This month September 2020, I have had one year with the radio station Kepw.org...My guest Willamette Racism Response Network is with me to discuss lived experience, creating while in crisis, and exploring new ways to heal our community. White conditioning, mental health, and seeing our own value has been a journey. More on my guests: Check WRRN on IG@willametteRRN, their FB page and website www.willametteRRN.org --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayisha-elliott/message

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With the RNC, the shooting of Jacob Blake, death of Chadwick, summer fires-it feels like being Black is even harder than usual. How are we coping?? How do you cope? How can we still see and love each other?? It’s all here --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayisha-elliott/message

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FB and IG censored my advert for my merchandise and for my website, stating political tones. It is because my name has Black Girl in it. The commercial has Race Equity.  Blackness as a commodity is a foundational sin of this United States, and here it is playing out yet again in 2020. Please join me as I work this out.... BTW, link to my website here where you can see what I'm up to, and where you can buy some unapologetic merchandise.  www.blackgirlfromeugene.org --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayisha-elliott/message

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I welcome my guest Kokayi, to the show as we share similar household conversations as we grew up. He is a community leader. He coins himself The community builder, he is an activist. Our households were both unapologetically black households, that lived in this world in proximity to differing cultures, both balancing oppression. Perspective on white pain, and black beauty are explored...join us! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayisha-elliott/message

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Joined by Marcus Holloway, aka m5!! We discuss why the fear and need to hold onto things we don't understand can hinder us from growth and ultimately love.  We talk personal journey, ask the question what if racial inequity was just a lack of love or a misuse of an idea of love.  How do you recognize healthy love and love that is conditioned, like racism. Racism has love?? depends on who you ask. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayisha-elliott/message

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Meet Maisie Davis. She is black (bi racial), a single mother, gay, disabled, chronically ill and she is one of our newest Eugene Commissioners! She runs a food delivery resource called The Peoples Freedom Food and is KILLING THE GAME.  We discuss how she has made it to this point, how her life and the many facets she answers to have pushed her to this point.  I was SO happy to have her on the show, she will surely be back again!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayisha-elliott/message

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My guest Vanessa Fuller, a black business owner here in Eugene, and I talk about how this pandemic disproportionally effects the black community, the STRESS, and returning to school during a Pandemic. It feels a lot like Money over People, and in order to thrive we believe we need to have a different conversation....Listen in...  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayisha-elliott/message

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A week ago my daughter and I came across a store owner and a homeless man.  The homeless man was mentally unstable and the store owner and her employee was threatening calling the police. She had already called and was waiting on the phone. The verbally abusive man was there all of 2 minutes. He had gone. My daughter, 16, having witnessed the whole thing, asks the woman not to call the cops but to call Cahoots. A crisis response team we have here in Eugene that are a trained group of medics, nurses, volunteers who respond to these types of crisis' INSTEAD of the cops. They are non violent and are an alternative to the cops. The woman refused.  This of course prompted my daughter to get me, which I then approached the woman and again asked her to reconsider her actions.  She still refused. When the cops arrived,  l left. I then posted a 5 minute video, you can see on Facebook now, and soon on YouTube stating the situation.  When the video reached over a few thousand views, the store owner thought sheh should state something as well. After a couple hundred comments, she reached out to me to "discuss" what happened. ...... I refused, this podcast tells you why. It wasn't until later that night, I realized what a fateful day it was, a 5 year anniversary....listen in... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayisha-elliott/message

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Today I sit down with two lovely people Cherie Gatson and Serena Markstrom Nugent. One woman is bi racial and passing and the other transracially adopted and "recognizably" black.  They are both active and vocal in this National uprising around Human Rights struggle with Race. Their perspective, being so closely related to whiteness has been challenged and even their experience as black women invalidated when speaking their truth in part of this changing national narrative. We are hearing their stories of how "nice white people" are unknowingly attempting to erase their place and their dignity in this movement.    --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayisha-elliott/message

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Eugene Juneteenth's celebration was the largest to date. It was organized in 10 days by 6 women and one man. It was impressive and well done...but like anything black folks do, there was backlash and questionable actions...we are here to discuss it all.

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