
Roddenberry Application: Aesthetics of Global Social Evolution
Website: https://www.sakileoxum.com/
Kickstarter Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Y_mdjMndo
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I am involved in Denver Colorado, California, and New York in organizations like the Veterans of Hope Project, University of Colorado Department of Ethnic Studies, American Indian Student Services, Educational Opportunities Programs, Dragon Boat Team, National Council of Negro Women Honoree, Institute of Global Scholarship Alumn, Peace Jam, and Voz de La Clave… Holding positions of Leadership in all of these groups. I am affiliated with at least 10 other local groups like The Black Actors Guild, East High School Theatre Department, Doppios Coffee Truck @ Cherry Creek Farmer’s Market, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, CHAC (Chicano Humanities and Arts Council), and Sankofa Arts Collective, Denver Kwanzaa Committee, Shakespeare Festival, and others that I have accrued during my childhood life between Denver, Los Angeles, and Mamaroneck. I am also the Founder of the Universoul Project which I hope to develop into the Universoul Freedom Organization and Universoul Freedom News Org produced by Axé… a collective of dreamers. The goal is to promote a new aesthetic for life that is diverse, inclusive, and educational… setting new standards. An Evolución!
Growing up as a Black, Native American, Latina, Asian woman… is hard. I know what being alienated feels like. I attended Muslim Primary School at a private all black school called “The Institute of Global Scholarship”. We had the wonderful opportunity to be exercised to rigorous academic training (to equip us for a world that would not be compassionate if we are to fall behind). I am thankful for that. I write about much of the fuel for my passion in My Book “MayFlowers” (available on my website) where I talk about Islam and the faith that I have in it’s people -a faith I had the opportunity of renewing this summer-. I have danced Japanese Obon for my Ancestors, Spent time on a Reservation where I learned the importance of Sustaining our Environment (that the old ways hold some truth towards advancement), my mom is a Kindergarten teacher to the children of Immigrants, from Mexico, from China, from Afghanistan and I have had the privilege of learning from them. About Holidays, Culture, Food, Celebration, Tradition, Religion, Praise, Dance, and Music and Art Aesthetics as well as Global Fashion. Inspirational Stuff.
I have to make an impact because I see too many children lose their smiles. Bright smiles that have the power and ideas and love and intention to change the world we are forced to change. I can SEE that because I lived that. I write in “MayFlowers” about the things in my life that dimmed my effervescent light. I watch the children, my peers, and even my elders, lose hope. I have to give us all hope. I have to make sure we know we are loved by each other.
I have had trouble receiving support online. Much of the Denver Community thrives on interpersonal relationships… especially communities of color. It was very difficult, when I launched my kickstarter, because many people did not recognize that I was producing complete original bodies of work in all artistic and academic forms. The purpose was to create compositions that embody my experience and also represent the absence of my culture, phenotypical aesthetic, lifestyle, religious practice, and people, in pop culture, in society, and in professional fields… not for lack of demographic but for lack of media exposure, coverage, and even awareness.
I have to keep going because I want to live the entirety of my life in bliss. Raptured by the foods of places I have never been, places I will go. I want to see everyone smiling. I want to speak and learn as many languages as I possibly can. I want to dance all traditional dances. I want to sing. And I want to praise freely, speak freely, and learn freely. These things are important and so I believe that it is my right, as well as the right of EVERYONE to study the people in this World.
As a Fellow, I intend to establish a complete social structure in my City. I am so inspired by all of the people in Denver, Aurora, Boulder, Colorado as a whole who strive to create programs that eliminate food deserts, sustainable energy (wind and solar), urban agriculture, holistic healing, cultural appreciation and expression programs, vibrant arts and music culture and community. We are the place known for random shootings in schools and movie theatres… it is tragic. I began working on A Festival Called FREEDOM: A Lucid Dream 4 years ago, founding connections with pretty much every organization in my state that strives to implement programs towards a better communal future. This idea, now, has expanded because I have studied the impact that aesthetics have on social movements and ethical growth and change. I am a philosophy student so I KNOW that a moral shift must occur. I believe that television, and cultural exposure through film, theatre, art, music, and dance have the greatest human capacity to enhance our collective experience and coexistence. UFNO has the opportunity to create a MODEL for community organization and then use film, my squad of 500’s swag and tenacity, to share our ideas.
The whole purpose is to share ideas. Once my group of diverse innovators has the platform to share their tricks and magic on urban gardening, for example, or acceptance and innerstanding of cultures that seem different, we will be able to “model” what good relations with the people in our country looks like… Which is what will Make America Great Forever. We actually have the power, now, with the internet to implement a program of LOVE, demonstrate it on film, and share that film with the world. Letting people abroad know that there are HUMANS YOUNG AND OLD who strive for a more connected, cohesive, unified, Global Society. That we want access to resources that enhance our ability to express ourselves. That we are entitled to supplies, travel, utilities, spaces, and platforms, that offer Educational Opportunities for Everyone in All Fields of Study in the Progressive Sciences that Improve Existence.
Exposure. I mentioned my ethnic upbringing… and the alienation I experienced as a kid. Being raised indigenous is unconventional and I am thankful for that because it has given me a great understanding of the colonial structure, format, function, fabrication, and system of exploitation. It is time, now, to SHARE our personal experiences in a meaningful way. As a child in the Yoruba Tradition of Ifa, which translates to Santería, Lucumí, Vodún, Candomblé, and a Black Pamunkey Woman (which is historically and legally banned and forbidden by the Native American Pamunkey Tribe), a student of Buddhism, Hindu Dance, Hula, Haka, Salsa, Samba, a Dragon Boat Racer, A Peace Jammer, a Ballerina, -all to say the least-… I have only realized that everyone has not been so fortunate to have had a Mother who adamantly instilled diversity, cultural knowledge and awareness, acceptance; complete and embodied, the visual and expressive arts, innovative academic recognition, all of that. etc. With the world Globalized the way it is through internet, we have the power to teach the beauty of all the aforementioned Cultural Paths of Global Progress. I believe that there is something valuable about Parsimony. I believe that the next social movement must be intelligent and charming. It must be addicting to be a good person. It must be invigorating to feel and project love to and from and to and from one another. I see this magic ignite within my group of friends who have much to teach us all about LOVE.
Yeah, so the idea is that I have the opportunity to bring our ideas into realization, film the process of planning, creating, fortifying, our community (legally, culturally, healthwise, academically, artistically), building platforms for sharing ideas, film the process -AGAIN, always exercising our power to share and inspire-, post the video, photographs, articles, everything… basically functioning as the new positive news organization of the century. Initially, it will begin in my hometown with my group of 23, 50, 100, 500 of my closest friends… and we will teach our Nation how to BE LOVE. Through Art, Science, Tradition, and Music.
This Universoul Freedom News Organization is a piggy back on the Festival Idea because we, myself as the Founder, wanted to create a space (ideally annually) Next August 2018. Every moment before that is a social movement towards founding a free space and creative platform for all people to share.
I am involved in University of Colorado Denver, University Colorado Boulder, Ethnic Studies Department, American Indian Student Services, Educational Opportunities Programs, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, Five Points Afro-Historic District, Denver Kwanzaa Committee, Peace Jam, Shadow Theatre CRUNK Program, John Amesse Elementary School, Doppios Coffee Truck (revolutionizing the colonial crop), Cherry Creek Farmer’s Market, Heritage African Drum and Dance, Four Directions Indigenous People’s March, Denver March Pow Wow, Polaris at Ebert, Museum of Nature and Science, NASA Youth Programming, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver Pride Festival, National Brotherhood of Skiers. The list goes on. Fighting for us all.
All of the groups mentioned and many of the groups that my friends and family are involved with. I have actually spent the entirety of the last 5 years researching how to make this dream a reality. Every minute of the day I am searching artist and musicians, and scientists, and creative writers, journalists, cinematographers, film editors, radio show hosts, DJs, pop up skate park builders, food trucks, local events that could work in partnership. The idea is that the City of Denver becomes a playground for the Progressive Movement. Two weeks of bouncing around town to lectures, parties, concerts, skate-jams, lake-floats, pow-wows, demonstrations, food, vendors, science projects, poetry slams, open mic nights, everything, every year… forever, covered LIVE by the Universoul Freedom News Organization. It is special because we can inspire others to utilize their connections in their own communities to create a Festival and Program like the one I intend to Found (starting planning with 23 people, 50 Community Cultural Liaisons, 100 Ambassadors for Change, 500 devoted Volunteers). I envision everyone employing their expertise in such a way that makes this project the newest most evolucionary movement ever known to mankind because of the power of social media.
