Podcasts about Audre Lorde Project

Willa Bennett, a trailblazing force in media, is the editor-in-chief of Highsnobiety, steering the publication to new heights of innovation and influence. A Forbes 30 Under 30 luminary, her journey began at Seventeen, pioneering its queer vertical before igniting social strategies at GQ, and championing diversity as Condé Nast's global co-chair. The American Society of Magazine Editors recognized her for social media excellence and video programming, and her leadership at Highsnobiety garnered recognition in the Digiday and Muse Awards. Highlighting the importance of authentic narratives in connecting with young audiences, what she sees as contemporary now is pushing the boundaries and shaping the future of media—even if that means tuning out the background noise and tapping into real community.  Episode Highlights: Bennett grew up in LA, balancing two passions: masculine menswear magazines and hyper-feminine ballet practice. Talking about her early passion for vintage finds and retro styles, Bennett says experimenting with styling became another medium for her, “like writing.” She grew up reading publications like Teen Vogue, Seventeen, Nylon, and Dazed—publications she says understood young consumers and which she still keeps a few print copies.  Bennett moved up through various roles in the industry at a time when social media marketing was in its more raw, early stage. Her role at Highsnobiety gives her creative freedom in that it moves with the youth culture and its fast-paced, creative, adaptive, and reactive workplace environment. Bennett is ahead of the curve, balancing personal perspective with editorial consideration and curation. Her team at Highsnobiety pushes a particular and intentional editorial vision, championing designers and talent that they want to carve out a space for.  Some of Bennett's favorite cover stars have been Billie Eilish, Andre 3000, and Pamela Anderson, though she felt strongly about the Dries Van Noten cover.  Bennett has spoken about forming real connections as a priority over solely professional relationships, despite how “transactional” the industry can be.  Under Bennett's eye, Highsnobiety's niche is to move in tandem with the zeitgeist instead of against it, never telling readers what to do or who to wear.  Bennett considers real-life events crucial to foundational community building, saying, “that to me is a way bigger metric of success than like any influencer with 16 million followers posting one slide that everyone's going to skip over anyway.”  She's published poetry collections benefitting The Audre Lorde Project for queer youth.   For Bennett, deleting social media is what's contemporary now, surprisingly.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While gender inclusivity has made strides in independent schools, transgender students still face challenges in achieving a "normal" school experience. Mimi Shelton joins us to discuss trans belonging.   Mimi Shelton (She/Her) is currently the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Trans (NHBS-Trans2023-24) Project Coordinator at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene where she leads research projects designed to improve the health of the trans community. Mimi has an extensive background in education and community-based advocacy work. In addition to her experience teaching English at Riverdale Country School, Manhattan Country School, the TEAK Fellowship, and the William Penn Charter School. Mimi's experience also includes serving as the Director of Trans Initiatives and Services at Destination Tomorrow, the Bronx LGBT Center.In 2022 Mimi received the Monica Roberts Torch Award for her work as an organizer of the National Trans Visibility March. She has also been a panelist and presenter for the Audre Lorde Project, GLSEN, the National Education Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, and the Osborne Association. In 2020, Mimi was a featured talent in the Dove Pride 2020 Campaign, “Nothing More Beautiful,” directed by Tourmaline. She also serves on the board of directors for the New York Transgender Advocacy Group and The Okra Project.  This fall Mimi begins her first year of law school (1L) at City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. She plans to pursue public interest law, particularly relating to labor justice, civil rights, and trans issues.  When she isn't advocating for collective liberation, Mimi loves to roller skate, watch professional wrestling, and dance. Follow us at @artic.ulating on IG for more of Articulating!

This epsiode of Finding Refuge is pure fire! I had the honor and privilege of interviewing Cara Page and Erica Woodland, co-editors of Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation. Read more below about the themes we weaved together during the interview and about Cara and Erica. Cara Page is a Black Queer Feminist cultural memory worker & organizer. For the past 30+ years, she has organized with LGBTQI+/Black, Indigenous & People of Color liberation movements in the US & Global South at the intersections of racial, gender & economic justice, healing justice and transformative justice. She is founder of Changing Frequencies, an abolitionist organizing project that designs cultural memory work to disrupt harms and violence from the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). She is also co-founder of the Healing Histories Project; a network of abolitionist healers/health practitioners, community organizers, researchers/historians & cultural workers building solidarity to interrupt the medical industrial complex and harmful systems of care. We generate change through research, action and building collaborative strategies & stories with BIPOC-led communities, institutions and movements organizing for dignified collective care.As one of the architects of the healing justice political strategy, envisioned by many in the South and deeply rooted in Black Feminist traditions and Southern Black Radical Traditions, she is co-founder and core leadership team member of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective. She was the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project in New York City and is a former recipient of the OSF Soros Equality Fellowship (2019-2020) and ‘Activist in Residence' at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. She was also chosen as Yerba Buena Cultural Center's ‘YBCA100'in 2020. Cara has organized and co-created with many political and cultural institutions & organizations nationally & internationally including Center for Documentary Studies, Third World Newsreel, Sins Invalid, Southerners on New Ground (SONG), Project South, INCITE! Women & Trans People of Color Against Violence, Bettys Daughter Arts Collaborative, and most recently the EqualHealth Campaign Against Racism, the National Queer & Trans Therapist of Color Network, Disability Project of Transgender Law Center, Astraea Lesbians for Justice Foundation and the Anti-Eugenics Project; toward building & resourcing racial, gender & healing justice strategies for our liberation, collective care & safety. Her forthcoming book, co-edited by Erica Woodland, entitled “Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care & Safety” (North Atlantic Books) will be out in February 2023.Erica Woodland, LCSW is a Black queer, trans masculine/genderqueer facilitator, consultant, psychotherapist and healing justice practitioner who was born, raised, and is currently based in Baltimore, MD. He has worked at the intersections of movements for racial, gender, economic, trans and queer justice and liberation for more than 20 years. He has extensive experience working with young people, Black, Indigenous and People of Color, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities across the country, from Baltimore to the San Francisco Bay Area. Erica is the Founding Director of the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN), a healing justice organization that actively works to transform mental health for Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous and People of Color. Under his leadership, NQTTCN has trained and mobilized hundreds of mental health practitioners committed to intervening on the legacy of harm and violence of the medical industrial complex while building liberatory models of care rooted in abolition. Erica came into liberation and healing work in the early 2000s by way of harm reduction and abolitionist organizing with survivors of state, community and interpersonal violence. Working at the nexus of collective care and political liberation has been central to his practice as a clinician, facilitator, and healer. Erica has done extensive work in carceral environments including prisons, jails, and psychiatric detention centers as well as in grassroots community based organizations, giving him a wide range of experience to draw from in his liberation work. From 2012-2016, Erica served as the Field Building Director for the Brown Boi Project, a national gender justice organization, where he lead movement building work to transform masculinity and confront sexism, misogyny, and queer/transphobia.Erica is co-editor of Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care and Safety, with Cara Page (North Atlantic Books, 2023). In 2017, he was awarded the Ford Public Voices Fellowship and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leaders Fellowship. Erica's op-eds have been featured in Role Reboot, Yoga International and Truthout and his healing justice work has also been highlighted in Time magazine, CNN, Healthline, Complex, and the New York Times. He is also a principal author of Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois (Brown Boi Project, 2011).In this episode, we discuss:The Need for Healing Back, Now and Into the FutureThe Ecosystem of Healing Justice Work and PracticeAccountabilityWhat we Need to Listen to NowAncestorsHonoring Our LineagesRelationship to PlaceDestinyHarriet TubmanCollective CareMovement Work The Disorienting Nature of This TimeThe Process of Being Led to Write a BookCollective LiberationDreamingA Collective Dream for Our Future And More!You can connect with Cara on her website and Erica on his website.Purchase their book, Healing Justice Lineages, here.Podcast music by Charles Kurtz+ Read transcript

In this Black History Month episode honoring the legacy of Black creatives, Jenn and Daren share some of their favorite Black creatives from the old school, contemporary times, and present day. In the first segment, Jenn and Daren talk about the legendary and super Black contributions of Ma Rainey and Henry Ossawa Tanner. In the second segment, they share why the works of Audre Lorde and August Wilson are so important to the culture. In the third segment, Jenn and Daren share their pride in how Black youth like Samara Joy and Zara Wade are carrying the torch for Black creativity into the future. Reference Material: * The first African American celebrity artist - https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/henry-ossawa-tanner-sa-periods/ * August Wilson: The Man Behind The Legacy - https://www.centertheatregroup.org/programs/students/learn-about-theatre/august-wilson-monologue-competition/august-wilson-biography/ * George C. Wolfe Says Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Is Still Relevant to Today's America - https://www.them.us/story/george-c-wolfe-ma-raineys-black-bottom-netflix-interview * The Audre Lorde Project - https://alp.org/about/audre * Samara Joy won Best New Artist at the 2023 Grammys. Here's how she got there. - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/samara-joy-jazz-vocalist-best-new-artist-2023-grammys/ * Dwyane Wade Is Standing Up For His Trans Daughter. His Ex-Wife Doesn't Approve - https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/dwyane-wade-trans-daughter-name-change-1234623869/ www.ThatBlackCouple.com FB: www.facebook.com/ThatBlackCouple Twitter: www.twitter.com/ThatBlkCouple Instagram: www.instagram.com/thatblkcouple Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/that-black-couple-podcast/id1284072220?mt=2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2M7GIQlWxG05gGq0bpBwma?si=xSkjzK0BRJW51rjyl3DWvw Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/that-black-couple SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/thatblackcouple Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLnNvdW5kY2xvdWQuY29tL3VzZXJzL3NvdW5kY2xvdWQ6dXNlcnM6Mjc2MDExMzcwL3NvdW5kcy5yc3M Email: ThatBLKCouple@gmail.com Podcast Summary: This is an accidentally funny podcast about the realities of Blackness and adult life. We do “adult” differently. We are That Black Couple. Our goal is to create a space for Black millennials to discuss and embody adult life on their own terms. We aren't beholden to “traditional” gender or parenting roles, queerness is fluid and present in the ways we show up in our relationships and in the world, and we want to build community with other 30-something Black folx who are trying to figure this ish out.

Happy holidays! For our sixth annual Talk Easy holiday special, we've partnered with the Audre Lorde Project to celebrate. Named after the titular feminist, poet, and activist, the Audre Lorde Project is an NYC-based community organizing center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Trans and Gender Non Conforming (LGBTSTGNC) people of color. Through the end of December, we're donating 100% of the proceeds from our shop to their services. These programs include educational events, social justice activism, and wellness and healing workshops. To learn more about their invaluable work, visit alp.org. After an introduction from Sam (0:44), writer and director Lena Dunham describes an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum (3:41) and poet Rupi Kaur shares a tribute to the women of Iran (5:46). Then, a wide-ranging phone call with culture critic Margo Jefferson (7:30), Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan on Matisse (33:28), and director Hiro Murai on Writing Los Angeles and George Saunders (35:50). On the back-half, a state of the union with NYT political reporter Astead Herndon (37:40), a heartfelt voicemail from Dr. James Whitfield (56:20), and special guest to close 2022 (1:00:26).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After the week long subway ride from Mexico City to the heart of Manhattan, The New York Millenials are here as the ICB World tour continues in seemingly entirely random order. We are joined by the wonderful Rudy (he/they) and EDVA (he/they) AKA Dave, who came to talk about mills and instead ended up on 15 minute tangents the entire time.   In this episode: The Mills have come on to talk about their team and their charity project just in time to watch as, Feather enters a bodega for the first time, Hoop2 becomes the one true time, pitchty and the microshrimp living in the New York City tap water receive love, The cast of Seinfeld makes a secret base, The Bee Movie is fully explained, Morbeeus, and The Mills promise to start a podcast.   Shoutouts zone The Outpost Liquor    Arcane Time   Millscord   Audre Lorde Project   Tweet from Millscord   Initialism Cite   Bee Movie GitHub   Live Action Bee Movie   Luchasaurus   ~~    Our theme music comes from the wonderful Hokuto. Want to shout about the episode? Join us at the Taco Stand Discord - it's open to everyone, not just Tacos! Each episode gets chatted about in #the-podco-truck channel Our twitter is @CitiesPod, and if you want to link to us, you can catch us at infinitecities.gay! We are featherwings#3879, WillofChris#6129, KarpskryThanparN#2963, and Gary#7675, and we are Infinite Cities Blaseball.

Welcome to Poetry Walks! A podcast that brings poems from our hearts to your ears. Center yourself through imaginative and calming poems as Arlo guides you through the forest. Step within through these relaxing poems that question existence, friendship, activism, love, and self-worth. For a full transcript of today's episode please visit my personal website: https://arlotomecek.com/sound/poetry-walks In today's episode we read Audre Lorde's Essay, Poetry Is Not A Luxury, in honor of her birthday which was February 18th. You can also find a pdf of the essay via my transcript. To support Audre Lorde's mission please donate to The Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/ Land Acknowledgement: This podcast was recorded on forcibly ceded Mohican land. You can learn more about land acknowledgement through the links below: https://native-land.ca/ https://www.whose.land/en/ https://library.chatham.edu/whoseland Land acknowledgement is a way of showing historical accuracy, transparency, and honoring First Nations of this land. While land acknowledgement is not enough on its own, we invite you do the research and understand the multiplicity of histories under your feet.

In this episode, Lambros Fatsis and Melayna Lamb talk about their new book ‘Policing the Pandemic: How Public Health Becomes Public Order'. They discuss how the pandemic has revealed the damaging relationship between public health and public order and explain why we need to explore our assumptions about policing and what it's for. Aiming to shift our world view, they offer suggestions for practical steps towards abolitionist practices and ways of thinking. Further reading: Ida B. Wells, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells Angelina Grimké, ‘Appeal to the Christian Women of the South' Elsa Goveia, ‘The West Indian Slave Laws of the Eighteenth Century' Sylvia Wynter, ‘No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to my Colleagues' Lola Olufemi, Feminism Interrupted Adam Elliot Cooper, Black Resistance to British Policing Cradle Community - Brick by Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons Koshka Duff (editor), Abolishing the Police Angela Y Davis, Gine Dent, Erika R. Meiners and Beth E. Ritchie, Abolition. Feminism. Now Mariame Kaba, We Do This ‘Til we Free Us: Abolitionist Organising and Transformative Justice Annanya Bhattacharjee, ‘Whose Safety? Women of Color and the Violence of Law Enforcement' Organisations and Projects: Inquest: https://www.inquest.org.uk/ Netpol: https://netpol.org/ JENGbA (Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association): https://jointenterprise.co/ London Campaign Against Police and State Violence: https://lcapsv.net/ Northern Police Monitoring Project: http://npolicemonitor.co.uk/ Sisters Uncut: https://www.sistersuncut.org/ United Families and Friends Campaign: https://uffcampaign.org/ Coalition Against Police Crimes and Repression: https://www.capcr-stl.org/ Critical Resistance: http://criticalresistance.org/ INCITE!: https://incite-national.org/ Creative Interventions: https://www.creative-interventions.org/ Abolitionist Futures: https://abolitionistfutures.com/ The Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/ Project NIA: https://project-nia.org/ Intro music: Cold by yoitrax | @yoitrax Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Kerbie Joseph, longtime police brutality, mass incarceration and community organizer in Brooklyn, New York with the ANSWER Coalition and SOS coordinator with the Audre Lorde Project to discuss New York City mayor-elect Eric Adams' proposal to reinstitute solitary confinement in Rikers Island, the allocation of resources to incarceration and locking people away instead of social programs, and the portrayal of Eric Adams as a progressive despite his record.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Kerbie Joseph, longtime police brutality, mass incarceration and community organizer in Brooklyn, New York with the ANSWER Coalition and SOS coordinator with the Audre Lorde Project to discuss New York City mayor-elect Eric Adams' proposal to reinstitute solitary confinement in Rikers Island, the allocation of resources to incarceration and locking people away instead of social programs, and the portrayal of Eric Adams as a progressive despite his record.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by El Senzengakulu Zulu, a former organizer with SNCC, Founder and Father of the Independent African Schools in the USA, Director of Ujimaa School in Washington, DC teaching education through African culture to preschool through high school for 54 years to discuss the effort to save the Ujimaa school in Washington, DC from gentrification, the history and importance of African-centered education, and the importance of the school in providing a context for Black students to learn in an African-centric context.In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Carol Gokee, National Co-Director for the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee to discuss the effort to free political prisoner Leonard Peltier as his health continues to deteriorate, what the incarceration of Peltier has denied to movements for indigenous resistance and to movements for justice, the inconsistencies of the accusations against Peltier by the FBI, and why the release of Peltier is an important goal for many different movements for justice.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Gloria La Riva, coordinator of the Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee to discuss the failure of the COVID-19 response in the United States and the success of Cuba's response to the pandemic, the murderous impact of capitalist pandemic response as exemplified in the meatpacking industry, and the cruel treatment of women detained in ICE facilities in Louisiana.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Simon Tesfamariam, executive director of the New Africa Institute to discuss massive protests denouncing the actions of the US in the conflict in Ethiopia, why the US is interested in the horn of Africa, and the missing nuance and context in discussions of Ethiopia.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Kerbie Joseph, longtime police brutality, mass incarceration and community organizer in Brooklyn, New York with the ANSWER Coalition and SOS coordinator with the Audre Lorde Project to discuss the struggle for justice for Akai Gurley, the policing of public housing by the NYPD that led to Akai's death, and how the struggle for justice has shaped the community.In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by technologist Chris Garaffa, the editor of TechforthePeople.org to discuss the use of AI technologies for surveillance in prisons and the potential consequences of its use, Google workers fighting back against the company's contracts with the defense industry, and Facebook's refusal to take substantial action against harmful hate speech.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Kamau Franklin, Founder and Board President of Community Movement Builders in Atlanta and Co-host of the Renegade Culture podcast to discuss the racist tropes on display in the trial of the killers of Ahmaud Arbery, the disparity in the treatment of Kyle Ritenhouse and Tamir Rice and how white fears of Black revenge factor into that treatment, the death of Malikah Shabazz, the exoneration of two people convicted of killing Malcom X, and the sanitization and repackaging of Malcolm X's legacy.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Kerbie Joseph, longtime police brutality, mass incarceration and community organizer in Brooklyn, New York with the ANSWER Coalition and SOS coordinator with the Audre Lorde Project to discuss the struggle for justice for Akai Gurley, the policing of public housing by the NYPD that led to Akai's death, and how the struggle for justice has shaped the community.

"Joél's words are where I go when I need some inspiration. And he never lets me down." Lin-Manuel Miranda (yes, that Lin) said these words about our guest this week. Joél Leon is a performer, author, storyteller, and Creative Director at T Band Studio at the New York Times who was born and raised in the Bronx. He writes and tells stories for Black people. He's been featured in the Columbia Journal, BBC News, Sirius XM, Forbes, Insider, Medium, Philadelphia Printworks, Blavity and the Huffington Post. He has spoken and performed at the Apollo Theater, Joe's Pub, Rockwood Music Hall, Columbia University, NYU and Webster Hall. He lives in Brooklyn and is the father to Lilah and West. NEXT STEPS: Follow Joél Leon on Instagram and Twitter. Buy a God Bless the Poets crewneck today! All proceeds go to support the Audre Lorde Project. Listen to Joél's brand new spoken word project, soundtrack to a riot. __________________________________________________________ Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at hello@letsgiveadamn.com. Follow Let's Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don't want you to miss a thing! If you love what we're doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can't do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y'all! Edited and Sound Designed by Sound On Studios.

Black Queer Feminist cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer of 30 plus years, Cara Page, join us to talk cultural memory and healing justice.   Cara is one of the architects of the healing justice political strategy, envisioned by many in the US South and deeply rooted in Black Feminist traditions and Southern Black Radical Traditions of the Global South. She is co-founder and current leadership team member of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective.  She is also the former ED of The Audre Lorde Project, and former National Coordinator of the Committee on Women, Population & the Environment. You can learn more about her work at her, Changing Frequencies and Healing Histories on her webpage. Follow her on IG @changingfrequencies.  Learn more about the Kindred Healing Collective on their webpage.  La Cura Podcast is a project of Mijente. Please SUBSCRIBE and RATE us and write us a review! Share this episode with others! Follow us on IG at @lacurapodcast and @conmijente. You can email us at lacurapodcast@gmail.com, we want to hear from you!

On this episode of Grow Kinder®, host Andrea Lovanhill speaks with Melanie Willingham-Jaggers (they/she), the Interim Executive Director at GLSEN, a national nonprofit that works to ensure K–12 education is safe and affirming for all students, including LGBTQIA+ youth. A lecturer at City University New York in the Master of Applied Theater program, Melanie has extensive experience in social justice organizing within and beyond the LGBTQIA+, immigrant, disabled, incarcerated, and other marginalized and intersecting communities. From 2016 to 2019, they served as board chair of The Audre Lorde Project, one of the oldest centers for community organizing for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color in the New York City area. And before joining GLSEN in 2019 as deputy executive director, they served as the program associate director of The Worker Institute at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. In this conversation, Melanie talks about the critical importance of having windows and mirrors for students, and they share their insights into how schools can create a safe, inclusive, and affirming environment for LGBTQIA+ youth, educators, and families. You can follow Melanie on Twitter at twitter.com/themelster. To learn more about GLSEN, visit glsen.org. Visit the links below for some of the resources mentioned in this episode. LGBTQ+ Student Rights Guide: https://www.glsen.org/sites/default/files/2021-01/LGBTQ-Student-Rights.pdf LGBTQ+ Educator Rights Guide: https://www.glsen.org/sites/default/files/2021-01/LGBTQ-Educator-Rights.pdf “Erasure and Resilience: The Experiences of LGBTQ Students of Color” Reports: • glsen.org/AAPI • glsen.org/black • glsen.org/latinx • glsen.org/native GLSEN 2021 Legislative Agenda • https://www.glsen.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/2021-Legislative-Agenda-Policies-Inclusive-LGBTQ-Students-Schools_0.pdf For more episodes of Grow Kinder, visit GrowKinderPodcast.org. You can rate and follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud, or Stitcher—we'd love to hear from you. And to let us know more about you and what you think of the podcast, take our listener survey: https://forms.office.com/r/2WttRZdfgW

Our first season of Rev'ing Up: Answering the Call of Liberal-Religious Leadership is coming to a close! Join us for our live event on CCNY YouTube (youtube.com/c/ccnyuu) at 7pm Eastern on Thursday, May 27 and bring your thoughts and questions. On today's show, Carrie and Meagan continue their discussion about intern ministership during the COVID-19 pandemic. This week, we focus on self-care and the ongoing question of how to make ministry sustainable for the people who pursue it. The concept of self care originates in the work of radical poet and activist Audre Lorde. If you'd like to investigate the concept outside of a consumerist framework, the Audre Lorde Project provides resources to do so: https://alp.org/breaking-isolation-self-care-and-community-care-tools-our-peopleThis episode also references the book Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Learn more or pick up a copy: https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass. Join our Listener Community at facebook.com/groups/revingup or drop us a line at podcast@ccny.org!

On the 4th episode of Season 2, Tim'm features his friend and colleague Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, who is currently leading work at GLSEN. Listen as they discuss and give us the real “T” or truth about the topic of Intersectionality. A concept and framework created by Black feminist scholar, Kimberle' Crenshaw, Intersectionality is defined as the complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups. (Merriam-Webster)The episode begins with "Ten”, a song by Tim'm that was featured on his solo debut album, Songs From Red Dirt. The song was originally written as a spoken word poem in his first book, Red Dirt Revival: a poetic memoir in 6 Breaths. After the dialogue with Melanie about their lived intersectionality as Black LGBTQ+ leaders in education, the episode concludes with the poem “Sixteen” which is also on Songs from Red Dirt and which appears in the second edition of "Red Dirt Revival: a poetic memoir in 6 Breaths”.Tim'm would like to offer special thanks to Rayna Moore for her voice as Intro to the podcast, Frank Richardson III for his support as co-producer, and Ray Brown for his support as an editor. About our featured guest:Melanie Willingham-Jaggers (They/She), is the incoming Interim Executive Director at GLSEN, a national non-profit that works to ensure K-12 education is safe and affirming for all students, including LGBTQ+ youth. Her vision for the next chapter of GLSENs work is rooted in the belief that education can and should be an experience that is safe, affirming and liberating – and that we can achieve that goal only when we build in racial, gender and disability justice into our education system as a key indicator of success.Before joining GLSEN in 2019 as Deputy Executive Director, Melanie served as the Program Associate Director of The Worker Institute at Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. As a part of the leadership team there, Melanie worked to ensure the strategic, programmatic, and operational excellence of the Institute.She brings extensive experience in social justice movement and organizations as a manager and consultant with her, including curriculum design, facilitation, organizing within and beyond various marginalized and intersecting communities, including current and formerly incarcerated and underground economy involved people, LGBTQ+ community, youth, immigrants, people with disabilities and senior citizens. Melanie has a long track record of building and running successful high-impact programing, training and developing individuals and leading teams, as well as designing effective and values responsive infrastructure that drive high levels of performance and impact across the organization. Since 2018, Melanie has lectured at CUNY's School of Professional Studies, in the Masters of Applied Theater program. They earned their B.A. in Politics, Peace and Justice Studies and Philosophy from the University of San Francisco, and their M.A. from The City University of New York's School of Professional Studies in Applied Theater, where they lecture as an adjunct.From 2016-2019 Melanie served as board chair of The Audre Lorde Project, the oldest center for community organizing for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color, in the New York City area. Melanie's work on the ALP Board was rooted in the belief that as long as there are organizations connected to our freedom movements – those organizations must be internally safe, healthy and vibrant spaces, on which movements can rely if they so choose.

It's always fuckin' something on Halloween, and this week we will get Anya on roller skates, Dawn shoplifting, Xander poking Giles with his hook, Amber Tamblyn, victim-blaming, and Jenny doing an impression of Old Man Kaltenbach that just may top any impression she has done or ever will do? Welcome to Season 6 Episode 6: All The Way. We also have an awesome segment for you from Producer Alba where she is in conversation with Jack Skelton, a teen dating violence prevention social worker who runs a combo counseling and movement building program at a NYC high school. LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNETJenny Owen Youngs: @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.comKristin Russo: @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.comBuffering the Vampire Slayer: @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagramLearn more about our team at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/our-team +++SPECIAL GUESTSJack Skelton with Producer AlbaCW: This segment contains a conversation around sexual violenceTime Stamps 1:04:00 - 1:14:30Resources Mentioned in Jack + Alba's Segment Day One: https://www.dayoneny.org/Anti-Violence Project: https://avp.org/Ali Forney Center: https://www.aliforneycenter.org/Save Our Streets: https://www.courtinnovation.org/programs/save-our-streets-sosThe Door: https://door.org/FIERCE: http://www.fiercenyc.org/Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/ +++Produced by: Alba Daza, Kristin Russo, and Jenny Owen YoungsEdited by: John Mark Nelson & Kristin Russo +++JOIN MACK + ALBA for INVISI-BIPOC: an episode of Buffering the Vampire Slayer where Producer Alba Daza & Consultant Mack MacDade delve into the BIPOC experience of invisibility, using episodes and themes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to better understand the ways in which the BIPOC community is made to feel invisible. INVISI-BIPOC will air in the main Buffering feed on Wednesday, January 20th, and will be followed by an Instagram Live Q&A hosted by Mack & Alba on Buffering's IG on Saturday, January 23rd at 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific. More information at: https://www.bufferingthevampireslayer.com/invisibipoc +++ JOIN OUR PATREON FAMILY!!Advance Music, Bonus Episodes, Live Concerts, Book Clubs, wheeeee!!patreon.com/bufferingcastMERCH, MERCH, MERCH!bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shopLogo: Kristine Thune +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Alba occupies Tiohtià:ke of the Kanien'kehá:ka Nation. Mack, LaToya, and John Mark occupy the lands of the Kizh Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts atbufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's always fuckin' something on Halloween, and this week we will get Anya on roller skates, Dawn shoplifting, Xander poking Giles with his hook, Amber Tamblyn, victim-blaming, and Jenny doing an impression of Old Man Kaltenbach that just may top any impression she has done or ever will do? Welcome to Season 6 Episode 6: All The Way. We also have an awesome segment for you from Producer Alba where she is in conversation with Jack Skelton, a teen dating violence prevention social worker who runs a combo counseling and movement building program at a NYC high school. LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs: @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo: @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering the Vampire Slayer: @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagram Learn more about our team at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/our-team  +++ SPECIAL GUESTS Jack Skelton with Producer Alba CW: This segment contains a conversation around sexual violence Time Stamps 1:04:00 - 1:14:30 Resources Mentioned in Jack + Alba's Segment Day One: https://www.dayoneny.org/ Anti-Violence Project: https://avp.org/ Ali Forney Center: https://www.aliforneycenter.org/ Save Our Streets: https://www.courtinnovation.org/programs/save-our-streets-sos The Door: https://door.org/ FIERCE: http://www.fiercenyc.org/ Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/  +++ Produced by: Alba Daza, Kristin Russo, and Jenny Owen Youngs Edited by: John Mark Nelson & Kristin Russo +++ JOIN MACK + ALBA for INVISI-BIPOC: an episode of Buffering the Vampire Slayer where Producer Alba Daza & Consultant Mack MacDade delve into the BIPOC experience of invisibility, using episodes and themes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to better understand the ways in which the BIPOC community is made to feel invisible. INVISI-BIPOC will air in the main Buffering feed on Wednesday, January 20th, and will be followed by an Instagram Live Q&A hosted by Mack & Alba on Buffering's IG on Saturday, January 23rd at 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific.  More information at: https://www.bufferingthevampireslayer.com/invisibipoc +++ JOIN OUR PATREON FAMILY!! Advance Music, Bonus Episodes, Live Concerts, Book Clubs, wheeeee!! patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH, MERCH, MERCH! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop Logo: Kristine Thune +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Alba occupies Tiohtià:ke of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. Mack, LaToya, and John Mark occupy the lands of the Kizh Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thanks for listening to Episode 13 of Smoke Til It’s Gone Or Die! This week, your hosts get high as a kite and talk about bodies buried under the floor...Rylee tells the tale of the unsolved murder of James Gilmore Junior, a California boy buried under his parents bedroom floor almost sixty years ago. With unreliable perspectives and witness accounts, this on-going investigation leaves you with more questions than answers. Patty teases with what will be the FIRST of a TWO-PART SERIES chronicling the early life and crimes of Fred and Rosemary West. This murderous duo wreaked havoc on the city of Gloucester England. Patty leaves you on a huge cliffhanger! You’ll have to tune in next week to hear the rest of the story! For our Probable Cause this week, we ask you NOT to donate to The Salvation Army this Holiday Season. Instead, consider donating to the following causes that are doing work to protect, uplift, and support those in the LGBTQIA+ community. Housing Works at https://www.housingworks.org/ The Ali Forney Center at https://www.aliforneycenter.org/ Sylvia Rivera Law Project at https://srlp.org/ The Audre Lorde Project at https://alp.org/ TGI Justice Project at http://www.tgijp.org/ The Trevor Project at thetrevorproject.org Find your local LGBT Center at https://www.lgbtcenters.org/LGBTCenters Thanks for listening! If you're on the edge of your stoned little seat, please take a moment to rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast on your favorite streaming platform. You can find us on Instagram @stgdpodcast, our email is stgdpodcast@gmail.com, and you can become a patron at patreon.com/stgdpodcast. Tell your friends about us! Under Massachusetts’ Chapter 94G and California’s Proposition 64 Bills it is legal for us two assholes to possess and consume MaryJane, medically known as cannabis, in our respective states. We do NOT condone the illegal consumption, possession, or sale of cannabis in places it’s not supposed to be smoked, man handled, or acquired from a legal dispensary. But we DO condone what the awesome humans at Marijuana Policy Project are doing to support legislation at the state and federal level to decriminalize cannabis across the country, and advocate for those who have been incarcerated for cannabis possession. Visit mpp.org for more details. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stgdpodcast/support

Black lesbian feminist poet Audre Lorde framed political struggle for a generation of women in Europe and USA. It is difficult to overestimate her legacy. To mark twentieth anniversary of her death, Fringe Film Festival 2012 screened ‘Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984- 1992’. The response to the film highlighted the importance of Lorde’s legacy. Denise O’Connor and Betiel Baraki have captured some of the atmosphere for us. Presented by: Betiel Baraki Interviews by: Denise O’Connor Reading of her own introduction: Sarah Ahmed ‘A Litany for Survival’ read by: Sarah Ahmed Audre Lorde quotes :: Audre Lorde - Wikip :: Audre Lorde Project :: Audre Lorde - The berlin years :: Fringe Film Festival :: The life and work of Audre Lorde :: The Berlin Years - London Showing :: London Feminist Film Festival :: Back to Camden Community Radio :: Follow CCRadio on Twitter :: Women's Studies Without Walls :: File Download (19:21 min / 18 MB)

“The ask is building an antiracist America. The ask is removing from our vocabulary this term not-racist, these terms like race-neutral policy. And realizing that there are racist ideas that suggest that certain groups are better or worse than others, and there are antiracist ideas that suggest we’re equal.” Ibram X. Kendi__________________________________[Theme Music Plays]Episode 0: An IntroductionWelcome to the Antiracist Artist Podcast, a podcast for activists, advocates and allies working to make our communities equitable through artistry. Each episode I am joined in conversation by an artist or arts facilitator who has been paving the way, in hopes of learning from their expertise and experience. Through action and unity, we can create a better tomorrow today. Let’s go.__________________________________Hello and welcome to the Antiracist Artist Podcast. I’m your host, Taylor Ybarra, and I’m so glad to have you a part of the conversation. The sound clip you just heard was #1 New York Times bestselling author and the Founding Director of The Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University, Ibram X. Kendi speaking on the OWN Spotlight special Where Do We Go From Here? Through his brilliant work and pointedly in his book, How To Be An Antiracist, Kendi argues against the notion that something can be “race-neutral,” rather illustrating how every action we take, every decision we make is either racist or antiracist. Our artistic industries have long been steeped in white supremacy and inequality, and we as artists, facilitators and consumers must become acutely conscious of this condition and actively dismantle the systems of oppression that remain. We are positioned in a moment with terrific opportunity to manifest meaningful change. It is my hope that this podcast and the discussions that come from it may offer us ideas, inspiration, and steps forward for an accessible, inclusive, antiracist, and equitable future in the arts. We will be talking to some of the most exciting artists and art facilitators who have been carving out this path toward an antiracist world, with the opportunity to listen to how they have navigated their journeys and their visions of the future.Who am I? I am an artist, advocate, producer and facilitator who is deeply outraged with the state of our union. I focus my work toward making the arts, and in turn our larger communities, inclusive, accessible, equitable and antiracist in order to promote empathy and kindness; actively seeking to dismantle the oppressive forces of systemic and structural injustices in America. I am dedicated to a more comprehensive education on what brought us to this current reality, and learning what action may help to correct these injustices. I believe that art has a special purpose and ability to create an immediate change in its audience; that the creation of art is the greatest expression of compassion, empathy, and humanity; that compassion, empathy, and humanity are what our world needs most right now.Each episode, we invite our guests to choose an organization to uplift, one that is creating a meaningful impact toward a more equitable, inclusive, accessible and antiracist future. For this Introduction Episode, we invited the phenomenal vocalists from the theme music to this task. On behalf of these artists, the Antiracist Artist Podcast has made a donation to The Audre Lorde Project, Black Trans Advocacy Coalition, the Anti Racism Fund, Know Your Rights Camp, and the Austin Justice Coalition. You can donate and learn more about each of these organizations via the links in the show notes.This podcast is made with, by, and for those of us in this fight together, and I invite you to be a part of this podcast community with us. You can stay connected with us at AntiracistArtist.com, on Instagram @antiracistartist, or by emailing antiracistartist@gmail.com. Let us know why antiracist artistry is important to you, what questions you would like to dig into, and who you’d like to hear from in future episodes. I will leave the last words of this Introduction Episode to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., from an excerpt of a speech given in Selma, Alabama on March 8, 1965.__________________________________“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.“So we're going to stand up amid horses. We're going to stand up right here in Alabama, amid the billy-clubs. We're going to stand up right here in Alabama amid police dogs, if they have them. We're going to stand up amid tear gas!“We're going to stand up amid anything they can muster up, letting the world know that we are determined to be free!” Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.__________________________________[Theme Music Plays]The Antiracist Artist Podcast is hosted by Taylor Ybarra, produced by Subito Politico Productions, LLC, and edited by Andrew Alcaraz. To stay connected with the Antiracist Artist Podcast, please visit us at AntiracistArtist.com, on Instagram @antiracistartist, or via email at antiracistartist@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you!Our podcast is made possible with the support of folx like you. You can get exclusive content and access to the show by becoming a patron at patreon.com/antiracistartist. This episode’s donation was made possible in part by the generosity of Rachel Paletsky.Theme music features vocals by Esteban Suero, Forest VanDyke, Kennedy Kanagawa, Jamison, & MinJi Kim._________________________________________________Get SocialConnect with us! | Instagram @antiracistartist | FaceBook @AAPcommunity | Twitter @AAPcommunity | TikTok @antiracistartist_______This episode features the following artists/arts facilitators:Esteban Suero | IG @estesuero / @theofficialerosForest VanDyke | IG - @forestvandykeKennedy Kanagawa | kennedykanagawa.com | IG @thisiskennedyJamison | www.courtneyjamison.com | IG @iamcourtneyjamison | TW @thecjamisonMinJi Kim | IG @minjilikesdogsandmusic

Today we are joined by Personal and Fashion Stylist Jared L. White for an in-depth conversation to better understand his life’s experiences and evolution as a gay black man that propelled his work as a stylist and activist. Jared has always been one to carry such a positive outlook on life, while also dealing with his own internal negativities that would try to creep in. Together we chat through not only life in corporate America, but also the impressive dynamic of being around so many successful corporate women and the support systems they provided. We touch on the lack of diversity in corporate America and racist ideals that still exist in several U.S. cities today.     Going through challenging times in life, Jared learned how to keep an agile mindset along with the importance of a strong foundation. In fact, the mentality he now carries is due in part to a lot of his own learning as a millennial experiencing various economic down turns. We go on to discuss the growth that 2020 bestowed upon us a collective as well Jared’s own experience finding his voice, creative outlets, and leaning into the acts of injustice. In addition to leaning into (instead of turning away) the traumatizing events of this year, Jared has spent several years leaning into his own multifaceted parts, truly embodying his truest self. These experiences have further shaped his work in standing up as an activist for his community and being a voice for the generations to follow.   What else we talk about:  Moving through self-identity issues Having an awareness of the effects of different dialogues we receive Benefits of a meditation practice Irreplaceable value of strong role models Scrappiness of the millennial mindset Emotional labor, traumatizing experiences, and grieving the recent murders of black persons across the U.S. Stepping into the role of being a black person in the LGBTQIA community The importance of bringing creativity into one’s life and the many doors that open to new possibilities Importance of keeping the conversation going about racial upheavals, injustices, police brutality, mental health, etc. Not Your Enemy collection The power of asking for help and learning how to receive feedback Stepping into true alignment with your authentic self   Find more at lyoslife.com   Resources:  Connect with Jared L. White on Instagram @whoistimk Check out his work and collections at stylebytimk.com or visionaryccbstore.com Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards by Doreen Virtue, PhD. Organizations that Jared is working with through his collections: Until Freedom, Black Futures Lab, The Audre Lorde Project, and Life Camp Inc. Join Britt’s 9 Week Program: Life in Balance or learn more about her coaching services and virtual movement sessions at ambuwellness.com   Learn more and attend our next Modern Wellness Community Morning: ambuwellness.com ft. Lindsay Schroeder of @ourandare Connect with me at lovingyourownsoul@gmail.com or on Instagram @lovingyourownsoul Loving Your Own Soul is edited and managed by Sixteen Creative

Rachel Lynn and I catch up and talk about her new EP, “WARMER” and discuss being an artist during quarantine. She also talks about a cool project she’s involved in called, the Word Nonsense workshops, and they’re put on by Mai Nguyen (@littlemaisunshine) and Happy Creative Dig (@happycreativedig) More info can be found below: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/word-nonsense-a-writing-relief-open-dialogue-with-lms-tickets-101069710224?aff=mai Listen to WARMER now! https://ffm.to/rachel_lynn_warmer_ep Half of sales are being donated to The Audre Lorde Project (alp.org) Follow her on social media @rachellynnsings Follow us @sinistergirlz and if you want to write our theme song send them to leslie@sinistergirlz.com

https://alp.org/ — The Audre Lorde Project is a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area. ~ LOTS to unpack this week, including a detailed description of everything i ate after a dental cleaning. groundbreaking! we also discuss some iconic cinema, such as bring it on and night at the roxbury, before diving into the dark twisted real housewives of vancouver recap. personal ig: @botoxgroupon pod ig: @realhousewivesofneopia --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/realhousewivesofneopia/support

Ejeris Dixon is a Black Queer Feminist organizer and political strategist with 20 years of experience working in racial justice, LGBTQ, anti-violence, and economic justice movements. They are the Executive Director of Vision Change Win Consulting (www.visionchangewin.com) where they partner with organizations to build their capacity and deepen the impact of their organizing strategies. They also serve as a consultant with Roadmap Consulting (www.roadmapconsulting.org) a national social justice consulting team. From 2010 - 2013 Ejeris served as the Deputy Director in charge of the Community Organizing Department at the New York City Anti-Violence Project where she directed national, statewide, and local organizing and advocacy initiatives on hate violence, domestic violence, police violence, and sexual violence. From 2005 - 2010 Ejeris worked as the Founding Program Coordinator of the Safe OUTside the System Collective at the Audre Lorde Project where they worked on creating transformative justice strategies to address hate and police violence. They are the co-editor of Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement, which was released in early 2020 by AK Press. Her essay, "Building Community Safety: Practical Steps Toward Liberatory Transformation," is featured in the anthology Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States. Their writings and analysis have been featured in Truthout, New York Times, Huffington Post, SPIN Magazine, CNN, the New Civil Rights Movement, the New York Post, NY1, and Citylimits. In 2012 the White House recognized Ejeris as both an Emerging LGBT Leader and selected them as a featured speaker on violence against Black LGBT communities. They received a Bachelor's Degree in African American Studies at Yale University and a Master's Degree in Public Policy and Nonprofit Management at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ejeris Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ejeris.dixon --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-full-set-podcast/support

Rachel's favorite patchwork art! Griffin's favorite valuable boxes! Rachel's favorite revolutionary poet! Griffin's favorite educational TV show!Music: "Money Won't Pay" by bo en and Augustus - https://open.spotify.com/album/7n6zRzTrGPIHt0kRvmWoyaFor more on the Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/For more ways to support Black Lives Matter and find anti-racism resources: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Jason Haaf back to the podcast! Jason Haaf is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. His previous works have been featured in "Hello Mr." and "Warm Brothers" magazines and "Rendering Unconscious." He is the author of two novellas, "Love Case" and "Locked Up Boy." His latest work, "Bent Book," is a Queer-themed anthology and is available now. https://bentbook.bigcartel.com Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/haafwit/ Proceeds of Bent Book benefit the Marsha P. Johnson Institute: https://www.instagram.com/mpjinstitute/ As well as the Audre Lorde Project: https://www.instagram.com/audrelordeproject/ Proceeds from the Manchester Parish series benefit The Griffin-Gracy Educational Retreat and Historical Center: https://houseofgg.org Jason Haaf contributed to Rendering Unconscious, the book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019): https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 For more, listen to episode 16 of Rendering Unconscious Podcast. RU16: JASON HAAF, WRITER ON MEMORY, DREAMS, CREATIVITY, SEXUALITY: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/art/jason-haaf-writer/ Mentioned in this episode are: John Rechy, City of Night (1963) published by Grove Press, NYC. Justin Dewey: https://www.instagram.com/queer4dolly/ Zach Grear: https://zachgrear.com RU8: GERM LYNN: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/music/germ-lynn-writer-cellist/ RU57: LANGSTON KAHN: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/jung/ru57-langston-kahn-shades-shadows-how-our-unresolved-ancestors-denied-selves-hold-the-keys-to-our-collective-liberation/ The Hoodoo Tarot: https://www.innertraditions.com/books/the-hoodoo-tarot Sibyls Oraculum: https://www.innertraditions.com/books/the-sibyls-oraculum by author Tayannah Lee McQuillar: https://www.instagram.com/tayannahleemcquillar/ and artist Katelan Foisy: https://www.katelanfoisy.com RU5: MELISSA DIAZ, ARTIST & ART THERAPIST: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/art/rendering-unconscious-melissa-diaz/ Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. Episodes are also created from lectures given at various international conferences. http://www.renderingunconscious.org You can support the podcast at: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based Stockholm, who sees clients internationally, specializing in offering quality psychoanalytic treatment remotely and online. Her books include Switching Mirrors (2016), The Fenris Wolf vol 9 (2017) – collected papers from the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference, London – co-edited with Carl Abrahamsson, On Psychoanalysis and Violence: Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives (2018) co-edited with Manya Steinkoler, and Scansion in Psychoanalysis and Art: the Cut in Creation forthcoming from Routledge 2020. She is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at Spotify, iTunes, Podbean, YouTube... Please visit http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ for links to all of these sites. The track at the end of the episode is "Fetishize Immediacy" from the just released album "Switching Mirrors" by Vanessa Sinclair and Carl Abrahamsson, available from Highbrow Lowlife and Trapart Editions: https://store.trapart.net/item/6 For more information visit: http://www.renderingunconscious.org http://www.drvanessasinclair.net http://dasunbehagen.org http://psychartcult.org https://store.trapart.net http://highbrow-lowlife.com https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Portrait of Jason Haaf and Kyle Anderson by Doc Rocket: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DocR0cketArt

It's Pride Month, everyone ❤️

This episode is about Spike Lee's 1989 film Do the Right Thing.Given all that has been happening in the United States at the moment, releasing a podcast feels frivolous. But I thought that if I was going to put one out, at least it could be topical. Neither Will nor I had seen this film, and neither of us were entirely prepared for just how topical it turned out to be.If anyone is interested in donating to worthy causes, there are links to several here:- Justice for Breonna Taylor: https://www.gofundme.com/f/9v4q2-justice-for-breonna-taylor- George Floyd Memorial Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd- The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting: https://idabwellssociety.org/donate/- The Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/- The National Bail Out Fund: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/freeblackmamas2020 Black Lives Matter

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We’re off to sunny, sweaty Florida to talk about “Mostly Dead Things,” the debut novel by Kristen Arnett. We discuss taxidermy, the characters, grossness, and the ideas of masculinity and vulnerability. Then, Emily interviews Erica Boyce, author of the new book “Lost at Sea.” Then we dig into some listener feedback from a few of our earlier book picks. In light of recent events, we’ve changed our next Othersode topic—read along with us for our June 29 discussion of Ibram X. Kendi’s book “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” (available for free on Spotify right now!). Our next Bookpisode will cover “The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and we’ll be joined by returning guest Said on July 13! 0:30 – Announcements5:30 – Intro q14:20 – Book intro16:36 – Taxidermy as the center of the novel23:50 – Characters and character development 41:40 – Gross stuff! 52:50 – Masculinity and vulnerability59:55 – Ratings 1:09:25 – Interview with Erica Boyce!1:39:02 – Listener feedback 1:45:07 – What’s up next?Links: The End of Policing: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policingKandis’s film, Edible: https://www.gofundme.com/f/edible-short-filmSnap4Freedom: https://www.snap4freedom.org/homeThe Okra Project: https://www.theokraproject.comACLU: https://www.aclu.org/Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/ #BLACKLIVESMATTERMore Resources to Fight Racial Injustice:Black Lives Matter https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019 NAACP Legal Defense Fund: https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6857/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=15780&_ga=2.209233111.496632409.1590767838-1184367471.1590767838Communities United Against Police Brutality https://www.cuapb.org/Reclaim the Block https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/home/#aboutChange.org petition for Justice for Breonna Taylor https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear-justice-for-breonna-taylorChange.org petition for Justice for George Floyd https://www.change.org/p/mayor-of-minneapolis-justice-for-george-floydChange.org petition for Justice for Ahmaud Arbery https://www.change.org/p/liberty-county-distric-attorney-justice-for-ahmaud-arberyA Detailed List of Anti-Racism Resources: https://medium.com/wake-up-call/a-detailed-list-of-anti-racism-resources-a34b259a3eea75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice: https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234

We’re off to sunny, sweaty Florida to talk about “Mostly Dead Things,” the debut novel by Kristen Arnett. We discuss taxidermy, the characters, grossness, and the ideas of masculinity and vulnerability. Then, Emily interviews Erica Boyce, author of the new book “Lost at Sea.” Then we dig into some listener feedback from a few of our earlier book picks. In light of recent events, we’ve changed our next Othersode topic—read along with us for our June 29 discussion of Ibram X. Kendi’s book “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” (available for free on Spotify right now!). Our next Bookpisode will cover “The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and we’ll be joined by returning guest Said on July 13! 0:30 – Announcements5:30 – Intro q14:20 – Book intro16:36 – Taxidermy as the center of the novel23:50 – Characters and character development 41:40 – Gross stuff! 52:50 – Masculinity and vulnerability59:55 – Ratings 1:09:25 – Interview with Erica Boyce!1:39:02 – Listener feedback 1:45:07 – What’s up next?Links: The End of Policing: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policingKandis’s film, Edible: https://www.gofundme.com/f/edible-short-filmSnap4Freedom: https://www.snap4freedom.org/homeThe Okra Project: https://www.theokraproject.comACLU: https://www.aclu.org/Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/ #BLACKLIVESMATTERMore Resources to Fight Racial Injustice:Black Lives Matter https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019 NAACP Legal Defense Fund: https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6857/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=15780&_ga=2.209233111.496632409.1590767838-1184367471.1590767838Communities United Against Police Brutality https://www.cuapb.org/Reclaim the Block https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/home/#aboutChange.org petition for Justice for Breonna Taylor https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear-justice-for-breonna-taylorChange.org petition for Justice for George Floyd https://www.change.org/p/mayor-of-minneapolis-justice-for-george-floydChange.org petition for Justice for Ahmaud Arbery https://www.change.org/p/liberty-county-distric-attorney-justice-for-ahmaud-arberyA Detailed List of Anti-Racism Resources: https://medium.com/wake-up-call/a-detailed-list-of-anti-racism-resources-a34b259a3eea75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice: https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234

Welcome back Films Fans! On this episode as usual our hosts are having a great time reviewing the films Uncorked and Becoming from Netflix. But also on this episode they're also focused on the current social climate of America. It hasn't been easy but they've taken a moment to share their thoughts. Kevyn joins us once again as guest producer and helps us manage the muddy waters of recording during this Pandemic. So come on, grab a seat and your favorite drink as Tawania enjoys a crisp Harlem Blue and Von switches it up for this episode. If you like this episode please be sure to share, like and follow us here and on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Be Safe, Be Well, Wear a Mask. Ways to support the Black Lives Matter Movement: blacklivesmatter.com Fightforbrianna.org blacklivesmattergreaterny.com alp.org (The Audre Lorde Project) brooklynbailfund.org eji.org (The Equal Justice Initiative) communtiyjusticeexchange.org (National Bail Fund Network) emergencyreleasefund.com mutualaid.nyc naacpldf.org

Trigger Warning: talk of coming out, gender fluidity, rape Happy Pride month! We are joined by a very special guest, our best friend Adrian! Three heterosexual cis-gendered females and one homosexual cis-gendered male attempt to talk about all things pride and the extensive list of characters that represent the LGBTQ+ community in Harry Potter.... (insert sarcasm). This episode was recorded right after J.K. Rowling's latest string of transphobic tweets and before she released her essay about her tweets and views. Our feelings are hot and fresh as we discuss why her words are extremely problematic.We stand as fierce allies of the LGBTQ+ community and the black community. We will be donating our May income from Patreon to the following Black, trans, and LGBTQ+ organizations and we ask if you are able to do so as well:Black Lives Matter: https://blacklivesmatter.com/Black Transwomen Inc: https://blacktranswomen.org/donate/National Center for Transgender Equality: https://transequality.org/The Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/ If you want to become a Patron, find us here: www.patreon.com/thethreebroomchicks We are the Three Broomchicks, serving you the finest witchcraft biweekly on a podcast all about your favorite Wizarding World. 

Here's another short list of helpful resources where you can donate your time and funds: Assata's Daughters https://www.assatasdaughters.org/ The Audre Lorde Project https://alp.org/ Black Trans Protesters Emergency Fund https://twitter.com/BTFAcollective/status/1267853959378731023/photo/1 Homeless Black Trans Women's Fund https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund Resource for supporting Black Owned Businesses https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#business Black Lives Matter.  

Quarantine not gon' stop us! This week, Shayna and J.J. try their damndest to talk about something other than that doggone corona + our guest, Erika Lindsey, a service designer with a focus on advocacy and social change initiatives, brings us out of our hopeless slump with a whole list of ways we can help—right from our couches. She also dropped some knowledge on the importance of filling out that 2020 Census.Yo Business:Nikole Hannah-Jones, Creator of the New York Times' 1619 Project, Awarded 2020 Pulitzer PrizeAfter 274 Years, Princeton Will Have Its First Black Valedictorian10 Financial Moves to Make If You Have Lost Your Job—or Fear You WillFrom Erika:Quick things you can do now:Complete the Census: https://2020census.gov/Register to Vote: https://www.vote.org/register-to-vote/NYC Based:Volunteer with a Mutual Aid Group: https://mutualaid.nyc/resources-groups/Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/Brooklyn Movement Center: brooklynmovementcenter.orgJustice Committee: https://www.justicecommittee.org/Black Alliance for Just Immigration: https://baji.org/Brooklyn Bailout Fund: https://brooklynbailfund.org/Make the Road NY: https://maketheroadny.org/Shayna Learned: Hoping Llamas Will Become Coronavirus HeroesJ.J. Loved: Jaida Essence Hall's lip-sync (and her tweet balm to J.J.)Support Us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yobusinesspodTake Our Listener Survey: https://iter.ly/5vt4fFollow Us!Instagram: @yobusinesspodTwitter: @yobusinesspod--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yo-business/support

Quarantine not gon’ stop us! This week, Shayna and J.J. try their damndest to talk about something other than that doggone corona + our guest, Erika Lindsey, a service designer with a focus on advocacy and social change initiatives, brings us out of our hopeless slump with a whole list of ways we can help—right from our couches. She also dropped some knowledge on the importance of filling out that 2020 Census.Yo Business:Nikole Hannah-Jones, Creator of the New York Times' 1619 Project, Awarded 2020 Pulitzer PrizeAfter 274 Years, Princeton Will Have Its First Black Valedictorian10 Financial Moves to Make If You Have Lost Your Job—or Fear You WillFrom Erika:Quick things you can do now:Complete the Census: https://2020census.gov/Register to Vote: https://www.vote.org/register-to-vote/NYC Based:Volunteer with a Mutual Aid Group: https://mutualaid.nyc/resources-groups/Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/Brooklyn Movement Center: brooklynmovementcenter.orgJustice Committee: https://www.justicecommittee.org/Black Alliance for Just Immigration: https://baji.org/Brooklyn Bailout Fund: https://brooklynbailfund.org/Make the Road NY: https://maketheroadny.org/Shayna Learned: Hoping Llamas Will Become Coronavirus HeroesJ.J. Loved: Jaida Essence Hall’s lip-sync (and her tweet balm to J.J.)Support Us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yobusinesspodTake Our Listener Survey: https://iter.ly/5vt4fFollow Us!Instagram: @yobusinesspodTwitter: @yobusinesspod--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yo-business/support

Quarantine not gon’ stop us! This week, Shayna and J.J. try their damndest to talk about something other than that doggone corona + our guest, Erika Lindsey, a service designer with a focus on advocacy and social change initiatives, brings us out of our hopeless slump with a whole list of ways we can help—right from our couches. She also dropped some knowledge on the importance of filling out that 2020 Census. Yo Business: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Creator of the New York Times' 1619 Project, Awarded 2020 Pulitzer Prize After 274 Years, Princeton Will Have Its First Black Valedictorian 10 Financial Moves to Make If You Have Lost Your Job—or Fear You Will From Erika: Quick things you can do now: Complete the Census: https://2020census.gov/ Register to Vote: https://www.vote.org/register-to-vote/ NYC Based: Volunteer with a Mutual Aid Group: https://mutualaid.nyc/resources-groups/ Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/ Brooklyn Movement Center: brooklynmovementcenter.org Justice Committee: https://www.justicecommittee.org/ Black Alliance for Just Immigration: https://baji.org/ Brooklyn Bailout Fund: https://brooklynbailfund.org/ Make the Road NY: https://maketheroadny.org/ Shayna Learned: Hoping Llamas Will Become Coronavirus Heroes J.J. Loved: Jaida Essence Hall’s lip-sync (and her tweet balm to J.J.) Support Us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/yobusinesspod Take Our Listener Survey: https://iter.ly/5vt4f Follow Us! Instagram: @yobusinesspod Twitter: @yobusinesspod --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/yo-business/support

Our guest this week is Nisia Thornton who is discussing bills that particularly impact our LGBTQ community. Hosted by: Roberto Henriquez, Ann Dickerson, and Amy Ferguson. Resources https://www.thetrevorproject.org/ - Our trained counselors are here to support you 24/7. If you are a young person in crisis, feeling suicidal, or in need of a safe and judgment-free place to talk, call the TrevorLifeline now at 1-866-488-7386.Go to TrevorChat➜ online instant messagingTrevorText is a confidential and secure resource that provides live help for LGBTQ youth with atrained specialist, over text messages. Text START to 678678. https://www.translifeline.org/ - a trans-led organization that connects trans people to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive. 877-565-8860 The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender National Hotline  : (888) 843-4564 The GLBT National Youth Talkline (youth serving youth through age 25): (800) 246-7743 The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) https://www.glaad.org/transgender/resources National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE)  (advocacy) Transgender Law Center (TLC)  (legal services and advocacy) Gender Proud  (advocacy) Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP)  (legal services) Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF)  (legal services) Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (MTPC)  (advocacy) Trans People of Color Coalition (TPOCC)  (advocacy) Trans Women of Color Collective (TWOCC)  (advocacy) Black Trans Advocacy  (advocacy) Trans Latina Coalition  (advocacy) Gender Spectrum  (support for families, trans youth, and educators) Gender Diversity (support for families, trans youth, and educators) Trans Youth Equality Federation  (support for families and trans youth) Trans Youth Family Allies (TYFA)  (support for families and trans youth) TransTech Social Enterprises  (economic empowerment) SPART*A  (advocacy for trans military service members) Transgender American Veterans Association  (advocacy for trans veterans) TransAthlete.com  (info about trans athletes) TransLife Center at Chicago House  (support services) Transgender Programs at LGBT Organizations GLAAD's Transgender Media Program  (media advocacy) Freedom for All Americans (policy and legislative advocacy) PFLAG Our Trans Loved Ones  (support for families of people who are trans) PFLAG Transgender Resources (resources for trans people and their families) PFLAG's Transgender Ally campaign  (advocacy) COLAGE Kids of Trans Community  (support for kids of trans parents) The Task Force's Transgender Civil Rights Project  (advocacy) HRC's transgender resources  (advocacy) Gender Identity Project at the NYC LGBT Center  (support services) American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)  (legal services) Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) Transgender Rights Project  (legal services) National Center for Lesbian Rights - Transgender Law  (legal services) L.A. LGBT Center's Transgender Economic Empowerment Project  (economic empowerment) SF Transgender Economic Empowerment Initiative  (economic empowerment) TransJustice at the Audre Lorde Project  (advocacy)    

Molly speaks with activist and labor organizer Alyssa Pariah (she/her) at Gender Reveal’s first live show. Topics include: What trans healthcare would look like under Medicare for All How to be a better ally/accomplice for sex workers How the Black Lives Matter movement supports trans liberation better than many LGBTQ orgs Coping with survivor’s guilt as a 32-year-old trans woman of color What will it take to end trans oppression? Also: an army of trans bitches in the class war! This Week In Gender: We discuss state legislatures’ attempts to block trans kids from transitioning (3:30-6:30). Read the referenced Katelyn Burns article on Vox and Laura Thompson’s article on Mother Jones. Emoji news is via Emojipedia. Learn more about the Audre Lorde Project; Don’t Shoot PDX; Critical Resistance; Pride at Work; and Jobs with Justice. (Also, never cross a picket line!)    -- We’ve got NEW, limited-edition merch that raises money for trans designers & LGBTQ orgs! Browse our shirts, stickers, totes and more at bit.ly/gendermerch. Support Molly’s new full-time gender detective gig!  Pledge any amount at patreon.com/gender to receive our weekly newsletter. We also appreciate donations via PayPal or Cash App. Learn more about Molly’s trans-focused equity consulting company at Sylveon.co. Do you have gender questions that you’d like answered on the show? Submit questions anonymously via this Google form. Questions? Comments? Feelings? You can reach at genderpodcast.com or on Twitter or Instagram. Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2. Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Production help: Z Griffler Logo: Ira M. Leigh Music: Breakmaster Cylinder Additional music: “The Back Lot” and “Sylvestor” by Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Prisons, police and punishment through incarceration. Are they with us forever in the land of the free? Sustained campaigns for change are beginning to pay off. At the community level, it turns out that a whole lot of people and places already make peace without cops. Today, we imagine a world without prisons. It may be closer than we think. Music Featured: “If Everyone Were Blind” by Victor Simonelli and Glenn Sweety G Toby, from the “Shelter From the Streets Compilation” courtesy of West Side and Stellar Records. Guests: Esteban Kelly, Executive Director, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives and a founder and core trainer with AORTA; Kenyon Farrow, Senior Editor, TheBody.com, and works with Queers for Economic Justice, Critical Resistance, and FIERCE!; and Kerbie Joseph, Community Organizer, ANSWER (Act Now To Stop War and End Racism) & The Audre Lorde Project. Become a Patron at Patreon. That's also where you'll find research materials related to this episode along with links and more on our guests.

We did a little something different this episode! It's Pride in Chicago, so we asked some friends to share stories of LGBTQ+ media that meant a lot to them for a Pride mini-sode. What transpired was beautiful stories about Glee, Schitt's Creek, Petal, Queer Eye (old and new) and more. Also, your host has some feelings about the Indigo Girls double live album. If you like this show, #BeThereFor queer and trans people with your time and resources: Brave Space Alliance - https://www.bravespacealliance.org/ Audre Lorde Project - https://alp.org/ Queer Detainee Empowerment Project - http://www.qdep.org/ Rainbow Railroad - https://www.rainbowrailroad.com/ You can find I'll Be There For You on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. We release new episodes every other Sunday to help you beat those Sunday scaries. Please tell your friends, subscribe, give us those sweet reviews! If you have questions, feedback or want to be a guest, you can reach us on most social platforms at @IBTFYPod or illbethereforyoupod@gmail.com. Thanks for listening, queerly beloved.

Damien is originally from Peru, and grew up in Southern CA raised in the Foursquare evangelical faith tradition. He eventually found himself in Nashville for his Masters of Divinity at Vanderbilt Divinity School concentrating in Latin American Studies, Religion and the Arts, as well as Gender and Sexuality studies. Damien is a founding member of The Audre Lorde Project’s TransJustice in New York City, and collectively organized the first ever Trans Day of Action for Social and Economic Justice in New York. Damien has also worked in the Hospitality Industry for 15 years, from the Gramercy Park hotel restaurant in New York to a spot I love to visit called Pinewood Social here in Nashville. Damien identifies as queer and his gender pronouns are he/him/his. From helping form a church as a child, to finding church in queer activist spaces as an adult, Damien finds hope in places both religious and secular. He reflects on his Afro-Peruvian heritage and embodied memory which has become the focus of his studies of Peruvian culture and how dance has been a form of worship for centuries and continues to be today. Connect with Damien on Instagram @damienpascal. We discuss the difference between "queer" and "bi/pan/fluid" at the top of the show. Here are some definitions to help from the Human Rights Campaign: Queer: A term people often use to express fluid identities and orientations. Often used interchangeably with "LGBTQ." Bi: Emotionally, romantically or sexually attracted to more than one sex, gender or gender identity though not necessarily simultaneously, in the same way or to the same degree. Pan: Describes someone who has the potential for emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to people of any gender though not necessarily simultaneously, in the same way or to the same degree. And being "fluid" recognizes that your attractions and orientation may change. We also discuss different religious practices, like Santería, an originally African religion, and the Foursquare Church which developed out of mission-work abroad and evangelism in the US. Out Loud is a podcast by and for queer people of faith in the South. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram, and join our mailing list for updates. Support the show financially by becoming a Patreon member and receive exclusive content and merchandise. Music: Acoustic Meditation 2 by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/

In this episode, Jhavia Nicole talks about the concept of community care and why it is important for the overall wellness of marginalized people. Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/breaking-isolation-self-care-and-community-care-tools-our-people   *   *   * Black Radical Queer Podcast Hosted by: Jhavia Nicole Produced & Edited by: Sharmane Johnson Music by: Publicity *   *   * Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, & Facebook @BlkRadQwr Get you BLK RAD QWR T-shirts at Teespring.com/BlkRadQwr Ask a question, leave a promo, or just say hi at 937-601-8647! *   *   * This is a ManeHustle Media Podcast. ManeHustle Media, turn your side hustle into your ManeHustle.

He's Da One™. ________________________ Welcome back to This is Not Real! In this episode we wrap up our talk of Black Panther with a deep dive on the comics and a chat about fanfic and other literary adaptations! ________________________ Mentioned in this Episode Books & Comics: Jungle Tales, Fantastic Four (Comic), Panther’s Rage, Black Panther Book 1: A Nation Under Our Feet, World of Wakanda, Killmonger Websites: Fanfiction.net, Archive of Our Own (AO3), Wattpad ________________________ Put Me On: The Black Youth Project 100, Black Trans Media, Trans Women of Color Collective, Audre Lorde Project, Baltimore Transgender Alliance, Libby (App)

Cathy Cohen brings the pieces together beautifully. She is a professor at UChicago, a long-time organizer, a founding board member and former co-chair of the board of the Audre Lorde Project in NY, on the board of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press as well as the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) at CUNY, and the founder of Black Youth Project, a website devoted to Black youth from which BYP-100 emerged. She is also truly the big homie. We learned so much in this one – come learn with us. Music from this week's show: Spilled Beans - Gurty Beats

Jessica is the executive director at The Audre Lorde Project and an activist and organizer advocating for sex workers—first with Decrim Now and now with the brand-new Decim NY. Her passion for the work stems from her own experiences with gendered violence, homelessness, and the sex trade. We fell in love with her insight, her voice, and her incredible compassion. You will too. Those who are most vulnerable to sex trafficking are people who are already in the sex trades, just like any other industry. The solution to ending trafficking in the agriculture industry is not “ban food” or “end demand for food.” That’s not logical. The solution to ending trafficking is by meeting people’s basic needs. —Jessica Raven, executive director at the Audre Lorde Project and Decrim NY steering committee member _(Photo by Darrow Montgomery at the Washington City Paper) We talk about: Jessica’s work with the Audre Lorde Project and Decrim NY Recognizing that sex work is work Sex trafficking, The Mann Act, and the connection to interracial relationships SESTA, FOSTA, and how bills and policies like them endanger the lives of sex workers Why closing down a website doesn't end sex trafficking What a healthy sex industry would look like How to be a better ally to sex workers Links: Twitter The Audre Lorde Project ALP on Twitter Decrim NY Decrim NY on Twitter Decrim NY on Instagram Plus Sara and Katel unpack the messages they grew up with about sex work, why it’s becoming a campaign issue for the 2020 election, and why everyone working in tech definitely needs to pay attention to SESTA and FOSTA. We share our love for podcast BFFs She’s All Fat—an amazing show celebrating body positivity, chill vibes, and—surprise!—friendship. Listen up!

Kim has over 20 years’ experience working with grassroots, community-based, and national nonprofit organizations. Her work has been intergenerational. She’s been engaged with the Third Wave Fund ensuring young women, queer, and trans youth of color have the tools and resources they need to lead powerful movements, and that they have a seat at the table within philanthropy. She’s worked with GRIOT Circle Inc.; In Our Own Voices. a community-based, multigenerational organization serving LGBTQ elders of color. Her work has crossed boundaries working with many organizations including Fierce!!, Stonewall Community Foundation’s Racial Equity Initiative; Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues; and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. She has worked with pioneering organizations and is the co-founder of Beyond Bold & Brave, Black Lesbian Conference 2016 and 2018; and founder of Kitchen Table Giving Circle: A Black/African Descent Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Women Philanthropic Initiative. She has facilitated workshops; moderated and spoken at events, panels and readings; presented on various topics including organizing in the LGBTQ POC communities, racism within LGBTQ communities, women’s health and wellness, and sexuality. She is now focusing her energies in a new direction making a commitment to invest in herself. As a health and fitness coach, she uses her journey to assist and motivate others to find Mind Body and soul balance.

Our very first live show! We talk about the origins of Cheers & Queers, share what we find erotic, celebrate the birthday of the indomitable Audre Lorde with scholar and best aunt ever, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and the NYC based organizing center, The Audre Lorde Project, then play a drinking game with erotic Star Trek fan fic. Grab a drink and join us!

Join us for a practice to build an altar or sacred space to ground you with Cara Page. You’ll need 10-15 minutes in a space where you’d like to build it: your home, your workplace, the place you’re staying right now. This can be done individually for you or collectively as a group.For your reference as you go collecting your objects as you listen along… Cara asks: Who or what do you honor that keeps you connected to ancestors? Do you have any objects or pictures that you can gather to create a space that helps you to honor ancestors? What objects embody safety for you? What allows you to feel safe in your heart, in your mind, in your body - that gives you permission to feel that no one can harm you? What object would best represent that? What allows you to feel most powerful in your body, mind, or heart? What object represents your resilience? Find something that represents desire. It could be desire for yourself to feel safe, loved, healed - a desire for family or community to be safe, loved, embraced - or it can be a desire you have for collective liberation. This object represents not just want we want to resist, but what we want to create. Gather your objects, and set them up in a place where they won’t be interrupted… someplace you can look at everyday to reground you and help you remember power, resilience, desire, and safety to keep you grounded and connected. Check out episode 8 for the corresponding conversation with Cara and Susan Raffo titled "We Moved Like We Needed Each Other: A Lineage of Healing Justice” to listen to our conversation about the origins of the contemporary framework of healing justice, stories and learnings from early collaborations in the South and at the Atlanta and Detroit US Social Forums, how nothing is just an issue - everything we care about deeply ties to our embodiment, the importance of safety, and the fine lines between ownership, appropriation, co-optation, and trust.**As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now!**ABOUT OUR GUEST: Cara PageCARA PAGE is the Director of Programs at the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, and most recently was the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project. Over the past three decades, she has worked within movements for queer & trans liberation, reproductive justice, healing justice, and racial and economic justice. She is co-founder and former Coordinator of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective and former National Director of the Committee on Women, Population & the Environment. For her outstanding achievements in community organizing around the arts and social justice, Page has received awards and fellowships from the National Center for Human Rights & Education and The Rockefeller Foundation. As an Activist-in-Residence at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Page will deepen her study on historical and contemporary eugenic practices and medical experimentation to shape a public discourse on the historical and contemporary role of eugenic violence as an extension of state control and surveillance on Black & immigrant communities; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming people; people with disabilities; and Women of Color. Through creating political writings, cultural performance and communal forums on these issues she will gather a cohort of healers/health practitioners, cultural workers, organizers, scientists and service providers to transform institutional eugenic practices; and memorialize sites of eugenic practice to bear witness to these atrocities and begin to organize and heal.JOIN THE COMMUNITYSign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on TwitterWe pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjusticeTHANK YOUMixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

In this episode, healing justice leaders Cara Page and Susan Raffo join host Kate Werning for a conversation about the origins of the contemporary framework of healing justice, stories and learnings from early collaborations in the South and at the Atlanta and Detroit US Social Forums, how nothing is just an issue - everything we care about deeply ties to our embodiment, the importance of safety, and the fine lines between ownership, appropriation, co-optation, and trust.PRACTICE: Download the next episode for instructions for a grounding practice of building an altar or sacred space, led by Cara Page. (We release a new conversation every Tuesday, and the corresponding practice on Thursday - so check back then if you don’t see it yet!)** As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now! **Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org MEET OUR GUESTS: Cara Page & Susan RaffoCARA PAGE is the Director of Programs at the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, and most recently was the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project. Over the past three decades, she has worked within movements for queer & trans liberation, reproductive justice, healing justice, and racial and economic justice. She is co-founder and former Coordinator of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective and former National Director of the Committee on Women, Population & the Environment. For her outstanding achievements in community organizing around the arts and social justice, Page has received awards and fellowships from the National Center for Human Rights & Education and The Rockefeller Foundation. As an Activist-in-Residence at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Page will deepen her study on historical and contemporary eugenic practices and medical experimentation to shape a public discourse on the historical and contemporary role of eugenic violence as an extension of state control and surveillance on Black & immigrant communities; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming people; people with disabilities; and Women of Color. Through creating political writings, cultural performance and communal forums on these issues she will gather a cohort of healers/health practitioners, cultural workers, organizers, scientists and service providers to transform institutional eugenic practices; and memorialize sites of eugenic practice to bear witness to these atrocities and begin to organize and heal.SUSAN RAFFO is of Italian, German, Irish, French-Canadian descent and Anishinabeg-descent. Her people were farmers, stonemasons, union members, and tradespeople. Across all of her family lines are histories of assimilation, passing, and disconnection from home, family, land and history.  She currently lives on Dakota land in its seventh generation of settlement. Susan began to study bodywork in 2005 and struggled to feel that this work was as politically relevant as community organizing, but in 2009 she attended the Healing Justice Practice Space at the US Social Forum in Atlanta and it changed her life. For the first time she found movement people, radical people, social justice people, who were  interested in the places where systems of power and oppression were held in the tissues of the individual body as well as within systems and communities. Susan is interested in work that refuses to separate how we individually connect with life from how we collectively claim our lives. She works towards the end of the medical industrial complex and wants to lift up practices and traditions that have been co-opted or forced into disappearance. She is trained in multiple forms of craniosacral therapy, as well as in Global Somatics (a form of Body Mind Centering). Her practice is based on deep listening and working with the body, supporting the conditions for shifting deeply held (sometimes generational and historical) patterns that show up as pain, anxiety, stress, and disconnectedness. Susan is also a writer, having published Queerly Classed in 1995 and Restricted Access in 1997. Right now she is blogging about healing justice and liberation work at https://susanraffo.blogspot.com, and is currently building out www.susanraffo.com. ​   REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE / FURTHER RESOURCES - Healing Justice at the US Social Forum: A report from Atlanta, Detroit & Beyond (the report by Susan & Cara we refer to in the conversation) - Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective needs statement & strategies - Susan’s healing justice blog - People’s Movement Center in Minneapolis, where Susan practices - More from Cara Page’s performative body of work on anti-Eugenics and the medical industrial complex: performance installations in partnership with the Asian Pacific American Institute at NYU here & here, and a video in collaboration with the disability justice performance troupe, Sins Invalid - Healing Justice Practice Spaces: A How-To Guide   JOIN THE COMMUNITYCheck out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.orgFollow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on TwitterWe pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjusticeTHANK YOUThis podcast is mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah WerningPhoto of Susan by Ryan Stopera

Join us for a simple tapping practice called Emotional Freedom Technique with Geleni Fontaine of Third Root Community Health Center. This utilizes the knowledge of acupressure points and is something you can truly do anywhere - alone, in a group, or on the go. Check out the practice diagram and instructions for a more visual reminder and explanation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LqN9hSw2JhcbX5jFeK8JbC4Oh6geY1Q292fytzDnA14/edit?usp=sharing The phrase you’ll use is: “Even though _____, I love and accept myself completely.”   Check out episode 7 for the corresponding conversation with Geleni and Emily Kramer titled "De-spa-ifying Healing & Accessibility” to listen to our conversation about somatic symptoms of oppression and the increased pressures since the 2016 election, in what ways Trump and our current political environment is making us sick, what it would look like to de-spa-ify healing and make it part of our everyday lives instead of a luxury commodity, and how organizers and leaders can make our movement spaces more accessible to the widest range of folks with varying capacities. (Bonus: they also sing a song!)   **As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now!**   ABOUT OUR GUEST: Geleni Fontaine of Third Root Community Health Center THIRD ROOT is a holistic healthcare center in Brooklyn, NY offering yoga, acupuncture, East Asian medicine, massage, herbal medicine, and wellness education. They are a multi-racial, cross-class, intergenerational community, and a worker-owner cooperative. Third Root manifests a world where we all belong, we are all healing, and we are all welcome in our wholeness. Collective members include Geleni Fontaine, Jomo Alaquais Simmons, Julia Bennett, Emily Kramer, and Nicolette Dixon. More at www.thirdroot.org GELENI FONTAINE, a collective member of Third Root, is a fat, queer, Latina/o transperson raised and thriving in Brooklyn, New York. They are a graduate of the Swedish Institute School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine where I studied Traditional and Classical Chinese Medicine with Jeffrey Yuen, 88th generation Taoist priest and healer. They’re also a registered nurse and use knowledge of Western allopathic medicine to support individuals navigating both healthcare systems. Geleni is a member of the Rock Dove Collective, a group of healers, providers, and activists coordinating a radical community health exchange in NYC; a former board member of the Audre Lorde Project, the first queer people of color center for community organizing in the U.S.; and NOLOSE, an organization dedicated to ending the oppression of fat people and creating vibrant fat queer culture. They have a 13-year history of training and teaching martial arts and have worked many years with the Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE) as a youth educator, anti-violence activist, and crisis intervention worker. This experience has lent to their understanding of healing as a mind / body / spirit construct that includes support for individuals as well as radical responses to the institutional oppression we face as communities. JOIN THE COMMUNITYCheck out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on TwitterWe pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU Edited by Yoshi FieldsMixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

In this episode, members of the Third Root Community Health Center collective join host Kate Werning for a conversation about somatic symptoms of oppression and the increased pressures since the 2016 election, in what ways Trump and our current political environment is making us sick, what it would look like to de-spa-ify healing and make it part of our everyday lives instead of a luxury commodity, and how organizers and leaders can make our movement spaces more accessible to the widest range of folks with varying capacities. (Bonus: they also sing a song!) PRACTICE: Download the next episode for a simple tapping practice called Emotional Freedom Technique. (We release a new conversation every Tuesday, and the corresponding practice on Thursday - so check back then if you don’t see it yet!) ** As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now! ** Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org MEET OUR GUESTS: Geleni Fontaine & Emily Kramer of Third Root Community Health Center THIRD ROOT is a holistic healthcare center in Brooklyn, NY offering yoga, acupuncture, East Asian medicine, massage, herbal medicine, and wellness education. They are a multi-racial, cross-class, intergenerational community, and a worker-owner cooperative. Third Root manifests a world where we all belong, we are all healing, and we are all welcome in our wholeness. Collective members include Geleni Fontaine, Jomo Alaquais Simmons, Julia Bennett, Emily Kramer, and Nicolette Dixon. More at www.thirdroot.org GELENI FONTAINE, a collective member of Third Root, is a fat, queer, Latina/o transperson raised and thriving in Brooklyn, New York. They are a graduate of the Swedish Institute School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine where I studied Traditional and Classical Chinese Medicine with Jeffrey Yuen, 88th generation Taoist priest and healer. They’re also a registered nurse and use knowledge of Western allopathic medicine to support individuals navigating both healthcare systems. Geleni is a member of the Rock Dove Collective, a group of healers, providers, and activists coordinating a radical community health exchange in NYC; a former board member of the Audre Lorde Project, the first queer people of color center for community organizing in the U.S.; and NOLOSE, an organization dedicated to ending the oppression of fat people and creating vibrant fat queer culture. They have a 13-year history of training and teaching martial arts and have worked many years with the Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE) as a youth educator, anti-violence activist, and crisis intervention worker. This experience has lent to their understanding of healing as a mind / body / spirit construct that includes support for individuals as well as radical responses to the institutional oppression we face as communities. EMILY J. KRAMER is a yoga teacher and collective member at Third Root, where the crossroads of her work as a movement professional, social justice activist and spiritual seeker joyfully meet. In her classes, Emily invites us to pay attention to subtleties of our sensation and alignment in order to create space internally, making way for healing and discovery. She encourages students always to honor their own bodies and beings, while valuing the community aspect of the space. She has specialized training in anatomy, backcare, anxiety/depression, addiction, trauma-sensitivity, and yoga for young people. She studied with Off the Mat, Into the World, Alison West at Yoga Union, SchoolYoga Institute, Street Yoga, Bent on Learning, Leslie Kaminoff / the Breathing Project, Jyll Hubbard-Salk, Elena Brower, Larry Yang and many inspired teachers on this path. In 2009, she created Spirit Boxing, a workshop that combines her experience as a former amateur boxer and yogini, to serve women, youth, and queer / trans community. She has also facilitated movement and outdoor education programming with young people ages 6 – 15 since 2006. She has collaborated with Girls for Gender Equity and the Center for Anti-violence Education, and has taught through Bent on Learning, Safe Horizon, Kripalu, Columbia and Cornell Universities. REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE You can see Third Root’s space access statement at bottom of their website, www.thirdroot.org Bending Toward Justice: recommended social justice training for yoga teachers   JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU This podcast is mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM, and this episode was generously edited by the talented Yoshi Fields. Intro and closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

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Caitlin is joined by Cara Page, a Black queer feminist cultural worker & organizer, in this week's episode of Fortification. Cara is currently the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project.  She is also co-founder and former Coordinator of the Kindred Collective; a southeastern network of healers, health practitioners and organizers seeking ways to respond to and intervene on state violence & generational trauma.