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Small Doses with Amanda Seales

Side Effects of the Frontlines of Ferguson (with Mya Aaten-White)

Small Doses with Amanda Seales

Amanda Seales

Education, Self-improvement

4.89.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Mya Aaten-White (IG: @just.spook), about her experience during the Ferguson protests. From taking a bullet to taking charge, she shares her story of activism. ~ For more content, subscribe to our Patreon (patreon.com/amandaseales)! ~ Get to the root of stress with the Stress CBD Complex from NextEvo Naturals. For up to 25% off subscription orders of $40 or more, use promo code DOSES at NextEvo.com This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/DOSES and get on your way to being your best self. Treat yourself to the best shapewear on the market and save 20% Off at honeylove.com with the code DOSES. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.9

Welcome to another episode of Small Doses, y'all. You know, I really try my best with

1:13.9

this podcast to let it be a space for true tellers to not only speak to things that I know

1:20.5

you guys are going to find interested in terms of wellness, in terms of career, in terms

1:26.2

of art, but also a space for truth tellers to speak their truth. We have had folks on

1:37.0

this pod who have not been able to access platforms to tell their experiences in the past.

1:44.5

I really do take pride in being able to be a space where we can do that. That brings

1:48.5

us to today's guest. Now, Maya White is a, I don't even know. I feel like, you know,

1:57.8

Maya, I met you on these internet and then you joined us in 2018 when we did Smart

2:04.3

Funny and Black in St. Louis. And, you know, I think, but I think the people in your community

2:10.4

know you as an organizer, as activists, as somebody who is for the people. And, you know,

2:17.0

when it came to the experience of Ferguson, you were on the ground. And I think a lot

2:22.3

of folks only really know about what was going down in Ferguson in 2004. No, 2016.

2:32.3

I don't have a 14. No, I was right. Okay. 2014. I think a lot of people.

2:36.1

14. Yeah. I think a lot of people's knowledge or awareness about what took down, what took

2:43.6

place in Ferguson in 2014 in the wake of the murder of Mike Brown by the police has been

2:54.0

through folks who arrived in Ferguson, not by folks who were there before, during and

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