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Comment by blaqvenus on November 27, 2011 at 6:10pm

Hello!!

Comment by Moni on October 9, 2011 at 10:10pm

I'm from a small town in Northwest Louisiana, about an hour north of Shreveport and three hours east of Dallas (which is my favorite city to run off to when I have an opportunity!). The school I attended has about 300 students, kindergarten through twelfth grade, and there were 13 people in my senior class. It was ages before cable, then internet, was available in our area, so I lived life via the magazines and music I received in our mailbox. The only peers I had were the people I met through the pen pals section of Metal Edge and Maximum Rock 'n Roll back then. Not even the white kids listened to the kind of music I did. The vast majority of them were solely into country music, and the ones that weren't listened to pop or radio-friendly rap and r&b. That was my life growing up in the eighties and nineties. After I graduated from high school, I attended college in a town that had banned MTV at the local cable company!

After I escaped from that town, I moved to New Orleans, where I worked on Bourbon Street and felt really at home for the first time ever. After I left there, I moved to Austin, Texas, then Fayetteville, Arkansas (more college towns...), before moving back to Louisiana in 2004. That's my background as a podunk afropunk. What's yours???

Comment by StreetPunkOi! on July 16, 2011 at 8:23pm

I live in a small town of EL Dorado Arkansas, where it's hard to find a job, and thank god that I got one. As a painter. Plus they need to tear this piece of shit mall down because it ain't hardly shit in there, but Jc penneys, shoe show and few other stores. See I rather live in bigger cities so I could get anywhere, where they have shit occasionaly.Where I live right now, Sucks!!

Trust me, any of you don't want to move here.

Comment by Lord Q on February 7, 2011 at 3:32pm

Check out BDB!

Comment by Reizend.jthk on January 19, 2011 at 6:02pm

I'm from Lynchburg, TN. Granted,we  get a lot of tourists, but seeing the variety of visitors only serves to highlight how homogeneous and small the local population is.

Comment by Caz Prescott on January 29, 2010 at 7:21pm

Welcome Cortney! Nice 'hawk!

Comment by Charelle on December 15, 2009 at 8:42pm

THANK YOU!!! lol.

Comment by Madamoiselle De Sade on December 15, 2009 at 3:48pm

Never noticed this group before. :(

Comment by Kandyce on November 12, 2009 at 7:36pm

Hey small town peeps. Iowa here!

Comment by Pam Newman on November 3, 2009 at 3:50pm

Hey Afropunkers, I’ve got a plan, and in order for it to work, I need your help.

Let me cut right to the chase:

Spring of 2010 in Louisville, KY: Afropunk @ Art Sanctuary!!!

I have a fantastic venue lined up, Art Sanctuary/Alley Theater... they're excited about helping create a holy-shit-kick-ass event along the lines of the Brooklyn event.

We’re going to show the AfroPunk film! We’re going to invite James Spooner down to talk about the movie. We’re going to book a couple of your favorite Afropunk bands as well as some local AP faves from our region. We’ll have art for sale, and live graffiti artists! Everything!!

Yeah, you heard me right. I’m planning on doing a smaller-scale Afropunk event here in Louisville, KY! Something for the AP’ers over here near Cincy, Louisville, Chi-town, Indy, Nashville & Memphis.

In order to make it happen, we need all kinds of help.

Foremost, we need sponsors for the event. If you own or know of any businesses who would like to get their name on our materials, shown on the screen, and get mad coverage in exchange for sponsorship of our event, that would be extremely helpful. Also if anyone has services to donate, such as web design & hosting, printing or anything else, that would be great too!

Right now we have the grand scheme of things posted up as several blog entries at: http://afropunkatartsanctuary.tumblr.com

you can check out the marketing plan so far as well as what we’re aiming to do at the event.

If you have any questions, hit me up at oreobarbie@gmail.com!

Thanks so much for reading, and please pass on the word! Show the website to other people.

<3
Pam Newman

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