Live Into The Work
02/03/21 • 16 min
Founder of the Check Your Privilege organization and contributor and Editor of the Check Your Privilege anthology, Myisha T is a human-design generator and MBTI ENFJ with action-oriented justice in her blood. A single mom of 3 differently-abled children, Myisha is also a mental health advocate and social entrepreneur. An advocate for healing and social transformation, Myisha continues to center the work of Check Your Privilege from a mental health perspective, using self-compassion practices and reflection to help white folx step back, reflect, and compassionately dismantle their relationship with power, privilege, and oppression. When she's not guiding the practice of those engaged with Check Your Privilege, Myisha lives her role as a mental health advocate to facilitate wellness workshops and peer support groups with black, brown, and indigenous womxn through a restorative justice project she founded and sponsors called, Brown Sisters Speak.
Learn more about Myisha at www.myishat.com and www.checkyourprivilege.co.
In this episode, Myisha guides us with reminders of how to live into the practice of becoming actively anti-racist.
Links:
The Black Friend by Fred T Joseph: https://bookshop.org/a/2712/9781536217018 Check Your Privilege Lean Into The Discomfort: https://bookshop.org/a/2712/9781735234328 Bell Hooks Interlocking Systems of Domination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUpY8PZlgV8
*New Music for the podcast is Rise Above by Makaih Beats
Founder of the Check Your Privilege organization and contributor and Editor of the Check Your Privilege anthology, Myisha T is a human-design generator and MBTI ENFJ with action-oriented justice in her blood. A single mom of 3 differently-abled children, Myisha is also a mental health advocate and social entrepreneur. An advocate for healing and social transformation, Myisha continues to center the work of Check Your Privilege from a mental health perspective, using self-compassion practices and reflection to help white folx step back, reflect, and compassionately dismantle their relationship with power, privilege, and oppression. When she's not guiding the practice of those engaged with Check Your Privilege, Myisha lives her role as a mental health advocate to facilitate wellness workshops and peer support groups with black, brown, and indigenous womxn through a restorative justice project she founded and sponsors called, Brown Sisters Speak.
Learn more about Myisha at www.myishat.com and www.checkyourprivilege.co.
In this episode, Myisha guides us with reminders of how to live into the practice of becoming actively anti-racist.
Links:
The Black Friend by Fred T Joseph: https://bookshop.org/a/2712/9781536217018 Check Your Privilege Lean Into The Discomfort: https://bookshop.org/a/2712/9781735234328 Bell Hooks Interlocking Systems of Domination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUpY8PZlgV8
*New Music for the podcast is Rise Above by Makaih Beats
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Live Into The Work With Constanza Eliana Chinea (Season 1)
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ESTBC Screen-printing: www.estbcprints.com @estbcprints
Black Psoriasis: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/blackpsoriasis
Hoodinarie: https://www.instagram.com/hoodinaireclothing/
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