Junauda Petrus-Nasah is a writer, a soul sweetener, runaway witch, and performance artist of Black-Caribbean descent, born and working on Dakota land aka Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work centers around wildness, queerness, Black-diasporic-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, shimmer, and liberation. Her first YA novel, The Stars and The Blackness Between Them received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award. She is currently working on several projects including her second novel Black Circus, a puppet show, and writing for film.

Resources

• The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
• Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good edited by Adrienne Maree Brown
• Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming by Antonio Michael Downing

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• A Little Juju Podcast
• Juju Bae Website, Instagram, TikTok and Patreon
• "Beyonce took me to the river (an ode to lemonade)" by JujuBae
• "she who sees" by JujuBae
• Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
• Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malidoma Patrice Somé
• The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings in the Ways by Sobonfu Somé
• African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison by K. Zauditu-Selassie
• "the light that came to lucille clifton" by Lucille Clifton

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Nadia Alexis is a poet and photographer born in Harlem, NYC to Haitian immigrants and she is currently based in Oxford, Mississippi. Her poetry has been published in Indiana Review, MQR: Mixtape, Shenandoah, and others. Her poetry has also been anthologized in Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems and Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary American Poetry and Prose. Her photography publications include Forgotten Lands, MQR: Mixtape, TORCH Journal, MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, 2019 honorable mention poetry prize winner of Hurston/Wright College Writers Award, 2020 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography award nominee, and 2020 semifinalist of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. She is also a fellow of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and The Watering Hole. Her photographs have been shown in several exhibitions in the U.S. and Cuba, and she was mentored by Carrie Mae Weems in an independent scholars fellowship program for early-career artists and art historians of color. She is currently an English - Creative Writing Concentration Ph.D. student at the University of Mississippi where she studies and teaches Black literature.

Resources

• Nadia Alexis website
• Instagram: @nadialovestocreate
• Pre-order Wild Imperfections: An Anthology of Womanist Poems 
• “Language", “Knees,” “Thunder,” “Lament,” and “Aubade After the Storm” Mud Season Review
• “Watershed,” “Nocturne,” and “A Horse’s Arrival,” Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape
• "Suppose You Failed to Cover Your Mouth & So Evil Spirits Flew Out of Your Body,” in Indiana Review
• “Cantaloupe” and “Letter to My Friend Robert,” Shenandoah
• Ezili Dantor
• "What Endures" photography series by Nadia Alexis
• "The Spirit that Resides" Carrie Mae Weems
• CCADI "On Protest and Mourning"

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Shayla Lawz is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Jersey City, NJ. She works at the intersection of text, sound, and performance and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Jack Jones Literary Arts, The Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP), and The Digital Studies Center at Rutgers-Camden (DiSC). She holds a BA in English from Rutgers University and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. Her writing and hybrid/sound work appear in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Catapult, and The Poetry Project, among others. Her debut poetry collection “speculation, n.” was chosen by Ilya Kaminsky for the 2020 Autumn House Poetry Prize. She lives in Brooklyn, NY where she teaches in the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute.

Resources:

• "speculation, n" Pre-Order
• Shayla's Website
• Twitter & Instagram: @shaylalawz
• "& when the spaceship comes for ____________, i want to go with them: ON HARMONY HOLIDAY, DOUGLAS KEARNEY & JONAH MIXON-WEBSTER" by Shayla Lawz
• Erykah Badu, Missy Elliott, Sade
• The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill
• Long Live the Angels and Real Life by Emeli Sande
• PHO EP and Shea Butter Baby by Ari Lennox
• A Seat at the Table and When I Get Home by Solange
• Songs in A Minor by Alicia Keys
• My Life by Mary J. Bliges
• lately i feel EVERYTHING and ARDIPITHECUS by Willow Smith
• HEAVN by Jamila Woods
• CTRL by SZA
• Saturn by NAO

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Hari Ziyad is a screenwriter, the editor-in-chief of RaceBaitr, and the bestselling author of Black Boy Out of Time (Little A). Previously, they were the managing editor of Black Youth Project and a script consultant on David Makes Man (OWN), and they are currently a writer at CBS.

Resources

• Black Boy Out of Time by Hari Ziyad
• "My gender is Black" by Hari Ziyad

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Hess is a family advocate, co-found of the Chesapeake Conjure Society, and community-appointed Hoodoo Historian/Griot. They write about intimate politics, you can find their work on RaceBaitr, Black Youth Project, Wear Your Voice Mag, Brown Girls Out Loud, AfroPunk, Romper, and Medium. You can find them online “politicking” about Blackness, Hoodoo, History, Feminism, Motherhood, Queerness, Food, Books, Sex and Humor.

Resources

• Chesapeake Conjure Society
• Writing in the Hoodoo Tradition Workshop Series
• "raised to break" by Hess Love
• "crab cakes" by Hess Love
• Fatphobia Twitter thread
• Tina McElroy Ansa, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Langston Hughes, Angela Davis, and Ishmael Reed
• The Haunting of Hip Hop by Bertice Berry
• Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black America by Theophus H. Smith
• Big Mama Stories by Shay Youngblood
• The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
• Black Women Are Scary podcast
• The Moonlit Road podcast

WRITING PROMPT

Go to the cemetery. (Cover your head with a light or white fabric.) Find a gravestone you feel called to. Research the person's life and write a paragraph, story, or poem.

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Crystal Wilkinson, Kentucky’s Poet Laureate, is the award-winning author of Perfect Black, The Birds of Opulence , Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries. She is the recipient of a 2021 O. Henry Prize, a 2020 USA Artists Fellowship, and a 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. Nominated for the John Dos Passos Award, the Orange Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, she has received recognition from the Yaddo Foundation, Hedgebrook, The Vermont Studio Center for the Arts, Hedgebrook, and others. Her short stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including most recently in The Kenyon Review, STORY, Agni Literary Journal, Emergence, Oxford American and Southern Cultures.  Her fourth book Perfect Black was released from University Press of Kentucky in August 2021. She currently teaches at the University of Kentucky where she is Associate Professor of English in the MFA in Creative Writing Program.

This episode is sponsored by Moyo Mysteries. Moyo Mysteries offers spiritual consultations, pelvic steam plans, and full-spectrum birthwork services, from fertility and birth & labor to loss & bereavement and abortion work. Moyo Mysteries also offers a variety of educational projects and upcoming trainings. To learn more, you can visit www.moyomysteries.org. 

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Julia Mallory is the author of six books, including two children’s books. Her latest book Survivor's Guilt is an archive of survivorship that chronicles generational grief through photographs, poetry, and prose. In addition, she is the founder of the creative brand, Black Mermaids, serves as the Senior Poetry Editor for Raising Mothers, and hosts the Stop Shrinking Socialcast. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @thejuliamallory.

RESOURCES

• www.thejuliamallory.com
• www.blackmermaids.com
• Survivor's Guilt by Julia Mallory
• "The Concise Catalog of Deep Grief Objects" by Julia Mallory
• "Juneteenth Reflections: Grief Work is Freedom Work" Black Youth Project Contributors
• The Burial of Kojo

This episode is sponsored by Guided Cycles. Guided Cycles offers Death Transitioning services, End of Life Planning, Grief Facilitation work, and Bedside & Community Vigils. Guided Cycles also offers a variety of educational projects and upcoming trainings. To learn more, you can visit www.guidedcycles.org. Also, follow on Facebook and Instagram under the name, Guided Cycles.

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Resources

• "The Spirit Writing of Lucille Clifton" by Marina Magloire
• How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton by Lucille Clifton, Aracelis Girmay (Editor)
• Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton
• Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women by Akasha Gloria Hull 

Black Writers to Explore: Lucille Clifton, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Gayle Jones, Sonia Sanchez, Zora Neale Hurston, June Jordan, Gloria Naylor, Octavia Butler, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Dolores Kendrick, Sherley Anne Williams, Ntozake Shane, SDiane Bogus, Tina McElroy Ansa, Shirley Jackson-Opoku, Jewelle Gomez, A.J. Verdelle, Devora Major, Phyllis Alesia Perry

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It's our season finale, and we're joined by Kentucky writer and dating columnist Minda Honey. We answer all your dating questions so you can start your hot girl summer right. 

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