Southern Steep: Brewing Stronger Community: Recent Episodes
Torrian L Baskerville, Bianca Ward, Nicole Elinoff, Isaiah Webster III
A public health and social justice podcast brought to you by NASTAD. Much like brewing stronger tea, this platform aims to brew a stronger community by centering the voices of community leaders, and their innovative work in the southern United States.
On the series finale of Southern Steep: Brewing Stronger Community, current and former cohosts go down memory lane, sharing reflections on previous season clips, the rich conversations had with guests, and the podcast overall. The hosts share what they have loved and learned throughout this journey as well as their continued hopes for the South. Ultimately wishing for the South to keep Southing. Thank you for listening along these last four seasons! Stay tuned for what's to come. Cheers!
To learn more about WNCAP, please visit https://wncap.org/
To learn more about Trystereo, please visit https://trystereo.org/
To learn more about US helping US, People Into Living, and the DENIM project, please visit https://www.ushelpingus.org/
Learn more about the CBOs in this episode below, and stay connected with NASTAD to learn more about future CBO summits.
- Delaware HIV Consortium- https://www.delawarehiv.org/
- Urban League of Hampton Roads- https://ulhr.org/
- Legacy Community Health- https://www.legacycommunityhealth.org/
- Positive Health Impact Centers- https://www.positiveimpacthealthcenters.org/
To learn more about LivWell Community Health Services, click here: https://livwellchs.org/
To learn more about Destination Tomorrow, click here: https//destinationtomorrow.org.
In this episode, recorded on World AIDS Day, co-hosts Justin and Shanice are joined by Leisha McKinley-Beach, Founder and CEO of the Black Public Health Academy. Now, on the brink of retirement, McKinley-Beach discusses her lifelong commitment to ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S., and her new venture that aims to forge intergenerational partnerships that cultivate opportunities for other passionate activists and advocates to hold the torch and lead the fight. This episode’s Southern Charm goes out to SisterLove, an organization, founded in 1989, as a volunteer group of women interested in educating Atlanta and especially communities of women about HIV prevention, self-help, and safer sex techniques.
To learn more about Breaking Ground, visit https://smyal.org/breaking-ground/
To learn more about SMYAL, visit https://smyal.org/
Learn more about Let's BEEHIVE and their programs here: https://www.letsbeehive.org/
Check out the webinar series here: https://nastad.org/resources/black-women-researchers-and-prep-webinar-series
Learn more about the Normal Anomaly and their programs here: https://www.normalanomaly.org/
Learn more about the TRUTH Project at https://www.truthprojecthtx.org/
View the Trauma-Informed Approaches Toolkit: Addressing Trauma and Supporting Healing within the HIV Care Delivery System here.
Highlighted on this episode's Southern Charm segment is Breaking Ground, a unique program that utilizes the theatre and performing arts to detail the lives, challenges and journeys of LGBTQIA + of color in the DC Metro area. They explore in-depth issues such as HIV/AIDS, sexuality, racism, transphobia, abuse, mental health, and substance abuse. Participants then courageously develop a musical theatre production addressing these topics that directly reflect their experiences.
This episodes Southern Charm features the Georgia Harm Reduction Coalition. GHRC’s, formerly AHRC, mission expresses that they engage directly with grassroots advocacy, research, and direct services to those made vulnerable by drug use, sex work, overdose, gender, STIs, HIV, Hepatitis and other communicable diseases. To learn more about their work and how to support visit. www.georgiaharmreduction.org.
Learn even more about the work Dexter, Malcom, Dean, and Lee are doing by visiting their organization's website listed below.
LGBT Life Center- https://lgbtlifecenter.org/
Brothers Obtaining and Navigating Dynamic Solidarity (BONDS)- https://www.brothersofbonds.org/
PALSS- https://palss.org/
THRIVESS- https://thrivess.org/
This episode starts with Southern Steep host Isaiah calling Rodderick out on channeling Barbara Walters with his check-in question. Together they interviewed special guest Dietz on patient navigation and gender-affirming care. Dietz (any pronoun used with respect) is a transgender health educator, trainer and consultant who has specialized in the field of healthcare navigation in various iterations since 2012. Dietz specializes in expanding and improving transgender and gender non-conforming healthcare access and best practices throughout the South, and strives to strengthen community coalitions through shared compassion, courage, and expressions of liberatory joy. This episode took a dive into gender-affirming care, collaboration, pulling resources together, sharing strategies and solutions. For this month’s Southern Charm we highlighted, Crescent Care formerly known as NO/AIDS Task Force. Crescent Care is a federal qualified health center in New Orleans, Louisiana that brings caregivers and the community together as partners in health and wellness for all. They offer wrap-around services including primary medical care, dental care, behavioral health, case management, PrEP/PEP, food for friends pantry, gender-affirming services, and much more.
As part of its CDC-funded Capacity Building Assistance (CBA) project, NASTAD released Re-envisioning Community Engagement: A Practical Toolkit to Empower HIV Prevention Efforts with Marginalized Communities, in the summer of 2022. The toolkit was the culmination of a yearlong project aimed at enhancing community engagement efforts in the southern United States, and is inclusive of NASTAD’s collaboration with many community leaders across several jurisdictions. Project lead Kristina Santana, Senior Manager for Prevention at NASTAD, joins the podcast to discuss how the project came together, and why the toolkit has proved so useful to community-based organizations. You can download the toolkit here: https://nastad.org/resources/re-envisioning-community-engagement-toolkit
On this episode of Southern Steep, Bianca, and our newest host, Rodderick, interview the Assistant Director of Health Services at JASMYN, Christina Woodhouse. JASMYN is an organization that works with LGBTQIA+ teens and young adults to provide HIV/STI testing, PrEP, housing support, and mental health services in Jacksonville, Florida. This episode covers various topics, including mental health, body autonomy, youth homelessness, and public health nerds. Christina shares her strategy to work with youth effectively by meeting them where they are. She also discussed the importance of representation and allowing space for youth needs to be heard and seen. Christina talked about maintaining boundaries in practicing self-care with herself and her staff while doing intensive community work. We highlighted the Community Health and Empowerment Network in Miami, Florida, for the Southern Charm. The Community Health and Empowerment Network is a not-for-profit organization that provides health education, screening services, and resources to low-income and underserved individuals, aiming to help bridge health gaps in the community to reduce health disparities in Southern Florida.
On this episode of Southern Steep, Nicole and previous hostess with the mostess, Justine, speaks to Mulan Montrese Williams. This episode covers a wide range of topics, including: pageantry, sex work, housing, and ultimately the importance of investing in other Black, Trans Women and Black, Trans led organizations. Mulan shares more about her work with Divas in Dialogue, a sisterhood of trans women of color empowering, building and strengthening each other and how she is making a difference in her community. Mulan was recently featured in a NASTAD video titled, Our Story, Our Resilience, which can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4saBw-tPLc. To learn more about Divas in Dialogue and ways to support their organization visit here: https://miracleofloveinc.org/did/ This episode's Southern Charm highlights the Unspoken Treasure Society, founded in June 2018 by Ms. Regina Livingston, a Black transgender women who recognized a lack of support and resources for Transgender and Gender non-conforming (TGNC) people, particularly TGNC people of color. To learn more about the Unspoken Treasure Society, visit: https://www.unspokensociety.org/
Southern Steepers Jacobi Hunter-Wright and Bianca Ward come together to talk prevention, equity, housing, and how women are operationalizing leadership in the South. A true Florida gal, D’Metris explores her humble beginnings in the work as she explores her experiences in the South fighting for health equity and accessible housing.This episode's Southern Charm B.E.A.T. AIDS which stands for, “Black Effort Against the Threat of AIDS.” BEAT AIDS expresses that their commitment to excellence is met by their ability to meet people where they are: whether recovering and desiring change, or homeless, incarcerated, abused/neglected, isolated, actively addicted. To learn more about their work and how to support visit. www.beataids.org.
In this episode, Isaiah and Nicole speak with S. Mandisa Moore-O'Neal, Executive Director of the Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP), a national research and advocacy organization. Mandisa shares more about her background and what brought her to this work, her and CHLPs investment in the South, and provides an overview of the state of HIV criminalization in the southern region. As an added bonus-- Isaiah and Mandisa bond over both being Louisianans, creating another Louisianan connection for Isaiah. To learn more about the Center for HIV Law and Policy, visit www.hivlawandpolicy.org. Keeping with the Louisiana theme, this episode's Southern Charm highlights TIDAL NOLA. TIDAL: Transgender Inclusive Development Advocacy and Learning, is based in New Orleans and are a trans-led collective of community members, healthcare providers, students and educators in the Gulf South, united in their commitment to trans-liberation through equitable healthcare and healing. To learn more about TIDAL NOLA, visit https://www.tidalnola.org/.
This episode was recorded at the end of 2022, since then, MPV has been named Mpox, the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers did not make it to the Super Bowl, and Southern Steep Live did indeed happen-- episode to come.
To learn more about the work of BYP100, visit https://www.byp100.org/. To learn more about ARC Southeast, visit https://arc-southeast.org/.
To learn more about the work of SisterLove, visit www.sisterlove.org.
To learn more about the work of HIPS, visit www.hips.org.
To learn more about Gender Benders, visit www.genderbenders.org.
To learn more about the work of the Southern AIDS Coalition, visit www.southernaidscoalition.org.
To learn more about the work of PALSS, visit www.palss.org.
To learn more about the work of BASIC NWFL, visit https://basicnwfl.com/. To learn more about OASIS Florida, visit https://www.oasisflorida.org/.
To learn more about NAESM, Incorporated, please go to www.naesminc.org.
To learn more about the Silverlining Project or THRIVE SS, please visit www.thrivess.org/.
To learn more about the work of the Southern AIDS Coalition, visit www.southernaidscoalition.org.
To learn more about AcadianaCares, visit www.acadianacares.org.
To connect and/or learn more about Tori Cooper and Human Rights Campaign, please visit www.hrc.org. To learn more about Tori’s involvement with PACHA, please visit About PACHA | HIV.gov.
To learn more about Abounding Prosperity, visit www.aboundingprosperity.org. Feel free to connect with them on Facebook and other social media platforms.
To learn more about Olive Branch Ministry, visit www.olivebranchministry.org. Feel free to connect with them on Facebook and other social media platforms.
To learn more about North Carolina AIDS Action Network, visit www.ncaan.org.
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To learn more about My Sistah's House, please visit https://mshmemphis.org/.
To learn more about A Vision 4 Hope, please visit https://www.avision4hope.org/.
To learn more about the House of Tulip, their work, and how to support them, visit https://houseoftulip.org/.
For more information or to listen to Season One, visit www.nastad.org/cbo-hub/podcast-southern-steep-brewing-stronger-community.
In the finale of season 1, Bianca, Isaiah, Nicole, and Torrian share their favorite moments from the first 13 episodes. Bianca recalls Erin Snowden’s steely determination from Episode 12. Isaiah revealed how his blooper during Episode 7 led to his favorite moment of the season. Nicole was moved by Justine Ingram’s devotion to community service from Episode 10. And Torrian discussed why his favorite moment, from Episode 5, involved all the co-hosts.
For more information on Heart to Hand, Inc., go to https://www.hearttohandinc.org/
For more information on STAR, go to https://sisterstogetherandreaching.org/
For more information on Mamatoto Village, go to http://www.mamatotovillage.org/. For more information on Black Swan Academy, go to https://www.blackswanacademy.org/.
My Brother’s Keeper, Inc. (MBK) is a private, nonprofit, 501(c) (3) organization with three offices in the Jackson, MS metropolitan area, (headquarters in Ridgeland) and two offices in South Mississippi – Hattiesburg and Gulfport. MBK’s mission is to reduce health disparities throughout the United States by enhancing the health and well-being of minority and marginalized populations through leadership in public and community health practices, collaboration, and partnerships. Learn more about MBK at, https://mbkinc.org/about-us/
Southern Charm:
Cedric Sturdevant is the executive director of Community Health-PIER, which is a new CBO in the Mississippi Delta, whose mission “is to create a platform for rural communities to decrease the vicious cycle of health disparities through education, intervention, and research.” Cedric is an advocate for HIV, working with and training HIV-positive people to be an advocate for themselves and others through a program called AIDSWatch Mississippi. In 2019, Cedric partnered with NASTAD on Ending the HIV Epidemics – https://www.nastad.org/blog/leading-through-epidemics
To learn more about My Sistah’s House, visit https://mshmemphis.org/. To support My Sistah's House, visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/mshmemphis.
For more information on RAHMA, go to http://haverahma.org/. For more information on Sister Reach, visit https://www.sisterreach.org/.
For more information about Metro Inclusive Health, go to https://www.metrotampabay.org.
For more information about the SMART ride, go to https://thesmartride.org/.
For more information about Mobilizing of Brothers Initiative, Incorporated (MOBI), go to www.mobi-nyc.com and follow them on all social media platforms using the handle @mobi-nyc.
For more information about the Southern Coalition for Advancing Gay Men or to be part of this year's summit, please email Torrian L Baskerville at tbaskerville@nastad.org.
For more information on Latino Commission on AIDS, visit www.latinoaids.org. Be sure to follow them on all social media platforms at @latinocommaids.
For more information about QLatinx, visit www.qlatinx.org.
To learn more information about He Is Valuable, Incorporated, visit www.heisvaluable.org. Also, be sure to follow them on all social media platforms, @HeIsValuable.
To learn more information about THRIVE SS, visit www.thrivess.org.
To find more information on Birmingham AIDS Outreach, go to https://www.birminghamaidsoutreach.org/.
To find more information on the Southern AIDS Coalition, visit https://southernaidscoalition.org/.
For more information on The Bros in Convo Initiative, go to https://www.brosinconvo.org/, and follow them on all social media platforms @brosinconvo.
For more information on the Black Lives Fund, go to https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/OurFund/blacklivesfund.html.
For more information on Medical Advocacy and Outreach, visit www.maoi.org.
For more information on Mamatoto Village, visit www.mamatotovillage.org.