VisAbleBlackwoman

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Best series to binge watch in July The Bear FX

The Summer I Turned Pretty. Prime Video

Chloe. Prime Video

Ms. Marvel. Disney Plus

Physical Apple TV Plus

For All Mankind. Apple TV Plus

Stranger Things Netflix

P Valley. Start

Only Murders In the Building Hulu
Crime Noir & True Crime to Binge this Summer

Under the Banner of Heaven FX/Hulu

Candy. Hulu

My breakdown of the VR experiences I was able to participate in at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival

Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Kerri Kelly are changing the face of antiracism training and helping folks to learn how to deal with the systems of racial oppression that disconnect us from our joy.   

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My guest this week is online coach Alicia Archer. Alicia’s online coaching platform focuses on weight training, flexibility training coupled with nutrition that is accessible and easy to do.  I met Alicia when I was a member of Equinox health club in NYC. I loved taking her dance classes and have followed her throughout the pandemic on social media. We talk about how she blends her training in dance, acrobatics, circus arts, and weight training into an integrative coaching program that will rock your world. Sit back, relax and enjoy my conversation with online coach…Alicia Archer

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Alicia's Website: kinkysweatnyc.com

Thanks for listening to VisAbleBlackwoman The Podcast. My guest this week is Peloton yoga teacher Ross Rayburn. Ross has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and I first took his class back in the 2000s when he was leading yoga workshops in NYC.  The style of yoga he taught back then was based on Hatha yoga and focused on alignment breathwork and mental focus.  Ross Moved on to leading yoga on the Peloton app and in the past two and a half years has reached a global audience through his virtual classes.

Yoga with Ross for the past two years has given me the NYC yoga experience I’ve been missing since quarantine. The music the poses and Ross’s vast knowledge of the body from a structural perspective,  have allowed me to have access to consistent healing yoga practice at home. I literally roll out of bed onto my yoga mat and start my day grounded in a yoga practice grounded in love.  Ross generously said yes when I DM’d him on IG and asked if we could chat about his creativity.  The conversation was …well please listen for yourself to my conversation with the incredible, Ross Rayburn.

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As always if you love what you’re hearing  please subscribe rate and share VisAbleBlackwoman the podcast. And if you’d like to hear the full unedited version of this podcast, become a sustaining member of VisAbleBlackwoman on Patreon. Patreon.com/visableblackwoman.

This week I’m in conversation with yoga teacher, and best-selling author, Tara Stiles. If you love this podcast please let it show!  Rate subscribe and share wherever you listen to podcasts. And if you’d like to watch the video of the fully unedited podcast interview, please become a sustaining member of Visableblackwoman on Patreon. Patreon.com/visableblackwoman.

The retreat is called Fire Ice Flow the dates are December 3-8 2022 and you can go to @eatpraymoveyoga on Instagram to get all the information about the retreat.  Follow tara on IG @tarastiles and check her out on the cover of the print magazine OmYoga Lifestyle in the may 2022 issue. If you’d like to practice yoga with Tara and tai chi with her husband and partner Mike in your livingroom. Go to Stralayoga.com and you’ll get live classes as well as a library of yoga, tai chi, and so much more.

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My guest this week is Registered Dietitian, RN, Anti-racism Educator/Consultant, and Human Trafficking Activist Whitney Trotter. Whitney’s private practice Bluff City Health focuses on eating disorders and human trafficking and is a resource for survivors of complex trauma. Whitney's mission is, "To create a world where every individual has equal representation and access to culturally competent and informed care. A world where every voice matters and is heard."

Save the dates July 20-22  for the BIPOC Eating disorders conference hosted by Angela Gorens and Whitney trotter on zoom.  “The BIPOC Eating Disorders conference is specifically for BIPOC folx and the theme is We are the table. To quote Whitney we no longer need to wait for an invite to dismantle the status quo of eating disorder treatment. Follow Whitney on IG  @whitneytrotter.RD for registration info which is coming soon. If you’d like to work with Witney, go to www.whitneytrotter.com to get information.

Welcome to this bonus episode of VisAbleBlackwoman the podcast.   If you are familiar with NYC theater, you know Sarah Jones.  Sarah is a gifted storyteller with an uncanny ability to slip in and out of various genders, identities, and ethnicities with powerful impact.  Sell/Buy/Date was originally a successful one woman show about Sex work but when word got out that Jones and her team had the opportunity to make the play into a film, there was a backlash. 

So, during a global pandemic and while on the verge of being “canceled” Sarah Jones dove  deep into her creative core and crafted Sell/Buy/Date brilliantly.  Her approach, is to tell the truth of the situation and instead of interviewing sex workers, taking their stories and appropriating them into characters… Sarah visits and interviews sex workers with diverse perspecteives of sex work and the audience is allowed to learn about sex work from sex workers who know the life.  

As Sell/Buy/Date prepares for the 2022 San Francisco film festival this week, she was so generous to take a little time out of her busy schedule to talk to me about her creative process. So if you’d like to see the film this week it will be screening at the San Francisco film festival on Sunday, April 24th, at 5:30pm at the Vogue theater CLICK HERE for tickets.  (https://sffilm.org/event/sell-buy-date/)  Follow Sarah on IG @yesimsarahjones  If you loved what you heard today please subscribe, share and give us a positive review wherever you’re listening. And if you’d like to see the video interview with Sarah and all of my other podcast guests become a sustaining member of VisAbleblackwoman productions on Patreon.  https://www.patreon.com/visAbleblackwoman

Welcome to VisAbleBlackwoman the Podcast! My name is Jeanine T. Abraham and I'm your host, producer and writer. If you love my podcast please, let it show. Rate subscribe and share VisAbleblackwoman the podcast with your friends and please leave me a positive review it really matters. Go to Patreon.com/VisAbleBlackwoman to become a sustaining member of VisAbleBlackwoman on Patreon Season 3 of VisAbleBlackwoman the podcast I am exploring the creative process with my favorite creative people.

This week my special guest is Michael James Schneider, my favorite Instagram artist AKA @blcksmith on IG. Michael has attracted 586K followers by creating Memes of  funny and inspiring quotes like

"New Rule The Underwear has to stay on longer than the sex lasts."

And one of my favorite quotes by comedian Stephen Szczerba, "Growing up no one tells you that one day you’ll get tired for no reason and just stay that way for the rest of your life."

I discovered Michael’s IG during my time sheltering in place. During that time I developed this terrible insomnia and would wake up at 2:00 in the morning and look at Instagram. Through all my anxiety and fear, his posts made me belly laugh out loud and feel better.  Michael is so kind, open, and honest about his creative process. In this interview, we talk about the reality of what life is like as a creator on social media, how being fully transparent about his life on social media taught him how to learn to be more strategic about what he decides to share on social media and where process ends and creativity begins. I hope you enjoy my conversation with artist, Michael James Schneider.

Stay safe

J9

This week Jeanine has an enlightening conversation  with the co-founders and head faculty of Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE) Laura Rikard and Chelsea Pace about their creative process as intimacy coordinators. Please CLICK HERE to Support VisAbleBlackwoman the podcast by becoming a member of our Patreon community and watch the unedited video of our conversation.

Intimacy coordination became visible in the TV, Film, and theater industries right after the #metoo movement went viral back in 2017.  Jeanine first heard of Intimacy coordination when, one of the lead female actors in that HBO series about the Adult film industry The Deuce requested the producers hire an intimacy coordinator to be on set for all of the scenes that involved intimacy, and HBO hired an intimacy coordinator. The same year, HBO required all shows with scenes of intimacy to hire intimacy coordinators to be on set.  If you’ve ever wondered what an intimacy coordinator actually does, you are listening to the perfect podcast.  Jeanine's conversation begins with  Laura as she shares the difference between Intimacy coordination and Intimacy direction, then Jeanine discovers how Chelsea and Laura met and were inspired to pool their resources and create Theatrical Intimacy Education, and they dive deep into the creative process of intimacy direction and talk about TIE’s revolutionary views on certification. 

A note from Jeanine," Full disclosure, I've been taking classes with TIE throughout the pandemic and have deep admiration and gratitude to Chelsea, Laura, and the entire theatrical Intimacy Education team for their commitment to this interesting new profession is inspiring and I’m excited for you to hear our conversation."

In the podcast Chelsea talks about The Journal of Consent-Based Performance, ("The Journal of Consent-Based Performance promotes community-based learning among intimacy professionals, without the gatekeeping often associated with scholarly models and the arts industry.")

CLICK HERE to read The Certification Question by Chelsea Pace.

CLICK HERE for Theatrical Intimacy Education's Workshop Schedule

Stay safe and Thanks for Listening

VisAbleBlackwoman