Season 3, Episode 20: Host Yndia sits down with professor and author Janell Hobson to discuss her latest book, When God Lost Her Tongue, her upcoming Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Series with Ms. Magazine, patriotic education, and the significance of the Black Feminist Imagination when amplifying African descended women’s voices and experiences across history, pop culture...

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Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness- Podcast Episode 020: Janell Hobson Podcast Episode 020, Janell Hobson

In this SEASON 3 PREMIERE, host Yndia is in conversation with guest Mahogany L. Browne, performance poet, author and the Lincoln Center’s Inaugural Poet-in-Residence. Listen in as they talk about Mahogany’s books “Black Girl Magic,” “Chlorine Sky” and the recently released “I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love.” This is an episode...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness- Podcast Episode 019: Mahogany L. Browne

In this season 2 finale, Host Yndia sits with acclaimed poet and short story author Anton Nimblett to discuss his most recent collection, Now/After, the significance of carnival and fete in storytelling, race and queer personhood, and the importance of being a “maco” (macomere)/ people watcher as a writer that captures the subtle nuances of...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness- Podcast Episode 018: Anton Nimblett

Misogynoir Transformed with guest Moya Bailey! Listen to this engaging convo between host Yndia and Moya as they discuss the impetus for and the current pop culture significance of “misogynoir,” the importance of representation and the future of #Hashtag activism, the role of accomplices vs. allies, and of course, all things 90s R&B and fried...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness- Podcast Episode 017: Moya Z. Bailey

All the things Afro-Futurism, Conjure Feminism, Ethnobotany, and Black Women in Horror are just few of the topics discussed when guest Kinitra D. Brooks, public scholar and writer for the Root.com series on HBO’s LoveCraft Country, sits down with Host Yndia in this episode. Wouldn’t want to miss it! (Credit: audio editing, music and co-production...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness- Podcast Episode 016: Kinitra D. Brooks

Award-winning YA author Tonya C. Hegamin chats with host Yndia about Black-Indigenous family folklore, being a (dis)ability advocate along with her diabetic alert dog Bobo, and the importance of integrating play as a way to amplify Black joy and healing. Listen in to learn more about her upcoming memoir and Bisexual BIWOC T1Diabetes activism via...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness- Podcast Episode 015: Tonya C. Hegamin

Chef Keesha O’Galdez, founder and executive chef of The Gourmet Diva in NYC, sits down with host Yndia to talk about leaving the field of engineering to become a successful entrepreneur that has combined her passion for culinary arts with natural healthy eating. A recipient of the Doonie Fund, which supports Black Women Entrepreneurs, you...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness- Podcast Episode 014: Chef Keesha O’Galdez Ep 014: Chef Keesha O'Galdez

In this episode, your host Yndia talks with Vilna Bashi Treitler, PhD, author, sociologist and visual artist. A curator and contributor to several mixed media art exhibits nationally, Vilna’s books were also named to the Zora Canon in 2020 for one of the best 100 books ever written by an African American woman. Debuting her...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness- Podcast Episode 013: Vilna Bashi Treitler Ep 013: Vilna Bashi Treitler

In this episode, Host Yndia sits down with Dr. Natalie LeBlanc, public health practitioner, NIH-funded AIDS and HIV prevention researcher, and assistant professor in HIV Prevention Science at the University of Rochester School of Nursing.  Listen in as they talk all things sex: sexual health, consent, MSMs, and the importance of HIV testing, prevention and...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness- Podcast Episode 012: Natalie LeBlanc Ep 012: Natalie LeBlanc

Host Yndia is in deep conversation with Dr. Christen Smith, professor, Black feminist anthropologist, author and founder of #CiteBlackWomen, a global social movement network, podcast and blog. Listen in as they discuss the significance of Black liberation when it comes to anti-Black state-sanctioned police violence throughout the Americas and the politics of race and gender...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness- Podcast Episode 011: Christen Smith, #CiteBlack Women

Host Yndia is in conversation with Glory Edim, founder of #WellReadBlackGirl, author of Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves, and the recipient of the Madam CJ Walker award from the Hurston/Wright Literary Foundation, the Innovator’s award from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and an Outstanding Literary Work nomination from the NAACP Image...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness- Podcast Episode 010: Glory Edim, #Well-Read Black Girl Ep 010, Glory Edim, #WellReadBlackGirl

In this episode, Yndia chats with award-winning documentarian and producer, Victorious DeCosta about his latest film and t.v projects, including “Digging for Weldon Irvine,” “L.A. Gold Rush,” and his forthcoming HBO movie “Storm Over Brooklyn: The Yusef Hawkins Story,” as well as the significance of Black mental wellbeing and suicide, and Victorious’ local and national...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness-Podcast Episode 009: Victorious DeCosta Ep 009: Victorious DeCosta

In this episode, host Yndia sits down with Courtney Desiree Morris, visual/conceptual artist for exhibits “Exploring Passages Within the Black Diaspora” and “Adjust Yo’ Eyes For This Darkness,” activist, and professor of social anthropology at UC Berkeley to chat about “art as ministry,” ancestor veneration, and life as an artist and Black feminist scholar in...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness- Podcast Episode 008: Courtney Desiree Morris Ep 008, Courtney Desiree Morris

In this episode, host Yndia is talking about all things Fire! with award-winning Chef Michael Poole, master chocolatier of Hot Chocolat artisan chocolates and recently retired FireHouse Lieutenant based in Seattle, Washington. Chef Poole recounts his experiences trained in Paris at Le Cordon Bleu, being featured on national cooking programs such as Rachael Ray, and...

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness- Podcast Episode 007: Chef Michael Poole Ep 007 Chef Michael Poole

In this episode, host Yndia is engaged in a fun, intellectually stimulating and titillating conversation with Dr. Kathryn Sophia Belle, philosopher, writer and coach on issues of Black self-empowerment, being a high achiever, happily unmarried, and erotic and ecstasy empowerment.

Talking Journeys of Belonging 2 Blackness-Podcast Episode 006: Kathryn Sophia Belle Ep 006, Kathryn Sophia Belle

Your host Yndia highlights the personal and professional journeys African descendants take daily as they navigate the world around them. Episodes feature topics and conversations with guests that are timely and intelligent while still being funny and cool.

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