Workin Our Roots Podcast

In episode 3 I share an audio essay - “Radical Means Getting to the Root” - about why patriarchy is a lie from hell that must be unlearned and dismantled if our species is to survive. I touch on Melissa Harris-Perry’s Crooked Room Theory and the discombobulating reality the room creates. Plus the tools and imagination needed for learning and remembering what we actually need. I also talk joy, grace, collaborating with folks who see/value you, and what matters way more than the academy’s...

In episode 2, I interview decades-long friends Natalie Daise, Jan Spencer & Barbara Edwards. These are Black women elders who shape me in real-time. We talk The South (of course), magic, Black migration, healing, trill grandmothers, self-love, unlearning the BS, and claiming our power* *Content Warning for lynching and sexual assault. Links for Sara Edwards, Midwife The Educated Birther • A podcast on Anchor Home (weebly.com) • I also share tributes to, and honor Nikeeta A.T. Slade,...

In Episode 1, I introduce the podcast, and start processing and trying to make sense of things that really make no sense at all. Mainly, the Academy, and "what passes for culture and thought on the North American continent." Word to But Some of Us Are Brave. I vent about the absurdity of my experiences in a PhD program, and come to the realization that the academy, nor any other white supremacist patriarchal capitalist systems could every truly validate me, what I know, or what my value is....