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The Black Rest Podcast

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Fréquence : 1 épisode/7j. Total Éps: 7

The Black Rest Podcast is an intimate, thought-provoking exploration of rest as a radical and restorative
act within Black life. Hosted by Dejha Carrington, the series invites artists, scholars, and activists to
reimagine the meaning of rest—not as retreat, but as resistance, renewal, and revolution.

Across rich and resonant conversations with voices like Nadege Green, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Bettina
Love, Khary Lazarre-White, James Allister Sprang, Treva B. Lindsey, and others, listeners are guided
through the intersections of rest, creativity, healing, and community. Together, they unpack how rest
connects to ancestral wisdom, collective care, and the ongoing pursuit of Black freedom and joy.

Through storytelling, reflection, and honest dialogue, the Black Rest Podcast offers a meditative space to
pause, breathe, and imagine new ways of being. Each episode honors rest as both a personal necessity
and a communal practice—a sacred act of resistance that fuels creativity, nurtures resilience, and
deepens connection.

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Black Rest Episode #6: A Conversation with Dr. Deborah Willis on the Black Body at Rest

Épisode 6

jeudi 7 mai 2026 • Durée 43:08

In this episode of The Black Rest Podcast, Dr. Deborah Willis, a visionary photographer, scholar, and director of NYU’s Center for Black Visual Culture, joins Esther Armah, CEO of the Armah Institute of Emotional Justice to explore the radical, emotional, historical, and deeply personal meanings of Black rest. Together, they trace how a nation built on the backbreaking labor of enslaved Africans shaped Black people's relationship to rest, worth, guilt, and exhaustion. From Otis Redding’s quiet rebellion in “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” to photographs of Black domestic workers simply sitting, breathing, being, Willis redefines rest as an active, necessary space of healing. She shares her own struggles with rest, the guilt she carries, the labor she inherited, and the rare places where her body finally exhales—often 30,000 feet in the air.

This episode asks: What does rest feel like in a Black body? Who creates rest for Black women? And how do we imagine a future where Black rest is not an interruption of labor—but a birthright?

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Black Rest Episode #5: Dr. Treva B. Lindsey on Rest, Dreaming and Liberation

Épisode 5

jeudi 30 avril 2026 • Durée 41:50

In this powerful and intimate episode, host Dejha Carrington sits down with Dr. Treva B. Lindsey, a scholar, writer, cultural critic, and co-founder of Black Feminist Night School, to explore why rest is not merely restorative but revolutionary for Black people globally. Dr. Lindsey reflects on her childhood in Washington, DC, where chosen kin, community care, and the freedom to try (and fail) shaped her creative spirit. She opens up about witnessing burnout in her educator parents, navigating elite institutions as “the only one,” and the long unlearning required to embrace rest without guilt. Through stories of writing America, Goddamn during the grief and isolation of 2020, Dr. Lindsey reveals how pleasure, naps, communal connection, and deliberate care became essential to her survival—and key to finding her most authentic voice on the page. Together, Lindsey and Dejha examine rest as a political act, a refusal of extraction, and a condition that makes dreaming possible.

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Black Rest Episode #4: James Allister Sprang on Art, Sound, and Finding Rest

Épisode 4

jeudi 23 avril 2026 • Durée 36:13

On this episode of The Black Rest Podcast, host Dejha Carrington sits down with award-winning artist James Allister Sprang for a rich, sensory conversation about growing up Caribbean American in South Miami, discovering art as a place of calm, and learning to find rest through sound, breath, and presence.

The heart of the episode explores Rest Within the Wake, Sprang’s immersive 48-minute musical work composed during a solo trip to an island off the coast of Belize. He talks about learning to scuba dive, discovering that underwater rest requires constant exhalation, and turning those breaths into tones, chords, and eventually an expansive somatic score meant to be experienced lying down, eyes closed, fully tuned inward.

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Black Rest Episode #3: Childhood, Education, and the Politics of Ease with Dr. Bettina Love and Khary Lazarre-White

Épisode 3

jeudi 16 avril 2026 • Durée 48:14

On this episode of The Black Rest Podcast, host Dejha Carrington sits down with two extraordinary guests, Dr. Bettina L. Love and Khary-Lazarre White, to talk about what rest looked like in their childhoods, how they learned it (or didn’t), and how they’re reshaping rest and joy for the next generation.

Together, the three explore the crisis of rest for Black children today, the generational patterns we inherit, and the radical possibility of joy—the kind of joy where whiteness can’t intrude, where spades tables, kitchen music, and big belly laughs become portals to freedom. White and Love reflect on their life’s work in education, justice, and movement-building, and the tension between urgent struggle and the need for stillness.

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Black Rest Episode #2: Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Black Rest, Water, and the Practice of Freedom

Épisode 2

jeudi 9 avril 2026 • Durée 38:26

In this episode of The Black Rest Podcast, host Dejha Carrington is joined by writer, scholar, poet, and Black feminist love-evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs for an ancestral and deeply restorative conversation. Together, they explore how water becomes a teacher, metaphor, and sanctuary for Black people across generations. Gumbs reflects on the lessons she learned from her grandfather in the ocean of Anguilla, the ways Black Caribbean cosmologies shape our understanding of rest, and how time bends when we are in a genuine relationship with our ancestors. Drawing from her book Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, Gumbs expands on Lorde’s legacy of collective self-care as political warfare, and discusses what it means to create daily practices that reconnect us to infinite ancestral love. From weathering and liberation, to cosmic Black feminist science, and surrendering productivity in favor of presence, this episode offers a profound meditation on what it means to rest, to be held, and to live freedom as a repeating practice.

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Black Rest Episode #1: Black Memory, Rest, and Community with Nadege Green

Épisode 1

jeudi 2 avril 2026 • Durée 46:40

In this episode of The Black Rest Podcast, host Dejha Carrington sits down with Miami-based researcher, writer, and community archivist Nadege Green to explore rest as a radical practice for Black and queer bodies. Together, they journey through the power of movement, the grounding presence of water, and the necessity of slowing down in a world that demands constant output. Nadege shares stories from her groundbreaking project Give Them Their Flowers, reflects on the labor of memory-keeping, and discusses what it means to decentralize history while nurturing community spaces of softness and belonging. This episode invites listeners to reclaim rest, not as a luxury, but as a birthright.

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