The One About Building an Anti-Racist Lens with Selam Debs

The Papaya Podcast

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

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🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Selam Debs is an anti-racist educator as well as the founder of Juici Yoga, a yoga and meditation instructor, a restorative yoga teacher trainer, a holistic life coach, + a reiki master. Today Selam talks with us about the importance of building an anti-racist lens. As a mother, we also discuss raising a black son in today’s world, as well as white friendship and black joy. Selam shares how we are all part of this work, and the importance of changing the lens in which we see the world, an anti-racist lens. It was an honour to sit and learn from Selam and I hope everyone is ready to take notes. TW: Mentions of Abuse
You can follow along with Selam on IG @SelamDebs as well as www.selamdebs.com

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0:33.5	Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess,
0:38.4	Strangher Mostess, Sarah Nicole, and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed
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1:01.3	I'm beyond excited to welcome today's guest. This guest was actually introduced to me and
1:07.3	recommended to me by a friend of mine. In 2020, we had our great unlearning and learning when it
1:14.4	came to anti-racism. But it's not just a 2020 thing. This is a 2021 thing. It's a 2022 thing.
1:21.5	It is the rest of our lives thing. When we talk about anti-racism, we want to hurry up and just
1:28.5	learn it all and get it dealt with and be better. The problem with that is that it's daily work.
1:33.9	It's every single day. It's little moments. It's big moments. It's everything in between. It's
1:39.5	holding each other accountable and having really great conversations with those who know what they're
1:44.4	doing, know what they're talking about and lead the way. Salam Debs is a mother singer, songwriter
1:49.7	poet, writer, thinker activist and yoga and wellness professional. She's a black woman. She is a
1:55.2	mother of a teen boy. She's the owner of juicy yoga studios in Waterloo, Ontario. And she is so
2:02.6	many other things as well. Her anti-racism courses have a wait list and they often do that I have
2:09.5	noticed. Everyone who takes them that I've spoken to has the most amazing things to say when it comes
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