Artful Thought

This is episode #11 of Artful Thought, recorded live at the University of San Francisco's KUSF studio, which aired on Saturday, July 27th, 2019. I'm beyond stoked to talk with Paul S. Flores. His roles as a prolific poet, playwright, performance artist, youth arts educator, and USF theater professor continue to inspire and illuminate.

Due to copyright laws, I had to cut the music from the recording, but have embedded my Spotify pla...

This is episode number 10 of Artful Thought, recorded live at the University of San Francisco’s KUSF studio, which aired on Saturday, June 29th, 2019. 

This is Part 2, but not the finale, of a music-talk feature about the ongoing celebration and an address to current social issues of the LGBTQIA community. The mix consists of phenomenal new (and newish) artists as well as seminal figures, including Lou Reed, Le Tigre, Ezra Fur...

This is episode number 9 of Artful Thought, recorded live at the University of San Francisco’s KUSF studio, which aired on Saturday, June 22nd, 2019. 

On the live show, I named the first episode of a 2-part special, “All the Pride and No Prejudice”, reverting back to my DJ Mr. Darcy persona as I jammed-and-gabbed out to a playlist made up of Queer Artists, seminal through current to celebrate the month of Pride. The playlist i...

What is poetry? Poetry can be anything. Fellow Poet-Writer, Abhay Shetty and I break down this cryptic question and answer a bit further. One of the things that inspires me most about Abhay, as a writer (and as a human in general) is how he strives to peacefully cruise with the flow of circumstances that unfold outside of his control. Which as you'll hear in this episode, is something I struggle with on the daily, if not hourly, ba...

This is episode #7 of Artful Thought, recorded live at the University of San Francisco's KUSF studio, which aired on Saturday, May 25th, 2019. My guest is California native, Rachelle Rosegold, who is a savant and lover of various audio-sound realms, where her mission is “Combining communication with innovative audio to create social change.” We chat about Rachelle’s upbringing in a family of musicians, starting out in L.A. w...

I'm gigantically honored to talk with Ayasha Tripp on this week's episode. Ayasha is a Writer, Educator, Producer, Creative Activist, and I came across her in the stellar podcast, The Seeds You Sow which she hosts and produces here at the KUSF studio. In the myriad hats she wears, she always dons the urgency and importance of social justice that relies on a willingness to keep talking, listening, learning and in turn, changing our ...

This is episode #5 and the second live recording of Artful Thought at the University of San Francisco's KUSF studio, which aired on Saturday, May 11th, 2019. A USF Alumnus and Development Assistant at San Francisco’s nonprofit organization, No Bully, Génesis Barraza delves into the Kindness Revolution which they describe as a call for social change that has to be created through collaboration, compassion and equity. They share thei...

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Lily Sloane, host of Radical Advice at BFF.fm, chats about her beginning through present views on therapy and her role as a Psychotherapist. She delves into the problem of transparency in the field of therapy, and offers insights into how the negative connotation of the term/meaning of ‘judgment’ can get in the way of having honest, healthy relationships with ourselves and others. She posits that therapists ...

Darcy and Ryan are both Midwest natives, and were both St. Louis residents in the event of Mike Brown's murder in the summer of 2014. Darcy has lived in San Francisco since 2017, and has noticed some similarities and differences in the subtle and not so subtle ways that white supremacy remains an institutionalized force throughout the country. Her and Ryan dip into a comparative sociopolitical assessment between their experiences i...