Video & Audio

In Conversation with the piece "I Want A Dyke for President"
Filmed in Houston, TX by the good people at Write About Now Poetry

Filmed at the 2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam where FreeQuency placed 1st overall

Filmed at the 2018 Women of the World Poetry Slam Write About Now Cypher

Filmed by the good folks over at Button Poetry during the 2014 Texas Grand Slam

Filmed by the good folks at Poetry Slam Inc. at the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam

Filmed by the good folks over at Button Poetry during the 2016 Southern Fried Poetry Slam

Filmed by the good folks at Poetry Slam Inc. at the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam

Slam New Orleans aka Team SNO is a collective of performance poets, educators, youth workers, activists and students that strive to promote spoken word poetry as a means of artistic expression, community engagement and literacy expansion. Team SNO has attended 4 of the past 5 National Poetry Slam competitions, earning 3 national titles in this short amount of time. We’ll be featuring three of the groups poets: Honey Sanaa, Kataalyst Alcindor and Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa. Originally aired on April 13th 2016.

My last mix was a retrospective on 90s Hip Hop that included no rappers who identify as female. Obviously this was not on purpose, but it is absolutely proof positive of how deeply I have internalized the patriarchy. Some of the best rappers of all time identify as women, so I've decided to create a mix that only includes female MCs and spoken word artists.

"The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution." - bell hooks

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Shaun is joined by Mwende Katwiwa (AKA FreeQuency) from Team Slam New Orleans, the city’s award winning (they got first place in both the 2012 and 2013 National Poetry Slam) slam poetry team. Originally aired August 6th 2015.

Mwende Katwiwa aka Freequency talks with Gahiji on her book and experience “Becoming Black.”