#blackgirlhomework

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This weeks #BlackGirlHomework lesson is pt 2 of Ancestral Healing (or) "What's the Real Story?" ... Too often, our elders and our ancestors stories are mythical or wrapped up in the hegemony of white mens imaginations. Its important for us to do the work to interrogate the "Why" and go deeper with our questions of how/what/when/where our stories took on the lives they took on. ... Black Girl Mixtape is a live lecture series and digital directory amplifying and celebrating the voices of black women as the authority on all issues pertaining to blackness and womanhood. To donate to BGM’s platform visit www.gofundme.com/blackgirlmixtapetour or give at paypal.me/blackgirlmixtape ... *If you are a nonBlack woman and would like to support our work because you know you learn, for free, in this space and from black women's never-ending intellectual and emotional labor - feel free to visit www.blackgirlmixtape.com/voluntary-reparations/ to give a one time reparation or to subscribe to an ongoing reparations giving option that supports our tour, our staff, and our ability to continue to serve in this way. .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #blackgirlmixtape #authorized#thefreepeopleproject #blackwomen#celebrateblackwomen #Womanism#HipHopWomanism #GoFundMe #Donate#BlackGirls https://www.instagram.com/p/BmbRVMRHVMg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xnywzdjllwvt

[rememberebonyjanice]

Day 2 Intro Womanism 101 "Mama I'm going to Canada an I'm taking several other slaves with me. Reply: "You wouldn't be the first." --- This month I am daily sharing an introduction to womanism in this space and some follow up work over @blackgirlmixtape called #BlackGirlHomework. Stay tuned to both spaces to learn more about womanism and for black women specifically to learn more about how your living is already "the work." --- Today's post is more from the womanist definition set forth by Alice Walker. One thing of note is that for black women committed to the work of gender equity, we do not have the capacity to disregard the needs of our other gendered counterparts. We are committed to the surthrival (via @lyvonnep) of ALL of black people. We only separate ourselves when we are "weary of the ways of the world" (via @saintrecords) - for health. --- "You wouldn't be the first" is such an important part of my own womanist journey. I recognize, with deep gratitude, that even without the title my elders were doing womanist work. I may have more reach than they did but I am not the first. I am not doing this work alone. I never was. I never will be. --- Your Day 2 consideration is to find and give credit to one black woman that shaped/is shaping your truth and capacity in the work that you do. If you can not think of one black woman that has influenced your current capacity/skill/knowing - research black women in your industry and become acquainted with their contribution to your field. You can "give credit" by citing them in public presentations and, especially, by finding ways to contribute to their work in tangible ways. In addition to sharing their work contribute financially to their efforts. —- When you support my work, you are supporting the education of black women and femmes here and abroad. You can subscribe to my Patreon today at www.patreon.com/ebonyjanice. There are many other ways to support my work. Use the hashtag #WomanismSavedMe all month to follow along this journey. Although womanism is black women's work, womanism saved you too. #TheFreePeopleProject https://www.instagram.com/p/BugeRokFwMy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=urhfouez5b7x

[rememberebonyjanice]

“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.” - Alice Walker 💜 @lyvonnep emphasized rhis statement on our panel at the Power Rising conference in New Orleans this past weekend. “Purple is a deeper shade.” “Womanism is black Womens deeper work.” How shady is that? Lol! 🙊 I am thinking about my intentionality around focusing on #HipHop. I “wouldn’t be the first” but that’s why I’m so credible because I enter into this conversation with my loved experience as a #HipHopWomanist and on the shoulders of my elders, my contemporaries, and especially my ancestors. ➰ March is #WomensHistoryMonth so I will be teaching an intro Womanism course here in this space and we will be doing our #BlackGirlHomework daily over @blackgirlmixtape 🎉 As I shared recently, I’m working on my book on Hip Hop Womanism and finding so much in my research that may not end up in the book but that I want to share with you. Because #WomanismSavedMyLife <- This will be the hashtag here and #BlackGirlHomework will be the #BlackGirlMixtape page homework. ❤️ I have so many dope things happening ending this month in my Patreon community and my audio essays are going live in that space starting in March as well. Your support of my work helps me continue writing, teaching in free spaces, creating content, supporting my team (@woohoneychild and @naystillcareee) and growing the #BlackGirlMixtape platform to continue being a space of lifting an centering the voices of black women. Here are all the ways you can sow into this work: Patreon.com/EbonyJanice Cashapp: $EbonyJanice PayPal.me/EbonyJanice Venmo: @ebonyjanice PayPal.me/blackgirlmixtape Www.blackgirlmixtape.com/voluntary-reparations #TheFreePeopleProject *Also... look at how funny I am. Lol! This is the proof that I’m one of the funniest people you know! Lol! It’s subtle sometimes because Emma Jane And Kasandra raised me so I’m shady as heck... but I love to make people scream laugh like this! 😍💜🙏🏾 #BlackGirlJoy https://www.instagram.com/p/BuYvVtIlGGj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4yjaax75d2ij

[rememberebonyjanice]

Day 1 Intro Womanism 101 "Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender." - Alice Walker --- This month I will be daily sharing an introduction to womanism in this space and some follow up work over @blackgirlmixtape called #BlackGirlHomework. Stay tuned to both spaces to learn more about womanism, and for black women specifically - to learn more about how your living is already "the work." --- Today's post is an introduction to the womanist definition set forth by Alice Walker. We will spend the month going deeper into this definition and understanding, which will include book suggestions, article recommendations, black womanists to follow, support and learn from & an emphasis on the sociopolitical, spiritual religious, and my own personal #HipHopWomanist theory and praxis. --- Your Day 1 book consideration is Alice Walker's "In Search of Our Mother's Gardens. Add this book to your library cart or your purchase list and commit to spending the rest of 2019 learning more with and from black women and black femmes. --- When you support my work, you are supporting the education of black women and femmes here and abroad. You can subscribe to my Patreon, which is a space where I am a #PersonalProfessor and #PersonalPastor. Monthly I give patreon exclusive lectures & patreon exclusive sermons. Exclusively means this content LITERALLY exists nowhere else but that space. You can subscribe today at www.patreon.com/ebonyjanice. There are many other ways to support my work. Tagging people who should be a part of this community and or sharing these posts (with credit) are also powerful ways to help this space grow. Use the hashtag #WomanismSavedMe all month to follow along this journey. Although womanism is black women's work, womanism saved you too. #TheFreePeopleProject https://www.instagram.com/p/BueNcnjF3Eo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15w0lwqycawuu

[rememberebonyjanice]

Having a healthy body is important to me for a lot of reasons: 1. I want to age as gracefully as my elders. 2. I know they haven't aged as graciously as they have without, what we call "right living" 3. I want to be an example for my family of wellness. 4. Mostly - just cause I wanna always stunt on heaux. (shrugs) If I can just keep it real. 🤷🏾‍♀️ 5. But also because I am clear that a “healthy body” will give me a reasonable boost of endurance and I want to endure. --- I have told the story about being really out of shape running around the church one time and - I got half way around and was out of breath. And I thought, "Woo, Jesus how I'm gonna make it back to my seat? I can't just walk back at this point. I took off sprinting too hard. The saints gonna think I ain't really saved." LOL! So... I had to think fast. I just fainted. LOL! Yup. I just fell out and laid there for a while behind those seats until I could catch my breath. --- In real life the most important thing to me about taking care of myself is because I know I can't honor God iin my body in the super somatic ways that I lean into if I don't take care of myself & becaues I am also attempting to run longer and farther than my elders and my ancestors. I'm going to talk soon @blackgirlmixtape on a #BlackGirlHomework about the actual distances enslaved black folk walked/ran from the south to the north. My G... Canada is 1600+ miles from Georgia. How long did that journey take? How many (often barefoot or underclothed) miles were logged on that journey? And I'm gonna complain about getting in 10,000 steps today with my privileged able body? --- "Taking care of yourself" looks different for all of us. But for those of us who have the capacity, a mantle and a mission to carry onward... It has to look like “intentional.” Amen? --- #TheFreePeopleProject --- I'm going to Paris in January and will be launching the Black Girl Mixtape Paris Dinner DocuSeries premier event. Would you contribute at gofundme.com/blackgirlmixtapeparis to support this mission. This, and other conversations, are the necessary discussions that Black Girl Mixtape is having across the diaspora and I appreciate your support. (at Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrDGBEsF2XK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hyt86m0flz9k

[rememberebonyjanice]

Have you checked out @blackgirlmixtape’s #BlackGirlHomework or #BGMInstitute? Visit www.blackgirlmixtape.com to learn more about the work we are doing to center black women’s intellectual #authority and to educate folk from a #womanist perspective where we center #BlackWomen, other marginalized folk, and then any nonPOC that benefits from these resources is a bonus - not a priority because whiteness is prioritized in every other space. . . . This video is an intro to some conversation that we will be having in the coming months at #BGMInstitute on the topic of Black Spirit themes, Southern Black #Christianity, and African Spirit Themes. . . . Currently @raising_ratchet_royalty is teaching a class on Decolonizing Christianity and I am teaching a course on Hip Hop as Liberation Theology. @theamonyee will soon be teaching a course on Decolonizing Mental Health and we are growing our teacher pool of dope Black women doing important work that you need to quote, cite, and pay to teach you more! #BlackGirlMixtape #TheFreePeopleProject https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn1Vj-sgjOE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e7j0rm3132x

[rememberebonyjanice]

✨Today your "#SayHerName" (or) "Ancestral Healing" #BlackGirlHomework 📝 is due (Check Monday’s post if you missed the assignment). I've been so happy to see so many comments and DM's about how important and necessary you've found this assignment to be. For my Black Girl Homework - I'm sharing the photo of my grandmother, that I just added to my altar prayer space. Additionally, you can read the story I wrote about my grandmother on the BGM website at ✨www.blackgirlmixtape.com/black-girl-Homework/ ✨(Link in IG bio). I used, what #ToniMorrison calls, "Inventing the truth." What we understand is that, as people on this continent by force, we have a certain amount of history that was "lost." As a result, many (most) of those stories were not documented in a way that is tangible - similar to other groups of people (because learning a second language, reading in that second language, and writing in that second language was close to impossible and -> illegal). So we use our "sites of memory" to recall the story of our elders and our ancestors. We trust that the spirit will guide our imagination to places that are, in fact, the truth. If we will know the stories of our grandmothers and their mothers' - we may have to invent them. We have that power - and we have that permission. --- ✨Come back to the Instagram page: @blackgirlmixtape or the website (www.blackgirlmixtape.com) on Monday for a new Black Girl Homework assignment. Feel free to email us at the link in the @blackgirlmixtape bio with any questions about your Black Girl Homework. We will post new assignments every Monday and your follow up will be due every Friday. ---- ✨Black Girl Mixtape is a live lecture series and digital directory amplifying and celebrating the voices of #blackwomen as the authority on all issues pertaining to blackness and #womanhood. To donate to BGM’s platform visit www.gofundme.com/blackgirlmixtapetour or give at paypal.me/blackgirlmixtape ✨Photo is my #grandmother on my #altar. Video is BGM Exec Dir @woohoneychild’s Black Girl Homework.