Hoodoo Plant Mamas

It's the end of the world...as we know it. We talk with Cherise Morris about her work, our anxieties and frustrations around the end of the world, and the hope we need to build a better future.

Cherise Morris is an award-winning writer, interdisciplinary performance artist, ritualist, spirit worker and healer born and raised in rural Virginia and living in Detroit, MI.

RESOURCES

• "MEMO: It's Almost the End of the World" Substack. Cherise Morris.
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• "The End of the World" Substack. Leah Nicole Whitcomb
• "MEMO: We are Living" Substack. Cherise Morris.
• Cherise Morris Patreon

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This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.

Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.

In this episode we're joined by the lovely Sirene Wata. We discuss African water spirits and deities, water as a tool of enslavement and liberation, and the many ways water has showed up in our lives, writing and work.

CONTENT WARNING: Mention of Suicidal Ideation 19:25-21:22

Sirene Martin is a multimedia artist hailing from south central Kentucky. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Pan-African Studies from the University of Louisville with an emphasis in Gender and Sexuality studies. In her art, Sirene seeks to be in conversation with the ancestral spirits that hold her. These conversations act as a portal as she travels into the creative space to conjure worlds and realities that are often refused to her in the material world as a Black Transgender Woman. As a Hoodoosaint, she is a historian and archivist. Recording and caring for the stories of her ancestors, her art elevates the rich Root culture and religions of the Black folks that made Kentucky their home.

RESOURCES

• American Horror Stories Installment 2, Episode 5
• "Ep. 52 Black is King!" A Little Juju Podcast
• Bite Size Halloween
• Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson
• "Ep 16: We Perfect Black with Crystal Wilkinson" Hoodoo Plant Mamas
• "Water" by Joy Postell

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This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah. Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.

TRIGGER WARNING // SUICIDE & SELF-HARM

What do we do when therapy is not enough? We discuss our therapy journeys, which types of therapy we've done, as well as the success and limitations of therapy. We also get into some alternative forms of healing because help should be accessible to all of us.

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Resources

• HappyLight Therapy Lamps & Boxes
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk
• Black Walnut Bath Recipe
• "You're Healing , Now Are You Living?" A Little Juju Podcast

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This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.

Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca

Works We Referenced:

• Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall Kenan
• The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
• Mojo Workin: The Old African American Hoodoo System by Katrina Hazzard-Donald
• "No White Saviors: Woman Accused of Letting African Babies Die at Fake Medical Facility in Uganda" by Michael Harriot
• The Space Traders by Derrick Bell

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This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.

Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.

Crystal Wilkinson, Kentucky’s Poet Laureate, is the award-winning author of Perfect Black, The Birds of Opulence , Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries. She is the recipient of a 2021 O. Henry Prize, a 2020 USA Artists Fellowship, and a 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. Nominated for the John Dos Passos Award, the Orange Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, she has received recognition from the Yaddo Foundation, Hedgebrook, The Vermont Studio Center for the Arts, Hedgebrook, and others. Her short stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including most recently in The Kenyon Review, STORY, Agni Literary Journal, Emergence, Oxford American and Southern Cultures. Her fourth book Perfect Black was released from University Press of Kentucky in August 2021. She currently teaches at the University of Kentucky where she is Associate Professor of English in the MFA in Creative Writing Program.

This episode is sponsored by Moyo Mysteries. Moyo Mysteries offers spiritual consultations, pelvic steam plans, and full-spectrum birthwork services, from fertility and birth & labor to loss & bereavement and abortion work. Moyo Mysteries also offers a variety of educational projects and upcoming trainings. To learn more, you can visit www.moyomysteries.org.

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This podcast was created, hosted, and produced by Dani & Leah.

Our music was created by Tasha, and our artwork was designed by Bianca.