52 episodes

A Decolonized Podcast for lovers on the margins, join your resident sexuality educator Ericka Hart and Deep East Oakland's very own Ebony Donnley, as we game give, dismantle white supremacy and kiki in the cosmos somewhere between radical hood epistemological black queer love ethics, pop culture, house plants and a sea of books.

Light an incense to this. #nigchampa #hrhw #theblackpoweredpodcast

To monetarily support Hoodrat to Headwrap Venmo @Ericka-Hart or PayPal: ericka@ihartericka.com

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    • Society & Culture
    • 4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

A Decolonized Podcast for lovers on the margins, join your resident sexuality educator Ericka Hart and Deep East Oakland's very own Ebony Donnley, as we game give, dismantle white supremacy and kiki in the cosmos somewhere between radical hood epistemological black queer love ethics, pop culture, house plants and a sea of books.

Light an incense to this. #nigchampa #hrhw #theblackpoweredpodcast

To monetarily support Hoodrat to Headwrap Venmo @Ericka-Hart or PayPal: ericka@ihartericka.com

    Who Tf Was I Friends With? Community and Friendships in the Age of Aquarius feat Elle Moxley

    Who Tf Was I Friends With? Community and Friendships in the Age of Aquarius feat Elle Moxley

    Parts 1 and 2
    If the shoe fit, go grab some socks

    "without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and [their] oppression."--Audre Lorde

    Join us for a special episode of Black People Tell Black History (yes, it's giving very much Anita Baker 365 days of the year same ol love) with our love Elle Moxley talking about community, how some of ya;ll wouldnt know what it is if it fell and hit you in the head and how market forces, capitalism and white supremacy are driving us away from each other, the theft of our culture is driving us away from each other in an attempt to lessen our pride in our shared identity and even that's not enough to assure solidarity, gentrification is physically doing the job of isolating Black folks from one another. So what do we do?

    When it comes to liberation, everybody won't come (and don't want to)
    Everybody is not your friend and how we (mostly Ebony) are resisting all of that and subsequently learning the hard way.

    Thank you, ReesaTeesa.

    • 2 hr 55 min
    Be a Revolution or Get *Swallooowed* Up feat Ijeoma Oluo

    Be a Revolution or Get *Swallooowed* Up feat Ijeoma Oluo

    Alternate episode titles:
    -Be a Revolution or Keep it Moving, either way don't step on a n*gga toes
    -Just Circling Back to Next Steps from 2020
    -Ijeoma is about to go chill and write mysteries cus a lot of yall dont want to be a revolution nor talk about race

    Join us for a very special episode with Ijeoma Oluo talking about her new book, "Be a Revolution", out now, the racism in the publishing world as a Black writer and a path forward.

    https://www.ijeomaoluo.com/

    Ijeoma Oluo is a writer, speaker and internet yeller. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America and, coming in January 2024, BE A REVOLUTION: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World - and How You Can, Too. Her work on race has been featured in The Guardian, The New York Times and The Washington Post, among many other publications. She was named to the 2021 TIME 100 Next list and has twice been named to the Root 100.https://www.ijeomaoluo.com/

    Intro Music: @patience.sings on IG
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    • 33 min
    Resting My Eyes (with a pistol in my apron): Tricia Hersey's Ministry is About More Than Naps

    Resting My Eyes (with a pistol in my apron): Tricia Hersey's Ministry is About More Than Naps

    ...and can save your life. Join us for a very special episode of Black People Tell Black History with the one and only Tricia Hersey (IG @thenapministry) as she gives you a quick 30 minutes of necessary game on this Monday afternoon made for wage theft and dream death on how imagination was a requisite for our ancestors' freedoms, the blueprint they laid out for revolution and how to take back your body from the State from can't see in the morning to can't see at night.

    Support for Tricia and more resources:
    www.thenapministry.com
    If you don't do nothing else today, please check out her new book, Rest is Resistance, a guide and manifesto on Black liberation's departure from white supremacist capitalist grind culture

    Playlist:
    https://open.spotify.com/playlist/51E6lgtFIq0vdQYuHf3Tap?si=e14d54cf12f94d24

    Tricia is the founder of The Nap Ministry, the originator of the ‘rest as resistance’ and ‘rest as reparations’ frameworks, and creates sacred spaces where the liberatory, restorative, and disruptive power of rest can take hold. Tricia’s work is seeded within the soils of Black radical thought, somatics, Afrofuturism, womanism, and liberation theology, and is a guide for how to collectively deprogram, decolonize, and unravel ourselves from the wreckage of capitalism and white supremacy. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Public Health from Eastern Illinois University and a Master of Divinity from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto and The Nap Ministry’s Rest Deck: 50 Practices to Resist Grind Culture.

    Intro Music: Patience Sings (@patience.sings on IG)
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    • 31 min
    While White People Didn't Create Country Music, They Did Manage to Invent Colorism feat. Mayowa

    While White People Didn't Create Country Music, They Did Manage to Invent Colorism feat. Mayowa

    ...it is now a multiracial collaboration, an amerikkkan "folk" tradition, if you will.
    From its pseudoscientific, colonial roots to nick cannon, join us for another episode of Black People Tell Black History and a deep deep conversation with one of the leading voices drawing attention to and upending colorism as it iterates itself in all facets of life, across the globe, @mayowasworld. We cover what it is, what it's not and how to stop it.

    Mayowa is a writer, stand-up comedian, and discourse girlie who has spent the past decade between London, Berlin, Lagos & and now back in Atl. Their work discusses anti-blackness and how it shows up within: colorism, texturism & desirability.

    Support for Mayowa:
    Instagram: @mayowasworld
    venmo @mayowasworld
    PayPal.me/Mayowasworld
    linktr.ee/mayowasworld


    Intro Music: Patience (@patience.sings)
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    • 51 min
    Saifa is Not About the Silos: What Black Intersex Justice Got to do With It? Everything.

    Saifa is Not About the Silos: What Black Intersex Justice Got to do With It? Everything.

    “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
    ― Audre Lorde

    Join us in discussing the Black intersex revolution, imagination beyond violence visited upon our bodies and community as home with our dear love Saifa Wall.

    Sean Saifa Wall (he/him/his) is a Black queer intersex activist and rising scholar. Born and raised in the Bronx, Saifa attended Williams College and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Huddersfield in England examining the erasure of intersex people from social policy in Ireland and England. Saifa is the former Board President of interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth and a former advisor to the Astraea Intersex Fund for Human Rights. Above all else, Saifa is determined to end harmful and invasive genital surgery on intersex children and advocate for affirming healthcare for all people with intersex variations. In addition to his work and activism, he is a loving dad to his dog, Justice.

    Support for Saifa:

    Every Body film: https://www.focusfeatures.com/every-body/watch/
    Personal Website: https://www.seansaifa.com/
    Black Intersex History: https://www.them.us/story/little-jimmy-scott-black-intersex-history-profile

    Venmo: @seansaifa-wall
    Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/seansaifa

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    • 47 min
    Twin, Where Have You Been?: A Tender Conversation with Dr. Joy James

    Twin, Where Have You Been?: A Tender Conversation with Dr. Joy James

    Alternate episode titles:
    -Dr. Joy James Might Break the Internet If You Would Let Her Upgrade You
    -This is a wonderful, Establishment, Trump and Swiftie friendly episode, absolutely nothing to shadow ban here, nope not at all (devil emoji)

    If you couldn't tell, we are super juiced to invite you all to a very special, mind reconfiguring politic shaking and shaping episode of Black People Telling Black History with the Icon herself, Dr. Joy James. Join us in chopping it up with Dr. James in what was a rich discourse spurned from her new book, In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love and New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (after) life of Erica Garner, out now. This pre-Valentine's Day episode is all about love (see what I did there), but not the hallmark card consumer capitalist iteration of love but the love that has us stop our movements from being exploited and destabilized by capitalist interests from compadors or even well meaning actors who are subservient to the system. Agape driven love, what Dr. James demarcates as, "love as political will, communal care and protections...a spiritual, political phenomenon...our capacity to care for and defend ourselves from state violence while also nurturing and being nurtured by individual selves and communities." A love that Assata Shakur and Erica Garner had; both captive maternals, Dr. James argues, who driven by a love for Black people,  forged maroonage in their own right--"unrepentant insurrectionists, the unembraceable against whom the state exercises severe sanctions. A love Black political prisoners who are still being detained in US prisons today had, risking their lives and freedoms on behalf of Black liberation, a love beyond sentimentality, a love perhaps even for those who don't love us back (working on that). 

    Do not miss out on all this free game and don't say we ain't never did nothing for you.

    “Despite our care, emotional intelligence and political determination, without collective strategies, our caretaking freezes or falters. Becoming trained maroons capable of coordinating war resistance deflects or defies predatory violence." --Dr. Joy James

    Support for Dr. Joy James:
    https://www.commonnotions.org/new-bones-abolition
    https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/in-pursuit-of-revolutionary-love-joy-james/1141549285
    https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/contextualizing-angela-davis-9781350368637/
    Intro Diddley: Patience Sings (@patience.sings)

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    • 1 hr 4 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
1.2K Ratings

1.2K Ratings

@pegaita ,

Fantastic

I have laughed and cried with this show.

10 out of 10 - highly recommend

yvacree ,

Always on point!

The discussion is always thought-provoking, transparent, entertaining, and radical. Ericka and Ebony are two of my favorite podcasters!

bcmarq ,

Divinity in podcast form

Amazing, beautiful, so intentionally curated. White ppl and nonblack people, send them and all of their guests, all the monies now and always. Support QT Black folks —ALL YEAR LONG and not only for their labor but also for just existing in their joys and in rest.

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