Podcasts about yam black women

Black women in pursuit of love, life, and liberation is a whole mf'in' vibe! Join Lyvonne and healer, activist, and community builder, Erika Totten, as they explore “The Love Ethic,” a communal, love-centered framework for holistic wellness for Black women, femmes, and folx. Inspired by "Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery" by bell hooks.Order your copy of “Sensual Faith!” visit https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706280/sensual-faith-by-lyvonne-briggs/Leave a comment and 5-star review on Amazon!For this episode's supplemental materials, visit patreon.com/lyvonnebriggs (aka Sensual Faith Academy) and join the tier that's right for you! The Sensual Faith tier supports the podcast and the Lavish Love tier supports the podcast *and* grants you access to bonus content (like book studies, audio essays, tarot/oracle card readings, behind-the-scenes footage, exclusive sneak peeks, and more!).Other ways to support Lyvonne and her work:Cash App: $PastorBaeVenmo: @LyvonneBriggsZelle: Lyvonne.Briggs@gmail.com

Let's get real about therapy! Dr. Money joins us to discuss "Ep 27 When Therapy is Not Enough." We get into Black Femininst Narrative Therapy, what it is, and how Dr. Money uses it in her practice. We discuss systemic suffering masquerading as mental illness, the ethics of involuntary hospitalization, and how everyone thinks they're sicker than they actually are. Dr. Money also answers your listener questions!Dr. Montinique "Money" McEachern (her/she) is a Black lesbian healer with her own practice, Combahee Therapy, based in what is now called Philadelphia, but is the original home of the Lenape people. She is the oldest child of her momma, and grew up surrounded with the stories of Black women, so it is no surprise that her therapeutic approach merges Black feminism and Narrative Therapy. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has a PhD in MFT as well. When she's not therapizing, she is hosting QueerWOC: The Podcast, a podcast for the social and mental wellbeing of sapphics of color.RESOURCES "EP 27 When Therapy Is Not Enough" "The Combahee River Collective Statement" PDF Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. Dr. Joy DeGruy The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara "Session 271: Being Mindful About How We Use Mental Health Terminology." Therapy for Black Girls "Ep 107: Twenty Twenty DONE." QueerWOC What's Your Grief Podcast Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health "Ep 112: Take a Mental Health Day." QueerWOC "Ep 108: Do it for the Dopamine." QueerWOC My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by bell hooks Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria AnzalduaBE A PATRON!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamasSOCIAL MEDIATwitter: @hoodooplantsInstagram: @hoodooplantmamasDONATEPaypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamasCashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamasThis podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.

In this conversation, Philip talks to Aida Mariam Davis, Founder of Decolonized Design. They discuss how DEI continues to fall short of driving progress and introduces Decolonized Design's framework of Belonging, Dignity and Justice (BDJ). The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings. Philip's Drop: Ethnographic Thinking: From Method to Mindset – Jay Hasbrouck (https://www.jayhasbrouck.com/#intro) Aida's Drop: Sisters of the Yam – bell hooks (https://www.routledge.com/Sisters-of-the-Yam-Black-Women-and-Self-Recovery/hooks/p/book/9781138821682) The Cancer Journals – Audre Lorde (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623541/the-cancer-journals-by-audre-lorde-foreword-by-tracy-k-smith/) June Jordan (assorted works) (http://www.junejordan.net/) Nikki Giovanni (assorted works) (https://www.nikki-giovanni.com/works/) Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler (https://www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries) Special Guest: Aida Mariam Davis .

E-mail your selections for currently obsessed to dayonepod@gmail.comBook your photoshoot at www.unpopcultr.co/bookShow Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2fjsGplhScncPLds8XWB3A?si=kcVkN1crRSG7Ee6_C_KwaQSocial Media:Instagram @DayOneFansTwitter @DayOneFansPodLaChelle Chrysanne (@createdbyelle)Addy Salau @TheCrownofWealthwww.thecrownofwealth.comDiscussed in this episode:Premature, Film 2020Alexis Marie WintZora HowardArt Basel - Brooklyn to BaselPatrick Eugene, Visual ArtistBig Trill, Party After PartySisters of The Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by bell hooksYou, NetflixIngrid Goes WestJezebel, Numa Perrier FilmYcee & BELLA, Tropicana Fruit JuiceLate Night VibrationsGenre AltéHitsville, The Making of Motown Documentary

This episode features a conversation with guest expert Karla Benson Rutten on how to talk about race and difference. Karla works at Girl Scouts River Valleys as the Vice President of Community Engagement, developing strategies to help Girl Scouts be culturally responsive, relevant, and accessible to girls in communities of color. She also founded and runs her own coaching, consulting, and training firm focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Karla is a facilitator and advocate with tons of experience in higher education, diversity, social justice, and sexual violence prevention program development, which are important topics that we know a lot of girls are passionate about. Hannah and Shanna had a great conversation with Karla about representation, trust, building relationships, and how to engage in dialog that will help build your community with people who don't look like you or share your same culture. We'll talk about when we first noticed race and difference, and how it can sometimes be hard to be curious and ask questions about people who are different from ourselves. A lot of what makes it hard comes from things many of us were taught about what is polite or appropriate to talk about, and concepts about race like "colorblindness" that can hinder us from forming relationships with people who are different from us. Our takeaway— Respect, curiosity, and good intent are important and can be helpful tools for starting conversations. They can help us get past feelings of not wanting to say the wrong thing or fear of sounding ignorant. It's all about acknowledging bias, being open, and expanding what we do to grow ourselves. We hope you'll use some of the tools from this episode to start your own conversations. Stay tuned at the end for Would You Rather and Girls Pick! Looking to connect with our podcast team? Reach out with ideas, questions, or comments at girltalk.girlscoutsrv.org/contact. Some links and resources to dive into A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (Ronald Takaki) A People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn) How to Talk To Kids About Race: Books and Resources That Can Help (list books for middle grades and young adult toward end of book list) Knowing Our History to Build a Brighter Future: Books to Help Kids Understand the Fight for Racial Equality 7 Young Adult Novels That Encourage Discussions on Racism (Age 14+) Karla’s reading list Ages 9-12: June Peters, You Will Change the World One Day (Alika Turner) Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson) Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement (Carole Boston Weatherford) Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters (Andrea Davis Pinkney) One Crazy Summer (Rita Williams-Garcia) P.S. Be Eleven (Rita Williams-Garcia) President of the Whole Fifth Grade (Sherri Winston) Zora and Me (Victoria Bond & T.R. Simon) Ages 13 and Up: Come Here, Girl, Let Me Talk to You: A 30-Day Self-Discovery Journal for Girls About Life (Neda Renee) The Hate You Give (Angie Thomas) Piecing Me Together (Renée Watson) The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America (Tamara Winfrey Harris) Letters to a Young Artist (Anna Deveare Smith) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou) Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde) The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison) Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston) For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf (Ntozake Shange) Sister Citizen (Melissa Harris-Perry) The Color Purple (Alice Walker) Kindred (Octavia Butler) Redefining Realness (Janet Mock) Sister of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery (bell hooks) The Crunk Feminist Collective (Brittney Cooper, Susana Morris, & Robin Boylorn)

For our first full episode back with Season 2, we talk with Agustina Vidal and Rhiana Anthony of The Icarus Project about everything mental health: why mental health is stigmatized in the first place, how it interplays with systems of oppression, suicide, ableism, medication, hospitalization, and more.   The Icarus Project is a support network and education project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness. We advance social justice by fostering mutual aid practices that reconnect healing and collective liberation. We transform ourselves through transforming the world around us. http://www.theicarusproject.net Agustina Vidal has been part of The Icarus Project Community since 2006, and is currently the program Director. She has a masters degree in mental health counseling, and her focus is the development of new tools and resources for both the U.S. and Latin America. Rhiana Anthony (she, they, boo) is a queer black girl magician working toward collective liberation through community organizing, soulful facilitation, and healing justice. Her roots run from the Third Coast of Houston, TX and the Piney Woods of Marshall, TX. Rhiana currently works as the Icarus Project webinar coordinator and facilitator, founder/consultant of Conjure Community Healing Arts, and trainer for The Isaiah Young Institute. ----------- PRACTICE: Next week, join Agustina and Rhiana for their practice episodes where they teach us how to make our own Mad Map - a plan to support our own mental health. Mad Maps will be offered both in English and in Spanish. ----------- RESOURCES: Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations by Sharla Fett The Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malidoma Patrice Some Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self Recovery by bell hooks The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Justice as Healing: Indigenous Ways by Wanda D. McCaslin (restorative and transformative justice) Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD): https://boldorganizing.org/ Join Icarus Project online spaces and find more resources at http://www.theicarusproject.net ----------- JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Sign up for our email list to receive occasional communication from us with resources for your work and wellbeing. Sign up here: http://www.healingjustice.org Talk with us on social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter  ----------- SHOW YOUR SUPPORT Please follow / subscribe, rate, & review in whatever app you are listening, and SHARE this resource with everyone you know who could benefit from it! Help us keep making this podcast by becoming a sustainer at www.patreon.com/healingjustice  You can also give a one time donation here: https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb ----------- Thank you to Rachel Ishikawa for audio editing and production, and Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for music and mastering.

When we know what love is, when we love, we are able to search our memories and see the past with new eyes; we are able to transform the present and dream the future. Such is love’s power. Love heals. ~ Bell Hooks, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kickfearnow/support

“Your heart has to be ready to handle the weight of your calling,” is what she said casually over Korean BBQ, and for this reason and more I grew up reading bell hooks. ‘Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery’ was my first dance with her mind. In it she taught me how to identify the ways that patriarchy, white supremacy and global capitalism threatened humanity’s well-being. More specifically, she challenged me to examine the ways in which our own families replicate models of oppression, sometimes trumping the need, or the awareness of the need, for self-care. bell hooks called on me to think critically as a strategy to heal from social and emotional trauma, a task that would require a lifetime of unlearning. When commissioned by Dr. Melynda Price, Chair of the African American and Africana Program at the Univ. of Kentucky to make this mix, I was struck by the fact that not a single song came to mind, which is unusual for my process. Typically I have an idea of the direction of the mix, with at least one song to start. But bell hooks has written over 30 books. What could I say musically that would affirm, celebrate and soundtrack her commitment to education, activism, radical openness and feminist scholarship? What music could match ‘the life of her mind?’ The moment I asked that question, Nina Simone appeared. I had a start. I continued to dig deep into the crates of bell hooks’ life in search of clues about music she loved. On one of those days, after a few hours of probing, she mentioned Tracy Chapman in a lecture. My second artist arrived. From there, I recognized that women’s voices would occupy a large amount of space on the mix. And how easy it would be to create a mix using only women to pay tribute to a world-renowned feminist thinker, right? No, this would not be true to the range of music I have access to, or the core of her ideas. bell warns us to not confuse patriarchy with masculinity. Teaching us that patriarchal dominance can only be destroyed when all of us adopt feminist politics. That said, I invited men to be a part of the honoring, particularly men I feel loved by. Would bell love Bilal? In the song ‘Robots,’ he critiques hyper consumerism similarly to the way she critiques the commodification of Black culture in her work. And Lionel Hampton is from Kentucky, did she grow up listening to the sound of his vibraphone? And consistently she’s made the important distinction between misogynistic and ‘conscious’ rap, would she dig Mos Def? And could Gregory Porter, speak to her encounter with desegregation in the classrooms of the Black south? In this moment I decided to put together a compilation of music that would communicate the essence of her message, or at least, my understanding of it. It would be a mix in dialogue form. I’ve learned so much from bell’s refusal to adhere to restrictions about what she could and could not write about, and what topics she could and could not explore. When she shifted her focus from critical gender theory with books like Ain’t I Woman: Black Women and Feminism and Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics to a series of books focused solely on love (Salvation, Communion and All About Love), I knew she was making the decision to become more accessible to communities, beyond the academy. I knew she wanted to have more nuanced conversations about the revolutionary qualities of love and through this series, I was reminded that love was located at the center of the pursuit of social justice. For this reason, I felt jazz had a place among the songs. Betty Carter’s ‘Open the Door’ and Freddie Hubbard’s ‘Red Clay’ has so much emotional and cultural wealth, and jazz itself provided the soundscape for many social movements and plenty of freedom fighters, Malcolm X included. I discovered the Uptown String Quartet in my college years while working in a record store. I was excited by the fact that they were four classically trained Black women musicians from Harlem and one of them, Maxine Roach, was the daughter of jazz drummer Max Roach. I’ve been listening to their song “JJ’s Jam” for about 20 years and never imagined having the opportunity to add it to one of my mixes. It’s a song from some of the quietest moments in my life; a song with so much space and beauty that I wanted to play with voices and personalities over the music. I thought of the bell hooks book “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem,” which features the hand of fellow Kentuckian Muhammad Ali, whom bell loves, on its cover. In my research I discovered an interview between Nikki Giovanni and Ali and it fit perfectly between the song’s imaginary lines. Another book that came to mind during my process was Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life. It’s a memoir about love, writing and sexuality. Wounds of Passion tells the story of how bell wrestled with an emotionally charged long-term relationship that forced a questioning of her values and worldview. At the same time she was managing the stress of being a black woman academic in hostile predominantly white institutions. She shares that this was one of the most tumultuous romantic partnerships in her life, one that she still refers to, one that still tugs at her heart. Frida Kahlo and Diego came to mind and I used my favorite song from the movie’s soundtrack (Frida), “Alcoba Azul” to express the emotions that give birth to a complicated, transformative and sacrificial love. Finally, I wanted to leave listeners with the opportunity to feel a sense of hope. To operate from a place of abundance and not the despair normally attached to the business of struggle. I selected a song inspired by something I heard bell hooks say in an interview. She shared that through his life as a farmer and with his profound appreciation of the earth, her grandfather taught her about the importance of life beyond suffering. She took from him that people of color needed to move away from what can feel like a commitment to misery and shift our focus towards self-sufficiency, pleasure, joy and self-care. Aretha Franklin’s “How I Got Over” from the “Amazing Grace” album worked perfectly for these words. I had the opportunity to present this mix to bell hooks in person. She attended my lecture at the University of Kentucky’s Finding our Place: A Conference in Honor of the Work and Writing of bell hooks. I was moved beyond words by the level of attention she paid to my every sentence, image and sound. I was almost brought to tears when she cheered me on as an active and vocal member of the audience. She expressed to me a love for my mind, an interest in my work and an excitement about being fully seen by me, through my art. We broke bread and shared intimate stories about our histories and exchanged visions of our future. It’s safe to say we bonded. She invited me to her home and pointed out her most precious possessions; her books, kitchen, and meditation space. Her home was a Frida Khalo inspired sacred place with art collected from her travels around the world. The yellow and red painted wooden benches and chairs brought the African and Latin Diaspora to Berea, Kentucky. I felt instantly that the mix was a success. My selections were true of who I thought she was within and beyond print. bell hooks is a genius. she’s vulnerable and complex, sharp and unashamed of the way she walks the world. And with her courage, discipline and dedication, she’s carved out space for me to exist. Please enjoy “Soulful Critical Thought: bell hooks and the Making of a DJ Scholar,” for it was without a doubt, a labor of love.