Pious & Pleasured

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Angelica Lindsey-Ali is known to tens of thousands of Muslims worldwide as The Village Auntie. She’s a Black American Muslim therapist, wellness educator, public health professional and- sexpert. Through her platforms, she advises Muslim women on how to tap in to their femininity. She teaches them about arousal and erotic dance, and says female sexual pleasure is a neglected part of Muslim teachings, and a sacred act of worship that’s rooted in ancestral African ritual and practice.
We meet Angelica, we hear how she came to this work, what she learned along the way- and the trauma, trolling, and anti-Blackness that almost led her to abandon it all.
*A note to our listeners: this episode contains explicit sexual language, and a story of assault.

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, just letting you know
0:02.0	that this is a more explicit episode
0:05.0	and it does involve conversations about assault.
0:08.3	So take care of yourselves while listening.
0:12.8	All right, now it's time.
0:18.6	Hey Lila, hey Hana.
0:20.8	Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna slowly
0:23.6	roll our hips to the right in circles ready.
0:26.9	Five, six, seven, eight, and one.
0:31.9	What is going on?
0:33.6	Are we in some kind of dance class?
0:35.7	Yes, it's a special dance class, erotic dance.
0:40.9	It's slow, it's slow moving,
0:43.3	it's savoring the gyration, right?
0:46.1	So let's go again, ready?
0:47.7	Savoring the gyration.
0:50.3	You gotta bring your shoulders up, sis.
0:52.4	Yeah, pull a little hot sauce on it, right?
0:55.0	You gotta put a little hot pepper on it, okay?
0:57.2	This is an erotic dance class
0:59.2	to prepare Muslim women for their big nights.
1:02.7	Their big night, what big night
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