Workin OUR roots PODCAST
Hosted by SaraMakeba
WORKIN OUR ROOTS PODCAST
explores the abundance & complexities of Southern Black and Afrodiasporic experiences, lineages, movement, ancestry, magic, resourcefulness, resilience, the erotic, and healing. A play between Root Work, Workin Roots, and the gifts we receive when we center, cultivate, tend to and work our personal, communal and ancestral roots.
Through Afrofuturist, Womanist, Black Feminist, Afrogenic & Queer lenses, we’ll tap into spirituality, creativity, joy, healing, pleasure, desire, time-travel, non-linear time, magic, survival tools, ancestor veneration, intergenerational & inter-dimensional communication and wisdom, embodied technology, and the Portal that is the Black South.
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. I then shift my focus to all the spaces and practices that do affirm my knowing and inherent value. In part, the lineages of Black folk who intentionally and lovingly exchange wisdom in affirmation of our freedom. The Spirit and intentional community that has always sustained us. The indigenous practice of citing the folks who've made us possible. Love as a Verb. And as Lucille Clifton told us, "We have always loved each other, Children. Pass it on."
This week's Purple & Green segment honors brilliant Black folk--many who are scholars, theorists, artists, creatives, educators, healers, storytellers, witches, root workers, organizers, seers, diviners, & community builders--whose lives and work have poured into and shaped me, affirmed what I know and how I know it, and exemplify love in practice.
Brilliant Black Folk Highlighted: Somatic Excavations @somaticexcavations, Tea with Queen & J. Podcast @teawithqj, Inner Hoe Uprising Podcast @innerhoeuprising, Jade T. Perry @jadetperry, Harriet's Gunn @harrietsgunn, Marsha's Plate Podcast @marshasplate, Queer WOC Podcast @queerwocpod, Natoya Hall @minyma, The People's Oracle @peoplesoracle, A Little Juju Podcast @alittlejujupodcast, The Trap Therapist Podcast @thetraptherapist_, Spiritual Homegirl Podcast @spiritualhomegirl, Bag Ladiez Podcast @bgladiez, In Those Genes Podcast @inthosegenespod, The Sexually Liberated Woman Podcast @sexuallyliberatedwoman, Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline, How to Survive the End of the World Podcast @endoftheworldpc, VagEsteem @vagesteem, Ms. Vixen Magazine @_msvixen_
The closing meditation references the story “The Language You Cry In”
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This episode was edited by Miya S. Fowler.
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