Join us for a special episode featuring our dear friend and colleague, Saran Fina Sidime! As we kick of Black History Month/Black Love Month, Saran joined us to talk about her journey (and journaling about) moving toward self love. She’s booked and busy learning to love and care for herself, but she took the time to come drop some amazing wisdom for y’all!

Recommended Reading:

The Love Trilogy by bell hooks

• All About Love: New Visions
• Salvation: Black People and Love
• Communion: The Female Search for Love

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Remember last episode when we did our “shout out to my timeline” segment? Well have we got a show for you! A lot has happened since our last episode dropped, so we spend most of this episode talking about current events, including the shooting in Minnesota and the kidnapping of Maduro. Seriously, y’all…why the f*ck is this our timeline?!

Suggested Readings:

• Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1965)
• Walter Rodney, Decolonial Marxism : essays from the Pan-African revolution (New York: Verso, 2022 Reprint)
• Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1973)
• Manning Marable, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society (Boston: South End Press, 1983)
• Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019)

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We’re back!! We’re kicking off this episode with a little debrief about what we were up to since our last episode since we took December off from recording. Now it’s a new year…depending on who you ask, so we also briefly discuss the origins of the Gregorian calendar and our groundings for 2026. To kick off 2026, we decided to switch it up a bit with a positive twist to why is this my timeline…shout out to this timeline! We talk Zohran Mamdani, some Trump setbacks, and the importance of organizing on the local level. SPOILER ALERT: We finish the episode with a discussion of the Stranger Things series finale and some thoughts on cathartic violence.

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