Community Care on the Web | Me, My Self-Care & I

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Crooked Media

Documentary, History, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This week, Mala and Diosa discuss how self-care in the digital age can simplify the movement to a hashtag. They discuss how the internet brought them together and how it has helped in their self-discoveries. Then, they are joined by poet and tattoo artist Mike Davis, aka Hoodprofet, who uses social media to cultivate healing and growth. They discuss their work, their praxis, advocating for the self, and community care on the web.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to me, myself, Care and I. I'm Diyosa. And I'm Mala. And we are the
0:17.1	co-host co-founders and co-producers of Look at the Radio. And this month we are guest hosting
0:24.0	Crooked Minis. So me, myself, Karen Die on this installment of Crooked Minis is all about
0:30.2	self-care as community care. Last time we interviewed the Gumbiatón Collective,
0:36.4	about L'Orivero and D.J. César Fantastic, about the party's praxis and politic for undocumented
0:43.5	queer people of color. And today we're going to be talking with a very special precious gem,
0:49.2	Mike, aka Hood Profit, about self-care, community care, and digital space and the power of poetry,
0:56.0	really as a force for community care. But before we bring Hood Profit on for that conversation,
1:02.0	we're going to talk a little bit about this topic ourselves and even our own experience with this
1:06.2	stuff. Yeah, so we are millennials, right? Yes. We haven't caught on just yet. We are millennials,
1:13.7	and we didn't necessarily grow up on the internet per se, but it was definitely becoming a very
1:20.2	big part of our lives as we were growing up. Meaning my space, aim, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
1:28.7	now there's TikTok. I don't know what that is. Right. Now we're old, and that's like trying to
1:34.8	catch up. All right, do I got to make a TikTok account? No, I don't. What's this new fangled
1:39.9	contract? I don't need to make one. And I will not. It's called our digital like front lawn.
1:45.9	Yeah. Get off my lawn. We're like, we're the the the e-senioras now. We're the IG baddies,
1:54.0	okay? We're so IG baddies. We're just mature users now. Right. Right. Maybe there's less
1:59.8	thirst traps now, but there you can scroll down and still find them. I'm not the young like
2:05.2	17-year-old Tumblr dweller that I once was. Don't know Tumblr was was a big one for me in high school.
2:11.6	I mean, my first social media like account to my memory was my aim account. Same. Right. I was beach goddess.
2:18.0	I was chatting. I don't remember my first. I just think it's so funny that even I was like a nine
2:22.8	year old, not a nine year old. Like a 13 year old I was still goddess. Yes. I was still beach goddess.
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