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The Fragmented Whole
by Amarachi Anakaraonye
Fragmented Whole (n.): Any entity navigating the fragments of broken systems, relationships, and geographies, while simultaneously striving to remain whole. The Fragmented Whole, a bi-monthly podcast, explores how the brokenness we see in ourselves is reflected in the world around us. Host and researcher, Amarachi Anakaraonye, investigates how the fragments of intergenerational and systemic trauma can be utilized to manifest individual and collective wholeness.
Episodes
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Courageous Conversations
This episode was originally distributed through NC State University's Philanthropy Journal podcast, The Nonprofit Experience, on May 1, 2019. Bethann James, Founder & CEO of Gemstone Professional Services Consultants, and public health professional and podcaster, Amarachi Anakaraonye, discuss the...
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Somewhere in the Grey
This episode was originally distributed through NC State University's Philanthropy Journal podcast, The Nonprofit Experience, on April 24, 2019. Digital storyteller, Amarachi Anakaraonye, and public health professional, Lydia Moges, discuss the ups and downs of nonprofit work; a life spent...
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What Happens When a Fragmented Whole Comes Undone?
The process of unlearning problematic behaviors and learning affirming ones, is a sojourn. In this series finale episode, I share my fragmented journey to wholeness through virtual therapy sessions with my therapist, Shanequa Anderson.To learn more about Shanequa's services, you can visit her...
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Choose You, Sis. Choose YOU.
In this episode I speak with two Black Women of Durham organizers, Rachel Singley and Brianna Hargrove-Kennedy, about their 10 tips for self and communal care: 1. Say no 2.Take a mental health day 3.Check-in with yourself 4. Five minutes of yoga or meditation 5. Have an organism 6. Aromatherapy…
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Sometimes You Need a Space to Breathe
Founded in 2016, Blackspace is a digital makerspace based in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It offers Black and Brown youth a breathing space to manifest their dreams by any medium necessary. In January 2019, I spoke with Mariah M., the Program Director and Slam Master for Blackspace...
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Home is Where the Healing Begins Out Lao'd
In this episode, I speak with Rita Phetmixay, the creator and host of the virtual healing space and podcast, Healing Out Lao'd. Healing Out Lao'd explores Lao diaspora storytelling, healing, and tools for sustainability. For my POCs, reframing intergenerational narratives of trauma begins with...
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Love, Light, Melanin, & Toxic Resilience
I began 2019, wrestling with one question: how do you manifest joy and heal from trauma when you're overburdened with societal expectations of resiliency? In this episode, I speak with activists, Desmera Gatewood and Marion Johnson, about the price of toxic resiliency and strategies for...
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What Does Financial Stability Look Like?
According to LearnVest's 2014 Financial Confidence study, even though women's average income increases by more than 50% after age 25, their financial confidence decreases conversely around age 25. In this episode, I speak with financial planner and public health professional, Ashley Stewart…
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A Guide to Decolonizing a Crone
Crone (n.): an old woman who is thin and ugly. What happens when that 'old' woman is Black, beautiful, bold, and outspoken? What happens when she's above the age of 40 and still wants bodily, sexual, and professional autonomy? In this episode, I speak with activist and storyteller, Omisade...
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Be Responsible & Response-able
In this episode, I process what it means to be an adult by putting it into practice. I speak with Dr. Asani Seawell of Pacific University about how forgiveness positively impacts one's health outcomes. If you get nothing else from this episode, forgive for you. You don't need permission from…
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Dismantling and Building at the Frontline of Equity
In this episode, I speak with Marcus Littles, the Founder and a Senior Partner of Frontline Solutions. Marcus provides strategies organizations can utilize to center equity not just in word, but in action. Happy listening to the entrepreneurs, dreamers, and doers striving to facilitate spaces of...
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What's the Splinter Under Your Nail?: Black Mamas Dyin'
Why are Black people not extinct based on everything we've been through? What factors are contributing to Black women continuing to have full-term births despite experiencing racism across their lives? In this episode, we speak with Dr. Monica McLemore, a reproductive justice nurse, scholar, and...
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The Final Step: Have Many Thoughts, Keep Your Intentions
This season, we have explored an array of concepts and strategies for facing, combatting, and remaining resilient in the face of trauma. In this season three finale episode, I discuss with my therapist, Shanequa Anderson, LMSW, four present and future intentions for manifesting personal and...
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Step 6: I Go Forth Alone, and Stand as Ten Thousand
Is it better to seek healing from acute or chronic trauma for oneself by oneself, or attain healing through the support of a community? What does it mean to be or remain resilient during or after a traumatic event(s)? The answers may not be so simple. Just a few questions that be sittin' on my...
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Step 5: There's Privilege in Experiencing Joy
This episode features Vacation.Charlie a Black, trans, and queer educator, healer, and experience. He is the founder and facilitator of the workshop, 'Sex As Healing:Better Sex & Self Care.' In this episode we discuss how sex can be a tool of healing and revision how we've been socialized to see...
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Step 4: Be Willing to Move
This episode features, Venneikia Williams, a self-proclaimed sinner, sociologist, and seminarian. Currently pursuing her Masters of Divinity, her independent study explores the strategies women of color are taking to heal themselves and others in a society that can be less than supportive of our...
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Step 3: I Will Live Free
This episode features licensed acupuncturist, Chinese herbalist, and yoga instructor, Emily Grace Siy, L.Ac. Her platform and practice, Emily Grace Acupuncture, is centered on helping clients attain balance and community in self-care and female empowerment. Joyful listening!
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Step 2: Re-Member, You Are Worthy
This episode features the insights of educator, healer, artist, and cultural bearer, Jana Lynne Umipig. Her platform emphasizes how self and communal care practices should incorporate one's ancestry, while simultaneously revisioning one's colonized identity. Wishing you joyful listening along…
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Step 1:No Longer at Ease but Resilient
In the season three premiere, I provide a glimpse into my therapy session with my therapist, Shanequa Anderson, LCSW, in order to demystify what exactly therapy entails and the stigma that surrounds it, particularly for us black and brown folks. As a disclaimer, all therapists are different and…
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Counternarrative #5: Not All Gorillas are Friends: Resistance & Resilience Under the 45th
The season 2 finale episode highlights commentary made during the first live audio recording of The Fragmented Whole. With the 2018 midterm elections on the horizon, this discussion addressed the following ideals and tactics: 1. Intra- vs. inter-partisan unity and reconciliation, and 2. The...
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Counternarrative #4: Wakanda Forever: Normalcy is Excellence
This week’s episode celebrates African diasporic representation in media, fine arts, and entrepreneurship by acknowledging the works of the African Chophouse founder, Stanley Lumax, and those of the Black Joy Project founder, Kleaver Kruz. If you aren't already, prepare to be inspired and…
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Counternarrative #3: Net Neutrality: Has it Really Been Repealed?
Co-hosts from Public Knowledge and the Detroit Community Technology Project, discuss how Congress, states, and communities are taking digital justice into their own hands with the repeal of net neutrality. The acts of mobilization discussed make you wonder, "has net neutrality really been repealed?"
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Counternarrative #2: Liberia: Cracking the Crab Syndrome
This week’s episode explores Liberia's first peaceful transition of power in more than 70 years. With the insight of three Liberians of the diaspora, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the socio-political climate within which the 2017 elections occurred, the challenges the Weah administration...
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Counternarrative #1: Zimbabwe: Finally 'Free & Fair?'
This week's contributors, two Zimbabweans of the diaspora, reflect on the end of the 37-year reign of former President Robert Mugabe, critique the current presidential administration of Emmerson Mnangagwa, and look forward to the uncertainty of a 'free and fair' presidential election in 2018.
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2017 in Review: Films are the Window to my Soul
The season 1 finale episode reflects on 2017 by shining a spotlight on some of the year's best films. From Hidden Figures to Get Out, let's reflect on this past year and prepare for the new year to come.
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We Built This, Part 2: A Seat at the Table
The second and last of a two-part conversation on mobilization efforts to remove Confederate statues from public spaces. This episode is guided by the narratives of UNC students and staff regarding the presence of Silent Sam and efforts to have it removed.
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We Built This, Part 1: Confederate Spaces & Black Faces
This two-part episode is centered on mobilization efforts to remove Confederate statues in public spaces. This week’s episode sets the historical and social background of events that have led to the heightened resurgence of efforts to remove Confederate monuments in public spaces, particularly on...
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Clap Back: When you Look Different, People Like to Talk Different
This episode examines the historical body shaming of women of color and centers this analysis on current Dallas TV anchor, Demetria Obilor, of Channel 8, who was body shamed by a white female viewer for her choice of apparel or more frankly, her body composition. Let's clap back in solidarity.
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Beyond Hashtags: Of Mules & Men
In this week's episode, we discuss the role of men in discussions about gender-based violence, particularly with the #metoo campaign. We also shine a spotlight on a programmatic example of male allyship in Nairobi, Kenya.
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To Boycott or to Affirm: #WOC Affirmation
In this week’s episode, by analyzing such movements as the #WomenBoycottTwitter movement and the counter protest of #WOC Affirmation, we’ll explore how the sentiments of women of color have been historically undermined and more importantly, how women of color have resisted such silencing.
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In the Aftermath of Maria: Continental Privilege
In the first episode of the series, we explore the -ism/-phobia of ‘nationality discrimination’ within the context of Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, and the treatment of these American citizens in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
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Pre-Season Introduction: The Fragmented Whole
The Fragmented Whole examines the -isms and phobias that unite and divide us intrapersonally, interpersonally, and geographically. In each episode, we’ll examine how these ideological frameworks play out in current events and pop culture, and hopefully gain a deeper understanding of how we: 1.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Fragmented Whole (n.): Any entity navigating the fragments of broken systems, relationships, and geographies, while simultaneously striving to remain whole. The Fragmented Whole, a bi-monthly podcast, explores how the brokenness we see in ourselves is reflected in the world around us. Host and researcher, Amarachi Anakaraonye, investigates how the fragments of intergenerational and systemic trauma can be utilized to manifest individual and collective wholeness.
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Fragmented Whole (n.): Any entity navigating the fragments of broken systems, relationships, and geographies, while simultaneously striving to remain whole. The Fragmented Whole, a bi-monthly podcast, explores how the brokenness we see in ourselves is reflected in the world around us. Host and...
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