Nov 12, 2019
Dear Mama: We carry history in our wombs and we can create history in our wombs. These are words of our guest Sista Midwife Nicole Deggins. The stats on Black maternal health are not our legacy and don’t have to be our destiny. This isn’t a long intro because this episode is packed and we want you to jump right...
Sep 4, 2019
Dear Mama,
Take a trip with me back to when you read your first book by Terry McMillian, E. Lynn Harris or Eric Jerome Dickey and their names & their characters names rolled off our tongues like family members. These authors wrote Blackness without explanation or apology. In these books we were allowed to love, fail,...
Jun 28, 2019
Dear Mama: Let all the myths of motherhood crumble at your feet. Dig motherhood out from under the rock of sacrifice. Look at your children and be willing to be a student, be willing to receive. See them as path makers and pathfinders. It is work. It takes presence. It takes an open heart and a willing soul. All the...
Apr 28, 2019
Dear Mama: We believe EVERY BLACK MAMA matters and when we say EVERY we mean EVERY. This episode is dedicated to the mamas giving birth in the belly of the beast of white supremacy, the US prison system, and the birth workers like our guest Doula Chauntel Norris who refuse to sit and wait for the world to change but...
Mar 26, 2019
Dear Mama: Let’s take a deep dive past sex tips and tricks, beyond stimulation and center pleasure. Pleasure lasts beyond orgasms. Pleasure pours into us, inspires us and touches our deepest creativity. We’re talking nude yoga, Black porn, weekday sex and kundalini so this is what we call an #EarbudsEpisode...