Transformation And The Dragonfly Effect | Mahlikah Awe:ri | TEDxDelthorneWomen

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxDelthorneWomen, where x = independently organized TED event. TEDxDelthorneWomen was executive produced, curated and hosted by Sonali Fiske, Founder of BIWoC Revolutionaries Take the Mic, a Talk Show Host on Rukus Avenue Radio, and a TEDx speaker herself.With our theme, Revolutionize, we're about shining a light on the voices that are reimagining a new and just society through a revolutionary lens. Not just from a space of dismantling tired, old concepts and fighting oppressive views, but implanting fresh seeds rooted in new imaginings, curiosity and right relationship.

Canadian Poet of Honor, Mahlikah The Moonrise Poet is an Afro-Indigenous Artist For Social Change, shifting paradigms through Indigenized ways of knowing and being; while reimagining what it means to be “In-Relation”, to the Land and to each other. As an acclaimed Spoken Word Artist, Activist, and Arts Educator, Mahlikah is a Paula Fund Awardee, a contributor for the first Black Canadian Afro-Futurism Anthology: Cosmic Underground Northside: An Incantation of Black Speculative Discourse & Innerstandings; Cedar Grove Publishing, and a featured poet for Audible Original X Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) : Power In Poetry: Moods That Move. Mahlikah is Currently based in Treaty 13 Tsi Tkarón:to (Toronto, Canada). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx