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It’s my first day on earth: a conversation on love with Saran Fina

Join us for a special episode featuring our dear friend and colleague, Saran Fina Sidime! As we kick of Black History Month/Black Love Month, Saran joined us to talk about her journey (and journaling about) moving toward self love. She’s booked and busy learning to love and care for herself, but she took the time to come drop some amazing wisdom for y’all! Recommended Reading: The Love Trilogy by bell hooks * All About Love: New Visions * Salvation: Black People and Love * Communion: The Female Search for Love Episode Music: Track: I Am OK — Vishmak [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: • I Am OK — Vishmak | Free Background Music ... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZVS1ag3itA] Free Download / Stream:https://alplus.io/i-am-ok [https://alplus.io/i-am-ok]

Why the f*ck is this my timeline?!

Episode Details: Remember last episode when we did our “shout out to my timeline” segment? Well have we got a show for you! A lot has happened since our last episode dropped, so we spend most of this episode talking about current events, including the shooting in Minnesota and the kidnapping of Maduro. Seriously, y’all…why the f*ck is this our timeline?! Suggested Readings: * Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1965) * Walter Rodney, Decolonial Marxism : essays from the Pan-African revolution (New York: Verso, 2022 Reprint) * Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1973) * Manning Marable, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society (Boston: South End Press, 1983) * Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019) Episode Audio: Track: I Am OK — Vishmak [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: • I Am OK — Vishmak | Free Background Music ... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZVS1ag3itA] Free Download / Stream:https://alplus.io/i-am-ok [https://alplus.io/i-am-ok]

Strange Calendars and Stranger Things

We’re back!! We’re kicking off this episode with a little debrief about what we were up to since our last episode since we took December off from recording. Now it’s a new year…depending on who you ask, so we also briefly discuss the origins of the Gregorian calendar and our groundings for 2026. To kick off 2026, we decided to switch it up a bit with a positive twist to why is this my timeline…shout out to this timeline! We talk Zohran Mamdani, some Trump setbacks, and the importance of organizing on the local level. SPOILER ALERT: We finish the episode with a discussion of the Stranger Things series finale and some thoughts on cathartic violence. Episode Music: Track: I Am OK — Vishmak [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: • I Am OK — Vishmak | Free Background Music ... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZVS1ag3itA] Free Download / Stream:https://alplus.io/i-am-ok [https://alplus.io/i-am-ok]

“We Call Each Other” with guest Sarah O.

In this episode, Dani and Jazzy interview their first guest on the pod—film maker, educator, and creator—Sarah Oberholtzer (or Sarah O.). Sarah shares about the abolitionist writer’s room and their film series, “We Call Each Other” which explores themes of public safety, crisis, community response, and abolition. In this conversation Sarah uncovers the motivations for creating this film series while detailing the significance of their faith and their commitment to caring for the whole person of all involved in the writing and filming process. We hope this episode inspires you, as we were certainly inspired, and we invite you to follow the journey of the first installation of the “We Call Each Other” film series as it is currently making its world debut in film festivals and a digital release later this year. Trailer for the film: https://vimeo.com/1055374177 [https://vimeo.com/1055374177] Social Media for the film: instagram.com/wecalleachother [http://instagram.com/wecalleachother] Episode Music: Track: I Am OK — Vishmak [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: • I Am OK — Vishmak | Free Background Music ... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZVS1ag3itA] Free Download / Stream:https://alplus.io/i-am-ok [https://alplus.io/i-am-ok]

Blerd Werk: Hobbstown Oral History Project

In today’s Blerd Werk episode, Dani shares her presentation “Hobbstown Oral History Project: Descendent’s as the Stewards of Cultural Memory” from this year’s New Jersey Historical Commission conference. In the presentation she talks about the history of the neighborhood her family founded in New Jersey and why it is important to preserve such histories. Episode Music: Track: I Am OK — Vishmak [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: • I Am OK — Vishmak | Free Background Music ... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZVS1ag3itA] Free Download / Stream: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbXJzTFNlZVQ2c3JWVGQ3LVQ3T2xidU9MTlRld3xBQ3Jtc0tudEg2OGlhRTk4cG5QS0FFRmpOYUppSnI5aGtsbFItcW9VM3o4bWdFaHdJNWxSWTBBN3dMTU9ubFViUXNsSzVmdTBBa0hzdmhLa090cUtSdnlNYTRLWHZzM3RlTTY1Q0toZDlMckJfZllWdllCVVJzaw&q=https%3A%2F%2Falplus.io%2Fi-am-ok&v=KZVS1ag3itAhttps://alplus.io/i-am-ok [https://alplus.io/i-am-ok]