Raising Rebels

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Raising Rebels episodes

October 08, 2020 Parenting from afar (with Asad!)
This week we're talking parenting when we are physically apart from our children. We discuss surrendering control, confronting our ego, and how to remain present--no matter the distance. Our guest is a friend of the pod and Noleca's god brother, Asad.
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49 min
October 03, 2020 How you going to play if you can't get dirty?
The relationship between black families and the great outdoors, with Gillianne Roberts educator, activist and mother.
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45 min
September 24, 2020 On Beauty (with Ola Ronke!)
This week we’re talking about beauty: what makes us feel beautiful, how to make our children feel beautiful. We get into all the complications of living in a world where our black and brown children often aren’t celebrated for their beauty and are made to feel other. Our guest is friend of the pod (and Noleca’s Friend Crush!) Ola Ronke, artist, set designer and founder of The Free Black Women’s Library. Find her on Patreon HERE and support her work!
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37 min
September 17, 2020 The known unknown (with Carvell Wallace!)
This week, our dear dear friend Carvell Wallace joins us for another conversation about the future. Check out his episode from last season, if you haven't already! Carvell is a New York Times Bestselling author, memoirist, and award-winning podcaster who covers race, arts, culture, film and music for a wide variety of news outlets. He has a new podcast out right now called "Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America."
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49 min
September 10, 2020 How to unschool your children and yourself (with Tiersa McQueen!)
We’re ALL figuring out how to educate our children during the pandemic. It can be overwhelming and scary, and sometimes it feels like we’re all alone as parents, trying to make it work. This week, Tiersa McQueen (follow her @tiersaj!) joins us to share her wisdom and experiences with unschooling her four children, and why she’ll never go back to the traditional model of schooling.

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1 hr
September 03, 2020 Death is stupid (with Randie and Mikey from Black Millennial Marriage!)
Many of us have experienced and are experiencing tragic loss in this time of pandemic. In this episode, we're joined by Randie and Mikey Chapman, the hosts of our FAVORITE podcast, the Black Millennial Marriage podcast. We talk about death, loss, grief and all that comes with it.
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1 hr
August 27, 2020 “You don’t have to earn rest” (with Tricia Hersey of The Nap Ministry!)
This interview was one of our all-time favorites. Tricia Hersey is the founder of The Nap Ministry, a revolutionary organization that examines the liberating power of naps. Tricia teaches us how rest is a form of resistance & reparations, and how naps are portals to other dimensions. Plus, Blu discovers the wonder of naps!
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1 hr
August 20, 2020 Hella schoolish (with Akilah Richards!)
This week we’re joined by the incredible Akilah Richards, who is in the vanguard of the deschooling and unschooling movements. Our understanding of education has been turned upside down during this time of pandemic and revolution. Traditional education is becoming an unviable option for many families. So what is deschooling, and how can it help liberate our children? Akilah shows us the way, and shares how she started on her journey to unschool her children.
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1 hr 2 min
August 13, 2020 Imagining a new reality (with Matika Wilbur!)
Welcome to Season 3 of Raising Rebels! We’re so happy to be back. Today we’re joined by Matika Wilbur. Matika is a visual storyteller from the Swinomish and Tulalip peoples of coastal Washington, for the past five years has been traveling and photographing Indian Country in pursuit of one goal: To Change the Way We See Native America. Matika and Noleca talk about the future, and imagining a new reality for ourselves and our children.
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55 min
August 05, 2020 RR SEASON 3: Survival Pending Revolution
We're so excited to share Season 3 with you on August 13th. So much has happened since we were last together. Pandemic, uprising, climate change, displacement, concentration camps....and so much more. And through it all, we're finding creative and loving ways to raise our children. Join us for Season 3 as we reimagine a new future together.
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3 min