This is our fiftieth and final episode! Thank you everyone for your support over the past three years, we could not have done this without you. In this episode, you will hear our incredible conversation with Professors Ryan Jobson and Jennifer Freeman Marshall, PhD Candidate Delande Justinvil, and poet and ritual worker Destiny Hemphill from Wednesday, May 3rd. We…
Welcome to our ICONversations, a series where you will hear iconic Black feminist anthropologists answer five questions about their intellectual projects and growth, what their work has meant to them, and the imprints they want to leave on the world. Listen to our candid ICONversation with Dr. Yolanda T. Moses, the professor and mentor who…
Part 3 featuring Tracy Heather Strain Welcome to our ICONversations, a series where you will hear iconic Black feminist anthropologists answer five questions about their intellectual projects and growth, what their work has meant to them, and the imprints they want to leave on the world. We’re doing something a little different today: We had the…
Zora’s Daughters Podcast: Season Three, Episode 11 Co-Hosts: Brendane Tynes and Alyssa James Title: ICONversations Total Length: 00:44:59 [00:00:00] JC: I was very blessed to know Dr. Maya Angelou [pause] and you can imagine how many books she signed. We know how many she wrote. We know her impact. Still in our lives. And the…
Welcome to our ICONversations, a series where you will hear iconic Black feminist anthropologists answer five questions about their intellectual projects and growth, what their work has meant to them, and the imprints they want to leave on the world. In this first episode, Alyssa and Brendane sit down with Dr. Irma McClaurin, an anthropologist who…
We have a major announcement up top so be sure to tune in! Today on the episode we center… YOU! We asked for your listener questions and wow, you delivered. In this episode, we answer questions about pursuing a PhD and career advance, dealing with imposter syndrome, taking unprescribed “academic performance enhancing medications,” love bombing…
It’s all about Zora: Writer, Anthropologist, Filmmaker, Genius of the South, Capricorn Queen! What’s The Word? Anthropology. Difficult to define, but we throw our ideas into the ring! We cover its history, genealogy, what we think makes something anthropological, and what Indiana Jones has to do with Alyssa’s research. What We’re Reading. You Don’t Know…
Get in loser, we’re doing neuroexpansive shit! What’s the Word? Neuroexpansive. Coined by Ngozi Alston (@ngwagwa), neuroexpansive is an invitation to think about our differences and disabilities as an expansion, rather than a divergence, of human experience. What We’re Reading. Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk. Schalk contextualizes how Black people have enacted Black disability…
In this final episode of the season, you will hear our incredible conversation with Professors Riché J. Daniel Barnes, Kevin Quashie, and Autumn Womack, and vocalist and composer Candice Hoyes from Wednesday, May 4th. Traditionally, Zora Neale Hurston has been more widely celebrated for her contributions to American literature than as an anthropologist and folklorist.…
In today’s episode, we are too TIED to repeat ourselves! There is simultaneously so much to talk about and little we haven’t said in previous episodes, so we’re treating this as a moment to hold space, be in community with each other and you all, and really, just rant about what in the world is…
