Women Of Color Organizing Podcast

Greetings ya'll! Welcome to an extended WoCo Radio Episode! WoCo Radio Episodes are our commitment to archiving our stories over the need for perfectionism. In WoCo Radio episodes you can expect our real-time reactions, longer pauses, and candid laughter. Join Crystal and Sariah as we reflect and archive our experiences on our Anniversary of sheltering in place. CN: For an extensive discussion of the COVID 19 pandemic. It felt really special to share this space, thank you for listening! You can find Crystal and Sariah on Our Website: wocopod.com Instagram: @Wocopod Twitter: @Wocopod Gmail: wocopod@gmail.com

Greetings! We're Back with WoCo Radio! Crystal and Sariah talked about Astrology on our January 29th 2021 Livestream, Where we learned about it, how we relate to it, and our experiences with the signs! We shout out Astro accounts that have helped us along on our journey including @Chaninicholas, @yakarigabriel, and @saltwater.stars ! We also shout out some other pods that have inspired us to talk about Astro @queerwocpod, @endoftheworldpc, and @iharterika 's Hoodrat to Headwrap If you have comments, suggestions, or ideas you wanna share with us please feel free to hit us up on Facebook at Women of Color Organizing Podcast, Twitter @wocopod! You can send us mail at our Gmail wocopod@gmail.com or catch us live on Instagram @wocopod! Thanks for listening!

Greetings ya'll Did you miss us? Crystal and Sariah have been working on generating new content for this space and decided to share some of the live streams we've been hosting on Instagram! Here is the recording from our very first Stream(from 10.10.20). Crystal and Sariah Dive into talking about Black Queer Feminist Organizing and why its important to us! We're excited to be archiving here again! If you have comment suggestions feel free to hit us up on Facebook at Women of Color Organizing Podcast, at our Gmail wocopod@gmail.com or catch us live on Instagram @wocopod

Welcome Back, WoCos and Friends! This episode is a special Q & A with Crystal and Sariah. They answer and ask a range of questions, from "What's your best quality?" to "If you could have dinner with anybody in the world, who would it be?". We hope you enjoy listening to less serious episodes and don't forget to let us know what you think! We thank you for joining us and communing with us as we process, archive, and envision our shared liberatory futures. Get your self some WoCo-Mail! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKmka6Aem5HeEvfo4Nf8fdfc2lJjeuIxpZz5Jc2OPQvhS3HA/viewform Or Follow Us on Socials Twitter and Instagram: @WoCopod Facebook: Women of Color Organizing Podcast You can also send us Mail: wocopod@gmail.com

Welcome Back WoCos and Friends! In this episode of the pod, Crystal and Sariah wrap up the Anti-Police Violence Series. We cover how processing police violence and archiving them via the podcast has been a thoughtful and challenging experience. We reflect and process the lessons from our first interview with Carolyn Baker. Furthermore, we offer love letters to various forms of black media that have been bringing us love and libation in this time of change. We conclude with movement updates and visions for our liberatory future. We also give space for our name shift. We were formerly known as Womxn of Color Organizing Podcast. Originally we choose to include the “x” in Women to offer space for non-binary identities within our definition of Women. We want to make sure that our podcast name didn’t centralize cis-ness and included non-binary identities. We are evolving as movement language evolves, recently we have been discovering that this term (Womxn) has held negative connotations for some, and we instead will continue to use clear and specific language throughout our pod to name the identities we hold and invite in. We thank you for joining us and communing with us as we process, archive, and envision our shared liberatory futures. Updates on Grace’s case https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2020/07/31/free-grace-oakland-county-probation-homework-appeal-release/5560282002 Love Letter Links Woke foods: https://wokefoods.coop/earthlab/ Be Steadwell on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3u5pK1PzrhvlC0shYIJ1Tl?si=VG5zwYO3QM-AylYcyHJSLA Living Single (Hulu): https://www.hulu.com/series/living-single-df59d585-ed41-4700-a7ae-76942b6ad1dc Check out the General Baker Institute, Black and Brown Alliance, and Detroit will Breath to learn how to plug into local organizing! https://www.generalbakerinstitute.com/ https://www.metrodetroitdsa.com/bbatownhall https://www.facebook.com/detroitwillbreathe/ Get your self some WoCo-Mail! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKmka6Aem5HeEvfo4Nf8fdfc2lJjeuIxpZz5Jc2OPQvhS3HA/viewform Or Follow us on Socials Twitter and Instagram: @WoCopod Facebook: Womxn of Color Organizing Podcast You can also send us Mail: wocopod@gmail.com

Episode 10 and our FIRST INTERVIEW!! Crystal and Sariah sit down with Carolyn Baker of the General Baker Institute of Detroit to discuss policing and Working Class Solidarity! Content Warning as we talk about Policing and the Police Brutality Check out the General Baker Institute, Black and Brown Alliance, and Detroit will Breath to learn how to plug into local organizing! https://www.generalbakerinstitute.com/ https://www.metrodetroitdsa.com/bbatownhall https://www.facebook.com/detroitwillbreathe/ Get your self some WoCo-Mail! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKmka6Aem5HeEvfo4Nf8fdfc2lJjeuIxpZz5Jc2OPQvhS3HA/viewform Or Follow us on Socials Twitter and Instagram: @WoCopod Facebook: Womxn of Color Organizing Podcast You can also send us Mail: wocopod@gmail.com

In this episode of the podcast Crystal and Sariah highlight the stories of Hakeem Littleton and Priscilla Slater, all victims of police violence in Michigan. We cover how we are processing what is happening in our communities and ask ourselves what does this means for our liberation? We offer love letters to the things, people, and places that are keeping us grounded and we archive a historic supreme court win. Join us for this episode of the podcast as we process our way through this moment. Content Warning: This episode mentions Police Violence and Black Trauma. Referenced Works and Resources: InterAction initiative Inc. https://www.facebook.com/interactioninc Liberate Meditation App https://liberatemeditation.com/ Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/72657.Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed El Cambalache https://cambalache.noblogs.org/ Movement Update Links: 2SLGBTQ+ Protections: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-makes-historic-ruling-lgbt-employment-discrimination/story?id=71254749 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals(DACA): https://www.nilc.org/issues/daca/ https://www.nilc.org/2020/06/18/monumental-supreme-court-victory-for-daca-recipients/ ICE Directive for International Students: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/14/891125619/ice-agrees-to-rescind-policy-barring-foreign-students-from-online-study-in-the-u Vanessa Guillen: https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-missing-fort-hood-soldier-vanessa-guillen/story?id=71597714 Not mentioned in the Episode but a documentary about Sexual Assault in the Military: The Invisible War PBS Documentary https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/invisible-war/ Oklahoma Supreme Court Decision: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/889562040/supreme-court-rules-that-about-half-of-oklahoma-is-indian-land

In this episode of the podcast Crystal and Sariah archive the uprisings that are happening nationally. We cover, the demands from Black Lives Matter movements in Detroit, Minneapolis, and Atlanta. We envision what a liberated state could look like and ways we can organize for one. We conclude with affirmations to the people and places that are bringing us joy. Content Warning: This episode mentions Police Violence and Black Trauma. Resources mentioned in this episode: The Poor People’s Campaign a National Call for Moral Revival’s, Open Letter to Our Nation’s Lawmakers on Systemic Racism. How to Survive the End of the World Show, Apocalypse Survival Skill #9: The Right to Defend Ourselves episode. Southerners on New Ground Interview with NPR Liberate Meditation App Black Youth Project 100 Movement4BlackLives Black Lives Matter Bree Newsome @Teawithqj Martial Law and Insurrection Law in the United States: What are the differences? Op-ed: Why, No Matter What, I Still Can't Marry My Girlfriend

What's Happening, WoCos? In this episode of the podcast, Crystal and Sariah cover a host of topics ranging from navigating through COVID-19 to Big Gretch. Follow us as we archive the changes that are emerging during this time. Episode 7 follows, the local and national response to the crisis of COVID-19, offers a loving critique of “Big Gretch,” and discusses the danger of re-open protests, calls out Tik Tok’s algorithmic oppression, and Black Media (mis)representations. This episode also includes a new section titled Research and Report Back or “R & R,” where we will dedicate a few months to researching various projects of survival. Sariah’s focus for these next few months will be the experiences of farming while black, and Crystal’s topic loosely can be described as collective power building that is forming on the margin of dominant institutions. We’re excited to share this with you and you can catch more info about it on our Woco social media! We conclude not only with our love letters to people, projects, and things that have been offering us reprieve, but also our future visions for this platform. Note: As many of you may know, the murder of the Ahmaud Arbery happened recently. Sariah and I have not had the emotional space to process this fully yet. Due to the frequency of white supremacist violence. We don’t know what to offer to folx who are grieving. We enourage folks to check in with friends and loved ones and build community around you as we move through this time. Instagram: @Wocopod

Crystal and Sariah Review one of there favorite Albums: Telefone - by Chicago Based Wrapper NoName. We talk about Black Women's relationships of support, connect the songs to artists and artworks that bring us joy, and overall offer love and praise to this phenomenal artist! Links to Noname Interview and Content: Trevor Noah Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DQErBCA1i8 Spotify Album: https://open.spotify.com/album/18Scpsg5OV1iYNtSaCsjwz Tiny Desk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K58JYXhb4YA Timestamps for the Songs on the Album:  5:00 -Yesterday 14:43 - Sunny Duet 24:24 - Diddy Bop 41: 25 - All I need 51:07 - Reality Check 1:06:27 - Freedom 1:18:56 - Casket Pretty 1:23:44 - Forever 1:33:44 - Bye Bye Baby 1:37:40 - Shadow Man *Disclaimer(including Content Notice for Death, Drug use & Abuse, Racism, Sexual Assault, and Political Persecution)* 1 - This episode was recorded over the course of several sessions and so the audio quality fluctuates a bit different segments it evens out after a while so thank you in advance for rolling with us through that. With that said there are unfortunately some words that get a bit distorted mainly during our discussion of the third song on the album “Diddy Bop” I was talking about how that song makes me feel like I’m spending time at my grandma’s house and playing outside and being a kid in ways that I really couldn’t as much when I was younger due to medical issues. I don’t know If that was clear in the session so I wanted to Highlight that. 2- There are parts in the episode wherein crystal and I flow through each song without saying the name of it at the beginning. So I will be offering Time Stamps in the description to help ya’ll stay with us. And if you are listening on Anchor the Song Names will pop up with each section 3- We also have a Content Notice, In this discussion of Noname’s Mixtape Telefone we explore themes such as death, gun violence, sexual assault, racism, substance use and abuse, and political persecution. We don’t engage in graphic discussions of these things but I wanted to let ya'll know what was coming. I enjoyed this conversation so much and I hope other folks get to enjoy it too but even with that Please take care of yourself. If you aren’t in the headspace to listen to something with those themes we’ll catch you next time! We’re excited to bring more community content to ya’ll in the future! That's it for this disclaimer! Crystal and I jump right into it so I hope you are as psyched as we are to discuss this album. If you haven’t heard it yet Telefone is available on Youtube and Spotify. Check it out before you listen or just jump in and hear our thoughts. Either way, I hope you enjoy the Episode. Bye for now, ya’ll - Sariah

Crystal and Sariah are Back with the Second Part of Our "We're Back" Episode. We invite you to join us as we talk through updates on what we're seeing through Shelter in Place time. We offer Love Letters to the People and Projects helping us move through this moment, and discuss Future Visions of a liberatory governance through crisis. Stay Safe Everyone, and thank you for listening!

**Content Notice: Throughout this Episode we discuss COVID-19 and the responses to it that we've been experiencing. If this is not the type of conversation you need to hear at this time you may want to skip this one for now.** Hi folks! Crystal and Sariah are BACK after our first break! Join us as we recap whats been happening in our state the last few weeks. We offer LOVE LETTERS to the things that have been grounding us during this time. We CALL OUT Capitalism and Individualism as we observe responses to COVID-19 and we talk a bit about future content!

Short Break Announcement! We’ll be back to ya’ll in March with more dope content!

In this Second First Episode of The Podcast, Crystal and Sariah offer LOVE LETTERS to two of our current favorite music Artists. We CALL OUT the low bar of "civility" in our first discussion of college campuses. Crystal and Sariah discuss Socialization & how white supremacist ideas grow and take root and close with offering FUTURE VISIONS of a Liberatory University. Check out our First *published*full episode and let us know what you think! Instagram: @WoCoPod Gmail: wocopod@gmail.com

This is the pilot episode of the Soapbox podcast featuring Sariah Metcalfe and Crystal Bernard.