[TBAAL: Deep Kho - Kho album audio recording] transcript

[TBAAL: Deep Kho - Kho album audio recording]

Audio from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. The audio is an album recording of Deep Kho Kho, a Frisco based artist and poet. "Deep" is an acronym for "Direct Explicit Erotic Passionate." The album contains sixteen clips of songs and spoken word poetry related to artist's experiences in self-love, self-expression and romance as an African-American woman. Her words speak to staying motivated to push forward in life, regardless of circumstances.
Date: June 23, 2022
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[TBAAL - Off the Hook by Rick Smiley] transcript

[TBAAL - Off the Hook by Rick Smiley]

Audio from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. The audio is the album recording of "Off the Hook" by Rick Smiley.
Date: June 23, 2022
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[TBAAL -This is 4 U! - album recording] transcript

[TBAAL -This is 4 U! - album recording]

Audio from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters. The audio is a recording of the album "This is 4 U!" by various R&B artists including Donny Hathaway, B-Rezell, and Janet Jackson, among others. The album includes eighteen clips that feature songs about love, romance and sex.
Date: June 23, 2022
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of appeasement rituals in Dukti village

Tashi Dorji describes how residents of Dukti village appease the local deities for taking care of their crops when the mountain roads are closed for four months every year. During this time, they offer feasts and fermented wine to the local deities once a month. He explans that the wine for the appeasement and Tshok for the deity is collected as a community tax. Recorded at Dukti Gup Sonam's house in Dukti village.
Date: May 23, 2022
Creator: Tshewang, Tashi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of Tshong Tshongma pilgrimages, part 1

Tashi Dorji describes a pilgrimage to Tshong Tshongma and the surrounding area. Tshong Tshongma is a sacred mountain and a local deity in Eastern Bhutan. Over 4000 meters in elevation, it is accessible only four months per year due to local customs. He states that Tshong Tshongma is king amongst the worldly deities, wrathful in nature. He describes landmarks seen on the way to Tshong Tshongma, including a rock symbolizing the riding horse of Tshong Tshongma Lopen, Buddhist scriptures, a stupa, a treasured hole, a golden table, a door to the sky, a monastery of monks, and a meditation place of Guru Rinpoche. Travelers offer libations twice per day to have nice weather during pilgrimages.
Date: May 23, 2022
Creator: Tshewang, Tashi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of Tshong Tshongma pilgrimages, part 2

Tashi Dorji describes a pilgrimage to Tshong Tshongma and the surrounding area. He discusses a biography of Tshong Tshongma Ney (the religious site) which was taken by the people of Bonglang village (Tawang District, Arunachal Pradesh, India) for reception purposes but never returned. It says there is a garden of Tshong Tshongma at the base of Dukti village with fruits, betel leaves, betel nuts, and other plants which only those who are about to die can reach. He explains that the deity behind the Jomo is Tshong Tshongma. If someone has lost one’s life force, it can be retrieved from the devil with the help of Jomo.
Date: May 23, 2022
Creator: Tshewang, Tashi
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Wesley Phelps interview with Marjoe Davidson, August 23, 2022] transcript

[Wesley Phelps interview with Marjoe Davidson, August 23, 2022]

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on August 23rd, 2022 at Lopez Island, Washington. Phelps interviews Marjoe Davidson, formerly Mary Jo Risher, plaintiff in the custody trial Risher v. Risher. In this trial, Davidson sued her ex-husband for custody of their child following the couples divorce. Custody was denied to Davidson due to her identity as a lesbian. She speaks on her life during her custody trial as well as her life in Washington following the discrimination she faced in court.
Date: August 23, 2022
Creator: Phelps, Wes
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Wesley Phelps interview with Todd Camp, September 23, 2022] transcript

[Wesley Phelps interview with Todd Camp, September 23, 2022]

Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 23rd, 2022 in Denton, TX. Phelps interviews Todd Camp over his efforts to document gay history in Fort Worth. Camp speaks on his involvement with the QCinema Film Festival and covers the history of gay and lesbian bars in Dallas and Fort Worth, specifically covering the affects sodomy laws had on such establishments. Camp discusses police behavior which led to court cases like Cyr v. Walls, a civil suit made against the Fort Worth Police Department due to their harassment of members at the Texas Gay Rights Conference in 1974.
Date: September 23, 2022
Creator: Phelps, Wes
System: The UNT Digital Library