An
Artist
Duty
Monica Raye Simpson in conversation with the Black women who shaped her.
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"It's an artist's duty to reflect the times."— Nina Simone
The Show
Monica has spent her life in rooms where Black women were holding everyone else together. This series turns that lens around.
Each episode is one long, unhurried conversation with a woman who helped make her who she is as a leader, an artist, and an organizer. No panel. No crossfire. Just the parts of the journey that rarely make it into a keynote or a press release.
Here's what's on the record:
- MusicThe sound that carried us here
- BeautyWho gets to define it
- FaithWhat holds you when nothing else does
- FamilyThe ones you're born to and the ones you choose
- SexualitySaid out loud, with no shame
- LegacyWhat you're leaving on the table for the next ones
Liner Notes
Monica Raye Simpson
Artist · Cultural Strategist · Organizer · DoulaBlack queer feminist. Singer. Spoken word artist. Executive Director of SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective since 2013, the Southern-based national collective that helped define reproductive justice in this country.
For more than twenty years she's organized across LGBTQ+ liberation, racial justice, birth justice, and human rights, from the United Nations to the stage, always with culture as the tool for change.
- TIME100Most Influential People, 2023
- BBC 100 Women2022
- Fast Company Queer 502024
- EssenceNew Civil Rights Leader, 2014
- Ms. FoundationGloria Award, Woman of Vision, 2018
- Revolutionary LoveThe Live Recording, 2015
Pull up a chair.
If this page found its way to you, it's because your work has meant something to Monica, whether or not you knew it. She'd be honored to have the conversation.
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