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#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureAuthor: Hope Singsen
The #HealMeToo Podcast went on pause with the shutdown, but for our third season, were excited to announce a special series and a new YouTube channel for #HealMeToo At-Homewith insights, art, and activism to meet the needs of now. Survivors and our communities are experiencing many forms of trauma in this time of confinement, illness, uprising, and economic stressnot to mention the urgency of Novembers elections. So weve retooled the #HealMeToo platform to feature video as well as audio interviews, with ideas and tools that may help in the midst of crisis. You can watch each new episode and podcast extra our new YouTube channel at bit.ly/hm2youtube. Binge Season One to hear excerpts and conversations from the first-ever #HealMeToo Festival last spring, and don't miss the live events and deep conversations about ways to have healthier relationships in all aspects of our lives, in Season Two. Follow @healmetoofest on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to join the conversation, and sign up for our mailing list at www.healmetoopodcast.com to get alerts when episodes drop, hosted by Hope Singsen, the artist, activist, survivor, and Founding Artistic Director of the #HealMeToo Festival. Language: en-us Genres: Education, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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S3 E11: Practicing Anti-racism & Resilience
Episode 11
Sunday, 21 February, 2021
In early January, educator, facilitator and applied theater practitioner, Channie Waites, led a remarkable Hollaback! Resilience workshop to help people process the compound traumas of the Jan 6 attempted coup by White Supremacists. Hear Channie share generously of her own wisdom about our nation’s illness of racism and the necessity of truth telling, reconciliation and joy. She unpacks many steps toward healing, drawing on her years of work in Rwanda, as well as personal experiences of grief, racial trauma, and resilience. In this bonus episode to conclude Season 3 of our #HealMeToo #AtHome series, Channie dives deeply into:The nature of racismThe ways trauma and resilience can take shape within usThe imperative of facing “what is” and then telling our storiesHow inhabiting our bodies and our power of choice help build resilienceWhy joy belongs at the heart of every step, even in grief or other painful feelingsWhy our culture cannot heal until we tell all the truths of White Supremacy, facing and feeling the ways racism infects us, and impairs our connections A joyful movement practice to shake it all out, inspire the giggles, and help shift stuckness in the bodyAnd so much moreLearn more about Channie and Hollaback!, and find links to resources on our episode page at bit.ly/hm2pod0311.Subscribe now and catch new episodes of the #HealMeToo Podcast in 2021 on Apple and all the usual podcast platforms as well as on our YouTube channel — for insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media @healmetoofest and at healmetoopodcast.com.The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen—the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. Music Credits:Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers. Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.Support the show
