Saint Pauli Murray Inspires Economic Practice

Inspired by Saint Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, Sangodare shares about their entrepreneurial journey, especially the story of how they moved from fear to practice. (1:50min)

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Saint Pauli Murray Inspires Economic Practice


Row, Row, Row Your Boat – Excerpt (Nov 2021)

This video (1min 50sec) is an excerpt from the Mobile Homecoming Sunday Service Pauli Murray Birthday Edition in 2021. Inspired by Saint Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, Sangodare shares about their entrepreneurial journey, especially the story of how they moved from fear to practice.

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 (full service featuring Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs)

"...and we are listening to articulate the dream. What are you rowing on? Well, what are you rowing on today? What vision? What dream are you allowing to come through? Why, I encourage you, row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream.

And, you know, in our amplification, in our listening, we use the form of video and film, music and dance, facilitation and gatherings, retreats and publishing...publications by every loving means. You see, in my sermons, I use the forms of sacred texts, including black feminist texts and Yoruba sacred wisdom. I use popular music. I use my own struggles, breakthroughs and breakdowns, some of which you get to witness right here, Sunday after Sunday.
And there is another form I work with. That I have had a story about another form I work with that I have said to myself in the past. This may not be the most appropriate form for this space. Another form that I work with that in relationship to you, I have projected on to you I'm sorry and said you are not ready to hear about it. I pre-judged for how you might prejudge me for the full expression of my calling, my passions, my gifts.
But when I checked in with my Pauli Murray vibration, when I asked the questions about how to push Pauli Murray's work further, when I released the judgment and decided to honor Reverend Dr. Saint Pauli Murray's legacy by activating the ceremony and ceremonies that would be have been will be useful to Pauli Murray. I had to go back and fetch this sacred form that I had demonized. That I disregarded and disrespected, disavowed and disenfranchized. The form I am talking about is the form of the marketplace, the realm of the Orisha Oya. The form of business and finance. Oh, somebody pray with me right now.
This is my race, y'all. This is my lane. I have released the hype with the help of the Lorde and Pauli Murray and I am practicing bit by bit liberation economies."