The ZAMI NOBLA Podcast

Angela Denise Davis
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The ZAMI NOBLA Podcast is a sound source for Black Lesbians 40 and older. Our show topics include current events, LGBT affairs, Black Lesbian Herstory & Health and Wellness. Angela Denise Davis is the show's Creator, Producer, and Host.

  1. Carla Rabb DeRosa Plays with Her Food and We All are Better for It

    11/23/2025

    Carla Rabb DeRosa Plays with Her Food and We All are Better for It

    You may register for ZAMI NOBLA's Plant Play Food Series at the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/SFkOB_AvSaixs6Yr2QkrDg PLANT PLAY, a virtual feast with Carla Rabb DeRosa Turn your Kitchen into a Wellness Playground! ZAMI NOBLA invites you to join PLANT PLAY, a joyful, monthly virtual feast with Carla Rabb DeRosa—recipe book author, plant-based educator, and founder of The Raw Kitchen. Learn to create delicious plant-based recipes such as: Sweet Potato Sausage Raw Carrot Cake Collard Wraps Four Saturdays, 11 AM – 12:30 PM (EST)  December 6, 2025 January 17, 2026 February 7, 2026 March 7, 2026   Free & Open to All! Let's nourish our bodies, feed our spirits, and celebrate wellness through food, creativity, and community.   Carla Rabb DeRosa is a Certified Food Medicine Educator and Raw Foods Instructor with extraordinary skills in providing comprehensive training in alternative healing modalities to facilitate natural healing and wellness. She began her career in plant-food medicine in response to her own health crisis in 2010. After cleansing her body, Carla lost 60 lbs. of waste and toxins and regained vitality and wellbeing with the strategic use of healing foods and plant medicine. She supported the reversal of chronic metabolic diseases in herself and many others.   Carla has a true passion for supporting people to heal. She has introduced thousands to natural healing practices through her speaking, cleansing and retreat events and products. She uses whole and raw food, herbs, oils, teas and body practices to elevate health seekers and their families from all over the world.   You may inquire about direct coaching and speaking engagements to 770.413.9046 or crabb25@gmail.com.

    1h 29m
  2. Cara Page Revels in Movement Work as a Cartographer of Culture, Memory, Healing, and Justice

    07/11/2025

    Cara Page Revels in Movement Work as a Cartographer of Culture, Memory, Healing, and Justice

    This interview was recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 18, 2025. Cara Page is a Black Queer Feminist cultural memory worker & organizer. For the past 30+ years, she has organized with LGBTQI+, Black, Indigenous & People of Color liberation movements in the US & Global South at the intersections of racial, gender & economic justice, healing justice and transformative justice. She is founder of Changing Frequencies, an abolitionist organizing project that designs cultural memory work to disrupt harms and violence from the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). She is also co-founder of the Healing Histories Project; a network of abolitionist healers/health practitioners, community organizers, researchers/historians & cultural workers building solidarity to interrupt the medical industrial complex and harmful systems of care. We generate change through research, action and building collaborative strategies & stories with BIPOC-led communities, institutions and movements organizing for dignified collective care.   As one of the architects of the healing justice political strategy, envisioned by many in the South and deeply rooted in Black Feminist traditions and Southern Black Radical Traditions, she is co-founder and core leadership team member of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective. She was the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project in New York City and is a former recipient of the OSF Soros Equality Fellowship (2019-2020) and 'Activist in Residence' at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. She was also chosen as Yerba Buena Cultural Center's 'YBCA100'in 2020.   Visit her online at: https://carapage.co/

    1h 15m
  3. Deneen Day Gives an Oral Herstory of Life in Ohio and Work as an Investigator (Part 1)

    06/27/2025

    Deneen Day Gives an Oral Herstory of Life in Ohio and Work as an Investigator (Part 1)

    This interview was recorded on May 20, 2025 via online video conferencing.   Part 1 is an oral herstory of Deneen's life in Ohio and part 2 is a detailed look at her family's journey with dementia along with Deneen's work in the area.   Deneen Day retired after a distinguished 30-year career as a Financial Crimes Investigator for the State of Ohio. Her journey as a dementia caregiver began in the 1990s when she became a long-distance caregiver for her grandmother, taking on the roles of guardian and decision-maker.   In 2007, Deneen's mother began to show signs of dementia, marking the start of her second "tour of duty" as a caregiver. Balancing full-time work, caring for her adopted special needs son, and her mother, Deeneen became a "sandwich generation caregiver."   Deeneen's son was just five years old when his grandmother began to show signs of the disease, and he continued to be a young caregiver until her passing when he was 17. To support her son through this journey, Deeneen became an advocate for understanding the impact of dementia and caregiving on children, emphasizing the importance of awareness among teachers, coaches, peers, and their parents.   Her presentation is on YouTube at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY53q_onjHc

    45 min
  4. Deneen Day Remembers her Mother, Grandmother, and the Journey of Dementia (Part 2)

    06/27/2025

    Deneen Day Remembers her Mother, Grandmother, and the Journey of Dementia (Part 2)

    This interview was recorded on May 20, 2025 via online video conferencing.   Part 1 is an oral herstory of Deneen's life in Ohio and part 2 is a detailed look at her family's journey with dementia along with Deneen's work in the area.   Deneen Day retired after a distinguished 30-year career as a Financial Crimes Investigator for the State of Ohio. Her journey as a dementia caregiver began in the 1990s when she became a long-distance caregiver for her grandmother, taking on the roles of guardian and decision-maker.   In 2007, Deneen's mother began to show signs of dementia, marking the start of her second "tour of duty" as a caregiver. Balancing full-time work, caring for her adopted special needs son, and her mother, Deeneen became a "sandwich generation caregiver."   Deeneen's son was just five years old when his grandmother began to show signs of the disease, and he continued to be a young caregiver until her passing when he was 17. To support her son through this journey, Deeneen became an advocate for understanding the impact of dementia and caregiving on children, emphasizing the importance of awareness among teachers, coaches, peers, and their parents.   Her presentation is on YouTube at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY53q_onjHc

    47 min
  5. Arlene Edwards Reflects on a Life of Watching the World Through the Lens of Community Psychology

    06/14/2025

    Arlene Edwards Reflects on a Life of Watching the World Through the Lens of Community Psychology

    Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Arlene is a community psychologist who recently retired from the CDC.  While there she worked as a behavioral scientist focusing on capacity building as it relates to HIV prevention.  She received her BA in Psychology from the University of Tampa, MA in Counseling and Human Development from Clark Atlanta University and PhD in Community Psychology from Georgia State University.  After beginning her public health work, she realized a need to augment her education and completed an MPH from Emory University.  Arlene is also a veteran and retired from the US Army Reserve with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.  As a Black lesbian her work and adult life has included finding ways to show up in an authentic manner and make space for others to do the same.  Currently she works as a consultant on an HIV prevention project focused on encouraging Black women to view PrEP usage as an act of self-care, she is also growing a garden and a forest.

    1h 32m
  6. Kaila Story Knows Her Place and Creates Space at the Fenceline of Difference

    06/05/2025

    Kaila Story Knows Her Place and Creates Space at the Fenceline of Difference

    Kaila Adia Story, PhD is an associate professor in the Departments of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Pan-African Studies, as well as the Audre Lorde Endowed Chair at the University of Louisville. She is the author of The Rainbow Ain't Never Been Enuf: On The Myth of LGBTQ+ Solidarity, which comes out this May. She is also the co-creator, co-producer, and cohost of Louisville Public Media's Strange Fruit: Musings on Politics, Pop Culture, and Black Gay Life, a popular award-winning podcast. Her research examines the intersections of race and sexuality, with special attention to Black feminism, Black lesbians, and Black queer identity.  IG: @doctressstory Facebook: Kaila Adia Story Threads: @doctressstory BlueSky: @doctressstory.bsky.social Website: www.doctressstory.com

    58 min
  7. Alexis Pauline Gumbs Speaks on Her New Audre Lorde Biography

    08/12/2024

    Alexis Pauline Gumbs Speaks on Her New Audre Lorde Biography

    Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings.  Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice.  Her poetic work in response to the needs of her cherished communities has held space for multitudes in mourning and movement. Her poetry and fiction appears in many creative journals and has been honored with inclusion in Best American Experimental Writing, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and honors from the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize and the Firefly Ridge Women of Color Award.  She has been poet-in-residence at Make/Shift Magazine and is currently Creative Writing Editor at Feminist Studies. She is the founder of Brilliance Remastered, an online network and series of retreats and online intensives serving community accountable intellectuals and artists in the legacies of Audre Lorde's profound statement in "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" that the preceding statement is "only threatening to those…who still think of the master's house as their only source of support."  Through retreats on ancestor accountable intellectual practice, and online courses on topics from anger as a resource to transnational intellectual solidarity Alexis and her Brilliance Remastered collaborators have nurtured a community of thinkers and artists grounded in the resources that normative institutions ignore. Her most recent book Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (FSG) has been named a Publisher's Weekly Top 10 book of 2024, A Time Magazine must read book of 2024, a Guardian book of the week and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction.

    1h 27m
  8. Sharon Bridgforth with bull-jean & dem/dey Book Party

    08/12/2024

    Sharon Bridgforth with bull-jean & dem/dey Book Party

    This book party was hosted on May 27, 2023, at Charis Books & More in Decatur, Georgia. It featured esteemed writer Sharon Bridgforth in conversation with ZAMI NOBLA creative director Angela Denise Davis in celebration of bull-jean & dem/dey back.   You can view the YouTube video of this event at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EcaVl7dxo   The ZNP previous interview of Sharon Bridgforth: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/zaminobla/id/21629876   Bull-jean & dem/dey back is a collection that unites two performance/novels centered on the southern-Black-butch-heroine, bull-jean. The Lambda Literary Award-winning bull-jean stories was first published by RedBone Press in 1998 and follows the journey of love rekindling throughout the lifetimes of bull-dog-jean. After a twenty-two-year hiatus, bull-dog-jean triumphantly returns in bull-jean/we wake. As the Narrator grieves the loss of their elders and seeks healing, they summon bull-jean for guidance. Be sure not to miss this inspiring event!   A 2022 Winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, Sharon Bridgforth is 2020-2023 Playwrights' Center Core Member, a 2022-2023 McKnight National Fellow and a New Dramatists alumnae. She has received support from The Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the National Performance Network. Her work is featured in Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature, Mouths of Rain an Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought and Feminist Studies Vol 48  Number 1, honoring 40 years of This Bridge Called by Back and But Some of Us Are Brave! Sharon has had the privilege of benefiting from support from the ZAMI NOBLA and Charis Books communities since 1998, when she toured with the RedBone Press edition of the bull-jean stories. In her new book, bull-jean & dem/dey back (53rd State Press) bull-jean returns in two performance/novels - both will be produced as main stage productions at Pillsbury House + Theatre in Minneapolis, MN in 2023. More at: https://www.sharonbridgforth.com

    1h 5m
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The ZAMI NOBLA Podcast is a sound source for Black Lesbians 40 and older. Our show topics include current events, LGBT affairs, Black Lesbian Herstory & Health and Wellness. Angela Denise Davis is the show's Creator, Producer, and Host.

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