Making the taboo into daily ritual
Welcomeeee, I’m Janiece - your host.
Obsessed with in between spaces like magic, death, ancestor veneration, herbs, geometry, portals, and grandma's recipes, this show explores the blueprints that were left for us while embracing our responsibility to add to the cannon.
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Today's guest, Zakiya aka Sh8peshifter is special. Meeting for the first time in Nigeria, we were able to support each other in our intiations leading us to hosting an Oya Odun Festival in Mexico City during Dia del los Muertos! In this episode we discuss what led us to this path, and all things Oya energy.
Zakiya’s Website: https://www.sh8peshiftyourlife.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shesash8pes...
I loved this conversation with Keyanna (Dark Sugar Podcast) so much. We talk about the difference in our upbringing and how our families addressed the topic of death, ghost stories, the importance of acknowledging death and our grief, and more.
Returning Home to Self: Breaking Out of Society. It was an honor to be hosted on the Dark Sugar Podcast, hosted by a long time friend, Keyanna Blass. Find more of the Dark Sugar Podcast here:
Valentine's Day is my favorite because of the intention of my mother. Anything outside of Black women, men, and all in between deserving good, wholesome, grounding relationships is propaganda and I ain't with it. Part One of Two!
Supplemental Material
Book: Salvation: Black People and Love by Bel Hooks
Book: The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient Teachings in the Ways of Relationships by Sobonfu Somi
the holy in between
where history wasn’t all peachy, and your grandma wasn’t the saint the stories painted her to be
the intense transition
the current and present living
telling the story now, so it’s already written and consecrated when I’m gone
the sankofa
the merge of old and new, of technology and oral tradition, of air fryers and ovens on thanksgiving
the EDM and the shout, the tambourine and the beat drop, the drum beat and the sanctified oil, the beat drop and the holy ghost fall out
the doing and action between verbal manifesting and physical doing
being a younger millennial, stuck between gen z new world and baby boomer 2.0 tradition
The green flash on the horizon, when one chapter ends, door closes, and adventure begins
a scientific, numerical-based phenomenon that we all go through, in which we all yearn to be witnessed and recorded and seen and heard
“see my magic! see my dance! see my color, my art, my hair, my ability to speak well, to enjoy life, see me!”
you are no longer a mythical legend, with records lost at sea, you are here baby
present, evergreen, green like the flash on the horizon both mirage and tangible, teleporting us in the future Octavia Butler spoke about. Black women will lead the way, we’re your key to the holy in-between, your tour guide, your Rosetta Tharpe, your secular and sacred your sexy church organ chords played on an electric guitar
listen to our wisdom, witness our movement and learn something
“that’s just sped up blues, I’ve been doing that for forever”
the holy in between, where I am in alignment with my highest self BECAUSE of my most disciplined past
ase and amen 12/7/21