From White Cult Marginalization to Black Girl Magic with Rebekah Ferguson

Brown Girl Self-Care

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm deep diving into the marginalization of black girls by way of the "boys will be boys" platitude, micro aggression and racism with my guest Rebekah Ferguson.

Rebekah is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with over 10 years of experience providing counseling in justice involved populations and making space for marginalized people. She comes from an extremely religious, born-again Christian family, so extreme in fact that she ended up being raised in a cult community consisting of a tiny largely White neighborhood in upstate NY.

Here is Rebekah's story of how she was able to break free and gain a sense of identity as an empowered black woman:

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back for another riveting episode of the Brown Girl Self Care
0:05.9	podcast. My name is Brie and I'm the host of this show. If this is your first time
0:10.7	listening, thank you so much for checking me out,
0:12.9	checking out the Brown Girl Self Care Podcast.
0:15.0	If you've been rolling with me for some time now,
0:18.0	I appreciate you, and I'm so glad that you decided to tune in today.
0:21.9	Today I have an awesome
0:23.2	awesome episode. I'm speaking with Rebecca Ferguson. She's a licensed
0:27.6	mental health counselor based out of NYC. And today we're going to be
0:32.1	talking about her experiences as I mean this she has had an
0:37.7	incredible life and I don't want to give too much away but I will just say her experience being a black woman growing up in a
0:46.5	religious cult if that's not enough for you to to press play or continue listening.
0:53.4	I don't know what is, but we talk about her experiences
0:57.2	as being, quote unquote, one of the only ones,
1:00.4	her struggling with her identity in this religious cult and in this environment
1:04.0	dealing with micro-aggressions and all kinds of stuff and how she was able to get
1:10.3	back in alignment with herself. So this is a super great episode.
1:14.0	Rebecca is so honest and transparent
1:16.3	and I really appreciate her sharing her experience.
1:19.2	So I will go ahead and get to it.
1:21.7	But I do want to say that this episode was recorded actually quite some time ago and I kind of goofed.
1:28.0	So some of the views that I discuss in this episode, particularly pertaining to yoga and meditation have since changed.
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