Audio Nuggets: Mining For Gold – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is where you will find a symbiotic force; both the heaviness of the air to breathe, and the light of freedom of liberation. Where human consciousness is alive. Each voice has a moment to spotlight their IT; their shine; their journey; their truth; their gold. And through the tenderness of love, we will aggressively claim our voice and own our right to humanity. We are excited to be joined by Toshira Maldonado for this episode, Birthing Black- The Shared Fight.

Toshira Maldonado is fueled by passion for Black maternal health and racial justice. She is an international birthworker, community organizer, and educator. Toshira co-founded a maternal wellness group that grew out of her church group in 2004. Today it is known as Most Beautiful W.O.M.B. Inc., (Women Overcoming Major Barriers), flourishing as a grassroots community led organization. Her professional experience with family policing in Philadelphia for over seven years added purpose to what she describes as her life mission to support women. Along with 26 years as a community birth worker, she holds four generations of holistic healing and birth keeping close to her heart. 

This episode explores Toshira's journey as a birthworker for freedom and liberation. Toshira's liberation is fortified by being a descendent of ancestors who birthed this nation, African spirituality, the power of communal midwifery, and healing. Toshira lives in her purpose of seeing the full humanity of Black women, and experiencing the love of people who came from generations of systemic abuse, inhumane treatment, and the legacy of enslavement.  Toshira reminds us..free people, free people...that want to see people free!

This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is where you will find a symbiotic force; both the heaviness of the air to breathe, and the light of freedom of liberation. Where human consciousness is alive. Each voice has a moment to spotlight their IT; their shine; their journey; their truth; their gold. And through the tenderness of love, we will aggressively claim our voice and own our right to humanity. We are blessed and honored to be joined by Dr. Resmaa Menakem for this episode, Reclaiming Humanity Tenderness.

Embodied provocateur, multiple-levels thinker, and structural paradigm shifter Resmaa Menakem, is an author, agent of change, therapist, and licensed clinical worker specializing in racialized trauma, communal healing, and cultural first aid based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As the originator and leading proponent of Somatic Abolitionism, an embodied anti racist practice for living and culture building, Resmaa is the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions and the Cultural Somatics Institute and is an educator and coach. Working at the intersections of anti-racism, communal healing, and embodied purpose, Resmaa Menakem is the challenging yet compassionate coach we all need in this time of racial reckoning and near-global dysregulation.

We can't explain what you're about to listen to. Jump in with tenderness and love for the people. It is our role to tend to things. This is a time to reclaim the things we have been thinking are unclaimable. Because there's a little bit more room now. The cultivation of glue. The glue of peoplehood. 

To learn more about Resmaa and the Black Octopus Society, visit resmaa and Black Octopus Society.

This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to the cypher, right here on Audio Nuggets! On Audio Nuggets we strive to bend the arc of non-linear modes through conversations that tug and pull from the best of who we are. We give ourselves rooted permission to tell a collective story of the principled struggle for liberation. We are filled with joy and honored to be joined by Myah Overstreet for Episode 35: To Be Invisible—A True Narrative.

Myah Overstreet is a filmmaker and journalist. Her area of focus is on the intersection of culture and racial injustices among marginalized communities. She is dedicated to amplifying bold, untold stories. Just two weeks ago, Myah’s documentary “To Be Invisible” was published on The New Yorker site. The film follows the journey of Alexis and Kelley as they demand the return of their children from the family police in North Carolina.

Shining light and love on Black women was always what Myah wanted to focus her work on. In this episode, we unpack Myah’s journey to using film and journalism to tell the true narrative of reproductive justice rights of Black women, and the policing of bodies--the story that is not talked about. Myah shares the evolution of the film and how she joined with mothers and activists in the movement to abolish family policing to tell the story. Myah brings life and love to the film to magnify what’s been hidden. Every story that is told in this true narrative is getting us closer to a new world!

This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

We are back in the cypher, right here on Audio Nuggets!  We are honored to be joined by Miriam Mack, a co-struggler and friend, for Episode 34: Critical Connections--THE Imperative.

Miriam Mack is the Policy Director for The Bronx Defenders’ Family Defense Practice, and an advocate and activist for racial and reproductive justice. The Bronx Defenders are actively redefining public defense by challenging the dominant narrative of save and rescue, as they root themselves in the principled and broader struggle for freedom.  

This conversation unpacks the beauty of base-building in the movement to abolish carcerality and systemic violence, right relationships, and the critical connections that are our driving force in practicing new worlds. We grapple with what happens if we're harmed, and Miriam reminds listeners of the deep and very real urgency for imagining and building. Listen to be captivated!

This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

We are right back in the cypher, on Audio Nuggets with Khafre Jay in Episode 33: Hip Hop Culture & Organizing For Health.

Khafre Jay is a change-maker, hip hop artist, and community organizer who is practicing new worlds. 

Hip hop is art. Hip hop is poetry. Hip hop is a cornerstone of our stories. Hip hop is the MOST effective organizing force that we have. Hip Hop is culture!

In this episode, we hear from Khafre about his abolitionism and how he's leveraging Hip Hop as communal health.

This King has range, wisdom and a sharp political analysis. Be prepared to break intellectual laziness as we chop it up. 

To learn more about Khafre Jay and ways to support Drip Fest, you can visit his website  Hip Hop Organizer | Khafre Jay and subscribe to the newsletter Unapologetic Black, watch his Ted Talk Performance by Hip Hop for Change | Khafre Jay | TEDxSausalito (youtube.com) and follow on IG @khafrejay.

This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to the cypher! On Audio Nuggets, we give ourselves rooted permission to tell a collective story of the principled struggle for liberation and freedom. We are honored to welcome Joyce James to the cypher for Episode 32: In The Fight to Undo Racism.

Joyce James has been leading and supporting anti-racism and justice in multiple systems and institutions across the country for almost three decades. 

In this episode, respect is given by Joyce and MFG to The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) for the education and political analysis they have gifted so many with through their principles, teachings, and organizing.

Joyce unravels the narratives about people that we have bought into, and the lies we have been taught. Through good teaching and teachers, Joyce illustrates the cornerstone fact; racism is so deeply embedded in all of our systems and institutions, that to truly undo this racism, means a lifetime commitment to the fight.  We are grateful to march alongside Joyce and so many others who embody justice and liberation for the people, on the long road to freedom!

This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

Welcome to the cypher! Audio Nuggets is grateful and blessed to bring you Episode 31: Singing My Song with April Lee.

April is a leader, community activist, advocate, artist, poet and believer of freedom. April is a lover of her people and her community. 

April hips the audience to the political analysis that we can SEE the truth of the destruction that the family policing system causes Black families and communities. April is here to share that freedom seeking looks like singing her song--LIBERATION! 

April gifts Black parents with the wisdom to question everything, educate yourself, know your rights... because you are not the problem, but rather part of the solution. Don't believe the hype. Don't believe the lie!

And before we leave...April drops "True Insight" as an expression of her full humanity, power, and liberation. She sings her song!

This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

We are back in the cypher with our anchor #4 for FREEDOM in Black History ’24.  We are joined by Aubrey Edwards-Luce for Episode 30: Dreaming Sanctuary.

In Dreaming Sanctuary, Aubrey moves us to become filled. Filled with dreaming; filled with an energy to chase the vision of freedom, filled with a drive to nurture connections with others, and truly filled with a desire to love all people. Sanctuary is best defined as a place where someone or something can be protected or safe from being chased or hunted; to live and be protected. Aubrey illustrates that there is safety and sanctuary in relationships that are knitted through love and give us an opportunity to see and lean into full humanity. Aubrey’s contributions to freedoms are palpable with how she leads by listening, and how she shows up in love by building a culture of truth-telling in her ecosystem.

Throughout this February, the cypher has brought you Radically Practical with jasmine Sankofa, Loyalty to Truth with Dawn Blagrove, Notes For Freedom with Dr. Jessica Pryce and Dreaming Sanctuary with Aubrey Edwards-Luce; 4 Black women, 4 for Freedom. They have all made clear the distinction necessary for freedom and liberation as a lifestyle, not only a goal.

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Audio Nuggets is back in the cypher and expanding Black History with #3 for FREEDOM. Episode 29: Notes For Freedom with Dr. Jessica Pryce will push you to embrace a reckoning.   

For over 15 years, Dr. Pryce has worked with multiple angles in child protection, encompassing direct practice, academia, policymaking and research.  

This episode unpacks just a few of Dr. Pryce's contributions to freedom and liberation through her writing and memoir that is set to be released as we commemorate 60 years of civil rights legislation for Black bodies.  

Broken: Notes of a Former Caseworker; Transforming Child Protective Services, is a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families.

Dr. Pryce graces the audience with truth-telling vulnerability, wisdom, and the story of her personal journey of witnessing the humanness in Black parents.  

After Dr. Jessica Pryce, Aubrey Edwards-Luce will anchor us with Dreaming of Sanctuary. 

This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.

In the cypher we bring you,  #2 for FREEDOM with our dear friend Dawn Blagrove for Episode 28: Loyalty To Truth.

Dawn is a freedom fighter, movement attorney, and a beautiful human being. She has a sharp political analysis.  And a bullshit detector that helps discern who she builds with.  She epitomizes leadership in the struggle for freedom. Dawn tells it as it should always be told--with breadth and honesty. We invite you to sit back and experience Dawn's loyalty to truth.

From Dawn, the next drop will weave artistry and threads of freedom with Dr. Jessica Pryce.

This show is part of the SafeCamp Audio podcast network. Learn more at SafeCampAudio.org.