47 episodes
Black Feminist Rants LaKia Williams
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4.7 • 51 Ratings
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Black Feminist Rants is an independent podcast that holds conversations on Reproductive Justice and Activism by centering the experiences of Black women and femmes navigating social justice spaces and the world. BFR will cover topics within the Reproductive Justice framework and beyond. Our host and creator is LaKia Williams a young Reproductive Justice organizer from the South who has experience in advocating for contraceptive equity, reproductive autonomy and birthing justice.
To learn more about BFR visit our website blackfeministrants.com and follow us on social media!
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Ep. 42: quarter-life crisis: vulnerability, peace, and the pursuit of liberation (a rant)
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Ep. 41: Supporting Parents through Postpartum w/ Maya Hart
Maya Hart (all pronouns), mama, postpartum doula, lactation counselor, and reproductive justice organizer, joins Black Feminist Rants to share their pregnancy and postpartum journey. Maya has dreamed about becoming a mother since childhood. However, their vision of motherhood radically transformed once they became a parent. Maya shares their experience raising a child in COVID-19, coping with grief, and embracing identity and lifestyle changes. Since giving birth, Maya has founded Diapers for Black Durham, a donation-based program that supports families in their local community with free diapers and lactation education.
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Credits
Producer: LaKia Williams
Audio Engineer: Diop Russell
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Ep. 40: How personal labors of love have helped me as a recovering perfectionist (Rant)
In celebration of self-love, BFR host LaKia reflects on one of her greatest accomplishments: leading Black Feminist Rants! LaKia shares lessons from her healing journey. She discusses everything, from growing the podcast team to recovering from perfectionism and defining herself outside of work.
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Producer: LaKia Williams
Audio Engineer: Annaya Baynes
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Ep. 39: Advance Provision of Abortion Pills is Community Care + Immigrant Justice
Having abortion pills available before someone becomes pregnant could be life saving. As the courts continue to strip our reproductive rights from us having an advance provision of abortion pills, or having pills on hand before someone is pregnant, can help ensure that people receive the care they need. In this episode LaKia discusses what an advance provision of aboriton pills is, how it is community care, and how in-clinic reproductive healthcare can be inaccessible for certain communities, including immigrant populations.
This episode was made as part of Plan C Pills Creative Fellowship. To learn more about Plan C Pills visit their website. If you or your organization would like to partner with Black Feminist Rants or request to sponsor an episode please fill out our partnership form.
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Increasing Visibility of Asexual Black Youth #BlackYouthSexuality w/ Danielle Jenkins
To conclude the Black Youth Sexuality season BFR is joined by Danielle Jenkins (they/she), a Spelman student and asexual person. They lay out what asexuality means for them, why it’s important to care about the rights of people across the country, and how gender can be boring. She also talks about queerbaiting, the importance of silence on social media, and how the Reproductive Justice movement is for ace people too.
Follow Danielle on Twitter and Instagram. Also, check out their second Instagram page where they review movies, books, tv shows, and on occasion, share their op-eds
To learn more about Black asexuality, check out Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
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Producer: LaKia Williams
Audio Engineer & Technical Support: Annaya Baynes
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Disability Justice for Black youth #BlackYouthSexuality w/ Alexis Nicole
Welcome to our third installment of the Black Youth Sexuality season with Alexis Nicole (she/they/star), an organizer, poet, and activist based in St. Louis. Star speaks on everything from the role of pleasure in stars life as a disabled person, what disability justice is, and how the health care system can ignore consent. Alexis and LaKia also discuss the stigma of certain mental illnesses, the importance of sex ed for disabled people, and how capitalism is ableist.
Follow Alexis on Twitter, TikTok and Instagram.
Learn more about the St. Louis Queer+ Support Helpline.
Stay connected to BFR! Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter!
Donate to BFR to support the work that we do!
Want to work with us? Click here to be a sponsor. Click here to request to be a guest speaker.
Sign up for the BFR Newsletter
Credit:
Producer: LaKia Williams
Audio Engineer & Technical Support: Annaya Baynes
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Customer Reviews
A needed voice and platform in the RJ space
I’ve worked in reproductive justice for years and listening to this podcast is always refreshing and keeps me grounded. This work moves so fast sometimes that it’s easy to move away from what brought so many of us to it and tuning in is the reminder I often need. This isn’t a space dominated by white guilt, academics or selective intersectional feminism. It’s a space that feels curated especially for me, a Black, queer feminist committed to the RJ framework🖤
Miserable
You put yourself in the center of your story and you need to grow up.
Repro justice
LaKia is a great voice in this generation. Repro justice is important and after years of repro being co-opted by white women. She finally gives us the unfiltered and true history of repro !! Thank you BFR
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