This was a raw and vulnerable conversation with Interdisciplinary artist, award winning Poet Laureate of Maui, and activist Austin Alexander. We talk about boundaries, rehabilitation, revolution within the self and with community, and much much more.
Bio: Interdisciplinary artist, Austin Alexander, is an award-winning poet laureate of Maui, best known for representing the kingdom of Hawaii at the 2010 Individual World Poetry Slam. Presently, he resides in Los Angeles, primarily working as a screenwriter & producer in partnership with best-selling poet/multi-hyphenate, Saul Williams, and screenwriter/producer Gary Goldman - Minority Report, Total Recall, Big Trouble in Little China, Basic Instinct, etc. As a recording and performance artist, he is currently producing a scored work of poetry with composer, Pedro Osuna, (No Time to Die, Argentina 1985, etc.) and world-renowned Hans Zimmer solo cellist, SUVVI. As a rapper, Austin has shared the stage with hip-hop artists such as Grouch, Eligh, Scarub, and Luckyiam (of Living Legends), Zion I, Abstract Rude, Myka 9, Aceyalone, Haiku d’Etet, Jennifer Johns, Angelo Moore (of Fishbone) and many more. As an educator, he has lectured at the University of Hawaii and taught classes on poetry & creative writing at Montessori and King Kekaulike High School on the island of Maui.
https://www.austinalexander.com/
This episode was previously recorded and edited for live radio. You can also find all the links to KQBH, Spotify, and Substack on @byginaduran’s website at byginaduran.com. Link in bio.
We are all apart of the collective. It is not a special group or community out of anyone’s reach. The trees, the earth, the plants, the insects, the animals, and humans are all apart of the collective. We each have something to give to the world and our communities around us. It’s in knowing how to care for the ones we love, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. It is all self-care. Community care is self-care. And together we are more than community, we are like the stars singing in the sky. We are music and our voices are the hum of the universe. Because we are of the earth and things of stars, and so is every thing on this earth.
Thank you for joining me on this journey. I hope that we can all come together to create positive change.
Collective Revolution Through Rehabilitation-Part II