Zora's Daughters Podcast

08/11/2024

it’s B here! it’s been a minute! I hope you are taking care of yourselves in the best way possible in this moment. 💕

we have had a few things in the works, and we’re almost ready to let y’all know the plans we have for the next phase of ZD. while the podcast isn’t coming back, we are hard at work finding other ways to grow our community.

Be sure to stay tuned for the announcement and for ways you can be involved!

19/06/2023

Now, y’all remember we said we’d be back and doing exciting things!

On this special episode of , we share the story of the Combahee River Collective Statement. Alyssa and I talk about the origins the Collective, their impact, and how only Black feminist movements will get us free!

Join us on a journey as some of our your (soon to be) favorite podcasters tell historical tales of our struggle towards liberation. Listen now on any podcast platform!
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It’s a Juneteenth Celebration!!!

Gettin’ Free : A Juneteenth Collaboration is brought to you by Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast ()

16/06/2023

It’s a Juneteenth Celebration!!!

Gettin’ Free : A Juneteenth Collaboration is brought to you by Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast ()

Black History is so important. That’s why we speak and share, others listen and grow.

Join us on a journey as some of our your (soon to be) favorite podcasters tell historical tales of our journey towards freedom.

02/05/2023

Only a few deviant Black people get rewarded and untouched. Listen to our latest on looping temporalities, who gets to be ghetto, and nonstop AAVE appropriation. Let young girls and women live their best life!🎙💛
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10/04/2023

In the supermarket, several women talked about the summer body they were trying to attain. Diet culture and disordered eating affect many young Black women at such an early age. Summer must learn to love this jelly.

Black women are the blueprint, and so is the commodification of Black body types. “Hourglass” and “coke bottle” have been used to characterize a desirable female body. If the BBL era is “over”, where does this leave Black women?

Listen to S2E2 for more insight on Dr. Krystal A. Smalls 's essay “Fat, Black, and Ugly: The Semiotic Production of Prodigious Femininities,” which explores how fatness and Blackness are discursively constructed as social comorbidities for feminine people. We examine how this discourse affects lived experiences.🎙💛

01/04/2023

"The historical suppression of writers is the earliest harbinger of the steady, peeling away of subsequent rights and liberties that will follow" Toni Morrison said.

Public library systems are endangered! This is just the beginning for more censorship & book bans. When childhood is racialized, cisgendered, and de-q***red, insisting on “age-appropriate material” becomes a way to instill doctrine and foreclose options for some readers, and to evict other readers from childhood entirely.

We encourage y'all to share/read excerpts from your favorite banned books. We’ve seen what the next chapter looks like when we don’t speak out against book challenges… and that story does not end well.

Listen to S2E9 for more insight!💛🎙
The Bluest Eye | Beloved | Toni Morrison | booktok | banned books | Critical Race Theory | Florida | Texas | racial innocence | Censorship | Literacy | Literature | LeVar Burton | Reading Rainbow | SKYBRARY | Black authors | Moms of Liberty | interview

28/03/2023

POV: you’re a Black woman waiting in the wings to win an award but white entities continue to overlook your dynamic and long-lasting performances for those that are subpar and mediocre.

The false hope that we saw at the 2023 Grammys is likely to be reaffirmed Sunday. At the moment there are historical nominations. However, history proves how nominations are a stark contrast to the true palette of winners.

No women are nominated for Best Director. Neither Nikyatu Jusu for NANNY nor Gina Prince-Bythewood for . Remember when many people expected Chadwick Boseman to win a posthumous Oscar for Best Actor Remember Angela Bassett’s portrayal in What's Love Got to Do with It in 1993? In 2023, she received her 2nd ever nomination. Or, Halle in 2001? 22 years later, she remains the only Black Best Actress.

Or, Gabourey Sidibe.
Or, Quvenzhané Wallis.
Or, Ruth Negga.
Or, Cynthia Erivo.
Or, Andra Day.

Many of these women remain only 1st time Best Actress nominees when their white counterparts have received well over five nominations sometimes. Black women are not merely supporting cast members to continue tropes since GONE WITH THE WIND. Even Viola Davis notably regrets playing Aibileen in THE HELP.

Awards season seeks to hold onto the relevancy for dear life. Televised awards often rely on Blackness to drive people to care since we drive the culture. Before Abbot Elementary’s Quinta Brunson, Black women captured praise yet little reward – whether Kerry Washington or Taraji P. Henson. Not everyone can win an award, true. But, we must illuminate the Black cinematic canon such that its archives will continue to thrive 20 or 30 years from now.

Listen to S1E19 for more insight on ‘s essay “Identifying White Mediocrity and Know-Your-Place Aggression.”

16/02/2023

We continue and with Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, whose long career, tenure, and life is robust with wisdom. Dr. Cole is an inspiration in her aspirations as well. The best is still yet to come for us. Slow down, pace yourself. Study and write with purpose. We have a duty as scholars to keep contributing to a more engaged, more excellent world. 🎙💛
black podcasts | diversity in academia | diverse podcasts | anthropologist | black studies | HBCU | Spelman College | black president | black history | Delta Sigma Theta | sisterhood | black scholars | Black Women | God is a Black Woman

13/02/2023

We kicked off with Irma McClaurin who makes with every photo she takes, pot she stirs, and article she edits.

Giving flowers to legends in real-time.

What's even more telling is that she engaged with legends who were trailblazers for a reason. We are not that far removed from the violent history they themselves experienced. These are the same literary legends who gave us consciousness around Black feminism, liberation, and dignity. We're less than a generation away. We hope Dr. McClaurin's words inspire as much as they continue kinship with these legends.
black podcasts | diversity in academia | diverse podcasts | black feminist | anthropologist | black studies | Chinua Achebe | Toni Cade Bambara | James Baldwin

13/02/2023

Dr. Irma McClaurin encourages grad students to see ourselves as junior colleagues! Every paper, presentation, or speech we produce has a purpose. She drops bars on bars on bars.

03/02/2023

In this episode, Alyssa and Brendane discuss Beyonce’s and the elevation of celebrity to extremes that deprive them of humanity, describing their supra-humanity and lack thereof. Can iconography replace personhood? Work in tandem to it? We discuss fandom's permeation in various layers. Its toxicity removes reality – grounded in nothing more than empty promises, empty images, and empty wallets.

We discuss not only but also delve into how capitalism assuages (read: distracts) collective agency.
black podcasts | diversity in academia| diverse podcasts | not so ivory tower | black feminist | anthropologist | black studies | Beyonce | Renaissance World Tour | Grammys | Recording Academy | Black musicians | house music | drag queens | Black History Month |

03/02/2023

25/01/2023

BONUS CONTENT! 🎙💛

Brendane discusses organizing among and with the q***r & trans community, answering a question from one of our listeners at New College in Florida.

Thousands of the women, trans, and gender nonconforming people who are incarcerated in U.S. prisons have been doubly victimized — hurt first by other people, and then victimized by the criminal legal system. Victims are only deemed “perfect” if they are docile. To be “perfect” they cannot be jealous, angry or strong, and they can never fight back. Domestic and sexual violence are often rejected as legitimate justifications for self-defense. People are expected to report to law enforcement and participate in prosecution. The only way to guarantee that “imperfect victims” are no longer punished is to reimagine a system that punishes them. Grassroots input that does not jeopardize your livelihood is important.

There is ingrained trans(misogyny) in every strata of institutional systems. But, institutions cannot have all the discretion. Let us know in the comments below if you have more questions on community organizing and outreach.

We want to build these linkages and support the best we can!
transgender rights | LGBTQ+ | q***r | not so ivory tower | activism | trans organizing | nonbinary

21/01/2023

We cannot ask the same people that harm us, to protect us.

Brendane said it best, "Plenty of Black women protected people who've harmed them...It relies on this idea that men should be able to do whatever they want at the expense of everybody else."

09/01/2023

Rooting for Black Women in the 2023 and beyond. Love the community we have built with you all.💛🎙

09/01/2023

This whole royal family mess is a tight rope act of complicity & collateral. Harry & Meghan are ultimately pursuing reform for the monarchy’s benefit - their vision is a “multicultural, diverse” monarchy but the basis of its wealth and power is unchanged.

Chile it's time for that palace to burn.
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08/01/2023

Happy Born Day to Ms. Zora Neale Hurston.

Unlike her contemporaries, such as Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen who couldn’t compare, Hurston would become the first Black graduate from Barnard College in 1928. She was a novelist, folklorist, dramatist, ethnographer, and cultural anthropologist. Most days all at once.

Black literature of the North and of the South was transformed by the Harlem Renaissance. As anarchistic as the era was, Hurston remained a vision and a trailblazer. There is a reason why her work has stood the test of time. As Black womxn in 2023, so much has changed and so much as remained the exact same BS that Hurston dealt with. All the bu****it — why lie! Our pride and love of self is a constant challenge to those who would rather see us fail. Come pushing y’all. Zora been knew that this life will disregard and question our worth. She’s forever an inspiration.
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21/12/2022

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