SUBSCRIBE NOW iTUNES|SPOTIFY|SOUNDCLOUD|GOOGLEPLAY| STITCHER Dear Mama, Take a trip with me back to when you read your first book by Terry McMillian, E. Lynn Harris or Eric Jerome Dickey and their names & their characters names rolled off our tongues like family members. These authors wrote Blackness without explanation or apology. In these books […]
SUBSCRIBE NOW iTUNES|SPOTIFY|SOUNDCLOUD|GOOGLEPLAY| STITCHER Dear Mama, Let all the myths of motherhood crumble at your feet. Dig motherhood out from under the rock of sacrifice. Look at your children and be willing to be a student, be willing to receive. See them as path makers and pathfinders. It is work. It takes presence. It […]
SUBSCRIBE NOW iTUNES|SPOTIFY|SOUNDCLOUD|GOOGLEPLAY|STITCHER Dear Mama: We believe EVERY BLACK MAMA matters and when we say EVERY we mean EVERY. This episode is dedicated to the mamas giving birth in the belly of the beast of white supremacy, the US prison system, and the birth workers like our guest Doula Chauntel Norris who refuse to sit […]
SUBSCRIBE NOW iTUNES|SPOTIFY|SOUNDCLOUD GOOGLEPLAY|STITCHER Dear Mama, Just ask for what you want and what you need. Believe that you are worthy of help and that you deserve to be free. Believe that your fave is watching your work and that if you send her an email she’ll say “Of course I know your podcast and […]
SUBSCRIBE NOW iTUNES|SPOTIFY|SOUNDCLOUD GOOGLEPLAY|STITCHER Dear Mama, Thank you for rocking with us for 20 episodes. My, my how we’ve grown together. This podcast is like our journal. In this episode we’re gonna look back at all the moments that helped us grow. We hope you laugh, cry, exhale, learn, and heal. Love, real, free, Black […]
SUBSCRIBE NOW iTUNES|SPOTIFY|SOUNDCLOUD GOOGLEPLAY|STITCHER #DearMama Sometimes the amour gets heavy. Sometimes we gotta put down our sword and shield and cry and grieve and hold each other. There is no outline for this episode because we scrapped it. We felt heavy and decided to show up authentic. When we hit record, we had no […]
SUBSCRIBE NOW iTUNES|SPOTIFY|SOUNDCLOUD GOOGLEPLAY|STITCHER #DearMama In the darkest hour, in our deepest fear do we bury our head in the bloody wounded sand of America or do we heal? We look back at our first episode, recorded immediately following the 2016 Election, and examine where we are now as opposed to where we thought we’d […]
SUBSCRIBE NOW iTUNES|SPOTIFY|SOUNDCLOUD GOOGLEPLAY|STITCHER Dear Mama: Black women are fighting to stay alive while giving birth and Black babies are fighting to be born. No one is coming to save us. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for and there have been and continue to be brave Black women on the front lines of […]
SUBSCRIBE NOW: iTUNES|SPOTIFY|SOUNDCLOUD GOOGLEPLAY|STITCHER Dear Mama: We often dream FOR our children. What if we dreamed WITH our children? What if we discovered who they are instead of trying to determine who they should become? What if we allowed them to dance outside the box no matter how much it scared us? What if we […]
SUBSCRIBE NOW: iTUNES|SOUNDCLOUD|GOOGLEPLAY|STITCHER We have a special treat for you! We’ve given you snippets of Thea Monyee’s lecture entitled The Healing Power of the Curious Conscious at Black Girl Mixtape. Weellll now we’ve go the full audio! And Boo we got some healing fo ya! Thea reveals what is at the core of our restlessness […]