The F Less Travelled… with June Reid.
June is an MA Cultural Studies student at Goldsmiths and is researching Black females who run and operate all female sound systems in the UK.
She herself has co-run and co-operated Nzinga Soundz alongside her long term friend, Lynda Rosenoir-Patten. Outside of University she works part-time as a Registrar of Births, Death and Marriages. During the 80s she was very active in the arts and cultural sectors including working with CEDDO Film and Video Workshop; and sitting on the Boards of Apples & Snakes (performance poetry), Munirah Theatre Company (Black Women's Theatre) and the Black Art Gallery/Organisation for Black Arts Advancement and Learning Activities (OBAALA).
Book choices:
Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour - Iyanla Vanzant
The Spook Who Sat by the Door - Sam Greenlee
Intersectionality - Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge
Music:
One Drop - Bob Marley
Someday We'll All Be Free - Donny Hathaway
Object:
Her friend - June Dennis
Additional notes:
Watch Steve McQueens Uprising https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000y317/uprising
Tweet June https://twitter.com/JuneRei29195898 and Nzinga Soundz https://twitter.com/NzingaSoundz Follow us on twitter @f_travelled and tweet us with your feminist companions with #ThisIsMyCanon
Music and sound production by Ruari Paterson Achenbach
Artwork by Katharine Davies-Herbst
The F Less Travelled...Tracing Feminist Pathways is brought to you in collaboration with The Centre for Feminist Research and with support from the Centre for Urban and Community Research and Methods Labs, all based at Goldsmiths.
To make our conversations more accessible, we include a transcript with every episode. Read our conversation with June here.