OVERexpressed & OUT

O&O returns to Season One's Jacinta White, who fills us in on "so much goodness".

Tune in to OVERexpressed & OUT’s chat with poet Jacinta V. White, founder of the The Word Project and Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing.

Check out I Tried Not to Write, an anthology celebrating Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing (featuring OVERexpressed & OUT co-host Jenny Burkholder!).

And join Jacinta and others for weekly Mourning Pages—a free collective space to write, reflect, and process grief.

Roseanne and Jenny chat the post-treatment hangover, port patency & MLK Jr. Day of Service.

At Abington Friends School King Day of Service and Social Justice Symposium, one of the community service opportunities was to make care cups for The Breathing Room Foundation.

The Breathing Room Foundation “provides care and support to families affected by cancer and strives to provide families with a bit of ‘breathing room’ from their daily struggle.”

“This Little Light of Mine,” lyrics by Henry Loes, adapted by Zilphia Horton, sung by all in attendance, led by Justin Solonynka

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Over the course of the next few months, Jenny & Roseanne will be producing Season Three of OVERexpressed & OUT. Like Season One & Two, Season Three’s guests promise to be insightful and inspiring.

In the meantime, stay tuned to OVERexpressed & OUT’s Substack for special features, photos, prompts, and reflections.

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Antoinette M. Coward-Gilmore is the Founder, CEO and Artistic Director of Danse4Nia, Philadelphia’s premiere arts organization that is the home to professional project-based dance company Phoenix Danse, youth dance company Nia-Next and arts education/ performing arts training program Danse4Nia Conservatory. A native Philadelphian, Coward-Gilmore began her dance training in 1985 at The New Freedom Theatre founded by John E. Allen Jr. and Robert E. Leslie Sr. under the dance direction of Patricia Scott Hobbs and later, continued her studies at the Franklin Learning Center under Master Lester Horton Technique Teacher, the late Faye B. Snow. She later earned a BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts and an MA in Dance Education and Performance from the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. As a dancer who was the last generation of LEJA Dance Theatre in Philadelphia and briefly a member of Philadanco II, Coward-Gilmore was a founding company member of Philadelphia’s Eleone Dance Theatre before moving to New York to dance with the Forces of Nature Dance Theatre Company touring nationally and internationally. Coward-Gilmore is a seasoned choreographer who has choreographed for The Philadelphia Theatre Company, Camden Repertory Theatre, recording artist Kashiash, Prince Music Theatre’s Rainbow Company/ Youth Arts In Action and countless youth, dance and arts programs. She has taught at Harlem School of the Arts, Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, Norfolk State University, University of the Arts, Coppin State University, Grambling State University, Temple University and currently teaching artist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and adjunct dance faculty at Drexel University since 2010. Notably, she is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the Actor’s Equity Association, Dance Scholars Association, the International Association of Blacks In Dance, Collegium of African Dance On The Diaspora, Women of Color in the Arts, Dance Studies Association and she serves as chair for the Social Justice Committee of the Pennsylvania Dance Educators Organization (PaDEO).

Perry Zimmerman is a five-time cancer survivor and a childhood cancer advocate. She was born with genetic retinoblastoma, developed a related brain tumor when she was two, an osteosarcoma in her leg at eleven, another osteosarcoma in her shoulder at eighteen, and a thyroid cancer at twenty.

She has raised almost 5 million dollars for Cycle for Survival, a rare cancer fundraiser based out of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, since 2009 and continues raising this money in hope and anticipation of groundbreaking research and drug development.

Outside of raising money through Cycle for Survival, Perry uses her Instagram (@perryzimm33) as a platform to raise awareness for childhood cancer and to share her story.

She graduated from Lafayette College in May 2023 and is looking for a career giving back to childhood cancer patients, being someone they can lean on during tough times.

Jacqui Bauers is a licensed massage therapist who has been practicing massage therapy for 15 years. She has worked with adults and children and specializes in oncology massage. Currently, she is part of the Integrative Health Team at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, working with children going through cancer treatment.

She has also worked with Unite For Her as a provider of oncology massage for breast and ovarian cancer patients and has been involved with many of Living Beyond Breast Cancer’s events for the breast cancer community.

Along with her massage work, she is also the founder of Joint Joint, a company that produces organic, full spectrum hemp, CBD balm and other topicals to soothe aches and promote stress relief. It is her passion to help people find their way to feeling good through advancing the role of integrative therapies in medical care and by sharing her love of plant based medicine via Joint Joint’s products.

Joint Joint products are being used on cancer patients struggling with neuropathy at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Hospital. The director of palliative care was given a sample by a patient who already had experience with the product. He got in touch and stated that he found Joint Joint to be significantly better than other topicals he has tried from dispensaries in his travels. They have consistently ordered Joint Joint for use on patients struggling with neuropathy for over a year now.

More recently, Penn Medicine’s Head and Neck surgery office has purchased samples Joint Joint multiple times to give to patients, as part of a cancer survivorship program. Initially, a nurse practitioner in the office was given a sample by someone on her team, and she found it to be effective for soothing some of the side effects of treatment for head and neck cancers.

Individuals trying to cope with the effects of cancer treatment have provided feedback as well. For example, recently a woman contacted Joint Joint to explain she has severe neuropathy from her ovarian cancer treatment. She shared that Joint Joint’s balm is the only thing that helps her cope with it and gives her enough relief to do her daily activities.

Janice Hayes-Cha creates vibrant, mixed media collages from recycled greeting cards, a technique she devised while recovering from cancer. Her work has depth and texture, and reveals surprises for the astute observer. She loves to capture the complexity of iconic places in both her hometown of Boston, where she lives now, and her second love, Philadelphia, where she lived for five years.

Janice is a recipient of two Leeway Foundation Art and Change grants, has exhibited and won awards in numerous juried exhibitions, has permanent installations in numerous medical and corporate settings including Boston Children’s Hospital and Einstein Medical Center.

Her work can be found on www.janicehayescha.com.

Welcome to Season Two of OVERexpressed & OUT! In Season Two Reflections, Jenny & Roseanne share their insights on their guests' messages of transformation, focus and discipline, and healing.

OVERexpressed & OUT takes you on an outing that outs amazing women and their outward expression of healing.

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