*TW: Sexual abuse*

Women of colour are reclaiming their sexuality and I am all the way here for it! On this episode, @shinyeredavis & I discuss our earliest sexual experiences, being shamed for exploring ourselves, and the importance of healthy sexual relationships with others & self. This episode was a tough one for me to release because I briefly speak on sexual abuse, and my earliest sexual experiences. We also redefine “hoeism.” If sexual freedom and awareness and dressing however I please makes me a Hoe… SO BE IT! Our bodies have constantly been sexualized in so many ways but our bodies are NOT for public consumption. Sexuality liberated WOC are on the rise & it is a form of radical self love we are re-learning together.

On this episode, Shinyere Davis shares her experience with colorism by story telling.

A Goddess in every sense of the word but like many POC, Shinyere was directly affected by colorism. We explore her first hand experiences with it and particularly the effect it had on her relationship with self and others from a young age! Shinyere also reflects on a time where she began EMBRACING her natural beauty which she had been told to hide or down play early on in life.

Pearly and her husband highlight the importance of love languages on this mini Valentines Day EP. They reflect on how reading “The Five Love Languages” by Gary Chapman changed the way they send and receive love. Happy Love Day!

On this episode, Jessie Brar, a mental health advocate for Brown Girl Magazine and creator of The Mental Health Spotlight gets real about her mental health journey.

At the very beginning of the conversation she insisted that NOTHING was off limits, I was free to ask her anything. So we spoke on her struggle with suicidal thoughts, suffering in silence to becoming conscious and how she broke the cycle and made mental health a regular conversation in her household...

In retrospect we, as a community, need to talk more about these 'difficult' things. Talking is the cure to this illness.

Free of all roles and titles, I sat down with my mama, woman to woman to discuss her life experiences from growing up in Malaysia to becoming Canadian citizen and raising her children in a much more open minded society. In part 1 of this 2 part episode, we get a glimpse into the mind of an immigrant woman who embraced her children’s choices with an open mind and open heart.

On this episode, Pearly sits down with her husband to discuss finding their identity as people of colour, raising biracial children and how to navigate the commonly asked question... "WHAT ARE YOU?!".

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Resources:

https://reachyourzenith.wordpress.com/2018/10/02/the-instagram-account-changing-the-way-we-talk-about-race/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

- @askapoc is an Instagram account ran by Shakerah Penfold

https://medium.com/@KassidyCreates/the-responsibility-of-parents-of-mixed-race-children-ff7c6dc7b115