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For this very special season finale, Dani interviews Leah about her latest book, Apocalypse Still. We discuss themes, inspiration, and her writing process. We also get into the myth of the Black superhero, the difficult decisions we make to survive, and how Black folks deserve alternate endings.
Leah Nicole Whitcomb is a community storyteller from Mississippi who writes about Black folks, love, and magic. She co-hosts the Hoodoo Plant Mamas podcast. Her writing has been featured in Sistories, Samjoko Magazine, and the young adult anthology, All the Ways a Heart Burns. A Courage to Write Grant recipient, Leah’s work has been supported by The deGroot Foundation, Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation, The Bereket Writing Community, Women of Color Writers Podcast, and the Women’s National Book Association. She is the author of Apocalypse Still.
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Apocalypse Still by Leah Nicole Whitcomb bloom by Leah Nicole Whitcomb The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories Ed by Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell "New Analysis Reveals Many Excess Deaths Attributed to Natural Causes are Actually Uncounted COVID-19 Deaths" by Jillian McKoy. Boston University School of Health. "Black People Hysterically Await Superhuman Abilities During 'Negro Solstice'" by Jon Greig. Blavity. "A Jamaican Love Story: Lover's Leap in St. Elizabeth" by Bailey Huebner. TheHub.News. Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women by Akasha Gloria Hull Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narration Collection Ed by Norman R. Yetman The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit by Julian Randall "SAD FACE" by Dani Bee. Home & Other Obsessions. "Ep 14: Writing the Spirit" Hoodoo Plant Mamas "Ep 36: Writing as Conjure Work" Hoodoo Plant Mamas "Ep 47: Dreaming a New Dream with Austen Smith" Hoodoo Plant MamasBOOKSHOP
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In this episode we're joined by Austen Smith of ImaginationDoulas. We discuss the imagination as a colonial construct as well as the need to integrate dreaming into our spiritual and liberation practices. We go over the principles of their project, ImaginationDoulas, and talk about how to work with the Spirit of Creativity. This is a must-listen for all creatives!
Austen Smith is a spirit-forward visionary artist, writer, social researcher, and founder of Our Lunar Intelligence (OLi), a black-centered organization focusing on spatial justice and spiritual creativity. The ImaginationDoulas, an OLi project, uses ancestral reverence and dreaming as a methodology to restore the imaginations of systemically disempowered peoples. Learn more about Austen's work at www.ourlunarintelligence.org.
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Apocalypse Still by Leah Nicole Whitcomb "The God in Me" Hoodoo Plant Mamas Podcast "The Chinese doctor who tried to warn others about coronavirus" by Stephanie Hegarty. BBC. "Austen Smith on the role of daydreaming in your creative practice." by Danielle Buckingham. Black Joy x Reckon ImaginationDoulas InstagramBOOKSHOP
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Is your spirituality rooted in a genuine desire to connect with the Divine or is it rooted in a sense of superiority over other spiritual traditions? In this episode we answer this as well as discuss spiritual insecurity, performing spirituality for others, and seeing ourselves as divine beings.
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Apocalypse Still by Leah Nicole Whitcomb Jeida K. Storey's Threads Post (storeytellingtarot) "Astrology Influencer MysticxLipstick Dead in Alleged Murder-Suicide After Troubling Social Media Posts" by DeMicia Inman. Yahoo!News. "Ep 45: When Your Soul Gets Weary" Hoodoo Plant Mamas Podcast "Finding Healing in Gospel Music" by Leah Nicole Whitcomb. The Rumpus.BOOKSHOP
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In this episode, we discuss what happens when your spiritual practice changes. We get into struggling with your purpose when the world has gone to shit, integrating Hoodoo in all aspects of our lives, and the need to tap into local plant medicine.
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Apocalypse Still by Leah Nicole Whitcomb "Get your spirit right with podcast host and Osun Priestess Juju Bae" by Danielle Buckingham. BlackJoy x Reckon Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora by Danielle N. Boaz. "The magical science of Hoodoo with Hess Love" by Danielle Buckingham. BlackJoy x Reckon. Tatianna Tarot YouTube. "Magical Transitions" by Leah Nicole Whitcomb. Little Sunday Sermons. "'African American Herbalism' is both history and healing" by Danielle Buckingham. BlackJoy x Reckon. African American Herbalism: A Practical Guide to Healing Plants and Folk Traditions by Lucretia VandykeBOOKSHOP
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In this episode, we tackle US propaganda and how it's causing spiritual warfare. We get into the illusion of choice, media censorship, increased militarism, and how all of our oppression is interconnected.
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Apocalypse Still by Leah Nicole Whitcomb "Meta is limiting how much political content users see. Here's how to opt out of that" by Rachel Treisman. npr. "Obama Administration Defends Israeli Airstrikes but Cautions Against Ground War." by Michael R. Gordon. The New York Times. "Countries bombed by the U.S. under the Obama administration." by Kevin Liptak. CNN. "We're In a Major COVID-19 surge. It's Our New Normal." by Jamie Ducharme. TIME. "Biden Says the Pandemic is Over. Is It?" by Doug Most. BU today. "CDC Drops Five Day Covid-19 Isolation Despite Controversy." by Judy Stone. Forbes. "The Biden administration once again bypasses Congress on an emergency weapons sale to Israel." by Matthew Lee. APNews. "Majority in U.S. Now Disapprove of Israeli Action in Gaza." by Jeffrey M. Jones. Gallup. Dayna Lynn Nuckolls (@PeoplesOracle) Tweet. March 18 2024. Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. 2024 Ninja Grill Social Media Exploitation TikTok (@naturally_nakeyta) "Ep 10: Celebrity Activism: Liberation or Profit?" Hoodoo Plant Mamas. April 2021 "Democracy in animals: the evolution of shared group decisions." L. Condradt and T.J. Roper. 2007 Sep 22 "House votes to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her Israel-Hamas rhetoric in a stunning rebuke." by Farnoush Amiri. APBOOKSHOP
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In this episode, we're joined by Ghrey Mbenza, a neurodivergent occupational therapist who works with marginalized communities. Ghrey talks with us about neurodiversity, what it means to be Black and neurodivergent, as well as the trauma and necessary healing work from growing up as undiagnosed Black neurodivergent kids.
Tasha “Ghrey” Mbenza (they/she/he), more recently known simply as Ghrey, is a black, queer, and autistic occupational therapist who is passionate about helping people of all ages reach their highest potential by identifying and building on their strengths. Ghrey is especially passionate about self-advocacy work with individuals from queer, BIPOC, neurodivergent, and/or physically disabled communities. His special interests include cooking with a focus on creative plating, recreating their favorite songs, and calculating service tips in their head. Her career related special interests include mental health, emotional regulation, sensory processing, and self-advocacy.
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Apocalypse Still by Leah Nicole Whitcomb "Country Black" Hoodoo Plant Mamas Patreon "Ep 12: Children are Divine" Hoodoo Plant Mamas Podcast "It's all fun and games for Seattle occupational therapist liberating Black clients through Play" by Jonece Starr Dunigan. Black Joy ReckonBOOKSHOP
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After an extended hiatus, we're back. While Dani moved away from Mississippi, Leah moved back so we talk about loving, leaving, and returning to Mississippi. Dani visited Senegal, and Leah is publishing a book.
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SeaSalted Honey Residency "A Night at Fontaine's" by Leah Nicole Whitcomb Pre-order Apocalypse Still by Leah Nicole Whitcomb "Episode 202: Reclaiming my Dream" Dreaming in Color with Nancey B. Price.BOOKSHOP
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//SPOILERS FOR LONG DIVISION//
Mississippi author Kiese Laymon joins us for our season finale. We discuss the revised version of his novel Long Division, explore themes of freedom, language, and timelessness, and talk about creating art separate from the white imagination.
Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon is the Libby Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. Laymon is the author of Long Division, which won the 2022 NAACP Image Award for fiction, and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, named a notable book of 2021 by the New York Times critics. Laymon’s bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, the Barnes and Noble Discovery Award, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. The audiobook, read by the author, was named the Audible 2018 Audiobook of the Year. Laymon is the recipient of 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard. Laymon is at work on the books, Good God, and City Summer, Country Summer, and a number of other film and television projects. He is the founder of “The Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative,” a program based out of the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University, aimed at aiding young people in Jackson get more comfortable reading, writing, revising and sharing on their on their own terms, in their own communities. Kiese Laymon was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022.
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Long Division by Kiese Laymon "We Need to Reckon with the Rot at the Core of Publishing" by Elaine Castillo. LitHub.BOOKSHOP
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We're joined by Starr, founder of Reckon's Black Joy. In this episode, we discuss the highs and lows of healing, leading when you feel unqualified, and Black joy as our birthright.
Jonece Starr Dunigan (She/her/hers) is a journalist who gives the microphone to communities that are often ignored by mainstream media. Guided by empathy, her reporting centers the stories, movement work and voices of Black, brown and queer people. Her writing strives to amplify and empower readers instead of exploiting them of their traumas. Starr is also the founder of Reckon’s Black Joy (formerly Black Magic Project), a media brand under Reckon that’s highlighting the multiple ways we as Black people cultivate liberating joy in our lives.
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"Blessings six years of Black joy have taught me." Jonece Starr Dunigan. Black Joy. Nolaskinsentials Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good edited by adrienne marie brown Diving with a PurposeBE A PATRON!
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In this episode, we're joined by Veronica Agard as she discusses her educational project, Ancestors in Training. We think about what how to honor our ancestors, what we want to leave our future descendants, and how to best utilize our time here on Earth.
Veronica Agard (Ifáṣadùn Fásanmí) (she/her) is a poet, writer, community educator, and connector at the intersections of Black identity, wellness, representation, and culture. She experiments with creative healing modalities and puts theories learned into practice. She curated the Who Heals the Healer series and the conference of the same name and facilitates the Ancestors in Training educational project. Her initiatives are housed in her freelance platform, Vera Icon LLC. Described as living in the future, Veronica is guided by the past and carries out her dreams in the present.
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Ancestors in Training Syllabus Ancestors in Training Bookshop Legendborn by Tracy Deonn Dani's Writing Residency in Senegal GoFundMe "The Science Behind Smudging." Uplift. "Are you ready to become your descendants wildest dreams? Ancestors in Training shows you how." Black Joy x ReckonBE A PATRON!
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In this episode, Leah needs a literary agent, and Dani needs help finding affordable housing in DC. We discuss our experiences with Black excellence and how it's overrated, steeped in capitalism, and ultimately ruins art.
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"Where the Parents" Medium. Leah Nicole Whitcomb. "Black youth face rising rates of depression, anxiety, suicide." Ed Source. Carolyn Jones. “It’s not about the children,” Black writers on the truth behind banned books. Black Joy. Danielle Buckingham. Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer. Julia Cameron Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. Netflix. "We're not good enough to not practice." Kiese Laymon.BE A PATRON!
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In this episode we're joined by Nancey B. Price of the Dreaming in Color Podcast. We discuss her work, Black people's relationships to dreams, our childhood nightmares, and how daydreaming influences our creative process.
Nancey B. Price is a self-taught collage artist, writer and storyteller with an appreciation for all things Black, Southern and imaginative. In all of her creative pursuits, she seeks to build worlds in which Black people can exist freely in all their beauty and complexity. Her visual works have been featured in various publications, including O, the Oprah Magazine, Garden & Gun Magazine, BlackJoy x Reckon, and The Bitter Southerner. She uses words and performance to take her audience on a journey of selfhood, spirituality, and ancestry. Her stories have been featured on You Had Me At Black, and as the executive producer and host of the podcast, Dreaming In Color with Nancey B. Price, she highlights the importance of dreamtelling in the Black community by creating space for each of her guests to share a dream story and deconstruct its meaning in their waking lives.
Follow Nancey B. Price on Instagram (@nanceybprice) and Dreaming in Color (@dreamingincolorpod). If you'd like to support her work, you can donate to her GoFundMe.
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Dreaming In Color with Nancey B. Price "Black people and their plants: It's more than a lifestyle." by Danielle Buckingham. BlackJoy x Reckon Dream Singers: The African American Way with Dreams by Anthony Shafton "God Visits Me in a Dream" by Danielle Buckingham. Black Femme Collective. "What the Earth Carries" by Danielle Buckingham. Raising Mothers. "Episode 202: Reclaiming My Dream" Leah Nicole Whitcomb. Dreaming in Color with Nancy B. Price.BE A PATRON!
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We're back y'all! For our Season 6 premiere, we're talking about how we conjure alternate realities in our writing. We discuss the documented gaps in the historical lives of Black people, our resistance to writing about the past, as well as how to honor our ancestor's stories. We think about the timelessness of the South, the optimism in current afroftuturist work, and the purpose of dystopian stories.
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Long Division (revised) by Kiese Laymon I am - Daily Affirmations App Love, Lizzo (documentary) "The Limitations of the Slave Narrative Collection" Kindred by Octavia Butler Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler "Reclaiming Our Time" by Julia Mallory "You Will Know Your Tribe by Their Joy" by Julia Mallory Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Earthseed: The Complete Series by Octavia ButlerBE A PATRON!
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In this episode, we go over our Spotify Wrapped, recap our personal highs and lows of 2022, and discuss our hopes for 2023.
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Levar Burton Reads podcast WNBA Authentic Voices Fellowship Courage to Write Grant "Sometimes It Works Out but Sometimes It Don't" Leah's newsletter. "These Black Witches Are More Magical Than Halloween Myths Would Have You Believe." MadameNoire. Leah Nicole Whitcomb "Won't You Celebrate Yourself" Leah's NewsletterBE A PATRON!
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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.
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"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!
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It's the end of the world...as we know it. We talk with Cherise Morris about her work, our anxieties and frustrations around the end of the world, and the hope we need to build a better future.
Cherise Morris is an award-winning writer, interdisciplinary performance artist, ritualist, spirit worker and healer born and raised in rural Virginia and living in Detroit, MI.
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"MEMO: It's Almost the End of the World" Substack. Cherise Morris. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler "The End of the World" Substack. Leah Nicole Whitcomb "MEMO: We are Living" Substack. Cherise Morris. Cherise Morris PatreonBE A PATRON!
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In this episode we're joined by the lovely Sirene Wata. We discuss African water spirits and deities, water as a tool of enslavement and liberation, and the many ways water has showed up in our lives, writing and work.
CONTENT WARNING: Mention of Suicidal Ideation 19:25-21:22
Sirene Martin is a multimedia artist hailing from south central Kentucky. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Pan-African Studies from the University of Louisville with an emphasis in Gender and Sexuality studies. In her art, Sirene seeks to be in conversation with the ancestral spirits that hold her. These conversations act as a portal as she travels into the creative space to conjure worlds and realities that are often refused to her in the material world as a Black Transgender Woman. As a Hoodoosaint, she is a historian and archivist. Recording and caring for the stories of her ancestors, her art elevates the rich Root culture and religions of the Black folks that made Kentucky their home.
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American Horror Stories Installment 2, Episode 5 "Ep. 52 Black is King!" A Little Juju Podcast Bite Size Halloween Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson "Ep 16: We Perfect Black with Crystal Wilkinson" Hoodoo Plant Mamas "Water" by Joy PostellBE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas
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In this epsiode, we discuss non-traditional, community, and personal altars. We get into how our relationships with our altars have changed over time as well as the offerings we can give to our ancestors and to our community.
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Hess Love's Altar Tweet "Divinity in Disability with Jade T. Perry" A Little Juju Podcast "Ancestor Demons?" Hoodoo Plant Mamas "HOW TO SET UP AN ANCESTRAL ALTAR" Ehime OraBE A PATRON!
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CONTENT WARNNING // SEXUAL ASSAULT
Hey y'all! For our Season 5 premiere, we tackle sex, relationships, and romance under capitalism. We get into how capitalism ruins everything, how romance should be fulfilled by communities instead of individuals., and how our friends are our lovers.
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"Nine Ways That Capitalism Is Ruining Sex" by Breanne Fahs. Boston Review The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk Ismatu Gwendolyn "Friends are Lovers" TikTokBE A PATRON!
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It's our season finale and we wanted to end it by talking about our inner child/teen healing. We get into what initiated our healing, what our inner child/teen needs from us, and the fact that this work is lifelong.
Visions of the Evolution: The Revolution Will Be Magical is a film and a ritual! It’s a prayer, a spell and an invocation that opens us all to the transformations we need to make to bring forth the revolution that will birth a more just, loving and equitable future. Find more information on Cherise's Kickstarter: http://kck.st/3O7XuVO
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