Absolutely Not!

🎥Watch on Youtube:https://youtu.be/TND2CaRzs9E📝Full Transcript:https://shor.by/c5wO💜Support:https://rb.gy/qr4d5r🔥Subscribe:https://rb.gy/nsxy8g✅ Sponsors:🔶HeadspaceHeadspace has one mission: to improve the health and happiness of the world through meditation, sleep, stress, and mindfulness. Find out more about Headspace at this link: https://headspace.pxf.io/kjKgVx🌱BetterHelpBetterHelp allows you to connect with one of 24,000 licensed therapists in a safe and private online environment. You pay just a low flat fee for unlimited therapy with your therapist. Visit www.betterhelp.com/absolutelynot to get 10% off your first month.Summary:People need more!Thank you so much August Rocha (He/Him/His) for consistently sharing facts in this episode! There are so many layers to ableist beliefs and I’m so glad we were able to break it down for everyone. This episode is ridiculously insightful!In this episode we discuss:-Where the different versions of ourselves come from-Why community is so important-How to readjust our intentionsI love doing this so much! I have the honor of meeting so many dope people all while creating an amazing resource for people who need it most. Tune in today!The ✨ key words✨ for this episode are:StereotypesDiscriminationAbleismI encourage you to look up the definitions of these words and compare them to the definitions you carry with you. If you need help comparing please let me know. With Special Guest August Rocha (He/Him/His)https://linktr.ee/withloveaugustAugust Rocha is an adopted, Chinese American, disabled, transgender content creator and speaker who loves spreading trans joy.

🎥Watch on Youtube:https://youtu.be/YiFBYYfy3Hg📝Full Transcript:https://shor.by/QdO4💜Support:https://rb.gy/qr4d5r🔥Subscribe:https://rb.gy/nsxy8g✅ Sponsors:🔶HeadspaceHeadspace has one mission: to improve the health and happiness of the world through meditation, sleep, stress, and mindfulness. Find out more about Headspace at this link: https://headspace.pxf.io/kjKgVx🌱BetterHelpBetterHelp allows you to connect with one of 24,000 licensed therapists in a safe and private online environment. You pay just a low flat fee for unlimited therapy with your therapist. Visit www.betterhelp.com/absolutelynot to get 10% off your first month.Summary:The exact opposite!Thank you so much Allen Thomas (He/They) for reminding us why it’s so important to be honest about our lenses! This episode touches on a lot and I am excited to see what people take from it. Never forget to be critical of In this episode we discuss:-Why people need to acknowledge all the history they can-What active marginalization looks like-How to move forward as a “career adventurer”I am always so ecstatic to have power house guests in my space! These people come in with amazing insight and I am just so honored to have a space for them to share it all with y’all! Tune in today! The ✨ key words✨ for this episode are:SystemicGenerational TraumaMarginalizationI encourage you to look up the definitions of these words and compare them to the definitions you carry with you. If you need help comparing please let me know. With Special Guest Allen Thomas (He/They)https://atportfolio.squarespace.com/Allen Thomas is a researcher with a background in psychology, education, and DEI. Growing up in Arkansas and graduating from Little Rock Central High School, he later got his PhD in Counseling Psychology and did research on topics including comics, media, race, and sexual orientation. After working in higher education as a faculty member and administrator, he took the leap to ux research after seeing the depth of marginalization in the higher education system. A big nerd, he likes to spend his time playing video games, making art, or just chilling, and loves to consider what a more just and liberated world looks like by examining psychology, behavior, and media.

🎥Watch on Youtube:https://youtu.be/SttcAqrunTg📝Full Transcript:https://shor.by/LmSU💜Support:https://rb.gy/qr4d5r🔥Subscribe:https://rb.gy/nsxy8g✅ Sponsors:🔶HeadspaceHeadspace has one mission: to improve the health and happiness of the world through meditation, sleep, stress, and mindfulness. Find out more about Headspace at this link: https://headspace.pxf.io/kjKgVx🌱BetterHelpBetterHelp allows you to connect with one of 24,000 licensed therapists in a safe and private online environment. You pay just a low flat fee for unlimited therapy with your therapist. Visit www.betterhelp.com/absolutelynot to get 10% off your first month.Summary:Acknowledge the violence!Thank you so much Joquina Reed (She/Her) for reminding us of the violence we all unfortunately participate in. This first step is acknowledgement and I know this episode will help a lot of people move in the right direction.In this episode we discuss:-Why we don’t need more “perpetual users”-How Anti-Blackness can show up in ourselves-What happens when we continue to seek White validationThis episode was full of laughs, tears and Beyonce! I am so grateful for the amazing people I get to meet in this space and so proud of how I do this! Tune in today!The ✨ key words✨ for this episode are:Anti-BlacknessRacismLiberationI encourage you to look up the definitions of these words and compare them to the definitions you carry with you. If you need help comparing please let me know. With Special Guest Joquina Reed (She/her)http://www.instagram.com/theantiblacknessreaderhttps://linktr.ee/theantiblacknessreaderJoquina Reed wears multiple hats but the most important hats I wear in life is being a fabulous aunt to 8 nieces and nephews! In addition to being Nanny Kina. She is also a Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion practitioner and owner of JReed Consulting LLC.  She is the creator behind the Divesting from Whiteness and Please Say Black podcasts and curator of The AntiBlackness Reader project. As a life-long learner and educator, she affirms the words of her great ancestor, Anna Julia Cooper, “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”