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On this episode, I discuss how classic and contemporary Black women storytellers embody a truth and depth in their work that deserves to be understood and studied and how freedom was and still is an ever-present theme for these women. Using authors discussed in the Harvard Divinity School class titled, “Black Women, Black Church, and Self-Narratives” taught by Dr. Nyasha Junior, I will also invite the work of Radha Blank, writer-producer-director-star of “The Forty-Year-Old Version.” Storytelling for Black women is about exclaiming our existence. It’s about saying we're here and we matter. More than anything it’s a means of survival; a fight to preserve tradition and culture as this is essential to the human spirit. Hosted, Produced and Edited by: Lesedi Graveline Music by: Mozado Graphic by: Olivia Vernon, University of Virginia Sources: “The Forty-Year-Old Version” (Netflix) Braxton, Joanne M. “Autobiography and African American Women’s Literature.” The Cambridge Companion to African American Women’s…
On this episode, I discuss how classic and contemporary Black women storytellers embody a truth and depth in their work that deserves to be understood and studied and how freedom was and still is an ever-present theme for these women. Using authors discussed in the Harvard Divinity School class titled, “Black Women, Black Church, and Self-Narratives” taught by Dr. Nyasha Junior, I will also invite the work of Radha Blank, writer-producer-director-star of “The Forty-Year-Old Version.” Storytelling for Black women is about exclaiming our existence. It’s about saying we're here and we matter. More than anything it’s a means of survival; a fight to preserve tradition and culture as this is essential to the human spirit. Hosted, Produced and Edited by: Lesedi Graveline Music by: Mozado Graphic by: Olivia Vernon, University of Virginia Sources: “The Forty-Year-Old Version” (Netflix) Braxton, Joanne M. “Autobiography and African American Women’s Literature.” The Cambridge Companion to African American Women’s…
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Black Women Storytellers
ListenedOn this episode, I discuss how classic and contemporary Black women storytellers embody a truth and depth in their work that deserves to be understood and studied and how freedom was and still is an ever-present theme for these women. Using authors discussed in the Harvard Divinity School class titled, “Black Women, Black Church, and Self-Narratives” taught by Dr. Nyasha Junior, I will also invite the work of Radha Blank, writer-producer-director-star of “The Forty-Year-Old Version.” Storytelling for Black women is about exclaiming our existence. It’s about saying we're here and we matter. More than anything it’s a means of survival; a fight to preserve tradition and culture as this is essential to the human spirit. Hosted, Produced and Edited by: Lesedi Graveline Music by: Mozado Graphic by: Olivia Vernon, University of Virginia Sources: “The Forty-Year-Old Version” (Netflix) Braxton, Joanne M. “Autobiography and African American Women’s Literature.” The Cambridge Companion to African American Women’s…
Climate of Unknowing with Amy Greulich
ListenedThe pandemic has exposed structural inequities that have existed long before 2020 and illuminated the reality of human beings' interdependence and the multilayered ecologies that bind us to one another. For Professors Diane Moore and Terry Tempest Williams of Harvard Divinity School it meant conceiving a course called “The Climate of Unknowing: A Portal into Beauty, Terror and the Moral Imagination.” On this episode, I am joined by fellow HDS classmate, Amy Greulich, and we discuss why humans are not neutral bodies, the implications of the hypervisibility of Black death, and what creating intimacy and being in community virtually meant for us. LESEDI GRAVELINE - (She/hers) Host, Producer, and Editor, Harvard Divinity School AMY GREULICH - (She/hers) Guest speaker, Harvard Divinity School, Master of Divinity 2021 degree candidate. Living on Noepe (Martha’s Vineyard), Wampanoag land. Music By: Mozado Graphic By: Olivia Vernon, University of Virginia Sources Referenced: Professors Diane Moore and Terry Tempest…