The PreWork: Recent Episodes
Melvin Bray & Crystal Cheatham
Join a cast of 6 as they introduce the foundational tools for racial equity and queer equity work. Consider it your course 101 on building community and being in relationship together, with Melvin Bray, Crystal Cheatham, Sharon Groves, Cedric Harmon, Sterling Freeman and Tori Glass.
With questions from Melvin Bray, Sterling Freeman explores rest, respite and joy as important tools for health and wholeness for BIPOC navigating their racialized experiences. Tori Williams-Douglas and Sharon Groves explore why whiteness feels the need to police BIPOC joy and offer the alternative of forming relationships of accountability as acts of self-love.
With the guided help of Melvin Bray, panelists Cedric Harmon and Crystal Cheatham discuss the fact that we all have a sexual orientation, and it impacts how we interact with one another. They disrupt the notion that LGBTQ life is aberrant, proposing that, perhaps, aversion to it reflects a fear of exploring the range of attractions and desires in all of us.
With questions posed by Melvin Bray, Sterling Freeman explores the language and concept of Internalized Racial Oppression, how it manifests, and what we can do to confront it. Tori Williams-Douglas explores how our language and social habits allow white people not to see themselves as a collective ethnicity with cultural norms, history, and biases that are not universal.
With the help of Melvin Bray, Sterling Freeman (CounterPart Consulting) introduces the foundational tools for racial equity work and the importance of the affective aspect of the racial equity journey. Tori Glass (White Homework) introduces how whiteness works and takes up space from a neuroscience perspective.
Welcome to The PreWork, a 10-episode podcast about the somewhat divergent ways queer folks and straight folks need to prepare to undertake an equity journey together or the somewhat divergent things BIPOC and white folks need to understand in order to move toward justice together.
With the help of Melvin Bray, Cedric Harmon (Many Voices) and Crystal Cheatham (Our Bible App) examine the spectrum of human sexuality, beginning with an acknowledgment of our common misunderstandings of sexuality, including the idea that sex is the totality of human sexuality.
Find out more about this limited series podcast in the Our Bible App. Look for it on the Pre-Work shelf.