Andrea Gibson Live Preview

Andrea Gibson w/ Kaylen Krebsbach | Coming to The Local 662, Tampa, Fl | Monday, October 12, 2015

by • October 11, 2015

Words are humanity’s greatest invention. They give us ability to communicate specific instructions, feelings, and details. Other animals use their voice, but none possess the potential of man’s tongue. Poets are professors of the spoken word. This Monday, October 12, you have the opportunity to experience the discourses of a truly talented troubadour. You’re classroom is The Local 662 (presented by No Clubs). It will be the greatest lecture you’ve ever heard. Enjoy.

GET TICKETS TO ANDREA GIBSON HERE – ONLY $12!

Andrea Gibson is a spoken word artist and political activist whose work covers a myriad of social and deeply-personal topics; gender, race, sexuality, bullying, class, and love are all tackled in her emotive writing. Gibson’s passion earned her international praise after winning the first ever Women’s World Poetry Slam. Videos of her readings have garnered millions of views. After years of sharing her voice, the world began to listen.

After previewing Gibson’s work myself, my favorite of her topics white privilege. Never before have I seen a a poet of Caucasian decent speak so passionately about the advantage of her skin tone. Shockingly, Gibson has taken heat from the white LBGTQ+ community for her opinions. Her reaction: call out and attempt to educate these critics who are unaware of the systematic oppression by the white world.

I’ve been writing for sixteen years, and the word “gentrification” has never made it into a single one of my poems. Who are my people? Where is my rage when they’re stealing brown and black people’s homes?”

GET TICKETS TO ANDREA GIBSON HERE – ONLY $12!

GET TICKETS TO ANDREA GIBSON – $12

Andrea Gibson Live Preview by Matthew Weller

Read Matthew’s Central Florida music blog, The Vinyl Warhol, and like The Vinyl Warhol on Facebook


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