Black Gaze

Dr. Porcher and Dr. Bertrand breakdown the Black agendas of each presidential candidate. We share our personal experiences of voting in presidential elections. Furthermore, we unpack the strengths and challenges of each presidential candidate's Black agenda, and provide feedback about how the agendas can be improved to impact the most marginalized Black communities. This is not an election that yo...

Dr. Bertrand and Dr. Porcher discuss the barriers and voter suppression that occurs in the hood. We share our own personal experiences of experiencing voter suppression aka "trickery" in our own hoods growing up. We provide preaching points of how we can combat voter suppression and ensure that the policies that are in place, trickle down and support our most marginalized Black folx.  

In this episode, Dr. Porcher and Dr. Bertrand discuss the importance and need to Protect Black Womxn. Malcolm X said: “The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black woman.” We share our own personal stories about neglect and disrespect we have received as Black Womxn. We also...

Dr. Porcher and Dr. Bertrand invite their husbands Maurice Porcher and Andy Bertrand to this final episode "Married to the Game" to discuss their experiences being married to a woman in academia. The gloves are off in this discussion, and you will experience our healing in real time and out loud. Learn about the joys and challenges of marriage, along with our ongoing steps to create balance and ce...

Dr. Bertrand and Dr. Porcher invite Mrs. Tasha Austin and Ms. Brittany Marshall to this episode to not only talk about Sankofa as a verb--action, but to demonstrate it. In this episode, Tasha and Brittany discuss their experiences as Black doctoral students. With full transparency and respect, we make requests of our Black O.G.'s. Furthermore, we all make commitments to healing intergenerational r...

Dr. Porcher and Dr. Bertrand invite co-host, Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz to discuss radical Black Self Love and Healing.  She discusses the way her new book, Love from the Vortex and Other Poems , is the manifestation of her radical Black Self Love and Healing. We have a critical conversation about how we must love ourselves deeply and become critically conscious about the trauma we have experien...

Dr. Bertrand and Dr. Porcher invite their very first co-host, Dr. Betina Hsieh to discuss the solidarity needed between Blacks and Asians. We have a critical conversation about anti-Blackness in the Asian community.  Dr. Hsieh provides historical information about the experiences of Asian Americans and their similarities with Black Americans in the fight for freedom. Dr. Hsieh provides practi...

In this episode, Dr. Porcher and Dr. Bertrand invite Black preservice teachers to share their reasons for entering the teaching profession, their experiences in white-dominated teacher preparation programs, and the Impact of COVID-19 as they prepare to enter the classroom.  This episode elevates their narratives and pushes us all into action to ensure that we understand the history of Black t...

In this episode, Dr. Bertrand and Dr. Porcher discuss the history of the Black Teacher Shortage. The Black Lives Matter at School movement is demanding that we increase the number of Black teachers in our schools, which we totally agree with. However, it is important that we understand what happened to Black teachers after desegregation, and what we must do in teacher preparation programs and K-12...

In this episode, Dr. Porcher and Dr. Bertrand utilize the O.G.'s Fannie Lou Hamer (Ti-Ti Fannie Lou),  Dr. Martin Luther King (Brother King), Toni Morrison (Ti-Ti Toni) and James Baldwin (Uncle Jimmie), to make sense of the current state of the United States during the uprisings. Most importantly, we create space to demonstrate that Black Lives Matter Periodt! We created this episode for the...

In this episode, discover how Dr. Bertrand and Dr. Porcher conceptualize Surviving vs. Thriving in the Black community. They make connections to the work of Dr. Dena Simmon s and Dr. Bettina Love, by exploring the connections between post-traumatic stress disorder, Black respectability politics, and anti-Blackness. They provide preaching points about how Black people shift from surviving to thrivi...

In this episode, discover the meaning of Imposter Syndrome. Dr. Bertrand and Dr. Porcher share their personal experiences with imposter syndrome, its impact upon the Black community, and how to address it. The term “imposter syndrome” was coined by psychologists Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A. Imes in 1978 to describe an “internal experience of intellectual phoniness in people who believe that th...

In this episode, discover how Dr. Porcher and Dr. Bertrand developed their personal sister circle, the history of sister circles in the Black community, and advice for developing your own sister circle. [Sister circles are support groups that build upon existing friendships, fictive kin networks, and the sense of community found among African Americans females. Originally embedded in the Black clu...