Guest Podcast: Decolonizing the Crone

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green drops blessings like ripe mango into our laps. Walls breathe a heavy sigh of relief as she shreds the puny narratives we have about who we are and our power to reanimate and reclaim our medicine... our magic. She calls forth specters who resemble our own shadows and reminds us that we can, that we have no choice but to reknit ourselves back together with the medicine that never left us. It sits at the back of our throats waiting for release. It burns. It illuminates. She says... “Medicine is dark and thick like blood” She asks... “Where does your creative medicine intertwine with your work?” She ponders... “How do you court your muse?” She chides... “An anorexic muse is a dying muse” She proclaims... “Medicine informs the muse, the muse informs the medicine. It is a sacred symbiotic relationship” Thank you Mama Jaki. I feel like I left my body several times during our conversation. Thank you for spoon feeding me back myself when I was 5 years old, wise and believed in my own magic.. And so it is on the dark side of the moon. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/how-to-survive-the-end-of-the-world/message

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0:00.0	Oh, When I was 20 years old I was a student at the University of North Carolina at
0:20.6	Chapel Hill and it was there that I was introduced to many authors
0:25.4	that I would soon realize were actually not authors but oracles. Oracles who
0:30.5	would really help me as a young black woman tap into sacred energy, that's
0:36.2	ancestral, sacred energy that's healing, sacred energy that's creative energy.
0:41.7	I took a class that was taught by Soini Madison that was a
0:46.1	performance studies class but was really magic and in that class she introduced me
0:51.6	again to Tony Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor,
0:57.1	Wendellin Brooks. She carved pathways for me to meet Octavia Butler, Alexis Pauline Gums, Adrian Marie Brown, and
1:07.1	Jackie Shelton Green. Every time I've been in space with Jackie Shelton Green
1:11.7	she has dropped blessings into my lap like
1:14.6	ripe mangoes and I don't even know what I did to be blessed with her as a friend and a
1:22.0	mentor but I'm so glad I did it.
1:24.3	There's spaces that we hold together where she calls forth specters that resembles
1:29.5	my own shadow and she reminds me that I have no choice but to knit myself back together with
1:35.2	the medicine that's never left me. It really sits inside of my body and is
1:39.4	waiting for release. It's critical. It illuminates. We have to remember that. Jackie is an
1:48.2	oracle who lives in spaces, pulls out truths, interwines narratives, and provides poetry for this life.
1:58.0	I feel very blessed to have her in my life reminding me that that poetry and that creativity and those words heal me and heal my soul.
2:08.0	They break those generational curses.
2:11.0	They remind me that my ancestral throughline is safe and intact.
2:17.2	Give thanks for the oracle. My name is Omy Shadei Bernie Scott and this is the Black Girls Guide to Surviving Menopause.
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