39. Joquina Reed

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In today's episode and am speaking with my one of the funniest, and most intelligent Black women in my community, Joquina Reed. We discuss:

  • Institutional racism

  • Joquina's superpower and kryptonite

  • The Triad (white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism)

  • How whiteness and white supremacy harms

  • Race being a social construct

  • The importance of intellectual humility

  • Divesting from Whiteness

My name is Joquina Reed. But you all most definitely can call me Kina. By far one of the most important hats, I wear in life is being a fabulous aunt to 8 nieces and nephews! In addition to being Nanny Kina, I am also a DEI consultant and facilitator, researcher, learning strategist, and community advocate. Every day I wake up committed to moving us all closer to the goal line of shared humanity. I often find my words feel limited by not speaking my fore-parents tongue, but I still speak. I enjoy sticking my hand in soil to remind myself the universe is both bigger than I am and still enlarged by my acts. I’m constantly looking for opportunities to help others enlarge themselves and step out of the boxes they no longer fit. As a life-long learner and educator, I affirm the words of my great ancestor, Anna Julia Cooper, “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class - it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”

Follow Joquina on IG here at The Anti Blackness Reader 

Follow Joquina's on IG here @ Divesting from Whiteness 

Listen to Joquina's podcast Divesting From Whiteness

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