Join your Hoodoo Plant Mamas Leah Nicole and Dani Bee as they discuss growing up in the Deep South, Black spirituality, pop culture, and of course, plants!
The Hoodoo Plant Mamas podcast is truly a gem that I am incredibly grateful to have discovered. From the moment I started listening, I felt an instant connection to the hosts and their spiritual journey. The episodes I have listened to so far have been enlightening and have brought a sense of light and understanding into my own life. As someone who is always seeking different perspectives, this show has definitely provided me with a fresh outlook on witchcraft and spirituality.
One of the best aspects of The Hoodoo Plant Mamas podcast is the diverse perspectives that are shared by the hosts. As someone from a different racial background, it has been eye-opening to hear experiences and beliefs from witches who come from different cultures. This show has taught me so much about embracing diversity within the witchcraft community and has expanded my understanding of various practices and traditions.
Another aspect that stands out in this podcast is its focus on connecting with nature and finding healing through Mama Earth. It was particularly touching to hear one of the hosts speak about her personal experience with depression and how being immersed in nature brought her healing. The episode exploring the connection between God and Nature was thought-provoking, as it challenged preconceived notions about spirituality and shed light on the profound wisdom found in nature.
While it's challenging to find any negative aspects of this podcast, one minor criticism could be that some topics may not resonate with every listener. However, given the wide range of topics covered in each episode, there is likely something for everyone. Additionally, occasionally there can be moments where certain terms or concepts are assumed to be known by all listeners without providing context or explanations for those who may not be familiar.
In conclusion, The Hoodoo Plant Mamas podcast is a powerful platform that offers diverse perspectives on witchcraft, spirituality, and connecting with nature. With its thought-provoking episodes filled with personal stories and insights, it has become an invaluable resource for anyone interested in exploring different aspects of witchcraft and finding spiritual enlightenment. I am immensely grateful for this podcast and eagerly look forward to what future episodes bring. Blessed be to the wonderful hosts, Leah and Leah, for sharing their knowledge and experiences with us all.
After an extended hiatus, we're back. While Dani moved away from Mississippi, Leah moved back so we talk about loving, leaving, and returning to Mississippi. Dani visited Senegal, and Leah is publishing a book. RESOURCES SeaSalted Honey Residency "A Night at Fontaine's" by Leah Nicole Whitcomb Pre-order Apocalypse Still by Leah Nicole Whitcomb "Episode 202: Reclaiming my Dream" Dreaming in Color with Nancey B. Price.BOOKSHOPhttps://bookshop.org/shop/hoodooplantmamasBE A PATRON!https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @hoodooplantsInstagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATEPaypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamasCashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.Our music was created by Ghrey, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
//SPOILERS FOR LONG DIVISION//Mississippi author Kiese Laymon joins us for our season finale. We discuss the revised version of his novel Long Division, explore themes of freedom, language, and timelessness, and talk about creating art separate from the white imagination.Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon is the Libby Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. Laymon is the author of Long Division, which won the 2022 NAACP Image Award for fiction, and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, named a notable book of 2021 by the New York Times critics. Laymon's bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, the Barnes and Noble Discovery Award, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. The audiobook, read by the author, was named the Audible 2018 Audiobook of the Year. Laymon is the recipient of 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard. Laymon is at work on the books, Good God, and City Summer, Country Summer, and a number of other film and television projects. He is the founder of “The Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative,” a program based out of the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University, aimed at aiding young people in Jackson get more comfortable reading, writing, revising and sharing on their on their own terms, in their own communities. Kiese Laymon was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022.RESOURCES Long Division by Kiese Laymon "We Need to Reckon with the Rot at the Core of Publishing" by Elaine Castillo. LitHub.BOOKSHOPhttps://bookshop.org/shop/hoodooplantmamasBE A PATRON!https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @hoodooplantsInstagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATEPaypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamasCashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.Our music was created by Ghrey, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
We're joined by Starr, founder of Reckon's Black Joy. In this episode, we discuss the highs and lows of healing, leading when you feel unqualified, and Black joy as our birthright.Jonece Starr Dunigan (She/her/hers) is a journalist who gives the microphone to communities that are often ignored by mainstream media. Guided by empathy, her reporting centers the stories, movement work and voices of Black, brown and queer people. Her writing strives to amplify and empower readers instead of exploiting them of their traumas. Starr is also the founder of Reckon's Black Joy (formerly Black Magic Project), a media brand under Reckon that's highlighting the multiple ways we as Black people cultivate liberating joy in our lives.RESOURCES "Blessings six years of Black joy have taught me." Jonece Starr Dunigan. Black Joy. Nolaskinsentials Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good edited by adrienne marie brown Diving with a PurposeBE A PATRON!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @hoodooplantsInstagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATEPaypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamasCashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.Our music was created by Ghrey, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
In this episode, we're joined by Veronica Agard as she discusses her educational project, Ancestors in Training. We think about what how to honor our ancestors, what we want to leave our future descendants, and how to best utilize our time here on Earth.Veronica Agard (Ifáṣadùn Fásanmí) (she/her) is a poet, writer, community educator, and connector at the intersections of Black identity, wellness, representation, and culture. She experiments with creative healing modalities and puts theories learned into practice. She curated the Who Heals the Healer series and the conference of the same name and facilitates the Ancestors in Training educational project. Her initiatives are housed in her freelance platform, Vera Icon LLC. Described as living in the future, Veronica is guided by the past and carries out her dreams in the present.RESOURCES Ancestors in Training Syllabus Ancestors in Training Bookshop Legendborn by Tracy Deonn Dani's Writing Residency in Senegal GoFundMe "The Science Behind Smudging." Uplift. "Are you ready to become your descendants wildest dreams? Ancestors in Training shows you how." Black Joy x ReckonBE A PATRON!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @hoodooplantsInstagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATEPaypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamasCashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.Our music was created by Ghrey, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
Are you ready to feel more energized, focused, and supported? Go to zen.ai/hoodoo and add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset.In this episode, Leah needs a literary agent, and Dani needs help finding affordable housing in DC. We discuss our experiences with Black excellence and how it's overrated, steeped in capitalism, and ultimately ruins art.RESOURCES "Where the Parents" Medium. Leah Nicole Whitcomb. "Black youth face rising rates of depression, anxiety, suicide." Ed Source. Carolyn Jones. “It's not about the children,” Black writers on the truth behind banned books. Black Joy. Danielle Buckingham. Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer. Julia Cameron Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. Netflix. "We're not good enough to not practice." Kiese Laymon.BE A PATRON!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @hoodooplantsInstagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATEPaypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamasCashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.Our music was created by Ghrey, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
In this episode we're joined by Nancey B. Price of the Dreaming in Color Podcast. We discuss her work, Black people's relationships to dreams, our childhood nightmares, and how daydreaming influences our creative process.Nancey B. Price is a self-taught collage artist, writer and storyteller with an appreciation for all things Black, Southern and imaginative. In all of her creative pursuits, she seeks to build worlds in which Black people can exist freely in all their beauty and complexity. Her visual works have been featured in various publications, including O, the Oprah Magazine, Garden & Gun Magazine, BlackJoy x Reckon, and The Bitter Southerner. She uses words and performance to take her audience on a journey of selfhood, spirituality, and ancestry. Her stories have been featured on You Had Me At Black, and as the executive producer and host of the podcast, Dreaming In Color with Nancey B. Price, she highlights the importance of dreamtelling in the Black community by creating space for each of her guests to share a dream story and deconstruct its meaning in their waking lives.Follow Nancey B. Price on Instagram (@nanceybprice) and Dreaming in Color (@dreamingincolorpod). If you'd like to support her work, you can donate to her GoFundMe.AD: Are you ready to feel more energized, focused, and supported? Go to zen.ai/hoodoo and add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset.RESOURCES Dreaming In Color with Nancey B. Price "Black people and their plants: It's more than a lifestyle." by Danielle Buckingham. BlackJoy x Reckon Dream Singers: The African American Way with Dreams by Anthony Shafton "God Visits Me in a Dream" by Danielle Buckingham. Black Femme Collective. "What the Earth Carries" by Danielle Buckingham. Raising Mothers. "Episode 202: Reclaiming My Dream" Leah Nicole Whitcomb. Dreaming in Color with Nancy B. Price. BE A PATRON!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @hoodooplantsInstagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATEPaypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamasCashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.Our music was created by Ghrey, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
We're back y'all! For our Season 6 premiere, we're talking about how we conjure alternate realities in our writing. We discuss the documented gaps in the historical lives of Black people, our resistance to writing about the past, as well as how to honor our ancestor's stories. We think about the timelessness of the South, the optimism in current afroftuturist work, and the purpose of dystopian stories. RESOURCES Long Division (revised) by Kiese Laymon I am - Daily Affirmations App Love, Lizzo (documentary) "The Limitations of the Slave Narrative Collection" Kindred by Octavia Butler Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler "Reclaiming Our Time" by Julia Mallory "You Will Know Your Tribe by Their Joy" by Julia Mallory Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Earthseed: The Complete Series by Octavia ButlerBE A PATRON!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @hoodooplantsInstagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATEPaypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamasCashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.Our music was created by Ghrey, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
In this episode, we go over our Spotify Wrapped, recap our personal highs and lows of 2022, and discuss our hopes for 2023.RESOURCES Levar Burton Reads podcast WNBA Authentic Voices Fellowship Courage to Write Grant "Sometimes It Works Out but Sometimes It Don't" Leah's newsletter. "These Black Witches Are More Magical Than Halloween Myths Would Have You Believe." MadameNoire. Leah Nicole Whitcomb "Won't You Celebrate Yourself" Leah's NewsletterBE A PATRON!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @hoodooplantsInstagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATEPaypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamasCashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
Let's get real about therapy! Dr. Money joins us to discuss "Ep 27 When Therapy is Not Enough." We get into Black Femininst Narrative Therapy, what it is, and how Dr. Money uses it in her practice. We discuss systemic suffering masquerading as mental illness, the ethics of involuntary hospitalization, and how everyone thinks they're sicker than they actually are. Dr. Money also answers your listener questions!Dr. Montinique "Money" McEachern (her/she) is a Black lesbian healer with her own practice, Combahee Therapy, based in what is now called Philadelphia, but is the original home of the Lenape people. She is the oldest child of her momma, and grew up surrounded with the stories of Black women, so it is no surprise that her therapeutic approach merges Black feminism and Narrative Therapy. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has a PhD in MFT as well. When she's not therapizing, she is hosting QueerWOC: The Podcast, a podcast for the social and mental wellbeing of sapphics of color.RESOURCES "EP 27 When Therapy Is Not Enough" "The Combahee River Collective Statement" PDF Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. Dr. Joy DeGruy The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara "Session 271: Being Mindful About How We Use Mental Health Terminology." Therapy for Black Girls "Ep 107: Twenty Twenty DONE." QueerWOC What's Your Grief Podcast Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health "Ep 112: Take a Mental Health Day." QueerWOC "Ep 108: Do it for the Dopamine." QueerWOC My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by bell hooks Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria AnzalduaBE A PATRON!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @hoodooplantsInstagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATEPaypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamasCashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
It's the end of the world...as we know it. We talk with Cherise Morris about her work, our anxieties and frustrations around the end of the world, and the hope we need to build a better future.Cherise Morris is an award-winning writer, interdisciplinary performance artist, ritualist, spirit worker and healer born and raised in rural Virginia and living in Detroit, MI.RESOURCES "MEMO: It's Almost the End of the World" Substack. Cherise Morris. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler "The End of the World" Substack. Leah Nicole Whitcomb "MEMO: We are Living" Substack. Cherise Morris. Cherise Morris PatreonBE A PATRON!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @hoodooplantsInstagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATEPaypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamasCashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
In this episode we're joined by the lovely Sirene Wata. We discuss African water spirits and deities, water as a tool of enslavement and liberation, and the many ways water has showed up in our lives, writing and work.Sirene Martin is a multimedia artist hailing from south central Kentucky. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Pan-African Studies from the University of Louisville with an emphasis in Gender and Sexuality studies. In her art, Sirene seeks to be in conversation with the ancestral spirits that hold her. These conversations act as a portal as she travels into the creative space to conjure worlds and realities that are often refused to her in the matieral world as a Black Transgender Woman. As a Hoodoosaint, she is a historian and archivist. Recording and caring for the stories of her ancestors, her art elevates the rich Root culture and religions of the Black folks that made Kentucky their home.BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
In this epsiode, we discuss non-traditional, community, and personal altars. We get into how our relationships with our altars have changed over time as well as the offerings we can give to our ancestors and to our community.RESOURCES Hess Love's Altar Tweet "Divinity in Disability with Jade T. Perry" A Little Juju Podcast "Ancestor Demons?" Hoodoo Plant Mamas "HOW TO SET UP AN ANCESTRAL ALTAR" Ehime OraBE A PATRON!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @hoodooplantsInstagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATEPaypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamasCashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
CONTENT WARNNING // SEXUAL ASSAULTHey y'all! For our Season 5 premiere, we tackle sex, relationships, and romance under capitalism. We get into how capitalism ruins everything, how romance should be fulfilled by communities instead of individuals., and how our friends are our lovers.References "Nine Ways That Capitalism Is Ruining Sex" by Breanne Fahs. Boston Review The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk Ismatu Gwendolyn "Friends are Lovers" TikTokBE A PATRON!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @hoodooplantsInstagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATEPaypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamasCashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
It's our season finale and we wanted to end it by talking about our inner child/teen healing. We get into what initiated our healing, what our inner child/teen needs from us, and the fact that this work is lifelong. Visions of the Evolution: The Revolution Will Be Magical is a film and a ritual! It's a prayer, a spell and an invocation that opens us all to the transformations we need to make to bring forth the revolution that will birth a more just, loving and equitable future. Find more information on Cherise's Kickstarter: http://kck.st/3O7XuVO Resources Ep 18 Misafropedia and Inner Child Work with Hari Ziyad Inner Teen TikTok video BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
In this episode, we discuss call-out culture on social media and whether it's effective in holding people accountable for their words and actions. We also tackle Black leaders, elitism among Black academics, tussling with Gen Z, and how to hold space for young people who are still learning. SPONSOR: Let's Make Art Let's Make Art is a crafting company that aims to help everyone channel their inner artist–whether 3 or 63! Let's make art simple- together! Check out Let's Make Art today by going to our special link, zen.ai/hoodooplantmamas to get 20% off. Coupon code is activated at checkout! Resources Raquel Willis tweet "Fred Hampton - On The Importance of Education Prior to Action" YouTube video Tea with Queen and J Podcast BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
TRIGGER WARNING // SUICIDE & SELF-HARM What do we do when therapy is not enough? We discuss our therapy journeys, which types of therapy we've done, as well as the success and limitations of therapy. We also get into some alternative forms of healing because help should be accessible to all of us. SPONSOR: Let's Make Art Let's Make Art is a crafting company that aims to help everyone channel their inner artist–whether 3 or 63! Let's make art simple- together! Check out Let's Make Art today by going to our special link, zen.ai/hoodooplantmamas to get 20% off. Coupon code is activated at checkout! Resources HappyLight Therapy Lamps & Boxes The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk Black Walnut Bath Recipe "You're Healing , Now Are You Living?" A Little Juju Podcast BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca
Life is full of suffering. Why would we take on more suffering when we don't have to? Today, we discuss, religious propaganda, capitalist mentality, and relationship norms around suffering. We also get into obnoxious confidence, what it is, and how we can use it to live our best lives. Resources "Letting Go of Unnecessary Suffering" Leah's Newsletter Ismatu's "Consider Yourself Worth The Expense" TikTok Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis "Kim Kardashian's Business Advice: ‘Get Your F**king Ass Up and Work'” by Variety "Mimi Faust on Sex Tape: 'We Didn't Do Anything Wrong'" by Evelyn Diaz. BET Obnoxiously Confident Twitter thread Nicole Byer's Why Won't You Date Me? "How to Use Toys in Sex Magic Pt 1" Instagram Reel by Hess Love Dipsea App BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
Let's talk about plants, baby! We discuss our houseplant journey, the lessons we've learned from taking care of houseplants, and the mental health benefits of green spaces. BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
In this episode, we discuss the act of dreaming and how it showed up in our childhood. Using Toni Morrison's 1988 Sarah Lawrence College's commencement speech, we discuss dreaming as an act of liberation, the role dreaming plays in abolition work, and how we've dreamed our lives into existence. Resources Divining Poets: Clifton: A Quotable Deck from Turtle Point Press "Sarah Lawrence College Commencement Speech" in the Source of Self Regard by Toni Morrison Ep 22: Nothing But Pleasure with Junauda Petrus-Nasah The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
We're starting season four talking all about love. This episode is dedicated to the late bell hooks. We discuss her book: All About Love: New Visions as well as exploring the very normal need for romantic love. This episode is sponsored by Bitcaftbotanica.com. Bitcraftbotanica.com is a female, Black-owned online botanica for all your spiritual needs. The owner, Kisha K, is a psychic, medium, and intuitive tarot card reader. Get $25 off your first Ancestral reading with code hoodoomama. Get to know Kisha K and Follow Bitcraftworks on Instagram and TikTok. Resources Subscribe to Leah's newsletter bell hooks All About Love: New Visions, Appalachian Elegy, Art on My Mind: Visual Politics Cherise Morris Instagram and Patreon TikTok about basic needs BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
It's our season finale, and we're joined by writer and performance artist, Junauda Petrus-Nasah. We discuss the spiritual elements, pleasure politics, queerness, and family dynamics of her young adult novel, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them. We also get into our love of Whitney Houston, abolition work, and the need to deprogram our internalized restrictions on pleasure. Junauda Petrus-Nasah is a writer, a soul sweetener, runaway witch, and performance artist of Black-Caribbean descent, born and working on Dakota land aka Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work centers around wildness, queerness, Black-diasporic-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, shimmer, and liberation. Her first YA novel, The Stars and The Blackness Between Them received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award. She is currently working on several projects including her second novel Black Circus, a puppet show, and writing for film. Resources The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good edited by Adrienne Maree Brown Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming by Antonio Michael Downing BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
In this episode, we're talking about spirit writing with JujuBae! We discuss showing up as our full selves, writing as a healing tool and releasing ritual, and the role media plays in African Traditional and Diasporic Religions. This episode is sponsored by Biddie's Baby Cakes. Biddie's Baby Cakes is a family-owned business that creates an assortment of Southern pound cakes for the central Mississippi area. Each treat is made to order and their buttery sweet roasted pecans can ship anywhere in the continental US. To order yours today, check out Biddie's Baby Cakes on Facebook and Instagram. JuJuBae is a proud Black girl millennial from Baltimore, Maryland with ancestral roots in West Virginia, Virginia, South Carolina, and Alabama. JujuBae has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Spelman College. She believes liberation is attainable and our ancestors will lead us there. When she's not divining for her clients or facilitating healing workshops, you can find her snuggled up in her bed or hula hooping to Afro Beats! JujuBae is a proud healer, educator, influencer, and host of iHeart Radio Nominated Best Spirituality Podcast, A Little Juju Podcast. She inspires Black women and all those of African Diaspora, to reconnect to their heritage and personal power through spirituality and communal healing. JujuBae believes liberation is attainable and that our ancestors will lead us there through natural healing practices of working with herbs, consulting with Spirit, and communing with each other. A leader and student, JujuBae shares her journey and opinions genuinely, raw, and in joy! She is recognized as one of the most real and caring traditional Afro- Spirituality teachers of modern times by her community and large social following. JujuBae is remembering our roots in these modern times. Resources A Little Juju Podcast Juju Bae Website, Instagram, TikTok and Patreon "Beyonce took me to the river (an ode to lemonade)" by JujuBae "she who sees" by JujuBae Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malidoma Patrice Somé The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the Ways by Sobonfu Somé African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison by K. Zauditu-Selassie "the light that came to lucille clifton" by Lucille Clifton BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
In this episode, we're joined by poet and photographer Nadia Alexis. We discuss how writing and photography can fight erasure, the need to reclaim natural spaces for ourselves, and the impact Lucille Clifton's writing has on Black women. Nadia Alexis is a poet and photographer born in Harlem, NYC to Haitian immigrants and she is currently based in Oxford, Mississippi. Her poetry has been published in Indiana Review, MQR: Mixtape, Shenandoah, and others. Her poetry has also been anthologized in Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems and Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary American Poetry and Prose. Her photography publications include Forgotten Lands, MQR: Mixtape, TORCH Journal, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, 2019 honorable mention poetry prize winner of Hurston/Wright College Writers Award, 2020 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award nominee, and 2020 semifinalist of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. She is also a fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and The Watering Hole. Her photographs have been shown in several exhibitions in the U.S. and Cuba, and she was mentored by Carrie Mae Weems in an independent scholars fellowship program for early-career artists and art historians of color. She is currently an English - Creative Writing Concentration Ph.D. student at the University of Mississippi where she studies and teaches Black literature. Resources Nadia Alexis website Instagram: @nadialovestocreate Pre-order Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems “Language", “Knees,” “Thunder,” “Lament,” and “Aubade After the Storm” Mud Season Review “Watershed,” “Nocturne,” and “A Horse's Arrival,” Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape "Suppose You Failed to Cover Your Mouth & So Evil Spirits Flew Out of Your Body,” in Indiana Review “Cantaloupe” and “Letter to My Friend Robert,” Shenandoah Ezili Dantor "What Endures" photography series by Nadia Alexis "The Spirit that Resides" Carrie Mae Weems CCADI "On Protest and Mourning" BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
For the one-year anniversary episode of Hoodoo Plant Mamas, we talk with fellow Aquarius, Shayla Lawz about her upcoming poetry collection "speculation, n." We dive into the difficulty of witnessing state-sanctioned violence against Black people as well as the music that helps us process it all. Shayla Lawz is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Jersey City, NJ. She works at the intersection of text, sound, and performance and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Jack Jones Literary Arts, The Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP), and The Digital Studies Center at Rutgers-Camden (DiSC). She holds a BA in English from Rutgers University and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. Her writing and hybrid/sound work appear in McSweeney's Quarterly, Catapult, and The Poetry Project, among others. Her debut poetry collection “speculation, n.” was chosen by Ilya Kaminsky for the 2020 Autumn House Poetry Prize. She lives in Brooklyn, NY where she teaches in the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute. Resources: "speculation, n" Pre-Order Shayla's Website Twitter & Instagram: @shaylalawz "& when the spaceship comes for ____________, i want to go with them: ON HARMONY HOLIDAY, DOUGLAS KEARNEY & JONAH MIXON-WEBSTER" by Shayla Lawz Erykah Badu, Missy Elliott, Sade The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill Long Live the Angels and Real Life by Emeli Sande PHO EP and Shea Butter Baby by Ari Lennox A Seat at the Table and When I Get Home by Solange Songs in A Minor by Alicia Keys My Life by Mary J. Bliges lately i feel EVERYTHING and ARDIPITHECUS by Willow Smith HEAVN by Jamila Woods CTRL by SZA Saturn by NAO BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
In this episode, we're joined by Hari Ziyad to discuss finding ourselves in Hoodoo, dismantling misafropedia, and using inner child work for our liberation. Hari Ziyad is a screenwriter, the editor-in-chief of RaceBaitr, and the bestselling author of Black Boy Out of Time (Little A). Previously, they were the managing editor of Black Youth Project and a script consultant on David Makes Man (OWN), and they are currently a writer at CBS. Resources Black Boy Out of Time by Hari Ziyad "My gender is Black" by Hari Ziyad BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
We're joined by Hoodoo and writer Hess Love to discuss writing, spiritual bypassing, unpacking religious beliefs, and finding a spiritual teacher. Hess is a family advocate, co-found of the Chesapeake Conjure Society, and community-appointed Hoodoo Historian/Griot. They write about intimate politics, you can find their work on RaceBaitr, Black Youth Project, Wear Your Voice Mag, Brown Girls Out Loud, AfroPunk, Romper, and Medium. You can find them online “politicking” about Blackness, Hoodoo, History, Feminism, Motherhood, Queerness, Food, Books, Sex and Humor. Resources Chesapeake Conjure Society Writing in the Hoodoo Tradition Workshop Series "raised to break" by Hess Love "crab cakes" by Hess Love Fatphobia Twitter thread Tina McElroy Ansa, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Langston Hughes, Angela Davis, and Ishmael Reed The Haunting of Hip Hop by Bertice Berry Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black America by Theophus H. Smith Big Mama Stories by Shay Youngblood The Book of Night Women by Marlon James Black Women Are Scary podcast The Moonlit Road podcast WRITING PROMPT Go to the cemetery. (Cover your head with a light or white fabric.) Find a gravestone you feel called to. Research the person's life and write a paragraph, story, or poem. BE A PATRON Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
Today we're talking with Crystal Wilkinson to discuss her latest book, Perfect Black. We discuss Black girlhood, being country, food, the rural South, and our ancestors. Crystal Wilkinson, Kentucky's Poet Laureate, is the award-winning author of Perfect Black, The Birds of Opulence , Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries. She is the recipient of a 2021 O. Henry Prize, a 2020 USA Artists Fellowship, and a 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. Nominated for the John Dos Passos Award, the Orange Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, she has received recognition from the Yaddo Foundation, Hedgebrook, The Vermont Studio Center for the Arts, Hedgebrook, and others. Her short stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including most recently in The Kenyon Review, STORY, Agni Literary Journal, Emergence, Oxford American and Southern Cultures. Her fourth book Perfect Black was released from University Press of Kentucky in August 2021. She currently teaches at the University of Kentucky where she is Associate Professor of English in the MFA in Creative Writing Program. This episode is sponsored by Moyo Mysteries. Moyo Mysteries offers spiritual consultations, pelvic steam plans, and full-spectrum birthwork services, from fertility and birth & labor to loss & bereavement and abortion work. Moyo Mysteries also offers a variety of educational projects and upcoming trainings. To learn more, you can visit www.moyomysteries.org. Also, follow on Facebook and Instagram under the name, Moyo Mysteries BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
We cannot avoid our grief and be free. We talk with Julia Mallory about her latest book Survivor's Guilt and how to work through our generational grief. Julia Mallory is the author of six books, including two children's books. Her latest book Survivor's Guilt is an archive of survivorship that chronicles generational grief through photographs, poetry, and prose. In addition, she is the founder of the creative brand, Black Mermaids, serves as the Senior Poetry Editor for Raising Mothers, and hosts the Stop Shrinking Socialcast. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @thejuliamallory. RESOURCES www.thejuliamallory.com www.blackmermaids.com Survivor's Guilt by Julia Mallory "The Concise Catalog of Deep Grief Objects" by Julia Mallory "Juneteenth Reflections: Grief Work is Freedom Work" Black Youth Project Contributors The Burial of Kojo This episode is sponsored by Guided Cycles. Guided Cycles offers Death Transitioning services, End of Life Planning, Grief Facilitation work, and Bedside & Community Vigils. Guided Cycles also offers a variety of educational projects and upcoming trainings. To learn more, you can visit www.guidedcycles.org. Also, follow on Facebook and Instagram under the name, Guided Cycles. BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
Welcome back to Season 3 of Hoodoo Plant Mamas! This season we're doing things a little differently and are focusing on writing in the Hoodoo tradition. Each episode will feature a different Black writer who utilizes or discusses Spirit in their work. In this episode, we discuss Lucille Clifton's spiritual writing and get into some other Black women writers who also have work inspired by Spirit. Resources "The Spirit Writing of Lucille Clifton" by Marina Magloire How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton by Lucille Clifton, Aracelis Girmay (Editor) Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women by Akasha Gloria Hull Black Writers to Explore: Lucille Clifton, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Gayle Jones, Sonia Sanchez, Zora Neale Hurston, June Jordan, Gloria Naylor, Octavia Butler, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Dolores Kendrick, Sherley Anne Williams, Ntozake Shane, SDiane Bogus, Tina McElroy Ansa, Shirley Jackson-Opoku, Jewelle Gomez, A.J. Verdelle, Devora Major, Phyllis Alesia Perry BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
It's our season finale, and we're joined by Kentucky writer and dating columnist Minda Honey. We answer all your dating questions so you can start your hot girl summer right. Minda Honey Website Newsletter "A Farewell to Fuckboys in the Age of Consent Culture" "Politics as a Defense Against Heartbreak" BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
In this episode, we talk about our childhood experiences with spirits and death. We get into The People's Oracle, holding space for Black children, and acknowledging the harm many of our parents have done to us. EPISODE SPONSOR Sun In Twelfth is a Black Woman/LGTB owned business that hosts courses curated exclusively for Black people by Hoodoo and Astrologer Mariah Williams. Through a Hoodoo dipped style of chart reading, Black people learn the foundation of Hoodoo concepts and principles, how to develop our ancestral practices, as well as how to read and better understand ourselves through our natal chart. Registration for Astrology Through a Hoodoo Lens will be open until May 28th. Sign up by May 7th to receive $50 off. The course runs from May 30th to July 11th. For more information check out sunintwelfth.com. RESOURCES Durand Bernarr "African-American Folktales and Conspiracy Theories" "Finding God in Nature" The People's Oracle Dayna Lynn Nuckolls "Session 196: Understanding Complex PTSD" Therapy for Black Girls BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
We're joined by the founders of Fennigan's Farms: Claire and Amanda. This week, we're discussing the need for food sovereignty for Black and indigenous people, food injustices in the United States, and how to start growing your own food at home. FENNIGAN'S FARMS Instagram & Twitter: @fennigansfarms Spring Plant Pop-Up Shop Tees Episode Resources Rags to Witches Pod Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman Soul Fire Farms Ericka Hart's "Vegan Fragility" The African American Heritage Cookbook : Traditional Recipes and Fond Remembrances from Alabama's Renowned Tuskegee Institute by Carolyn Quick Tillery BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
In this episode, we're breaking down celebrity activism. Should activists become celebrities from the state-sanctioned murders of Black people? Why our liberation depends on centering women like Samaria Rice. And what's the line between art and activism? Resources We Mentioned: Samaria Rice's Facebook post "The Sha*n K*ing Episode with Ashley Ray-Harris" by Scam Goddess Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire "BreonnaCon Organizers Under Fire for Capitalizing Off Breonna Taylor’s Murder" by Zo "Rapper Chika Sides With Samaria Rice, Says BLM LA Is Too Celebrity Focused" by Veronica Wells "Dr. Maxine Mimms on Getting Free in the Past, Present + Future" by Black Girl Mystic Podcast BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
This week, we're joined by the lovely Tasha Mac as we share the stories from our foremothers. For Women's History Month, we uplift Black women who have influenced our lives and share the lessons they taught us. We also get into how Tabitha Brown may be a Hoodoo. Resources "Jackson’s Water Crisis Lingers into March" by Julian Mills "Jackson's water crisis: How you can help" by Tim Majors and Scalawag Editors "The Songs My Mother Taught Me" by Fannie Lou Hamer "Sick and Tired: Fannie Lou Hamer & the Cost of America’s Sickness" by Danielle Buckingham Tabitha Brown "My Mom Showed Up Today" BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
This week, we're discussing decolonization, what it is and why it's important. We also discuss Tessica Brown and the need to decolonize our perceptions around type 4 hair. Content Warning: From 26:00-36:00, we used ableist language to discuss the conversation surrounding Tessica Brown. While we acknowledged that much of this conversation was ableist, we still used slurs. This is a learning process. RESOURCES "Black Panther Fred Hampton Created a "Rainbow Coalition" to Support Poor Americans" by Tana Ganeva Inventing Black and White (about Bacon's Rebellion) "The “Gorilla Glue Girl” never wanted her nickname" by Melinda Fakuade BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
It's only right that we talk about love during February. In this episode, Dani and Leah discuss how our female ancestors used love spells and binding in Hoodoo, how women today are obsessed with love, and what dating issues plague Black women today. Resources Mama Rue's Ancestral Musings "Female Labor Force Participation: The Origin of Black and White Differences, 1870 and 1880" by Claudia Goldin Iyalosa Osunyemi Akalatunde BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
Welcome to season 2 of Hoodoo Plant Mamas! In this episode, we're discussing if we need to keep our religious practices off the internet, how much of our practice should be done in secret, and how to honor the sacred aspects of African traditional religions. We also get into Azealia Banks and the queer Bali couple who got themselves deported by running their mouths. Resources "Azealia Banks Responds to Backlash After Cooking Dead Cat" by VIBE Staff "Bali Influencer Influences Bali to Deport Her" by Zoe Haylock EPISODE SPONSOR Fennigan's Farms is a Black sister run community development team based in Detroit, Michigan. They specialize in backyard and community garden design; building gardens, greenhouses, farmers markets, and farm stands designed to liberate those living in the margins and restore food sovereignty to all communities. To learn more about their work or gather information about starting your own CSA or farm and garden project, visit them at FennigansFarms.com and on social media at @FennigansFarms. BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
It's our last episode of 2020. Dani and Leah are discussing the need for discernment when navigating celebrity culture and African Traditional Religions (ATRs) online. Since it's our last episode of this season, we rant about the Aquarius slander (we're both Aquarius suns), the writing community devaluing young writers, and the need to MIND YA BUSINESS. If you liked this podcast, make sure to like, rate, and review. Share it with your friends! BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
In this episode, Dani and Leah discuss finding God in nature. Looking at a conversation between Celie and Shug in The Color Purple, we contrast the image of God that we believed in growing up with the image that we hold of God now. We discuss our own experiences with nature and how we found God, life, and beauty in it. ***Content Warning*** Suicide ideation is mentioned from 33:55-38:03 RESOURCES The Color Purple by Alice Walker "Where the Parents At?" by Leah Nicole BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/hoodooplants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoodooplantmamas/ EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
Since y'all can't keep Mississippi name out your mouth, this week we're tackling common myths and misconceptions about our home state. We're joined by Mississippi journalist Brittany Brown who helps us answer if Mississippians wear shoes and whether Mississippi is the most racist state in the union? We share our frustrations, our hopes, and our dreams for this great state. RESOURCES Adria Walker's Mississippi Twitter thread Mississippi News Tweet about the fight between MS Election commissioner and her opponent's supporters. "'Fed the f- up': Why young activists are organizing protests across Mississippi" by Kayleigh Skinner, Kelsey Davis Betz, and Aallyah Wright "Historic Protests for Black Lives Sweep Mississippi Over Weekend" by Nick Judin "Study: 11% of all Mississippians, 16% of Black Mississippians can't vote because of felony convictions" by Bobby Harrison "The South Got Something to Say" by Leah Nicole BRITTANY BROWNWebsite: https://isthatbritt.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/isthatbritt BE A PATRON Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/hoodooplants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoodooplantmamas/ EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
Happy Halloween! This week, we're discussing Black folktales and old wives' tales. We get into storytelling and spooky tales we shared as children. Leah's Granny drops some knowledge, and we indulge our resident conspiracy theorist, Dani, in some of her favorite conspiracy theories. Spoiler, we definitely believe aliens walk among us. Works We Referenced: Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall Kenan The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton Mojo Workin: The Old African American Hoodoo System by Katrina Hazzard-Donald "No White Saviors: Woman Accused of Letting African Babies Die at Fake Medical Facility in Uganda" by Michael Harriot The Space Traders by Derrick Bell BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/hoodooplants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoodooplantmamas/ EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.
Welcome to the first episode of Hoodoo Plant Mamas! In this episode, we discuss the history of hoodoo. We ask what is hoodoo, why our ancestors practiced it, and how it has been demonized over the centuries? We discuss our own spiritual journeys from traditional Christianity to Hoodoo and even the overlap between the two. Also, are our ancestors demons? We discuss the latest Twitter shenanigans of calling our ancestors and African practices demonic. If you like this show, SUBSCRIBE, RATE and REVIEW on whatever platform you're listening to. We appreciate your support! BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/hoodooplants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoodooplantmamas/ EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca. Support Bianca Russell Website: https://justbee.xyz/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/biancajrussell/
Introducing your Hoodoo Plant Mamas Leah Nicole and Dani Bee who discusses growing up in the Deep South, Black spirituality, pop culture, and of course, plants! First episode premieres Friday, October 16th. BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/hoodooplants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hoodooplantmamas/ EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES hoodooplantmamas@gmail.com DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca. Bianca Russell Website: https://justbee.xyz/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/biancajrussell/
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