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In honor of Mama Dee
As chips of ice fell from the sky, my Mama, Mama Dee, mixed race orphan from the streets of Philly, passed away.
Mama Dee, co-editor of POOR Magazine, Grandmama to Tiburcio, disabled artist, conceptualist, storyteller, corporate media critic and independent media producer, singer and dancer to all rhythms. Mama Dee, torture victim, fighter for social justice for mamas, children, families and folk locally and globally. Mama Dee, mother of Tiny – without Dee, there would be no m
Mama Dee, co-editor of POOR Magazine, Grandmama to Tiburcio, disabled artist, conceptualist, storyteller, corporate media critic and independent media producer, singer and dancer to all rhythms. Mama Dee, torture victim, fighter for social justice for mamas, children, families and folk locally and globally. Mama Dee, mother of Tiny – without Dee, there would be no m
On the snow-filled San Francisco night of March 10, Mama Dee toiled at POOR Magazine’s office on a segment for Poor News Network’s monthly radio show. At 7:19 p.m., she called me to say she was going home to the Tenderloin apartment we have shared ever since we stopped being homeless not so many years ago. We laughed together about what she called Dick Cheney’s new scam to sell Amerikkka to Halliburton, i.e., the Dubai issue.
And off she went. That was the last time we spoke. She died suddenly without feeling any pain while in a catnap on our couch at 8:45 p.m.
Mama Dee has been suffering for the last four years from a heart condition that she believed stemmed from her days as a child who was starved and severely beaten in a series of brutal foster homes. She has been suffering for as long as I can remember with psychological disabilities and fear from those years.
As a very low-income single mother, she struggled through welfare, low-wage jobs and motherhood to earn her master’s degree in social work so she could help children like she had been. Battling with conventional forms of “treatment” and service provision, she became a champion of Black psychology and other forms of non-Western treatment modalities for poor mothers, poor families and folks of color
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And off she went. That was the last time we spoke. She died suddenly without feeling any pain while in a catnap on our couch at 8:45 p.m.
Mama Dee has been suffering for the last four years from a heart condition that she believed stemmed from her days as a child who was starved and severely beaten in a series of brutal foster homes. She has been suffering for as long as I can remember with psychological disabilities and fear from those years.
As a very low-income single mother, she struggled through welfare, low-wage jobs and motherhood to earn her master’s degree in social work so she could help children like she had been. Battling with conventional forms of “treatment” and service provision, she became a champion of Black psychology and other forms of non-Western treatment modalities for poor mothers, poor families and folks of color
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