QueerWOC

Money and Nikeeta are back this week talking rules around posting baes on social media. Money is annoyed that Sam J ruined one of her favorite pods, so her mental moment is a long but helpful one on how to tell if therapy is working. Nikeeta puts us up on Charlene Mitchell - the first Black woman to run for president of the US. We celebrate

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha as QueerPOC of the week.

Intro by TRUTH of Mother Nature. If you love the intro, listen to their new album here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/0KWoevXqscd4eMWNZpodAE?si=l67fMsjnQUOKuZ89QtCZzA

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QueerWOC of the Week 00:07:50

Queer disabled femme writer, organizer, performance artist and educator Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Community Contributors 00:17:28

Diedrick, Della

Small Town Shout outs - HOL ON now Mt. Holly?!?! we need a meetup cos i thought i was the only queer out here lmao

Biloxi, MS / Pompton Lakes, NJ / Portland, / Brownsburg, IN

Mental Moment with Money 00:48:40

5 ways to know therapy is working & 5 things you should do to make sure it does work

Word 01:04:50

Charlene Mitchel 1968 Presidential Run -

https://www.aaihs.org/a-black-woman-communist-candidate-charlene-mitchells-1968-presidential-campaign/

2004 interview with Lisa Brook from ‘No Easy Victories’ http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int04_mitchell.php

Mentions Charlene’s efforts to help free Angela Davis https://cpusa.org/article/a-forthright-stand-communists-in-the-struggle-for-black-lives/

Charlene Mitchell on electoral law barriers (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OelrpQEEm94

Topic 01:35:00

Relationships and Social Media

Curved Chronicle 01:50:00

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What up yall! Money is all moved in to the West Coast and Nikeeta is Covid Free in Syracuse! Our Friendship survived a cross country move, now lets see if it survives being bicoastal >_<

We celebrate Princess The Doll as #QueerWOC of the week for knocking a transphobe on his ass, Money recommends artists to bring joy back to your timeline, Nikeeta shares her list of small joys, and we remind each other of the power of friendship.

Where to find us:

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QueerWOC of the Week: 00:07:20

Princess Da Doll @prettti.est

22 year old Black trans woman from DC who knocked out a transphobe!

Community Contributors: 00:17:15

Shoutout to the new patrons : hector, tim, karimah, aakanksha, lena, alexia, emma, erma, celisha

On the cashapp: M. Martinez, diamond, jazmine, hannah

Borders are Fake Shout outs: taos, NM / Moscow / mount holly, nj/

New Review

Shake my pom pom

9 Podcasts from Black Creators to Stream Right Now

https://greatist.com/connect/black-podcasts

Mental Moment with Money 00:25:10

Instagram artists to follow to brighten the timeline

@Iam.muse

@ThingsByBettyB

@ohsnapitsalexandras_art

@RobinEisenberg

@BlackGeekMagic

@UzoTheArtist

@Mawhyah

Word 00:52:50

Nikeeta’s all tapped out this Leftest Lesbian Luminary Labor Lecture… but Money has some Marxist book recommendations

Topic: 00:57:55

What small things make days feel possible for you? Our friendship it definitely one for both of us!

Curved Chronicle: 01:26:05

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Money and Nikeeta are co-quarantining and if our friendship survives this, so will the podcast! Money gives music recommendations to help our mood. Nikeeta gives us #DefundThePolice pt. II. We talk reality TV and highlight artist, organizer, and anarchist Sima Lee as QueerWOC of the Week.

Intro by TRUTH of Mother Nature. If you love the intro, listen to their new album here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/0KWoevXqscd4eMWNZpodAE?si=l67fMsjnQUOKuZ89QtCZzA

Where to find us:

IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod a ffsuRDz quick qqqqqqq is a y

FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/

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QueerWOC of the Week: 00:04:46

Hip Hop artist, organizer, and anarchist Sima Lee @simaleerbg

Check out Sima’s interview with Jared Ball here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ60w3dZius

Check out her music here: https://simalee.bandcamp.com/

More on the Maroon House Movement: https://www.facebook.com/MaroonMovement/

Community Contributors: 00:11:40

Shoutout to the new patrons : Pepps, Raina, Anya, Pamela, Megan, Loren, & Clitty Cat

On the cashapp: Jennifer & Elise

Borders are Fake Shout outs: Indianapolis, IN/ Summerville, SC / Port Wentworth, GA

New Reviews

DandelionDoodle and JennyPaper

Mental Moment with Money 00:15:50

Music for Melancholy

These are the albums and artists that have been helping me through this rough patch.

Mood has such an impact on our interpersonal relationships (which is why I tend to isolate) and music has such an impact on our mood. A study published in the Journal of affective disorders in 1995 by Bouhuys et al explored this. They played sad songs for 24 people who did not suffer from any kind of mood disorder and 12 (thats HALF) showed substantial differences in experienced depression after listening to the sad music. They perceived more rejection from “neutral” faces and rated faces overall more sad/angry, perceiving this sadness/anger as directed at them. They also perceived less invitation and happiness in faces than they had before listening to the music.

They Say I’m Different - Betty Davis

Chasing Summer - SiR

To Myself - Baby Rose

Suga (Deluxe) - Kyle Dion

Black Fantastic - Black Fantastic

Word 00:32:50

Nikeeta’s Leftest Lesbian Luminary Labor Lecture

Defund the police: part deux

Here’s the thread from Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta/status/1285691409123749894?s=20

Here’s a free PDF copy of No Shortcuts by Jane McAlevey https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2057&context=gc_etds

Topic: 01:04:20

What reality TV Show or competition would you create?

Curved Chronicle: 01:23:20

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Ep 89: #DefundthePolice

Money and Nikeeta sound like they're in a wind tunnel, but thats just them fanning the flames of liberation and healing! Money created an acronym to help us heal from triggers - STRAW. Nikeeta uses Syracuse as a case study for why the police need to be defunded and our youth need to be funded! We highlight queer rock climber Abby Dione as QueerWOC of the week and talk small joys while avoiding the 'Vid-19.

Intro by TRUTH of Mother Nature. If you love the intro, listen to their new album here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/0KWoevXqscd4eMWNZpodAE?si=l67fMsjnQUOKuZ89QtCZzA

Where to find us:

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QueerWOC of the Week: 00:08:21

Rock climber Abby Dione [source Melanin Base Camp]

Abby is the first Black woman to own a rock climbing gym in the United States, Coral Cliffs in Broward County Florida.

Donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-coral-cliffs?utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link-tip

https://www.melaninbasecamp.com/trip-reports/2018/7/21/abby-dione-is-the-first-black-woman-in-the-us-to-own-an-indoor-rock-climbing-gym

Community Contributors: 00:14:11

Shoutout to the new patrons : Brazil,

On the cashapp: Raven, M. Martinez

Borders are Fake Shout outs: Lawrenceville, GA/ Las Vegas, NV/Seneca, SC/ Perth, Australia/ Climax, NC

New Reviews

MelloMaia, MadVivacious (love you homie!)

Mental Moment with Money 00:23:26

Healing triggers: Dr. Money’s STRAW method

Triggers are not the same as things that cause negative emotional responses

NER - This makes me feel emotions I dont want to feel

Trigger - This makes me feel overwhelming emotions i dont have the capacity to handle

NER - I feel bad, but I can think of something that will make me feel better

Trigger - I feel bad and Ive lost all sense of what I need

NER - I feel bad and I know what caused it

Trigger - Idk what I feel and Im so thrown off I dont know what caused this

See what they are! - [Listen to ep 22] whip out ur journal and write down things that elicit overwhelming emotional responses

Track the origin - Triggers collapse space and time. Where did this one originate? Can u think of the earliest traumatic experience you had related to that thing?

Reprogram/undo - If-then thinking, how did this trigger generalize? Tell yourself truths about the negative thoughts. Can you think of things u can use to manage this trigger?

Act as If - do with support! If this wasnt a trigger, I would….

Work with Therapist/Allied Professional - you need someone sensitive to trauma processes to help ground you so that you are not retraumatized.

Word 00:52:43

Defund 12. Remember children: You are our future and #ACAB

Here is the #DefundThePolice toolkit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UhlRbXOrSYUevkm2F0MBDKBqWOnEkhnX/view?usp=sharing

How do Police Actually Spend Their TIme - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/upshot/unrest-police-time-violent-crime.html

Topic: 01:26:53

Small joys we've discovered through quarantine

Curved Chronicle: 01:45:40

Send us your curved chronicles to [email protected]

Ep 88: Rich Nigga Nutcracka

Money and Nikeeta wind down Pride 2020 with Hanifah and Red from Ya Gay Aunties. In this episode, Money is still in her Black roller skatin' bag and highlights queer fat black skater, Courtney Shove, we all lovingly rag on the West Coast, we do a queer potpourri and get the Aunties' takes on Da Brat coming out, the new Supreme Court ruling around LGBT worker protections, talk Raven Symone's marriage, and we wrap it up with the aunties giving us a strong talkin' to about these tragic dating app! It's a fun jam packed episode!

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WHERE CAN YOU FIND THE AUNTIES?

IG & Twitter -@YaGayAunties

Listen to their show here: https://soundcloud.com/yagayaunties

Catch them on YouTube too: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDZTyLDM1YM7J68eosU_PXw

Support them by becoming patrons: https://www.patreon.com/yagayaunties

Venmo @B909creative

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QueerWOC of the Week: 00:6:30

Artist, Skater, and Image Activist Courtney Shove @fat_girl_has_moxi

She’s a member of the Moxi Skate team - which btw you should use her code “SHOVE” on moxiskates.com to support a Black queer woman if ur shopping skating things

You can also support her by shopping her etsy shop for cute fat Black girl skate stickers and prints: https://www.etsy.com/shop/fatgirlhasmoxi

See more of Shove here:

http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-trailblazer-courtney-shove/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNHebmgDQH8&t=5176s

Community Contributors: 00:19:48

Shoutout to the new patrons : Hannah, Toby, Bravo, Frances, Kandace, Tanya, Linnea, Liza

Dalia Reupped

On the cashapp: Kristian

Borders are Fake Shout outs: West Jordan, UT / Rohnert Park, CA / New Paltz, NY / Lambertville, NJ / (shout out to Vancouver, Ya’ll not small but haven’t been in the top cities before so yay!)

Topic: 00:31:15

Ya Gay Aunties! - Queer Potpourri

Supreme court ruling - https://www.npr.org/2020/06/15/863498848/supreme-court-delivers-major-victory-to-lgbtq-employees

Raven-Symoné marries Miranda Maday

Da Brat comes out after 25 years of fame! (take ya time sis) - https://www.essence.com/celebrity/da-brat-coming-out/

Curved Chronicle: 01:12:40

Hanifah, Red, Money and Nikeeta give ‘Judy’ their thoughts about a curved chronicle--or maybe it’s more like a pothole!--about navigating dating apps.

Send us your curved chronicles to [email protected]

Where to find us:

IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod

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Listen to us on Soundcloud, Stitcher, Castbox, PocketCasts

Ya Gay Aunties:

IG & Twitter - @YaGayAunties

Listen to them on Soundcloud, Apple Podcast, Spotify

Previous convo btwn QueerWOC & YaGayAunties - https://soundcloud.com/yagayaunties/episode-28-guests-nikeeta-and-monie-from-queer-woc-pod

The New York Times feature: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/arts/5-pride-BLM-podcasts.html

Mariame Kaba's op ed on Police Abolition: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/opinion/letters/police-race-unrest.html

Mariame Kaba's twitter: @prisonculture

Money and Nikeeta are weekly for Pride month 2020! On this bonus episode, we talk about the largest action Nikeeta has ever helped organize. We also sort through white lesbian foolishness on Twitter and talk queer women and masculinity. Nikeeta is a dainty daddy and Money is a low femme with aggressive tendencies.

Where to find us:

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QueerWOC of the Week: 00:07:55

Freelance Photographer, Grassroots organizer, and Trans Latinx community builder Jesse Pratt Lopez @jprattlopez.photo

cashapp: $jplopez22

venmo: @PaegeTurner (last 4 #s: 6590)

End violence against [Trans] sex workers by investing in their safety.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeless-black-trans-women-fund

Community Contributors: 00:17:23

New reviews from

Iya.domin (5star) Finally catching up!

CaliforniaDaydreamer (5star)

Dark girl in a milk world

Recommendations: “Betty” on HBO, Looking For Lorraine by Imani Perry, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus

Topic: 00:30:48

Nikeeta lit up the crowd of protestors in Syracuse last Saturday. Nikeeta and the rest of BLM Syracuse partnered with RAHA and Cuse Youth BLM to organize the largest demonstration against police violence this city has ever seen! Son only that, they educated thousands of people about getting cops out of schools and #DefundPolice

00:49:26

We also talk lesbian gender labels and why white twitter lesbians should consider shutting their twitter fingers up before trying to tell queer women of color what terms they can use to describe their gender presentation.

https://www.them.us/story/inqueery-butch

This is inspired by a twitter conversation around Roxane Gay referring to herself as a Bisexual Butch, and the white lesbians who were in their feelings about it. You can read the article, but its dated and ashy.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/13/t-magazine/butch-stud-lesbian.html

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold

https://bookshop.org/books/boots-of-leather-slippers-of-gold-the-history-of-a-lesbian-community-20th-anniversary/9781138785854

Stone Butch Blues [Ase to Leslie Feinberg]

https://lesliefeinberg.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Stone-Butch-Blues-by-Leslie-Feinberg.pdf

Curved Chronicle: None this episode so be sure to

Send us your curved chronicles to [email protected]

Money and Nikeeta are kicking off Pride month 2020 the best way they know how: with a jam packed new episode of QueerWOC!. Money shares 4 journal prompts inspired by one of Audre Lorde’s most well known diary entries. Nikeeta shares 10 @PrisonCulture suggestions for the movement to end police. We celebrate the nonpareil cultural powerhouse Grace Jones as QueerWOCof the Week and catch up with one another about what we’ve been up to in the times of COVID and Revolution.

Where to find us:

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QueerWOC of the Week: 00:10:42

Model, Singer, Actress, and Author (Beverly) Grace Jones

More on Grace

https://pitchfork.com/features/from-the-pitchfork-review/9708-as-much-as-i-can-as-black-as-i-am-the-queer-history-of-grace-jones/

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/20/grace-jones-i-cant-be-bought-people-hate-that-interview

Community Contributors: 00:26:23

Shoutout to the new patrons : Cee, Kaitlin, Janet, Delasha, Mona, Ayoola, and Tisha

On the cashapp: Natalia

Borders are Fake Shout outs: Kileen, TX; Lumberton, NC; & Cincinnati, OH

New Reviews

@alexlanemiller

Alex

Riza81

Mental Moment with Money 00:36:55

Self Preservation is an act of political warfare

Audre Lorde.

August 1987

Journal Prompts:

What is the difference between overextending yourself and growing?

What accomplishments have you forgotten to appreciate? What is joyful in your life?

Make a list of 5 things that felt satisfying this week

What ways are you working to save your life? How might that connect you to or save someone who shares an identity with you? That, is political warfare)

Word 00:58:22

https://thenewinquiry.com/summer-heat/

Topic: 01:32:42

We are actually best friends… wow!

Curved Chronicle: 01:41:40

Send us your curved chronicles to [email protected]

Ep 85:

Money is back with a new episode and new suggestions for navigating feeling crestfallen. Money talks collaging; shares 5 QTPOC efforts you should support; and reads a letter from a community contributor who needs help getting rid of a dildo.

Where to find us:

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QueerWOC of the Week: 00:06:53

Alice Wu, producer, writer and director of “The Half of It”. @ThatAliceWu

Not every love story is a romance. The Half of It. The film follows Chinese high schooler, Ellie Chu, who lives in the fictional white town of Squahamish with her father. She chooses to help a boy win her crush, local hottie Aster Flores, and teen hearts get broken—a classic teenage rom-com, but with a queer twist.

“If you dont have the word for something, how could you think that you are that thing?”

The Half of It has been nominated for the Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director, and at 50 years young this is also a huzzah that our wildest queer dreams can come true at any age!

Her signoff - Go queer nerdy asians!

More on Alice: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/05/01/848853718/what-alice-wu-wants-to-say-in-the-half-of-it

Community Contributors: 00:17:00

Shoutout to everyone who tuned in to hear me read erotica on IG live with @CreeIsAlesbian

Shoutout to the patrons who upped their pledges Christine and Martina upped her pledge (thank you!!!)

On the cashapp: Tanya, Bernadette, Tea the muse, Khiry, Ernestine, Sherri, Sami

Borders are Fake Shout outs: Wahiawa, HI; West Jordan, Utah; & Lompoc, CA

Mental Moment with Money 00:22:44

Collaging to Cure the Crestfallen

We been collaging!

Emotional Release

Intuitive collaging - you dont have to finish in one sitting!

No artistic skill required!

Affordable

Bypasses censoring mind

“Freedom is not a secret, it is a practice” - APG

What better way of imagining a new world than taking the beauty of the current one and creating something entirely new!

https://intuitivecreativity.typepad.com/expressiveartinspirations/2017/02/the-benefits-of-collage-therapy.html

Word 00:38:10

No word this episode, yall. Sorry!

Topic: 00:38:42

If you have it, here are some QPOC suggestions to donate to

For The Gworls: We raise money to assist w/ Black trans folks’ rent & affirmative surgeries | Venmo @ForTheGworlsParty

@1977books: Worker owned feminist bookstore in AL

MPJ Insititute: defend and protect the human rights of transgender and gender non conforming communities | https://marshap.org/donate/

@Blacklesbianrchives: The archives for lesbians to educate, build, and preserve our culture (also how I found out about Cree!)

@MontgomeryPride

Curved Chronicle: 00:47:48

Letter from Calendula

What to do with that strap you dont want? Do you throw away a perfectly good strap just because it was a gift from my ex girlfriend’s crush? Any bright ideas?

Send us your curved chronicles to [email protected]

Money is back solo podcasting with tips on keeping a conversation going. Don’t worry, you get your lesbian luminary liberationist labor lecture fix this episode too with a throwback word from Nikeeta on May Day from Ep. 40 “L words”. Money shares 3 podcasts that make her feel less alone and reads a letter from a community contributor who discovered snapchat sex tapes of their bae...TWICE!

Where to find us:

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QueerWOC of the Week: 00:04:36

Jewelle Gomez

Community Contributors: 00:12:08

Ramadan mubarak to all the Queer musilms in our community!!!

Shoutout to everyone who tuned in to hear me read erotica on IG live (Ari, TeaTheMuse, Aurien, Fille.noire.bavarde, Jo,

Shoutout to the New Patron Chai, Addis, Verde

Borders are Fake Shout outs: Claremont, CA; Brookville, OH: & High Point, NC

Mental Moment with Money 00:15:57

Dont Let ‘Rona Ruin Your Relationships! Ways to keep the conversation going while distance dating

Avoid the repetitive questions (How was your day, where are you from, what do you do)... instead, share, and hit them with the “what about you?”

Share a funny anecdote

Move it to the phone

Ask their advice on something their interested in

When all else fails change the subject

Take advantage of current events, special occasions, and/or holidays

Plan together (video dates,book clubs, watch parties)

If it aint a flow, let it go. Meaning, is it reciprocal, not is it easy

Word 00:30:58

Throwback Mayday word from Nikeeta on the roots of the real labor day

Topic: 00:50:30

I share 3 podcasts that have been helping me feel less alone

@MarshasPlate

@YaGayAunties

@JoyRevolution

Curved Chronicle: 00:55:52

Letter from community contributor who wants help after discovering her boyfriend made a snapchat sex tape... TWICE!

Submit your curved chronicles to [email protected]