Audre Lorde defines homophobia as “the fear of feelings of love for members of one’s own sex and therefore the hatred of those feelings in others” in her piece Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving. Episode 8 is about the intersectionality of Blackness and queerness.  

Khadi talks about The Crown Act and our relationship as Black women with hair. 

Juneteenth and why we, as a community, should all celebrate it. 

In the Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self Recovery, Bell Hooks tells us to choose our wellness and happiness over the many systems, oftentimes institutional, that tell us to abandon them. On Monday, June 21, 2021, Naomi Osaka did just that. 

Symbols and visualization techniques are two powerful tools that can improve self-esteem, confidence, and the quality of one's growth and healing.  Listen to hear how co-host, Khadi, uses them in her journey. 

Our values are essential to our being. They help us understand how we see ourselves and others. In this episode of Sisters Who Followed the Yam, co-hosts Khadi and Taqqiyah discuss how their newly identified values allowed them to stop living in crisis and start living in authenticity. 

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." This episode is about transformation. Listen to hear about the events that led to Khadi and Taqqiyah's decision to live more fulfilling lives in uncomplicated and joyful ways.

Meet co-hosts, Khadi and Taqqiyah. Two women in self-recovery.