In this episode we're joined by Nancey B. Price of the Dreaming in Color Podcast. We discuss her work, Black people's relationships to dreams, our childhood nightmares, and how daydreaming influences our creative process.

Nancey B. Price is a self-taught collage artist, writer and storyteller with an appreciation for all things Black, Southern and imaginative. In all of her creative pursuits, she seeks to build worlds in which Black people can exist freely in all their beauty and complexity. Her visual works have been featured in various publications, including O, the Oprah Magazine, Garden & Gun Magazine, BlackJoy x Reckon, and The Bitter Southerner. She uses words and performance to take her audience on a journey of selfhood, spirituality, and ancestry. Her stories have been featured on You Had Me At Black, and as the executive producer and host of the podcast, Dreaming In Color with Nancey B. Price, she highlights the importance of dreamtelling in the Black community by creating space for each of her guests to share a dream story and deconstruct its meaning in their waking lives.

Follow Nancey B. Price on Instagram (@nanceybprice) and Dreaming in Color (@dreamingincolorpod). If you'd like to support her work, you can donate to her GoFundMe.

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RESOURCES

• Dreaming In Color with Nancey B. Price
• "Black people and their plants: It's more than a lifestyle." by Danielle Buckingham. BlackJoy x Reckon
• Dream Singers: The African American Way with Dreams by Anthony Shafton
• "God Visits Me in a Dream" by Danielle Buckingham. Black Femme Collective.
• "What the Earth Carries" by Danielle Buckingham. Raising Mothers.
• "Episode 202: Reclaiming My Dream" Leah Nicole Whitcomb. Dreaming in Color with Nancy B. Price. 

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We're back y'all! For our Season 6 premiere, we're talking about how we conjure alternate realities in our writing. We discuss the documented gaps in the historical lives of Black people, our resistance to writing about the past, as well as how to honor our ancestor's stories. We think about the timelessness of the South, the optimism in current afroftuturist work, and the purpose of dystopian stories. 

RESOURCES

• Long Division (revised) by Kiese Laymon
• I am - Daily Affirmations App
• Love, Lizzo (documentary)
• "The Limitations of the Slave Narrative Collection" 
• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler
• "Reclaiming Our Time" by Julia Mallory 
• "You Will Know Your Tribe by Their Joy" by Julia Mallory
• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• Earthseed: The Complete Series by Octavia Butler

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In this episode, we go over our Spotify Wrapped, recap our personal highs and lows of 2022, and discuss our hopes for 2023.

RESOURCES

• Levar Burton Reads podcast
• WNBA Authentic Voices Fellowship
• Courage to Write Grant
• "Sometimes It Works Out but Sometimes It Don't" Leah's newsletter.
• "These Black Witches Are More Magical Than Halloween Myths Would Have You Believe." MadameNoire. Leah Nicole Whitcomb
• "Won't You Celebrate Yourself" Leah's Newsletter

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Let's get real about therapy! Dr. Money joins us to discuss "Ep 27 When Therapy is Not Enough." We get into Black Femininst Narrative Therapy, what it is, and how Dr. Money uses it in her practice. We discuss systemic suffering masquerading as mental illness, the ethics of involuntary hospitalization, and how everyone thinks they're sicker than they actually are. Dr. Money also answers your listener questions!

Dr. Montinique "Money" McEachern (her/she) is a Black lesbian healer with her own practice, Combahee Therapy, based in what is now called Philadelphia, but is the original home of the Lenape people. She is the oldest child of her momma, and grew up surrounded with the stories of Black women, so it is no surprise that her therapeutic approach merges Black feminism and Narrative Therapy. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has a PhD in MFT as well. When she's not therapizing, she is hosting QueerWOC: The Podcast, a podcast for the social and mental wellbeing of sapphics of color.

RESOURCES

• "EP 27 When Therapy Is Not Enough"
• "The Combahee River Collective Statement" PDF
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. Dr. Joy DeGruy
• The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
• "Session 271: Being Mindful About How We Use Mental Health Terminology." Therapy for Black Girls
• "Ep 107: Twenty Twenty DONE." QueerWOC
• What's Your Grief Podcast
• Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
• "Ep 112: Take a Mental Health Day." QueerWOC
• "Ep 108: Do it for the Dopamine." QueerWOC
• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
• Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by bell hooks
• Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua

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It's the end of the world...as we know it. We talk with Cherise Morris about her work, our anxieties and frustrations around the end of the world, and the hope we need to build a better future.

Cherise Morris is an award-winning writer, interdisciplinary performance artist, ritualist, spirit worker and healer born and raised in rural Virginia and living in Detroit, MI.

RESOURCES

• "MEMO: It's Almost the End of the World" Substack. Cherise Morris.
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• "The End of the World" Substack. Leah Nicole Whitcomb
• "MEMO: We are Living" Substack. Cherise Morris.
• Cherise Morris Patreon

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In this episode we're joined by the lovely Sirene Wata. We discuss African water spirits and deities, water as a tool of enslavement and liberation, and the many ways water has showed up in our lives, writing and work.

CONTENT WARNING: Mention of Suicidal Ideation 19:25-21:22

Sirene Martin is a multimedia artist hailing from south central Kentucky. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Pan-African Studies from the University of Louisville with an emphasis in Gender and Sexuality studies. In her art, Sirene seeks to be in conversation with the ancestral spirits that hold her. These conversations act as a portal as she travels into the creative space to conjure worlds and realities that are often refused to her in the material world as a Black Transgender Woman. As a Hoodoosaint, she is a historian and archivist. Recording and caring for the stories of her ancestors, her art elevates the rich Root culture and religions of the Black folks that made Kentucky their home.

RESOURCES

• American Horror Stories Installment 2, Episode 5
• "Ep. 52 Black is King!" A Little Juju Podcast
• Bite Size Halloween
• Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson
• "Ep 16: We Perfect Black with Crystal Wilkinson" Hoodoo Plant Mamas
• "Water" by Joy Postell

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In this epsiode, we discuss non-traditional, community, and personal altars. We get into how our relationships with our altars have changed over time as well as the offerings we can give to our ancestors and to our community.

RESOURCES

• Hess Love's Altar Tweet
• "Divinity in Disability with Jade T. Perry" A Little Juju Podcast
• "Ancestor Demons?" Hoodoo Plant Mamas
• "HOW TO SET UP AN ANCESTRAL ALTAR" Ehime Ora

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CONTENT WARNNING // SEXUAL ASSAULT

Hey y'all! For our Season 5 premiere, we tackle sex, relationships, and romance under capitalism. We get into how capitalism ruins everything, how romance should be fulfilled by communities instead of individuals., and how our friends are our lovers.

References

• "Nine Ways That Capitalism Is Ruining Sex" by Breanne Fahs. Boston Review
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
• Ismatu  Gwendolyn "Friends are Lovers" TikTok

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It's our season finale and we wanted to end it by talking about our inner child/teen healing. We get into what initiated  our healing, what our inner child/teen needs from us, and the fact that this work is lifelong.

Visions of the Evolution: The Revolution Will Be Magical is a film and a ritual! It’s a prayer, a spell and an invocation that opens us all to the transformations we need to make to bring forth the revolution that will birth a more just, loving and equitable future. Find more information on Cherise's Kickstarter: http://kck.st/3O7XuVO

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In this episode, we discuss call-out culture on social media and whether it's effective in holding people accountable for their words and actions. We also tackle Black leaders, elitism among Black academics, tussling with Gen Z, and how to hold space for young people who are still learning.

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