Not Your Little Lady

It's another episode on the pandemic, but let's be honest there's not much else on our minds.

This episode Allison talks with Eli Peyton, a teacher at DeKalb Path Academy. Eli gives listeners a first-hand account of a teacher's perspective concerning online learning. We talk about the impact the pandemic is having on students, parents and teachers. Plus she gives tips on how to best survive homeschooling kids. Additionally, teachers and a student from the American South share their perspectives and send out messages to their students, classmates or teachers. The Who's that Lady (from History)? is Alice Hamilton, an occupational epidemiologist.

On this episode Allison talks with Shannon Cofrin Gaggero, one of three facilitators for the Race Conscious Parenting Collective at Charis Books & More in Atlanta and author of the blog A Striving Parent. Shannon shares with us her constant journey to becoming antiracist, raising kids to be the same and ways to recognize white centeredness in your family's life. We talk about the BIPOC who have taught her along her way to being antiracist. Additionally, we talk about how parents and kids can practice being antiracist in daily life. The Who's that lady (from history)? is Elaine Brown.

Resources:

A Striving Parent

Charis Books & More

Embrace Race

Raising Race Conscious Children

The Conscious Kid

Mamademics

Parenting is Political

Reparations. How much does the general public know about this topic? On this episode, Allison talks with Dr. Ashley D. Farmer, an Associate Professor in the Departments of History and African and Africa Diaspora at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the author of Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era. Dr. Farmer educates Allison and listeners about the history of reparations from the original promise of 40 acres & a mule to current conversations. She focuses especially on the importance of Callie House and Audley "Queenmother" Moore in furthering the fight for reparations. Dr. Farmer also discusses the impact reparations would have on lives of Black women. The Who's that Lady (from History)? is Alice Allison Dunnigan, the first African-American White House Correspondent. Resources: https://www.ashleydfarmer.com Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International The Black Woman Who Launched the Modern Fight for Reparations

The older you get the harder it is to find and maintain friendships. That’s why for this episode Dr. Alysa Lucas, an Assistant Professor at Central Michigan interested in interpersonal and relational communication, comes on to talk about how the average age of marriage impacts friendships in the American South.

She also talks about how to form new friendships while maintaining ones with friends who have started families.

This episode’s Listen Here is our guest Alysa’s podcasts: Fatal-i-teas and Best Forevers Pod.

*Listeners, thank you for supporting this podcast. Due to life you’ll notice that the Who’s that lady (from history)? and the Things That Pissed Us Off sections are missing. They’ll return next episode! In the meantime, if you have a lady from history you’d like to have featured send me an email at [email protected]