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If you are a Black Woman who is sick of the bullshit in society, and is sick of the way that it has impacted your mind, body, spirit and the generations before you, this podcast is for you. Especially if you are looking for the down-to-earth truth about how to remedy it all. Join me and other Black Women for moments of freeing ourselves from the ills of capitalism. We dispel the white-superiority lie, snatch back our stories and re-connect with the real system, nature. We laugh cuss, cry, ta ...
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Recollect Season 4 Cross Cultural Episode 1 - with Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle: Where Are All the Acorns: Two WOC Writers Who Left Their Colonized Teaching Jobs
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Welcome to Recollect Season 4 Cross Cultural. In all of the episodes of this season I extend the conversation about Black women decolonizing to women of color. One of the internalized behaviors that makes capitalism and colonization work, is being used and abused by the false system and not talking to each other about it. If we don't band together …
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Recollect Season 3 Episode 6 - with Victoria Scott-Miller: Red Cups & Fish Fries - Two Black Book Loving Women Musing about Sharing and Collaborating
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In this last episode of Season 3, Victoria Scott-Miller, children’s book author, and owner of Liberation Station Bookstore in Raleigh, NC is visiting me at Her Story Garden Studios. What starts out to be a conversation and first meeting to collaborate on my book release party and her bookstore opening this summer, turns into a conversation about al…
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Recollect Season 3 Episode 5 – with Khadijah Ali-Coleman: Black Mothers Reckoning with Our 2022 Year & Recollecting What Our Daughters Taught Us
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Note to Listener: Listen to it all. There are a number of times that Khadijah and I say goodbye, but in Black folk fashion, we strike up another and another conversation. LOL! In this episode Khadijah Ali-Coleman and I are recollecting what our daughters have taught us. It is March, and my daughter is turning 22. Wow! From tiny hands that I hold in…
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Recollect Season 3 Episode 4 – with Shana Tucker: A Conversation on Recollecting Love, Home and the Porch Light Concept
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Happy Valentines, and Super Bowl and February Birthdays. What a great time for this Love & Home conversation. In this episode Shana and I as new neighbors in our new Durham neighborhood are eating peanut butter and apples and carrots and telling stories of how Home & Love are synonymous in the heart. This conversation doesn't follow any conventions…
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Recollect Season 3 Episode 3 – with Gerty Mitchell, Transformation Silence into Freedom
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Recollect Season 3 Episode 3 – with Gerty Mitchell, Transformation Silence into Freedom. So nice to be back! Happy 2023! In this episode of the Recollect Podcast, I am joined by Gerty Mitchell. She’s Haitian-American, and living life with a purpose in the vibrant city of Durham, North Carolina. She is a woman who is unapologetic and intentional abo…
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Recollect Season 3 Episode 2 with Jill Collen Jefferson, Dragon Slayer Civil Rights and International Human Rights Attorney
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Jill is from my birthplace, Mississippi and in this episode we recollect our omniscient little southern girls to our wise Black woman selves who have taken up professions to heal and set right what racism has set all upside down and inside out. Jill, my friends, is indeed a dragon slayer. We speak the truth about the perpetrators in order to flip t…
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Recollect Season 3 Episode 1 With Kafi Allah, Black & Foraging Connecting with Yourself and The Generations Before and to Come
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Is this you? “Oh, yeah! I’ve seen that plant my entire life and didn’t know what it was or that you could eat it?”The COVID pause sent a lot of us to walking in the woods and looking at stuff, and trudging on it but most of us, myself included, still didn’t know what we were looking at. Kafi and I have done a lot of hiking and identifying since the…
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Recollect Season 2 Episode 6 What Can I Do For Ukraine, Just Me?
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Hello Listeners,Welcome to this Episode of Recollect: Conversations with Black Women about Decolonizing Using Story & Nature. In this episode the conversation I have is with myself and all of the shit that is in my head on this Sunday afternoon February 27, 2022. Like many people in the world, I am troubled by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I ask…
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Recollect Season 2 Episode 5 Black History is What 2 Black Vegan Women Ate for Dinner In February & Their Funny Food Stories
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In this episode Dr. Candace Parrish owner of Yellow Plate Vegan and I play with our food and tell stories about it all as we let our family experiences with collard greens, broken dolls, Black movie theaters with unlikely veggies, squirrels that got away and other tales be the recollection that decolorizes the food on the table. We end up giving y’…
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Recollect Season 2 Episode 4 Mama Bear by Shirley Smith One Black Mother’s Fight for Her Child’s Life & Her Own. Shirley & Zelda talk About Writing the Story She Lived
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Hey Y'all this episode features Shirley Smith as we talk though the journey of her memoir Mama Bear and our connection of healing in the collaboration process of co-writing the work. In the last episode Natasha Thomas and I talked about the stresses in a Black woman’s body that can impact her ability to healthily bring children into this life. This…
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Recollect Season 2 Episode 3 Self-Segregating & Black Only Spaces: 2 Black Women PhD Art Therapists Talk About “The Whole Body NO”, The Matrix Moment & The Fox Strategy for Black Women’s Liberation
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Natasha Thomas, PhD was the other Black woman in my Cohort at Lesley University. We were the women who were trying to get in there and out unscathed with those letters in hand. There were lots of Matrix bullet dodging moments, and lots of revelations as our bodes said “no” to the bullshit and “yes” to the sanctity of lending our love-work in Black …
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Recollect Season 2 Episode 2 Creative Evocation – How Do You Know to Do That? A Conversation with Performance Artist Ebony Golden
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This episode is a continuation of my conversation with Ebony Golden as we make that pot of sorrel tea at Her Story Garden Studios and go in for answering the question of how do we know what we know creatively. We evoke an understanding that one must exfoliate the rules, listen to your dreams, be quiet without fear of death, ask the elders and spiri…
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Recollect Season 2 Episode 1 Unchoking the Breath of a Tree: A Conversation w Performing Artist Ebony Golden
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In this episode it’s December 18, 2021. Yep, you guessed it, it is a nice global warming seventy degrees out. Performance Artist, brilliant, beautiful one, Ebony Golden and I are at the big table at Her Story Garden Studios. We testify ourselves to revelations about letting go of systems (like nonprofit structures) that cut off the breath of the tr…
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Recollect Season 1 Episode 5 No More Doubt! What Did You Come Here to Do? Six Black Women Testifying Around the Fire Circle About Making Shit Happen in 2022
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In this very special episode of Season 1 of Recollect, it is December 11th, 2021. It is time to manifest what we want in 2022. It is a strange and beautiful 72 degrees outside. I am with 6 Black women of ages from our twenties to our almost-sixties: Sister Asia, Sister Amber, Sister Gerty, Sister Carla, Sister Linda, and myself. We have walked in s…
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Recollect Season 1 Episode 4 Reconciliation without Punishment: Radical Self-Love with Kim Arrington
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Kim Arrington and I are on a walk up the Couch Mountain Trail at Duke Forest. It’s Saturday, November 27th. There are a sea of fall leaves beneath our feet. She has fallen, gotten up, and hiked anyway, metaphor for what happens when we fall. We have invited our deceased fathers and their lessons on our hike. Our children and our mothers and other f…
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Recollect Season 1 Episode 3 The Grace in Silence & Pausing a Way to Black Women’s Knowing with Mignon Hooper
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Just in time for giving thanks. There is so much gratitude for this conversation. It is a Sunday, November 14th. The sun is shining Mignon Hooper and I are 2 Black 50 something year old women walking in the wood at the Eno River and she has spoken of pausing and I have responded. We talk about pausing and reconnecting with your wisdom so that the “…
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Recollect Season 1 Episode 2 A Family Secret Story and the Bad Ass Black Film Maker Leslie Cunningham Who Brings the Generational Healing
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In this episode, I’m with film maker Leslie Cunningham, sitting out on a warm 70-degree November day at Rufhiwa Book Café in Durham, NC. I say it’s November 21st in the episode when it’s November 11th and we say the name of the coffee shop ALL kinds of ways before we get it right. We talk about Black women’s abandonment, self-worth, Black family se…
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Recollect Season 1 Episode 1 Vegan Talk with Candace Parrish, PhD
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I'm here in conversation at Her Story Garden Studios where I am Director with Dr. Candace Parrish. It's a rainy day in November 2021 and we are having tea with picture windows that bring in the beauty of fall leaves and the monstrous green bamboo swaying in the windows. We are eating vegan corn curls and laughing our assess off about growing up Bla…
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