Adeem the Artist

I tried to see if we lived close because Adeem the artist could totally babysit but too far away. Wrack your brain for folks in your network with teens. That was my best hack

Episode 199 with April Hill of Teen Spirit is posted! We talk about her being a singer, both pop and opera.

You’ll find it on your podcast platform of choice by searching Ramblin Man!

Theme music by @adeemtheartist.bsky.social

If the dialogue around one single event could not be absolutely fucking stupid, I would have the smallest amount of hope.

I need to be done with social media. What’s the point anymore.

I went home over disagreements regarding my set. It’s a bummer. I’ll try to get back out there eventually maybe.

Idk. Still working out how to be useful anymore, honestly. I’m embarrassed to be American. I don’t have it in me to celebrate.

Grateful for cats, dear friends, little pieces of beauty scattered about, the ways we still manage to show up for each other from such overwhelming deficits.

Hospitality.

empty wheelchair covered in parakeets

omg they even ate the bones

Gonna be a 10

10 absolute hot

I’ll rate your hotness on a scale of 1-10 in the replies just send a selfie and also tell more people to follow me I have to get to 1,000 followers or I can’t do the show tonight

You???

Haha how did I not even get an honorable mention in the Toby article! Dang! ;P

Who am I gonna see tonight in DENVER??!

I’m just not sure “being mad about Black People celebrating that they got to be free” sends the whole “I’m NOT a racist” vibe you said you’re going for, man

Popping a nap
Outside o’hare because AVIS has absolutely fucked me over and overbooked their cars by 30-40 by the looks of the line.

Anyways, neat

I exist as i am because of them. May we live to see Freedom & Equality made real yet.

I celebrate Bell Hooks & Marsha P. Johnson. I celebrate Brownie McGhee & Jackie Shane.

Being a student of so many brilliant Black mentors makes it impossible for me to separate my existence from the struggle for Justice, for human dignity, for freedom, for Safety.

We have so far to go in order to really see each other as human beings, as beating hearts; to live as if our respective freedoms are inextricably bound, as if our Need & our Abundance are shared & not to be experienced in isolation.

I celebrate Malcom X & Audre Lorde.

I like attending celebrations and celebrating what we’ve distilled in popular culture to Black Excellence.

It reminds me of our continued fight for freedom, it keeps me grounded in the reality of this present moment with all of its progresses & jubilance & struggles & continued oppression.

Juneteenth has been part of my life now for eleven years.

I was 25 before I learned about it because, as Ta-Nehisi Coates says, the people who are convinced that they are white have engineered their own forgetting.

I know it’s not realistic but white people shouldn’t get off work today.

Breaking: governor in state you drove through once says in theory he agrees that murdering dissidents is extreme.

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Nobody asked but LeVar Burton is one of the best actors of all time. I love him so much. It’s hard to think of anyone who I think as highly of when it comes to progressive and innovative creators who have carved meaningful platforms.

I’m a little worried the state department of children’s services is going to intervene after the way I absolutely beat my kids ass in Tony hawk

Great news I just found out I’m actually an ancient light being and that is why I have IBS

You know who else was never vaccinated against COVID-19? Mussolini.

Last night, I was reminded of the power in the sacrament of storytelling & song, and the way it guides us to know ourselves and love each other, even when the world is upside down. @adeemtheartist.bsky.social thank you - it was a weird hard day, but also a beautiful evening I’ll always remember💜

Happy Fathers Day to the kid who inspired Rotations by crashing my birthday with being born. I couldn’t love you more, kid. Some days it makes me weep with heart ache that you even exist.

The biggest diff between Greta & Trump is that Greta is grounded in the larger story that began before her and stretches beyond

But Trump never thinks beyond his own life.

Greta Thunberg is humanity’s conscience, demanding better of & for all of us.

Trump is humanity’s chronic IBS.

Grateful for new friends & treasured relationships but fuck if it ain’t said to lose people who you think are ride or die. Lot of those folks disappeared in the last year. Many. Most. I’m just feeling pretty sad about that today. The new bonds don’t magically heal the broken old ones.