In November, Sikivu performed a draft of her forthcoming original folk rock song, “Antebellum Surfboard” at the Blue Door Theater’s ArtsUpLA showcase. The song imagines a rogue Black girl surfer being conjured by the ancestors to participate in a plantation insurrection:
“With her rip curl crouch on her Tubman wave
Swallowing the future in a tale of antebellum headgames
Whack that mole in its baby teeth
Torch Sally’s Monticello crawl space
Grind 40 acres and a dead mule
From the piss of Jefferson’s cold grave
What would a blazing day in 1845 have to say
We conjured you from deathly miles
We conjured you from phantom dreams
Lift your surfboard from the ages
Run guns and butter to plantation sages”
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