BONUS: Queer Christians and When to Shut Up

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11/07/23 • 50 min

This "phantom season" consists of b-roll and other, new audio recordings of Forrest, Favorite Librarian. Without a script or outline, see what is on Forrest's mind, heart and current reading list.
Check out "Sexuality and Black Church: A Womanist Perspective" by Kelly Brown Douglas and while you're at it also check out "Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where Black Meets Queer" by Kathryn Bond Stockton and "Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future" by Brandi Collins-Dexter.
Walk through this informal conversation with Forrest, a whole hour with Your Favorite Librarian.
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Ep. 20: You Are Okay... And on to the Next

Wrapping up Season II of Favorite Librarian the Podcast, join Forrest for this year's last podcast episode. Paired with Toni Morrison's National Best Seller " Self Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches and Meditations," jump into this week's episode. Broken into 4 sections:
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II. Self Regard and Discipline
III. Holiday Blues and Anxiety
IV. Community Building, Consistency, Reading
October celebrates so many communities for its monthly celebration like Intersex Awareness month. part of Hispanic Heritage Month, Pilipino Heritage Month, and most importantly Gullah Geechee Heritage Month. As a low country native, Gullah Geechee history is gem Your Favorite Librarian adores circulating.
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BONUS Healing: The Angry Part of Trauma and Wrestling with Ourselves

Join Forrest, Your Favorite Librarian for an impromptu and informal conversation. Consisting of b-roll, new audio clips and personal recordings-- jump into the dialogue with Forrest.
From exploring Grief and shame, the usage of both and how they effect expressions of sexuality and identity to rediscovering self in new environments. Forrest doesn't stop there, the conversation continues with paired personal stories and memories.
From defining and understanding spiritual trauma and abuse, respectability politics and honoring other's and their needs over self, this episode is more than a BONUS. With Forrest, explore what healing and self-identification looks like in the American South and Queer spaces, and also as a Queer person of color.
Forrest also discusses self-repression and the effects of voluntarily erasing self in an effort to be tolerated and ultimately accepted. From how not to use trauma and shame to how to copy with trauma and shame--- examine Forrest's suggested tools and tips, and recommend resources.
Episode's Suggested Books
1. "This (Boi)want Body: Narratives of a Queer Black Boi & the Waters that Carry Them" by Bobbi Kindred
2. "In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980's" by Margaret Galvan
3. "Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement" by Jennifer Patterson

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