Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSIn this episode, we contend with the topic of Black love as self-love with guest Dr. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere—book author and contributing writer (for the Tico Times and…
Month: April 2019
In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, I went through the exercise of identifying and framing, for my desk, three quotes from up and coming African descended women poets: Alexandra Elle, Upile Chisala and Cleo Wade. Claim it. All of it. Release what no longer serves you. Journey forward. Be unanswered. Be unapologetic. Love…
Hair, hair, hair, hair… Grow it, show it… Long as I can grow it… My hair.. I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggyRatty, matty, oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleamingStreaming, flaxen, waxen, knotted, polka dottedTwisted, beaded, braided, powdered, flowered and confettiedBangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied… “Hair” by the Cowsills (1968). Songwriters: Galt Mac Dermot…
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSIn this episode, hosts Jaronda Miller-Bryant, PhD and Yndia Lorick-Wilmot, PhD discuss Black hair and the Natural Hair Movement in terms of how it’s defined, its significance…