lot of support work for new orleans and the south. gustav has been downgraded and now everyone is waiting with held brea...
Posted by The Bad Sista on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:14:00 PST

As Gustav Approaches...

this is from an organizer and media person i met when i was down in new orleans filming after hurricane katrina, jenka. this is a really good succinct sum up with links of what's actually going on dow...
Posted by The Bad Sista on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:49:00 PST