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After an extended hiatus, we're back. While Dani moved away from Mississippi, Leah moved back so we talk about loving, leaving, and returning to Mississippi. Dani visited Senegal, and Leah is publishing a book.  RESOURCES * SeaSalted Honey Residency [https://www.seasaltedhoney.com/] * "A Night at Fontaine's [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQZS823R]" by Leah Nicole Whitcomb * Pre-order Apocalypse Still [https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?Ah7JtGND2Vkzvr8URK6XPFQDlvM9SWmFuH9CJ1YVEAx#] by Leah Nicole Whitcomb * "Episode 202: Reclaiming my Dream [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Swth82rmRNKhxUiCfta6D?si=0df39078caf24626]" Dreaming in Color with Nancey B. Price. BOOKSHOP https://bookshop.org/shop/hoodooplantmamas BE A PATRON! https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Ghrey, and our artwork was designed by Bianca. 

//SPOILERS FOR LONG DIVISION// Mississippi author Kiese Laymon joins us for our season finale. We discuss the revised version of his novel Long Division, explore themes of freedom, language, and timelessness, and talk about creating art separate from the white imagination. Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. Laymon is the Libby Shearn Moody Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. Laymon is the author of Long Division, which won the 2022 NAACP Image Award for fiction, and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, named a notable book of 2021 by the New York Times critics. Laymon's bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, the Barnes and Noble Discovery Award, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times. The audiobook, read by the author, was named the Audible 2018 Audiobook of the Year. Laymon is the recipient of 2020-2021 Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard. Laymon is at work on the books, Good God, and City Summer, Country Summer, and a number of other film and television projects. He is the founder of "The Catherine Coleman Literary Arts and Justice Initiative," a program based out of the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University, aimed at aiding young people in Jackson get more comfortable reading, writing, revising and sharing on their on their own terms, in their own communities. Kiese Laymon was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022. RESOURCES * Long Division [https://bookshop.org/a/93534/9781982174828] by Kiese Laymon * "We Need to Reckon with the Rot at the Core of Publishing [https://lithub.com/we-need-to-reckon-with-the-rot-at-the-core-of-publishing/]" by Elaine Castillo. LitHub. BOOKSHOP https://bookshop.org/shop/hoodooplantmamas BE A PATRON! https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Ghrey, and our artwork was designed by Bianca. 

We're joined by Starr, founder of Reckon's Black Joy. In this episode, we discuss the highs and lows of healing, leading when you feel unqualified, and Black joy as our birthright. Jonece Starr Dunigan (She/her/hers) is a journalist who gives the microphone to communities that are often ignored by mainstream media. Guided by empathy, her reporting centers the stories, movement work and voices of Black, brown and queer people. Her writing strives to amplify and empower readers instead of exploiting them of their traumas. Starr is also the founder of Reckon's Black Joy (formerly Black Magic Project), a media brand under Reckon that's highlighting the multiple ways we as Black people cultivate liberating joy in our lives. RESOURCES * "Blessings six years of Black joy have taught me. [https://www.reckon.news/black-joy/2023/02/blessings-six-years-of-black-joy-taught-me.html]" Jonece Starr Dunigan. Black Joy. * Nolaskinsentials [https://www.nolaskinsentials.com/] * Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good [https://bookshop.org/a/93534/9781849353267] edited by adrienne marie brown * Diving with a Purpose [https://divingwithapurpose.org/media/] BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Ghrey, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.

In this episode, we're joined by Veronica Agard as she discusses her educational project, Ancestors in Training. We think about what how to honor our ancestors, what we want to leave our future descendants, and how to best utilize our time here on Earth. Veronica Agard (Ifáṣadùn Fásanmí) (she/her) is a poet, writer, community educator, and connector at the intersections of Black identity, wellness, representation, and culture. She experiments with creative healing modalities and puts theories learned into practice. She curated the Who Heals the Healer series and the conference of the same name and facilitates the Ancestors in Training educational project. Her initiatives are housed in her freelance platform, Vera Icon LLC. Described as living in the future, Veronica is guided by the past and carries out her dreams in the present. RESOURCES * Ancestors in Training Syllabus [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gX8rr1g0r_TohAIXok0HgZfm5xw9KyY3t2PZn5Z63sk/edit?usp=sharing] * Ancestors in Training Bookshop [https://bookshop.org/lists/ancestors-in-training-syllabus] * Legendborn [https://www.tracydeonn.com/legendborn] by Tracy Deonn * Dani's Writing Residency in Senegal [https://www.gofundme.com/f/danis-writing-residency-in-senegal?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined] GoFundMe * "The Science Behind Smudging [https://uplift.love/the-science-behind-smudging/]." Uplift. * "Are you ready to become your descendants wildest dreams? Ancestors in Training shows you how. [https://www.reckon.news/black-joy/2022/11/unleash-the-superpower-of-your-lineage-with-ancestors-in-training.html]" Black Joy x Reckon BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Ghrey, and our artwork was designed by Bianca. 

Are you ready to feel more energized, focused, and supported? Go to zen.ai/hoodoo [http://zen.ai/hoodoo] and add nourishing, plant-based foods to fuel you from sunrise to sunset. In this episode, Leah needs a literary agent, and Dani needs help finding affordable housing in DC. We discuss our experiences with Black excellence and how it's overrated, steeped in capitalism, and ultimately ruins art. RESOURCES * "Where the Parents [https://leahnw.medium.com/where-the-parents-at-black-children-in-white-spaces-bfc1531ba1cb?sk=5d9a72fdd103b4af8442d37b855069c7]" Medium. Leah Nicole Whitcomb. * "Black youth face rising rates of depression, anxiety, suicide. [https://edsource.org/2022/black-youth-face-rising-rates-of-depression-anxiety-suicide/666405]" Ed Source. Carolyn Jones. * "It's not about the children," Black writers on the truth behind banned books. [https://www.reckon.news/black-joy/2023/03/its-not-about-the-children-black-writers-on-the-truth-behind-banned-books.html]Black Joy. Danielle Buckingham. * Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer. [https://bookshop.org/p/books/write-for-life-creative-tools-for-every-writer-a-6-week-artist-s-way-program-julia-cameron/18566825] Julia Cameron * Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am [https://www.netflix.com/title/81074570]. Netflix. * "We're not good enough to not practice. [https://www.kieselaymon.com/blog/2015/1/11/were-not-good-enough-to-not-practice]" Kiese Laymon. BE A PATRON! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hoodooplantmamas SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: @hoodooplants Instagram: @hoodooplantmamas DONATE Paypal: paypal.me/hoodooplantmamas Cashapp: cash.me/$hoodooplantmamas This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Ghrey, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.