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Empowerment Starts Here
by Angela Dye
Empowerment Starts Here is a podcast that explores power, social change and disrupting the margins.
Episodes
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Ep72- The Case of BLM with Dr. C. Eric Ervin
This episode is the fifth conversation in the Black Lives Matter series. In it, you will hear Dr. Ervin talk about the collapse of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for black people. He also talks about the choice between gradual change in contrast to "cataclysmic change" (his words) as...
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Ep71- The Case of BLM with Reverend Valerie Bridgeman
This episode is the fourth conversation in the Black Lives Matter series where empowerment starts here with Reverend Dr. Valerie Bridgeman. In this call, Rev. Valerie links BLM to the spiritual. She talks about God as not sharing, about Jesus being a black woman, and about uprooting historical...
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Ep70-The Case of BLM with Senator Lena Taylor
In this episode, Empowerment Starts Here with Senator Lena Taylor from Wisconsin. The Senator joins this BLM series as a public servant trying to disrupt social margins for her constituents while personally being in those margins. She talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness by…
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Ep69- The Case of BLM with Demetrius Bennett (Y-DOT)
In this episode, the Informant, a local artist, talks black lives matter through the lens of a black man growing up in Milwaukee, WI. He talks about his lived experiences with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and his encounters with police. In the close out, the host will explore...
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Ep68-The Case of BLM with Henry Leonard
In this episode, Henry Leonard talks about public education and black lives matter through the lens of a union worker. He also shares his perspective on life as a contested experience for blacks yet a privileged experience for whites. Finally, in the close out, the host will consider white...
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Ep67- Introducing Season 6: The Case of Black Lives Matter
This episode is the first of a season of seven where the host explores what black lives matter means to her on a personal level and then engages with others to find out what it means to them as well. To learn more about this episode and to access the show notes, please visit our webpage.
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The Case of ESH (Ep61)
In this episode, the host returns (from an extended break) with a conversation about her continued commitment to Empowerment Starts Here (ESH). She talks about the six episode gap (between Ep55-Ep60); about being on autopilot from one major project to the next (without time to reflect and...
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Ep54- The Case of Capital and School Choice
In this episode, the informant talks about the capital required for parents to enroll their children in charter public schools and the ways in which this requirement violates the tenets of free education. In the close out, the host adds to the conversation by talking about democratic education…
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Ep53- The Case of EduColor
In the recorded conversation, the Informant talks about public school employment for educators of color and how it differs from what their white counterparts experience. He also talks about educators of color only being allowed to teach in under-resourced schools and finally, he talks about...
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Ep52- The Case of Racism
Contrary to public treatment, racism is not just about the n-word. It is also not just about blatant discrimination on the grounds of color. In this episode, the host talks about the subtleties of racism at the interpersonal level relating to legitimacy, authority and the control of resources.…
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Ep51- The Case of Black Love
In the Case of Black Love, the informants talk about happiness, love, sex, sexuality, sexual assault, black men, black women, black consciousness, R. Kelly, Judge Kavanough, polyamory and monogamy, white patriarchy, black matriarchy, and much, much more! In the close out, the host talks about the...
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Ep50- The Case of Words
In this episode, the informant shares insight on words and the human experience those words represent. She talks about writing, publishing and the development of the mind. In the close out, the host talks about a mental function called chunking and how it is essential for experts and the highly...
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Ep49- The Case of Sex
In this episode, the informant and host talk about sex from a sociological perspective. Together, they interrogate ideas on sex as an act of pleasure, the right to have pleasurable sex, and the dignity of sex as related to being human. They also talk about parenting in the development of healthy...
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Ep48- The Case of the Sunken Place
The Sunken Place is a term/metaphor borrowed from Jordan Peele's movie, Get Out. In this episode, the host proposes four conditions that creates this condition. Instead discussing racism, as was the premise of Peel's interpretation of the Sunken Place, she explores how other conditions in the...
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Ep47- The Case of the Critical
To be critical is to understand all events, experiences and phenomenon by examining their relationship with the social world. One who is critical accepts the social world as a series of interconnecting systems ...usually enacted to maintain current distributions of power. In this episode, the…
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Ep46- The Case of Role Reversal
In this episode, the informant talks about three levels of power shifting: the power shift that happens at the classroom level when whiteness is de-centered in the literature read by black and brown students; at the local level when gentrification takes over black and brown communities; and at…
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Ep45- The Case of White Male Privilege and Identity
In this episode, four ESH returns come back to talk about a common theme they share: being white, male and privileged. In this conversation is Chris Thinnes from Ep03 (The Case of Allyship in Context); Peter Anderson from Ep09 (The Case of Gradelessness); Dr. Paul Thomas from Ep10 (The Case of...
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Ep44- The Case of the Awkward White Feminist
In this episode, the informant models what it means to be unapologetic around issues relating to women. She talks boldly about birth control, about abortions as a reproductive right, about being child-free, and about her relationship with women of color and queer women. Also in this conversation,...
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Ep43- The Case of Social Class
In this episode, the host talks about property, power and prestige as conditions of social class; about class inconsistency and class stratification; and about the consequences of a social class system. To access detailed notes for this episode along with a list of the resources mentioned, click...
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Ep42- The Case of Being Black at School
In this episode, the informant talks about being black at school as a psychosocial phenomenon impacting black students and families, black educators, and black community stakeholders. She also talks about the nonprofit and for-profit organization that fuels her work and the dynamic challenges of...
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Ep41- The Case of Standardized Tests
In this episode, Dr. Marachi offers a critique on standardized testing as part of a larger phenomenon of big data and predictive analytics. She talks about testing as relating to resource distribution and data mining; about power holders as test makers and the design and coding of tests to keep...
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Ep40- The Case of Rejecting the Middle
In this episode, the informant talks about individualism versus collectivism (in terms of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness); about traditionalism versus innovation (in terms of critical pedagogy and rejecting the middle as the naming of the case); and about the English language as a…
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Ep39- The Case of Judge Kavanaugh
This case explores three themes extracted from Senate hearings around the Supreme Court vacancy and the allegations levied against Judge Kavanaugh: body and space; power-over; and the contested nature of the invisible. In this episode, the conversation is more academic (ish) than newsworthy....
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Ep38- The Case of Giftedness
In this episode, we spend a good chunk of time talking politically about giftedness, about the federal definition provided for gifted and talented programming, and about the ways in which capitalism and commercialism make space for some gifts while ignoring/invalidating others. To access show…
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Ep37- The Case of Bioethics and Race
In this episode, the informant talks about medicine and the health profession in terms of how prepared it is (or not) in dealing with communities of color. To access show notes and resources mentioned in the episode, visit the webpage.
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Ep36- The Case of Low-income Black Fathers
In this episode, the informant talks about socioeconomic conditions of fathering and challenges faced by black, low-income dads (unemployment, housing and mental health). In the closeout, the host talks about the physiological impact of children (even adult children) when neglected by a parent...
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Ep35-The Case of Social Change from the Margins
When you have multiple access points to powerlessness, the work of social change can seem impossible—even secondary to the work of survival. But nonetheless, there are those of us fighting for our wholeness, fighting for our humanness, all while trying to pursue a vision for a better tomorrow for...
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Ep34- (Part 2) The Case of Self and the Resistance
In this eisode, the host focuses on the social world as relating to the power and privilege afforded to specific cognitive functions (within Meyers Briggs personality theory). She also brings attention to the challenges that exist when certain functions are embodied by women of color. This is the...
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Ep33- The Case of Self and the Resistance
The final case is being presented over two episodes allowing for an adequate representation of two related yet distinct discussions. In the first episode (Ep33), the host provides an argument for why knowing the landscape of one's internal world is essential to disrupting margins. The case was...
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Ep32- The Case of Critical Race Feminism
In this episode, the informant talks about self-love and self-care as liberatory practices. She provides a five-part construct on critical race feminism. She also talks about the bleeding nature of the subthemes within critical race theory: critical feminism, feminism, jurisprudence, and critical...
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Ep31- The Case of the Academy and Women of Color
In this episode, the informant explores racism and sexism in higher education. To get more of a description and access resources mentioned in the conversation, please visit our webpage: https://empowermentstartshere.net/2018/05/16/the-case-of-the-academy-and-women-of-color/
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Ep30- The Case of Race and Dignity
In this episode, the informant talked about dignity as a sense of mutual self-worth within the human race and race and gender as social constructs that serve to disrupt our overall sense of oneness with each other. She also talked about blackness within global white supremacy, about multiple...
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Ep29-The Case of Student Power
In this episode, the host talks about student power as a practice of teaching and learning. She makes a case that it is an essential element of student empowerment... specifically relating to learners who are disenfranchised from the learning process. Visit the webpage to access the show notes...
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Ep28- The Case of Integrity and Its Price
In this episode, the informant talks about what happens when your life becomes the place of protest impacting your body, your home and your reputation. In it, you will learn how she handled attacks on her character, her reputation, and her inside access to local change efforts happening in her...
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Ep27- The Case of the Black Female Educator
In this episode, the informant talks about the unique teaching style of black female educators that comes from suffering and surviving in an inequitable society. While this case covers issues in teaching and learning, it also covers issues in the social world. The informant does a wonderful job...
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Ep26- The Case of Taking a Knee in Math
In the recorded call, you are going to hear the informant offer four (possibly five) ways that math teachers can do social justice work in a math classroom (and beyond). To access show notes and resources mentioned in the episode, please visit our webpage.
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Ep25- The Case of Technology and Schooling from the Margins
A significant portion of this case explores race and gifted and talented programming. The case also explores issues around testing and cultural biases, digital natives and digital immigrants, Generations Y and Z, and STEM programming in k12 schools. To access show notes and resources mentioned in...
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Ep24- The Case of Learning and Moving
In this conversation, you will learn about movement as vital to building brain cells, moving information from short-term into long-term memory, and positioning students as co-constructors of knowledge—not just mindless receivers of someone else's knowledge. In the close out of the episode, the…
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Ep23- The Case of City X
This episode explores American Apartheid as a system of structures that routinely disadvantages people of color for the advantage of white Americans: wealth, housing, education, mass media, and criminal justice. To access more notes and the resources mentioned in this episode, please visit:...
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Ep22- The Case of Two Times
This episode is based on a song entitled Two Times written and performed by the informant (Jerry B Seus). In the case segment of the episode, the listener will hear Jerry B talk about his writing process; about his emotional life and the gender bias he believes society holds about emotions; and...
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Ep21- The Case of Family Secrets
This case can be divided into two halves. The first half is where the informant talks about family secrets, why it is a topic for her, and how she was frustrated upon discovering some of her family's own secrets. It is here that the listener learns a lot about how family secrets negatively impact...
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Ep20- The Case of Divorce, God and Sexuality
This is a conversation about divorce, God and sexuality. To access the show notes, please visit: http://wp.me/p4MtzN-93
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Ep19- The Case of Black Women Loving White Men
This is a conversation about race, love and belonging. To get a full description, please visit: https://empowermentstartshere.net/the-eshpodcast/
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Episode 17 - The Case of Power and Season 1
In this episode, the host brings closure to the season by sharing the different lessons offered on power. There were 12 informants in Season 1 and as they are highlighted in this episode, listeners are able to learn more about them and the four levels of power that impacted their work with social...
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Episode 16 - The Case of Healing, Surviving and Thriving Pt. 2
In today's conversation, Imani Evans talks about how she took her experience with trauma and made it her life's work. Specifically, she argues that the very thing that made her want to die is the thing that gave her a reason to live. She talks about her experience with sexual violence, with...
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Episode 15: The Case of Healing, Surviving and Thriving
In this episode, Imani Evans, a therapist and activist for women and girls healing from sexual and domestic violence, presents Part 1 of The Case of Healing, Surviving and Thriving. She talks about critical foundations to thriving, such as in joy, happiness, and peace. And, she argues for a…
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Episode 14: The Case of the Upper Lower Class
In this episode, C. Eric Ervin, a former emergency medical doctor, provides listeners with a compelling proposition about class, human behaviors and social well-being.
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Episode 13: The Case of Therapy and Well Being
This week Empowerment Starts Here with informant Kaitlin Popielarz in the Case of Therapy and Well Being. In it she discusses working with a therapist as a form of self care, the stigma that can sometimes surround this form of healing and how her family dynamics helped make going to therapy...
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Episode 12: The Case of the Social Change Organization
In this episode (Ep12), Empowerment Starts Here with Angela Dye (the host). With the Case of the Social Change Organization, Angela offers a 4-part construct for organizations promoting social change. She reasons that organizations committed to social change should have a clear and active aim,...
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