Abolitionist Dreamscapes Dr. Nicole Truesdell

Hey folks! Donnell and I are back with another "Thoughts While High". This time we are talking about women's basketball and how race-gender-and the state come into play; music and these so call rap battles; and what it means to create community where we can actually breathe and live. This is a good one!

Donnell McLachlan is a writer, theologian, and social justice advocate working to create a more empathetic and inclusive society through writing, research, and storytelling. His research centers on black faith and life, including liberation theologies, womanist theology, and the spiritual and sociohistorical dimensions of hip-hop music and culture. In addition to his academic pursuits, McLachlan has a popular TikTok page with over 315,000 followers, where he shares insights on religious history, discusses religious deconstruction and decolonization, and offers social commentary. He was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.

You can find Donnell @donnellwrites on ⁠IG⁠. ⁠Tik Tok ⁠ and ⁠YouTube

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Welcome back folks! Alright, this episode is a Sip & Chat with my friend and collaborator Forest Brooks. Forest is a songwriter, producer and artist, with a background as an educator in both the public and corporate sector and as a publicist in the entertainment industry. Aside from that, he's a foodie with a penchant for intellectualizing and sometimes overanalyzing pop culture.

This time around we are talking about what it means to be 42 and recreating our lives cause we believe our experiences. As we both are in the midst of our Uranus Opposition astrologically, meaning we are in middle age, this is a time when things really do get weird. So how then does one take that energy and create the life that makes sense for you? And why do we keep saying the youth will save us when it is up to all us to save ourselves and one another? What is the role of those in our 40s and beyond in the new world building we say we want? Forest and I get into this, dating, and daring to create through our pleasures.



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Hey folks! This episode I am in conversation with Alafia Stewart. An Oakland California native, Alafia is a social activist, DEI consultant, and ATR Spiritual safety educator. When not community organizing, she can most likely be found singing karaoke and/or trying all the amazing food anywhere she lands. Alafia lives by the motto: “2+2=4, but so does 3+1. There is almost never just one way to solve a problem so diversity in perspective is vital.” Here we are talking about what it means to be "in" an African Traditional Religion (ATR) as Black folks and how not to get got in these spiritual streets.

For Alafia's courses please see her website. You can Alafia on IG, Tik Tok, X, and YouTube.



Ways to support and work with me:

⁠The "Believe Your Reality" Black Women Leaders Executive Coaching Cohort Program ⁠⁠

My ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠ to book me for ⁠Speaking Engagements⁠, Executive coaching, consulting, astrology readings, and more!

⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠

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Welcome back folks! This time I am in conversation with two friends of mine, Tina & Krista, about the Gay Curriculum Tina started for me when I came out a couple of years ago. Tina hails  from Louisville, Kentucky, and is your soon-to-be favorite rich lesbiauntie. A double Scorpio with a dark and brooding mood and fierce loyalty to those she allows into her queendom, she lives life on her own terms. She is a pop culture enthusiast and an unflappable cynic. In her professional life, she manages crisis, curates inclusion, and holds court with her subjects. Krista McQueeney is a sociologist, meditator, grammar nerd, a Gemini with fairy energy, and a lesbiauntie. She is an award-winning professor, a published writer, and a professional editor who loves to help people of all ages discover their passions and connect through writing. She is working on a book about white womanhood where she does the painful but necessary healing work of trying to unlearn white supremacy from the inside out. Here we discuss all kinds of things - from my coming out process and all the emotions attached to it, to them reflecting on their own coming out stories and the histories of queer and lesbian culture, to the impact music has had on all of us coming more into ourselves. This is a conversation you will want to come back more than once because of the richness of queer history given here. For the full unedited 2 hours please go to my Patreon.

Sources mentioned in the episode:

Music/Musicians: Tracy Chapman; Meshell Ndegeocello (albums "Bitter", "Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtapes", and "Comfort Woman")

TV Shows and Movie: "A Luv's Tale" (both show and movie), "L Word"; Black Mirror episode "San junipero".

Books: "Does Your Mama Know: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories"  by Lisa C. Moore; "If Memory Serves: Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past" by Christopher Castiglia & Christopher Reed 

Ways to support and work with me:

The "Believe Your Reality" Black Women Leaders Executive Coaching Cohort Program ⁠

My ⁠Website⁠ to book me for Speaking Engagements, Executive coaching, consulting, astrology readings, and more!

⁠Patreon⁠

⁠Substack⁠




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Welcome back ya'll! This episode I am talking with Donnell A. McLaughlin, AKA @donnellwrites on Tik Tok and IG. This time around we smoked up and had a conversation while elevated about music, hip-hop and the Diddy lawsuits, community, the present moment, and why we have to dream now of the types of communities we WANT instead of focusing on what we don't. What happens if we break repetitive public conversations that keep us in the same discursive loops? And what does the smoke help us make space for so that we can create the realities we say we want? All that and more this episode!



You can find Donnell @donnellwrites on IG. Tik Tok and YouTube



The "Believe Your Reality" Black Women Leaders Executive Coaching Cohort Program



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Hey folks! Well this is a different episode than when I had initially recorded and intended to publish. The Tik Tok Live conversation I had with Robert Peoples on the 15th of the month won't upload properly for either for us, so while I get that sorted I have a different focus this time around. This episode I talk about spiritual work by telling the story of what happened when I decided that I needed to move some energy around to open my roads and in doing so did some working at the crossroads that ended up working me in ways I hadn't anticipated. Again the ancestors are smart, and they work with what they got to help us come into ourselves and living. So lessons were and continue to be learned from those actions, and I share with you all this episode those lessons and more!



I am now enrolling applicants for my Black Women's Cohort Coaching Executive Leadership Program! If you want to work with me and also in a group setting with other Black women leaders, then my program may be for you. Starting April 8th, enrollment is open so sign up today as there are only 6 spots!

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