Strategy, directed autonomy, a well-stocked pantry, and a rollicking conversation about an experience in a dungeon are all on tap in my conversation with Christina Springer. Her very intentional life has allowed her to move more seamlessly than most through the COVID-19 crisis while some of us began to examine the very essence of how we live, eat, and educate our children.

Guest on this episode

Christina Springer is an Alt.Black artist who uses text, performance, video, and other visual expressions. Cave Canem shaped her voice. Her fourth collection of poetry, The Splooge Factory, was released by Frayed Edge Press in November 2018. Currently working on Rebrand The Past: a collection of paintings, fabric, mixed media objects, videos, textiles, and texts from a museum in our Black utopian womanist future. The first iteration, Futuristic Relics & Motherboards Sacred showed in San Jose, Dayton, and Pittsburgh.

Springer is the Resident Elder for Black Dream Escape, a project of Onika Reigns and her son Windafire which is a therapeutic art practice centering Black and Indigenous rest. (BIPOC always includes Queer.) With them, she will soon open BlackSpace a radical clinic. She has worked in non-profit arts management as the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Sun Crumbs, the Envirolink Network, and as the General Manager of WYEP FM. Springer resides in Pittsburgh where she home-educates her son.

Mentioned in the show/resources

• Christina’s website -  www.christinaspringer.com
• Christina’s Linktr.ee - https://linktr.ee/christinaspringer
• Cave Canem - https://cavecanempoets.org
• Black Dream Escape - www.blackdreamescape.com