Simba Alik

A trans poet laments about his life in the black church, being a father and an outcast. Directed by Nichole Marie Lim Written and Performed by Simba Alik

DONATE: https://donorbox.org/moving-nashville-forward-37208-demonstration 5:50 Simba The Poet reading 12:23 discussions with Jackie Sims of PATHE (People's Alliance for Transit, Housing, and Employment) and Cecilia Prado of Worker's Dignity about housing access through a guaranteed income 44:32 Allison Russell performs Announcing the next episode of Sunday Services to Move Nashville Forward @ Third Man’s Blue Room, streaming live at 2pm on Sunday, June 27th. Tune in for a performance from Allison Russell, a reading from poet Simba The Poet, and discussions with Jackie Sims of PATHE (People's Alliance for Transit, Housing, and Employment) and Cecilia Prado of Worker's Dignity about housing access through a guaranteed income. Third Man hosts Moving Nashville Forward to create Sunday Services - a 6 month series of events to educate and organize Nashville to support a guaranteed basic income experiment in North Nashville. The events combine performances by Third Man artists and friends and discussions with Moving Nashville Forward’s creators about Nashville’s history, the problems facing our community today, and how a guaranteed basic income pilot can help shape our collective future. June 27 - Housing Security: Housing access through a guaranteed income July 25 - Poverty: Restoring dignity with a guaranteed income August 29 - Jobs and a living wage: Increasing employment with a guaranteed income September 26 - Future: An inclusive vision for Nashville More info on Moving Nashville Forward: https://www.movingnashvilleforward.org/ https://twitter.com/nashvillefwd https://www.instagram.com/nashvillefwd/

Underground Arts is Southern Illinois University's hip hop and spoken word performance group. The State of the Word is the region's leading youth poetry event, which brings together college poets with their high school counterparts from Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Sumner, Shelby Counties and beyond at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music. Southern Word places writer mentors in schools, universities, and community organizations. www.southernword.org