24 episodes
Womxn of Color Summit Podcast Womxn of Color Summit
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- Health & Fitness
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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The Womxn of Color Summit podcast came from a desire to learn from WOC about how they are stepping into their power and embodying their life purpose while dismantling oppressive systems.
Join your hosts Harpinder Mann and Irene Lo as they support BI&WOC on their journey of self-love and soul-care by highlighting speakers who can speak to authentic living. Authentic living is knowing who you are and being comfortable in your skin. It is courageous and joyful to not have to pretend anymore and be true to our needs. With this awareness comes the power to live in freedom. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womxnofcolorsummit/support
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Amanda Diaz on Honoring Self-Pleasure
“Sex is natural and I truly believe that women, they're more sexual than men but we have to hide it because we're looked at as whores or you know - the stigmas that are out there. I hear comments sometimes when a woman is maybe a little seems “promiscuous” putting quotations when I say that online because she's showing her body and a lot of men would make comments saying like, ”oh, well, she looks easy no one will ever take her seriously.” And it's like, why is that? Why can't we take her seriously because she's expressing herself in a sensual way?”
-Excerpt from Summit Speaker Conversation with Amanda Diaz, Sex Herbalist.
Conversation Highlights:
Honoring our sexual well-being.
Exploring sensuality and expanding our understanding of self-pleasure.
Sexual liberation.
Sexual trauma and shame.
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Shanèl Dear on Creating Accessible Spaces for All
“We think props are only used in certain positions or whatever and I'm like no, no. Props can be used for the whole practice and even moving away from the word “prop,” like calling it a support.
“COVID is opening up a big dialogue for things that were happening before that got swept under the rug but now we can't avoid it. We can't avoid being more accessible as teachers and as practitioners as well.”
-Excerpt from Summit Speaker Conversation with Shanèl Dear, Movement and Meditation Teacher.
Conversation Highlights:
How movement can create space for authenticity.
Community building and accessibility.
Movement for pleasure, not exercise for punishment.
Showing up as our authentic selves in colonized spaces.
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Tamsin Lee on Reclaiming Beauty Narratives Through Face Reading
“When I think that's why we have these facial features, it makes me proud because it's proof that your ancestors survived this long. In order for us to come into this world and continue our family legacy, continue our lineage, continue to like survive and thrive and I feel like that has a deeper purpose. So when I look at beauty, yeah it’s spirit, but also the stories of our ancestors that are written all over your face.”
-Excerpt from Summit Speaker Conversation with Tamsin Lee, East Asian Medicine Doctor, Researcher, and Face Reader.
Conversation Highlights:
Reclaiming the beauty narratives that we tell ourselves.
The history of Gwansang, Korean face reading.
How Gwansang can shift our modern perspective of “beauty.”
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Ellen Bowles and Imani Quinn of The Woke Mystix Podcast on Authentic Partnerships Between Womxn of Color
“Even when you're womxn of color, you're not always going to be personally in alignment with each other. Even if your collective goal is the same, it doesn't necessarily mean that on a personal level y'all make great friends. We're so diverse, like womxn of color, you're talking about different cultural backgrounds, different upbringings, different values of just like the home, and how we look at friendships.”
- Excerpt from podcast episode conversation with Ellen Bowles and Imani Quinn, Co-Hosts of The Woke Mystix and Co-Authors of Astrology SOS.
Conversation Highlights:
Authentic partnerships between womxn of color.
Toxic femininity.
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Marika Clymer on Shadows Surrounding Mainstream Spirituality
“When we call somebody else a colonizer, we’re denying our ability to see or limiting our ability to see how those things live within us. It’s adhering to these binaries. It is limiting our ability to see the flexibility of identity.”
-Excerpt from Summit Speaker Conversation with Marika Clymer, Medicine Woman, Energetic Healer.
Conversation Highlights:
The shadow of the colonizer within.
Unpacking the traditional roots of Japanese Reiki.
Shadows surrounding mainstream spirituality.
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Aisha Nash on Anti-Dieting and How We Can Accept Our Bodies
"It made me realize how screwed up all of this is and that it's not just me. It's everybody. Everybody's been fed this lie that we can control our health. That it is completely within our control."
-Excerpt from Conversation with Aisha Nash, Body Image Educator.
Conversation Highlights:
How society and white supremacy affect how we view ourselves.
Steps we can take to build an acceptance-based relationship with ourselves and our bodies.
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Customer Reviews
Empowering podcast by Womxn of color
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