Odejuma

Harry Itie
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Odejuma is an intimate storytelling podcast that centers Black voices from around the world, exploring identity, belonging, and becoming. Hosted by Harry Itie, the show creates space for honest, unguarded conversations about love, community, memory, and the journeys that shape who we become.

  1. 19 de ago.

    Rian-Louis on Six Years of RIANOUTLOUD and Making Room for Black Queer Pittsburgh

    In this episode of Odejuma, Harry speaks with Rian-Louis, host of the RIANOUTLOUD! Podcast. In this conversation, he delves into how he started the podcast in 2020 to spotlight independent Black LGBTQ+ artists and what he has learned over six years and more than a hundred conversations. He talks about the voice note that told him it mattered, the friend who talked him out of quitting, the cost of keeping a creative life running alongside a nine-to-five, and curating a new black space in Pittsburgh called Good Company. It is a conversation about how much it takes to keep showing up and the importance of archiving and documenting black queer art. Connect with Rian on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ratedrian/ Follow the RIANOUTLOUD! Podcast : https://www.instagram.com/rianoutloudpodcast/ Listen to the RIANOUTLOUD! Podcast: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/rianoutloud/ Connect with Harry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harryitie For more information on Harry, visit: https://www.harryitie.com/ Get Odejuma delivered straight to your inbox, alongside personal reflections on the episode, by subscribing to the Substack here: https://odejuma.substack.com/ Support my work: https://buymeacoffee.com/harryitie

  2. 29 de jul.

    Will Rhem Jr. on His Artistry and the Poetry Collection That Was His Therapy

    In this episode of Odejuma, Harry chats with Will Rhem Jr., a dancer, choreographer, poet, and teacher raised in the Gullah Geechee culture of South Carolina. Will has danced on Broadway and taught at Columbia, but this conversation lives somewhere quieter. He talks about tending the self like a garden, the parts of him left untended that kept growing anyway, and the childhood he had to walk back through to write his poetry collection, ‘Abandoned Gardens Still Grow.’ He reflects on Gullah Geechee identity, truth-telling as his first calling, and turning healing into a short film called ‘Bloom.’ It is an unhurried conversation about resilience, self-love, and what it means to grow in the dark. He closes the episode with a reading of one of his poems, and it is worth hearing in his own voice and will definitely leave you with something to sit with. Connect with Will on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willrhemjr/ Buy his book here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/abandoned-gardens-still-grow-will-rhem-jr/1147522239 Connect with Harry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harryitie For more information on Harry, visit: https://www.harryitie.com/ Get Odejuma delivered straight to your inbox, alongside personal reflections on the episode, by subscribing to the Substack here: https://odejuma.substack.com/ Support my work: https://buymeacoffee.com/harryitie

  3. 15 de jul.

    Ozoz Sokoh on Archiving Nigerian Food and the Cookbook That Won the James Beard Award

    In this episode of Odejuma, Harry sits down with Ozoz Sokoh, the culinary anthropologist and food explorer known to many as Kitchen Butterfly. Her debut cookbook, Chop Chop: Cooking the Food of Nigeria, is the first Nigerian cookbook to win a James Beard Award. Ozoz talks about being a geologist in the Netherlands and how food not only became the thing that held her far from home but also started a decades-long career archiving Nigerian food as a heritage worth keeping. It is a conversation about documenting history in real time and the power of food to bridge cultures. Connect with Ozoz on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kitchenbutterfly/ Buy Chop Chop here: https://ozozsokoh.com/book Watch the Zamari interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgr_iA9HAVE Connect with Harry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harryitie For more information on Harry, visit: https://www.harryitie.com/ Get Odejuma delivered straight to your inbox, alongside personal reflections on the episode by subscribing to the Substack here: https://odejuma.substack.com/ Support my work: https://buymeacoffee.com/harryitie

  4. 8 de jul.

    Keith Parris on Healing His Inner Child and Building a Career on His Own Terms

    In this episode of Odejuma, Harry speaks with Keith Parris, known online as Icy, the beauty influencer, model, and writer whose book ‘Amputee Story’ went viral overnight when he was still in middle school. Keith traces his path from a Caribbean household where the art he loved was never the plan, to building a career with no manager and no team, to the fierce self-love he protects now. He gets real about relapse, about the night an ex's words landed like the bullies he'd carried since childhood, and about what it actually took to heal his inner child. It's a conversation about being Black, queer, and disabled online, the difference between being seen and being understood, and the tender work of holding little Keith and telling him he made it. Connect with Keith on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/icyparris/ Connect with Harry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harryitie For more information on Harry, visit: https://www.harryitie.com/ Get Odejuma delivered straight to your inbox, alongside personal reflections on the episode by subscribing to the Substack here: https://odejuma.substack.com/ Support my work: https://buymeacoffee.com/harryitie

  5. 3 de jul.

    Zola Dee on Home, Belonging, and the Play That Won the Kesselring Prize

    In this episode of Odejuma, Harry is in conversation with Zola Dee, a playwright, screenwriter, and performer whose work [Home] going is the recipient of this year's Kesselring Prize for Playwriting. Zola grew up in Winston-Salem, moved through Los Angeles and Berlin, and landed in Minneapolis, and home has never been a fixed place for her so much as a question she keeps writing toward. She talks about what belonging costs, how African diasporic spiritual traditions and Black Americana live inside her plays, and the people who choose to dream a better world into being. This is a conversation about identity, displacement, and the stories we inherit and remake. Sit with it. You may hear your own longing for home somewhere in hers. Connect with Zola on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamzoladee/ For more information on Zola, visit: https://www.zoladee.com/ Connect with Harry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harryitie/ For more information on Harry, visit: https://www.harryitie.com/ Get Odejuma delivered straight to your inbox, alongside personal reflections on the episode by subscribing to the Substack here: https://odejuma.substack.com/

  6. 24 de jun.

    Ashton Legadoé on 'Nana's Boys' and Leaving a Legacy Through Black Queer Storytelling

    In this episode of Odejuma, Harry speaks with filmmaker Ashton Legadoé, whose path runs from a Cape Verdean family in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to telling some of the most tender Black queer stories on screen. This is a conversation about legacy. What it means to build something that outlasts you, in your work, in your community, and even in the name you carry. Ashton talks about Nana's Boys, his feature about two Black men whose love is tested when life stops cooperating, and why he stopped waiting for permission to make it. Along the way, he reflects on his immigrant roots, the responsibility of representation, and giving the next generation of storytellers the resources he had to find on his own. It is a conversation about creating without apology, and the quiet conviction that the stories of everyday people are worth keeping. Connect with Ashton on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashtonsdreams/ Connect with Harry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harryitie/ Watch Nana's Boys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-bTK8K10Tg For more information on Harry, visit: https://www.harryitie.com/ Get Odejuma delivered straight to your inbox, alongside personal reflections on the episode by subscribing to the Substack here: https://odejuma.substack.com/

  7. 17 de jun.

    TRYFE on Stepping Into His Gift and Spreading Joy Through Music

    In this episode of Odejuma, Harry is in conversation with TRYFE, the DJ, entertainer, and founder of the Viribus Foundation, about following a calling he never planned for. From Howard University to the White House and a Kamala Harris rally of thirty thousand, TRYFE has built a career out of one gift: walking into a room and giving it the joy it didn't know it needed. This is a conversation about love, loss, grief, mental health in Black, brown, and LGBTQ communities, faith and family, and the power of music to heal and connect us. Connect with TRYFE on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrtryfe/ See TRYFE in Minneapolis: https://app.opendate.io/e/pride-rooted-in-black-queer-joy-indigo-room-june-20-2026-703210 Connect with Harry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harryitie For more information on Harry, visit: https://www.harryitie.com/

  8. 10 de jun.

    Dr. Brittany Lewis Is Building a New Table

    In this episode of Odejuma, Harry speaks with Dr. Brittany Lewis, a scholar, author, and the founder of Research in Action. At its heart, this is a conversation about power: who holds it, who gets studied, and who gets to decide what counts as knowledge. Brittany shares how a queer Black girl from North Minneapolis became a scholar who refuses to write research that only mesmerizes problems. She talks about the Black women who raised her, the choice to leave a tenured path that was never built for her, and the idea at the center of her book, ‘Building a New Table.’ They get into community-centered research, the work behind Minnesota's first Office of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls, and what it means to build something meant to outlast you. This is an unhurried conversation about resilience, community, and living in your truth. Connect with Brittany on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittany.m.lewis/ Learn about the convening here: https://www.researchinaction.com/convening Learn more about her book here: https://www.drbrittanylewis.com/book Connect with Harry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harryitie For more information on Harry, visit: https://www.harryitie.com/

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Odejuma is an intimate storytelling podcast that centers Black voices from around the world, exploring identity, belonging, and becoming. Hosted by Harry Itie, the show creates space for honest, unguarded conversations about love, community, memory, and the journeys that shape who we become.

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  • Criado por
    Harry Itie
  • Anos de atividade
    2025 - 2026
  • Episódios
    37
  • Classificação
    Explícito
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 Harry Itie
  • Site do podcast
    Odejuma