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Dismantled
by Dismantled
A podcast by 4 healers of color, dismantling systems of oppression and lifting love, solidarity, liberation, and discourse. We discuss mental health, wellness, personal, social, and historical issues for people of the sun!
Episodes
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The Black Out: We Been On!
Baby hair and dookie braids. Family reunions and fish fry's. The Black Out is here to remind y'all that we stunt for ourselves and the community. Who gone take us off?!?! We been about that life.
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Black Out: I Said What I Said!!!
The Black Out crew is reclaiming our time (and our energy, effort, and focus)! Emotional labor is the draining practice of suppressing one's own feelings and exerting energy for the purpose of addressing other people's feelings, making other people comfortable, or living up to social…
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Black Out is Back! -- Unbought & Unbossed!
Happy Black Futures Month y'all!!! After a whole year the Black Out is officially back and starting 2019 with some big questions. This week we sit with the fact that as Black womxn we are varied and complex with many different and intersecting identities, values, and ways of being. Inspired by…
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Black Out is Back! -- Blessings, on Blessings, on Blessings
It wouldn’t be an official wrap up with out a word to hold onto. Catch us outside in 2019! Black Future’s Month we will be BAAAAAAAAACK!!!
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Black Out is Back--Victory is MINE!
Lifting moments of victory and moments of joy is key to our survival. Victory and Joy offer us a counter narrative to all the trauma talk, negative energy, and counterforces about BLACK peoples and our lives.
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Black Out is Back--So Where Y'all Been Though?
MIA? Nah, The Black Out crew been out here living that authentic life. Trying to get right and stay right!
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Black Out is Back - Who Dis Here For?
Who are our listeners? Who do we center and uplift, and what we hope y'all get from tuning in.
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Black Out is Back--What is the Black Out?
So Dismantled started off as one thing and then the Black Out came stuntin' thru. Here are our words as we try to capture where we started from and what we’ve grown to become!
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Black Out is Back - The Call In
The Call In is more than how we start. The Call In is to center and align ourselves with the energies and guides that we want to honor and invite into our experiences. The Black Out crew uses THIS call in to set intentions on where we want to go as we get ready to embrace another year of vibing...
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Loving for a Living: A dialogue with Brittsense
Deep East Oakland documentarian Brittsense joins us for a conversation about love, healing, and her first self-published book "The Power of Melanin." She shares her inspiration for documenting the beautifully vast expressions of melanated people and reminds us to get back to the root of who we…
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Black, Buddhist, & Beyond: A dialogue with Unique Holland
The Dismantled crew is trying some new things in 2018! We're connecting with community to learn more about different paths to realizing wholeness, wellness, and liberation. This week Aja talks with Buddhist practitioner, Unique Holland about some of the misconceptions of Buddhism, and how…
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GET OUT The Remix: Liberation Activation
As 2017 comes to a close (deuces heaux!) and we sit in the middle of some astrological intensities the Black Out wants to know what lessons you are taking into the new year, what energies you are casting off, how will you activate your liberation in 2018...starting NOW. #youarethekey…
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Black Out: Sankofa - Returning to Who and Whose You Are
Those seeking their traditional heritage eventually face the spirituality of their ancestors. Listen as we honor the reverence of Sankofa through storytelling, memories, and present day revelations. Our Ancestors are our army, our breath, and most importantly - Love.
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Black Out: B*tch Don't Kill My Vibe
"I can feel your energy from two planets away..." Taking a word from brother Kendrick, the Black Out crew is not here for noboby's energy sucking, extra emotional labor, or vibration lowering. This week we're focusing on self-care/soul care, and how to keep our (emotional & energetic) tanks on...
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Overwhelming Oppression
The Core Crew is back! Is it just us or does it seem like the world is ending? Clearly the chickens have come home to roost and the universe is showing us that it too has a response to all that has come to a head. We leave you with Aja's three R's: Respite, Relaxation, Remembering.
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Latinx: ¡Pa'lante con Solidaridad!
Listen our Latinx crew talk about solidarity. From natural disasters to political disasters, we discuss how we can show love and support to our Latinx communities close and far. ¡En la solidaridad está la fuerza!
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The Devil is a LIE!
The Black Out Crew is back with a message of protection - following Charlottesville and continued 45 fuckery. By all and any means necessary - the spirit and our spiritual are our greatest power. There’s always a shadow to what’s great and energies that will deter our birthright of victory. Here…
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The Trifecta: Passion, Purpose and Your Gift
We work hard to get to a certain place, position, or status in life and then after a while you realize you've submitted to the "Hamster Wheel." When's the last time you checked in with yourself about passion, about your purpose, and about your gifts? Are you in alignment and operating from that...
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All Hail the Pussy
This week the core group deep dives into one of the most vulnerable and powerful parts of the body: the pussy. Yes, we're talking about vaginas. We're over the shame, silence and secrets--let's reclaim our vulvas and nurture the life force, creativity, healing, and power that all resides in the...
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Getting Bodied
Loving our bodies is a struggle when our bodies have been the battleground for violence. Our bodies encompass our psyche, our spirit, our ancestry, our physical health, our emotional labor, our oppression, and our liberation. Our bodies are our vessels. What does your vessel say about you? Have…
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Latinx: To date or not to date
Join Cynthia, María Cristina, and special guest Gomez discuss dating in the Latinx/LGBTQ community. First of all, do we even date? Are the fairy tales true? We talk everything from dating, love, sex, relationships, how we navigate cultural norms, and find liberation. Join the party!
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Power up! Honor Your Privilege
For a lot of POC, it gets complicated when it comes to acknowledging our own privilege and power. Because the oppression is real, we sometimes get stuck in it and forget how powerful we actually are. This week we wrestle with the complexity of our identities and challenge ourselves to step into…
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Sunkissed - Respect your Melanin
Let's flip the script on colorism. Listen as we dismantle the lies about being "dark" and internalized Anti-Blackness within POC communities. People of the sun, it's time to re-define our intimate relationship with the sun and it's blessings. Step in the light, bask in your glow.
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Higher Learning? Or Systemic Indoctrination?
Join Maria Cristina, Aja and Cynthia as they break down their experiences in academic institutions while addressing the very real systemic oppression these institutions were built on. Listen as they discuss how to survive in predominantly white institutions, while staying true to yourself and…
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LatinX: The Loca Experience
Join the Dismantled LatinX crew as we tackle the taboo subject of mental health in our communities. We struggle through many systems of oppression as we fight to decolonize our minds. Hear us tackle our own experiences with the mental health system as we dismantle the loca experience.
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Black Out: Unapolagetic Black Joy
Calling in Destiny, Abundance, Nourishment, and Struggle - the Black Out crew taps in to the sacredness of Black Joy. What is Black Joy? Why everybody always trying to steal it? What's the light and shadow of Black Joy?
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Black Out: Bad, Boujee, and Respectability Politics
Shout out to the all the Black women on they daily grind of, "F&*ck yo Respectability Politics!" They lied, they tried, and we just out here winning. Self love, self defined, and self appointed. Keep being orignial.
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Latinx: Transgressing Borders
Join us and our very special guests, Kristina Lovato and Rebecca Anguiano, as we discuss how immigration laws collide with families' lives. On our second Latinx Episode we talk about how fronteras affect us and how we grapple with our roles as mental health providers and advocates. ¡Ningún ser...
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Black Out: GET OUT
The Black Out is back for a second round! Have you seen Get Out? Did you fall out or fall in? Hear our thoughts, feelings, and takeaways as we deal with the inescapable sunken place(s).
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Latin@? Latinx? What are we calling ourselves these days?
Listen to 2 of the Dismantlistas and there very special guests, as they talk about race, colorism and grapple with the Latinx identity. How do we as descendants of people of the sun make sense of colonization, our African diaspora and our Indigenous roots? This is the first of our Latinx series…
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Giving Thanks and Do You Boo!
Four episodes in and we already gotta give thanks y’all! From Canada, to Kenya, to France we’re being heard in many places. We share feedback, request our listeners to let us know what’s up, and explore thoughts and experiences of how to get your therapy on.
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Black Out: Liberated Love
Introducing the Black Out special for Black History Month. With special guests, we begin a dialogue about Black Love in an attempt to extend an invitation. Love is vast, complex, and abundant - choose it!
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Fists Up! - Black and Latinx Solidarity
The necessity for connectedness and community is a MUST. This episode lifts Black and Brown unity for the goal of collective power and liberation. We are stronger as ONE!
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Dismantlistas!
Welcome to Dismantled! On this episode we talk about our inspiration for the podcast, what Dismantled means to us, and begin to dialogue with listeners about breaking through systems of oppression and finding our way towards healing, love, and justice!
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