Over the weekend of 2вЂ“4 June 2017, DIY Diaspora Punx (a collective started by Phillips and also containing other London musicians such as Rachel Aggs) put on the first Decolonise Fest at DIY Space For London. In early 2018 they recorded their debut album with producer Margo Broom at Hermitage Works Studios. Later that year the band supported American bands Sad13 and Downtown Boys on UK tours. Line-up change and Decolonise Fest Д®stella Adeyeri (also of Witching Waves and Charmpit) joined in 2017 to replace Coward-Deyell after she moved to Scotland. Another song on the release is a punk cover of No Scrubs by TLC.

The title track is inspired by a lecture by the writer Melissa Harris-Perry, who compared life as a black woman in a white patriarchy to trying to find a true vertical in a room where everything is crooked. In 2014 the band released their first EP Sistah Punk on Tuff Enuff Records, and in 2016 they self released a 7' three song single entitled Crooked Room on their own Sistah Punk Records. I just thought that would be a great phrase for a strong, confident woman.вЂ™ вЂWhen we say a child is вЂњacting bigвЂќ, theyвЂ™re acting bigger than themselves.

The name of the band is partly a tribute to PhillipsвЂ™ mother, Joan, and partly based on a Caribbean figure of speech. They played their first set at the inaugural First Timers, an event where all the bands had to be new, most of the members had to be playing a new instrument and they had to include someone from a marginalised group. Chardine Taylor-Stone, and the band's original bassist Kiera Coward-Deyell responded. It was then that I realized the true healing power that Black independence gave to A Seat at the Table.History Formation and early releases Д«ig Joanie was formed by Stephanie Phillips in 2013, who posted online asking for bandmates with whom to start a black feminist punk band after becoming frustrated with the lack of intersectionality in the scene. Our experiences as Black people arenвЂ™t anyoneвЂ™s to changeВ and neither is our hair or our skin. All of a sudden, I was back on that couch listening to two old white men determine the worth of my struggles.

The drive that both Solange and Master P showed hit me as I finished reading the interview, and I was reminded of why itвЂ™s important to not let anyone dictate your life. That drive is exhausting and hard to maintain, but it got Q-Tip, Kelela, Raphael SaddiqВ and Lil Wayne on board and earned Solange her first No. She formed her own imprint, Saint Records, off of the strength of her fan base, has been a writer to the stars since she was a teenager, and even dabbles in production. Solange may not be as big a star as her sister, but sheвЂ™s grown her own crop in New Orleans. Going to all these different cities and traveling to all these different places. She's in the studio on her own, making her music. вЂњTo see a strong black woman just keep going.I'm a fan of that.В And not dependent on nobody else-she don't even depend on BeyoncГ© or nobody. Music, moviesВ and a WCW wrestling team later, he charted his own path to money and saw that same driving spirit in Solange when she reached out to him about narrating A Seat at the Table, according to an interview with Complex. PвЂ™s business acumen led the severely local No Limit Records to the big leagues with a distribution deal through Priority Records, but he held onto the masters that would eventually line New OrleansвЂ™ pockets. I hadnвЂ™t realized just how similar their stories were.

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