Mali is a mother, doula, childbirth educator, and assistant professor of African American Literature at Howard University. Her first book, Scrap Theory: Reproductive Injustice in the Contemporary Black Feminist Imagination, Ohio State University Press will be published in 2023. Her work intersects in the medical humanities, technology, bioethics, contemporary Black art and culture, and reproductive justice practices. She spends her free time sleeping, doing HIIT workouts, and doing tarot readings.

https://www.malicollins.com/

Always Be My Baby by Mariah Carey

Dougou Badia by Amadou & Mariam

Look Into My Eyes by Bone Thugs n Harmony

In this episode, Mali and I sit down and talk about realizing beauty in herself at an early age, making something out of nothing, and a survivor's mentality.

Content Warning: This conversation has sensitive themes related to trauma.

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