Morgan on Community and Connection

THE HEY GIRL PODCAST

Alex Elle

Arts, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Alex sits down with Morgan Harper Nichols about community, connection, self-care, and mentoring her younger self. Connect with Morgan on IG: @morganharpernichols ———— hey, girl. is mixed & produced by Wayne Bertram. Order Alex's new book, After the Rain here or on alexelle.com Connect with Alex on Instagram: @alex_elle @theheygirlpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Alex L and I write books for a living.
0:04.0	The Hey Girl Podcast was created with sisterhood and storytelling in mind.
0:09.0	Hey girl.
0:10.0	Hey girl.
0:11.0	Hey girl.
0:12.0	Hey girl.
0:16.0	Join us as we journey through sharing together.
0:20.0	Hey girl. Hey girl.
0:22.0	Hi Morgan, how are you today? I'm doing pretty good. This is the first day this week where I kind of like got back to my routine at like a whole series of days that were just everything but so yeah
0:35.8	today it's like oh okay it's nice to kind of sit at my desk and just kind of gather my
0:41.6	thoughts I'm so glad you're doing good.
0:43.8	Before we dive in to our chat I'd love for you to introduce yourself to the Hey
0:48.4	Girl listener. So who are you and what do you do? Yes, my name is Morgan Harper Nichols. I am an artist and a poet.
0:57.3	Art for me is visual art and occasionally music and yes I love poetry as well and I'm inspired by people's stories so a few years ago I invited people to just share their stories with me privately and I respond with art and poetry.
1:12.0	So that's kind of the gist of what I do. I thought I would do that for like a week or two, but I really loved it.
1:18.0	And here we are, three years later. So, oh my goodness, beautiful. So let's lean into that. Let's start talking about self-care and art as an extension of community care. So what inspires you by other people's stories and in turn how are you able to kind of lean into a practice of art as self-care and then you know that kind of trickles out to our communities and it being community care.
1:45.0	Yes, yes. I love that question. For me it was being a more introverted person I've always struggled because especially growing up I
1:56.4	struggled a lot because I felt like I wanted to connect with other people I
2:00.1	wanted to make a lot of friends but I just couldn't seem to like be in the moment and like, I don't know.
2:06.6	I was just always very like reflective and I feel like I wouldn't know what I felt about something until like weeks later.
2:13.0	And I was just very keen on internalizing things.
2:17.0	And I really struggled because there was just this tension of like,
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