nikki giovanni gives them a perfect  “10”

These two phenomenal women (w)right and re(in)cite powerful, provocative, and political performance poetry with attitude.

“You gotta know when it’s time to build or break, dialogue or damage, speak or smash, write or bring wreck.”

In the service of soul sister security of the first, second and third worlds, these poetic provocateurs borrow ball points, pilfer paper, and liberate language to manufacture mind bombs and lob them on unsuspecting audiences.

Turiya and Walidah teach in elementary, middle and high schools, in juvenile detention facilities and in prisons, as well as at Portland State University’s Black Studies Department. The duo has toured nationally and internationally and has been featured on OPB, The Travel Channel and in the documentary “Small City, Big Hip Hop”. Co-authors of two combat ready chapbooks, their work also appears in the anthology Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution as well as Quotable Rebel.

They have shared the stage, singularly and together, with Doug E. Fresh, Nikki Giovanni, bell hooks, John Trudell, Chuck D, Spearhead & SAul Williams among others.