When We Speak is a podcast where we have inspirational, candid, and empowering conversations. It’s a place where we share insight into how we cope, heal, and find meaning in a wide range of experiences. Hosted by mental health therapist, speaker, and author of “What Children Remember”, Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW.
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39. Joquina Reed
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
38: Amber Webb Sims
In today's episode I am speaking with my guest, Amber Webb Sims. This is one of the most powerful episodes I've recorded.
Amber and I discuss her career as an attorney and how she uses her voice to demystify information. Amber shares what it means to divest from white supremacy, how racial capitalism affects Black people, Black pain being profitable, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) being trendy. Amber also shares:
—why we must speak about pay inequity in the workplace
—why labor is not aspirational
—silence being a tool for white supremacy.