Phat Man Dee is a cosmic jazz cabaret vocalist, bandleader, events producer, videographer, poet, retired sideshow marvel, music educator, and social justice agitatrix. She regularly appears with her jazz group “The Cultural District”, “The Lemington Gospel Chorale” and “Social Justice Disco”. She teaches voice at the We Rock Workshop and at the Afro American Music Institute in Pittsburgh, PA. She has 6 independently recorded CDs in her discography. https://linktr.ee/phatmandee
An it harm none: A Rede for an Era of Racist Screed – A conversation on a more just magickal community. Phat Man Dee invites you to a kind, open, and frank discussion about Paganism’s well meaning, but often problematic adoption of various cultural practices. Our goal is to advance a “positive peace which is the presence of justice” through an embodied and mindful reflection on where our various and sundry practices originate. Further, we call upon our community to return threefold the blessings we have received from various cultures who have inspired us along our journeys to spiritual growth. This conversation will include hard truths about inaction as a form of real harm, particularly with the co-opting of our symbols and traditions by hate groups. Participants in this workshop will be asked to approach this conversation in good faith and with an assumption of good intend, and to write notes to themselves in response to our reflection questions throughout, and will leave this workshop with reading lists, resources, and suggested next steps to continue these conversations, because this session should be the start of this conversation, and not the end.