After The Wake: Her Story: Recent Episodes
Amber Worsley
Join Khyla Jean (@Virgocrush_) Sharon Wilson (@Unicornqueen021) and Amber Worsley (@not_therealamberworsley) as they not only process the events of 2020 but imagine the future and whats next. After The Wake will serve as an acknowledgement of a new era of Black empowerment and liberation, and a celebration of what beauty comes from Black struggle and endurance. While After The Wake is a continuing, developing, story about Black rebirth during hard times, Her Story will be a 5 episode miniseries focusing on after the wake while centering Black female voices.
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*Originally Published May 2021
When it comes to delivering babies in the good ole USA for Black women, you will find that we are living in two very different America's when you look at the infant mortality rate. Amber talks with mothers and doulas about their experiences in and outside hospitals in an attempt to find out the secret behind the statistics.
Special thanks to Ranjani Chakraborty and Vox for their short documentary, The US medical system is still haunted by slavery, whose research I used for this story, along with the research you can find at CDC.gov.
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Surprise!
We have a bonus episode for you. This is one of our rawest prerecording sessions during last summer 2020. Now it is available for you listening pleasure!
The Black woman's crown has always been the most controversial part of the Black female experience. Some of us now have love-hate relationships with our hair, so loving our hair culture is a sign of peak radical Black self love for me. How did we get here? Here being this beautiful moment of acceptance, respect and love for our own hair in different forms. Weave, braids, natural fros, from braid outs to blow outs. We will be talking to Marial, a brand new Afro-latina business owner about her quick transition to stepping into team natural, and deciding to liberate other women by styling their hair. This large transition all started in 2020, during two pandemics.
You can find out more about or special guest @_mari.styles
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After The Wake is Sponsored by Fit 4 Dance Studio in Brooklyn NY. YOU can get a free class with code F4DLove (case sensitive).
After The Wake is produced by Amber Worsley and in collaboration with the Nu Africa Foundation. (@Nuafricafoundation)
After The Wake is hosted by Khyla Jay (@Virgocrush_), Amber Worsley (@Not_therealamberworsley), and Sharon WIlson (@Unicornqueen021)
Lead Editor: Nile Ferrel (@Nuafricafoundation)
Co - Producer: Jemiece Raphael (@jemiece)
Cover Artist: Jah’China De Leon (@sunny_mind_state)
Sound Engineer: Josh Wilcox of Brooklyn Podcasting Studio. (@Brooklynpodcasting)
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/amber-worsley/support
During this time period of the pandemic, we are faced with many illnesses that affects us today. Statistics show that Heart Disease is the #1 cause of death in America (and has been for many years) killing 655,000 Americans each year. The causes of heart disease are physical inactivity, poor diet, tobacco use, high cholesterol, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and alcohol use. African American women are 60 percent more likely to have high blood pressure, as compared to non-Hispanic white women, and African American adults are 40% more likely to be diagnosed with high blood pressure. Harmony-Bey, creator of Moor Vegan Pasta, schooled the hosts this week on the intersection between ethnicity, food, health, and finding your roots. She not only teaches about Moors but about how veganism made the difference for pregnant mothers, which is why she devoted her life to liberating Black mothers by being a Doula.
You can find out more about our special guest Harmony @moorveganpasta_mvp
After The Wake is Sponsored by Fit 4 Dance Studio in Brooklyn NY. YOU can get a free class with code F4DLove (case sensitive).
After The Wake is produced by Amber Worsley and in collaboration with the Nu Africa Foundation. (@Nuafricafoundation)
After The Wake is hosted by Khyla Jay (@Virgocrush_), Amber Worsley (@Not_therealamberworsley), and Sharon WIlson (@Unicornqueen021)
Lead Editor: Nile Ferrel (@Nuafricafoundation)
Co - Producer: Jemiece Raphael (@jemiece)
Cover Artist: Jah’China De Leon (@sunny_mind_state)
Sound Engineer: Josh Wilcox of Brooklyn Podcasting Studio. (@Brooklynpodcasting)
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/amber-worsley/support
Lauryn Hill once said "To survive is to stay alive in the face of opposition/Even when they comin, gunnin I stand position,” and we felt that. In the song “Forgive Them Father,” the neo-soul artist sang about living, and really living in the face of the people who oppress us, and questions why one group of people must put down others for their own gain. No other genre fit’s the needs, emotions, and desires of 2020’s young Black and hopeful. Khyla, Amber ,and (filling in for Sharon) Nile (@Nuafricafoundation) kicked back with Singer Songwriter J.Kas to talk about making music in the middle of two pandemics.
You can listen to J.kas debut Album here, and follow them on Instagram at @_jkas_
Notes, Comments, Corrections, :
Khyla and Nile both reference the phrase “waiting to exhale” which is the title of the bestselling book by Terry McMillan.
Amber refers to sound installations at “the museum of Chinese History” but is talking about The Rubin Museum Of Art.
After The Wake is Sponsored by Fit 4 Dance Studio in Brooklyn NY. YOU can get a free class with code F4DLove (case sensitive).
After The Wake is produced by Amber Worsley and in collaboration with the Nu Africa Foundation. (@Nuafricafoundation)
After The Wake is hosted by Khyla Jay (@Virgocrush_), Amber Worsley (@Not_therealamberworsley), and Sharon WIlson (@Unicornqueen021)
Lead Editor: Nile Ferrel (@Nuafricafoundation)
Co - Producer: Jemiece Raphael (@jemiece)
Cover Artist: Jah’China De Leon (@sunny_mind_state)
Sound Engineer: Josh Wilcox of Brooklyn Podcasting Studio. (@Brooklynpodcasting)
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/amber-worsley/support
How can Black women create a healing culture for ourselves? From stress, to lack of access to healthy foods, to access to healthcare, to lack of understanding, to lack of support, it’s a fact that being a Black woman in America can kill you. The healthcare system has given up on us which is why it's crucial that we don’t give up on ourselves. We are building our own health support systems, slowly but surely. Join us as we unpack our current state and talk about healing where it starts, with us. Khyla, Amber, and Sharon sit down with radical writer, editor, and storyteller,Nicole Shawan Junior to discuss healing through writing, and accountability for America's trash and violent medical establishment.
You can learn more about our Special Guest for this week Nicole Shawan Junior, here.
Nicole Shawan Junior (Smith College BA | Pace University MST | Temple University JD) was bred in the bass-heavy beat and scratch of Brooklyn, where the cool of inner-city life barely survived crack cocaine’s burn. She is a black, queer and poverty-born counter-storyteller. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Lambda Literary's anthology Emerge, Roxane Gay’s Medium platform Gay Mag, ZORA, The Feminist Wire, SLICE, Color Bloq, CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art and Action, Inkwell Black, and more. A Hedgebrook Writer in Residence, as well as alumna the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s Writers Week, Lambda Literary's Emerging Queer Voices Writer's Retreat, Tin House, and VONA. Nicole has received fellowships from various arts organizations including New York Foundation for the Arts, Esalen, Show us Your Spines RADAR, and more. She is the Senior Nonfiction Editor at Raising Mothers: A Literary Magazine, the Associate Nonfiction Editor at SLICE Magazine, and serves on Sundress Publications' Editorial Board. Nicole is the founder and Executive Director of Roots. Wounds. Words.: A Literary Arts Revolution, which centers the literary arts needs of BIPoC storytellers.
Facts and figures !
- For women over the age of 30, Pregnancy-related deaths per 100,000 live births for Black and American Indian and Alaskan Native women was four to five times higher than it was for white women. - CDC.gov
After The Wake is Sponsored by Fit 4 Dance Studio in Brooklyn NY. YOU can get a free class with code F4DLove (case sensitive).
After The Wake is produced by Amber Worsley and in collaboration with the Nu Africa Foundation. (@Nuafricafoundation)
After The Wake is hosted by Khyla Jay (@Virgocrush_), Amber Worsley (@Not_therealamberworsley), and Sharon WIlson (@Unicornqueen021)
Lead Editor: Nile Ferrel (@Nuafricafoundation)
Co - Producer: Jemiece Raphael (@jemiece)
Cover Artist: Jah’China De Leon (@sunny_mind_state)
Sound Engineer: Josh Wilcox of Brooklyn Podcasting Studio. (@Brooklynpodcasting)
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/amber-worsley/support
We have a long history of creating art that acknowledges our oppressors, and great things have come from that. However when do we start imagining a world where art isn’t always painful, and traumatic? When will we be able to imagine a world where art is simply an expression of the beauty we see within ourselves? Black art, especially the art of Black women, has taken on this educational role, but 2020 may be the moment where we have grown past this. We will be joined by our special guest Robin Laverne Wilson AKA Dragon Fly and talk with her about her ancestor driven performance art and what the future could hold for Black artists after our ancestors stories are told. What's next?
After The Wake produced by Amber Worsley and in collaboration with the Nu Africa Foundation.
After The Wake is sponsored by the Fit4Dance Studio in Brooklyn NY and you can try them out for free with code “F4DLove”
Lead Editor: Nile Ferrel
Creative Visual Director: Ashante Charles
Cover Artist: Jah’China De Leon
Sound Engineer: Josh Wilcox of Brooklyn Podcasting Studio.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/amber-worsley/support
What will you tell your children about 2020? Was it Genesis or Revelations? The truth is you decide. We all decide together. Past the panic inciting news headlines there is a community of people welcoming the almost drowning inducing rain of 2020 and planting seeds. The seeds are growing. This is that community. These are our stories. Through Photography we will be discussing what after the wake really means.
After The Wake is Produced by Amber Worsley and in collaboration with the Nu Africa Foundation.
Editor - Nile Ferrel (@i.am.nile)
Creative Visual Direction - Ashante Charles (@amourashante)
Cover Art Designer - Jah’China De Leon (@spooky_mind_State)
Sponsored by the Fit4Dance Studio in Brooklyn NY. Use code F4DLove to get a free dance class!
Sound engineer - Josh Wilcox of Brooklyn Podcasting Studio.
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/amber-worsley/support
If you are young, Black, and hopeful, prepare to be celebrated, liberated, educated, and hopefully inspired. After The Wake : Her Story will premier Saturday October 17th.
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