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Our "monsieur romance connoisseur"  Mo_Rease joins Lady D and Lady H to chat romantic magic and the book And They Lived Happily Ever After by Therese Beharrie. 

Mentioned:

Honey and Spice

Understanding Asexuality

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

The Brown Sisters Series-

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

Take a Hint, Dani Brown

ACT Your Age, Eve Brown

Darring, Asi'a D., Davis, Derek, and Hairston, Erin-Lee. “I am charmed: And They Lived Happily Ever After.” Watch With You Podcast. December 18, 2022. Podcast, MP3 audio, 57:27. https://anchor.fm/watchwithyou/episodes/I-am-charmed-And-They-Lived-Happily-Ever-After-e1rvtrr

Own voices romance writer Therese Beharrie joins us to discuss her magical duet And They Lived Happily Ever After and A Ghost in Shining Armor. We also discuss a little about South African culture, being a woman of color in the romance industry, and being authentic. 

Beharrie, Therese, Darring, Asi'a D., and Hairston, Erin-Lee. “She's Outta This World: Therese Beharrie.” Watch With You Podcast. December 04, 2022. Podcast, MP3 audio, 01:06:39. https://anchor.fm/watchwithyou/episodes/A-Star-in-a-Dark-Night-Therese-Beharrie-e1mdjhb

Tiana, aka the Obama Princess, was the first Black Disney princess. We talk about what that meant, and the inclusion of hoodoo and voodoo in the media.

Fun stuff:

When She’s Black, The Princess is the Frog

V Opinion: Princess and the Frog Does Race Right… Mostly

https://brightlightsfilm.com/yeah-but-look-how-far-weve-come-disney-and-the-depiction-of-blackness-in-the-princess-and-the-frog/

The Princess and the Frog: Rewriting Jazz Age History and Culture | The Black Atlantic

A Seat at the Table" A Brandy's Cinderella Retrospective

Disney's The Princess and the Frog: The Pride, the Pressure, and the Politics of Being a First - Lester - 2010 - The Journal of American Culture - Wiley Online Library

The Photograph

Sylvie's Love

Darring, Asi'a D.,  and Hairston, Erin-Lee. “I am rooted: The Princess and the Frog.” Watch With You Podcast. December 04, 2022. Podcast, MP3 audio, 01:21:30. https://anchor.fm/watchwithyou/episodes/I-am-rooted-The-Princess-and-the-Frog-e1p00kn

We take a look at the Southern gothic classic, Eve's Bayou which questions memory and showcases haunting through the eyes of a young Black girl coming of age, and the consequences of choices as an adult. This is the selection of M. Haynes who said that a review of Black speculative fiction would not be complete without Eve's Bayou. 

Reading List:

As It Nears 25, ‘Eve’s Bayou’ Is Still Radical—And Wonderful | Vanity Fair

Eve’s Bayou Is a Beautiful Portrait of Black Identity (vulture.com)

Eve's Bayou (Film) - TV Tropes

Darring, Asi'a D., Davis, Derek, and Hairston, Erin-Lee. “I am rooted: Eve's Bayou.” Watch With You Podcast. November 27, 2022. Podcast, MP3 audio, 41:23. https://anchor.fm/watchwithyou/episodes/I-am-rooted-Eves-Bayou-e1mdjlo

Featuring the magical Alabun'mi A.M. Jones, founder of BrownGirlTarot; Lady H and Lady D talk and learn about African Spiritualities. If you'd like to bless our speaker, here are their cashapp tags: $AlabunmiAMJ and $BrownGirlTarot

Mentioned:

Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing

Mules and Men

Stephanie Rose Bird:

365 Days of Hoodoo: Daily Rootwork, Mojo & Conjuration

The Healing Power of African-American Spirituality: A Celebration of Ancestor Worship, Herbs and Hoodoo, Ritual and Conjure

African American Magick: A Modern Grimoire for the Natural Home

Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System

The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales

Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales

Hoodoo Society

Familysearch.org

Recommended:

Blood Like Magic

Conjuring Moments in African American Literature: Women, Spirit Work, and Other Such Hoodoo (2012)

Darring, Asi'a, Hairston, Erin-Lee, and Jones, Alabun'mi A.M. “I am rooted: African Spiritualities 101.” Watch With You Podcast. November 20, 2022. Podcast, MP3 audio, 01:35:02. https://anchor.fm/watchwithyou/episodes/I-Am-Rooted-African-Spiritualities-101-e1qtod6

Lady H welcomes Madam Lazet and Miss Semi to discuss all things Legendborn. The first portion of this podcast is spoiler free, then we go down deep into the text. 

We mention:

Bloodmarked

Daughters of the American Revolution

The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White

Alice

Extras:

Interview with Tracy Deonn and Book Review: Legendborn – jthbooks (home.blog)

Companion Guide

https://www.richlandlibrary.com/blog/2021-05-27/ownvoices

Curry, Helissa, Darring, Asi'a,  Fontus, Semiramis, and Hairston, Erin-Lee and "I am rooted: Legendborn." Watch With You Podcast. November 13, 2022. Podcast, Mp3 audio, 01:50:38. https://anchor.fm/watchwithyou/episodes/I-am-rooted-Legendborn-e1omtlr

Queen Melmendi  joins Lady H and Lady D to talk about what Black speculative fiction could look in praxis: Janelle Monae! We mention:

#Black Girls Are from the Future: Essays on Race, Digital Creativity and Pop Culture by Renina Jarmon

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down by Dr. Joan Morgan

The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monae

When God Lost Her Tongue: Historical Consciousness and the Black Feminist Imagination by Janell Hobson

Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell

CaShawn Thompson – The mother of #BlackGirlMagic

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories by NK Jemisin

Ego Tripping by Nikki Giovanni

Far Sector by NK Jemisin and Jamal Campbell

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Nichelle Nichols

Electric Easy 

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/11/8644166/is-marie-buchanon-real-person-harriet-tubman-movie

Darring, Asi'a, Hairston, Erin-Lee, and Miller, Nicolle. "I am: Black Spectacular ." Watch With You Podcast. November 6, 2022. Podcast, Mp3 audio, 01:00:28. https://anchor.fm/watchwithyou/episodes/I-am-Black-Spectacular-e1p4g8b

Beyonce's Renaissance, Pt. 1 is a work of Black Speculative Fiction (Black Spec). Lady A and Madame Lazet  joined us for a listening party* where we discussed and analyzed the album within the Black Spec lens, gave Grace Jones her flowers, and since it is sexy, use it and Audre Lorde, to segue into a discussion of the erotic. Let's also talk about the sexier side of Black Spec and fantasy book some paranormal romance aka "monster fucking." This is Watch With You After dark.

Mentions and Recommendations:

The uses of the erotic by Audre Lorde

Penelope Flynn

That Time I Got Drunk And Saved A Demon

That Time I Got Drunk And Yeeted A Love Potion At A Werewolf: Mead Mishaps Book Two

Interview with the Vampire: movie and TV show

Miss Tony (please note that this article uses he pronouns, and we are unsure of what Miss Tony would have preferred. No disrespect is meant. )

Monstica podcast

Fuck Humans podcast

The Gilda Stories

My Soul to Keep

Cowboy Bebop

Moi Renee

Montero

The Alpha Prince and His Bride- LaurG

A Soul to Keep

16 Books to Read if you love Beyonce's Renaissance

LOVE BEYONCÉ’S RENAISSANCE? READ THESE BOOKS!

Loved Beyoncé’s Renaissance? Read these books!

Citation:

Curry, Helissa, Darring, Asi'a, Hairston, Erin-Lee, Lee, and Kenndey-Alston, Taleah.  "I AM…Beyond C’est." Watch With You Podcast. October 30, 2022. Podcast, Mp3 audio, 01:34:58. https://anchor.fm/watchwithyou/episodes/Immortals-and-Vampyric-Horror-My-Soul-to-Keep-with-book-bubbles-e1ko03j

*No copyright infringement intended. 

Lovecraft Country is the best example of a Black speculative fiction project thus far. It combines alternative history, time travel, Afrofuturism, horror, adventure, magic, sci-fi, fantasy, and thrills from a decidedly Black feminist point of view.  Ladies D and H are joined by Lady A to discuss one of the best series of the 2020s. 

Lovecraft Country Radio

Lovecraft Country novel

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328577741_Fantastically_Hybrid_Race_Gender_and_Genre_in_Black_Female_Speculative_FictionAnglistik_International_Journal_of_English_Studies_262_2015_71-88

https://pca.st/episode/abfd40fb-ecc0-4de3-a636-7eeeb66b46f9

https://www.theroot.com/where-white-people-are-scarier-than-monsters-the-hidde-1845000536

Citation:

Darring, Asi'a D., Hairston, Erin-Lee, Kennedy-Alston, Taleah. “I am: Black Speculative Fiction.” Watch With You Podcast. October 23, 2022. Podcast, MP3 audio, 01:27:14. https://anchor.fm/watchwithyou/episodes/I-am-Black-Speculative-Fiction-e1oapj7

Ladies D and H have been out of this world, but get grounded by defining Black speculative fiction with M. Haynes. Justice for Bonnie Bennett!

We discuss:

Dr. Kadian Pow's episode

How Black speculative fiction shows up in music

Philanthropic thinking

Sankofa

critical fabulation

participatory action research

a light in the sky podcast

Darring, Asi'a, Hairston, Erin-Lee, and Haynes, Marcus. "Launchpad: What is Black Speculative Fiction? Feat. M. Haynes." Watch With You Podcast. October 16, 2022. Podcast, Mp3 audio, 01:03:22. https://anchor.fm/watchwithyou/episodes/Launchpad-What-is-Black-Speculative-Fiction--Feat--M--Haynes-e1o33j4