Black Girl From Eugene

To forgive and forget is a demand on black people without the work of white folks. Its a complicated idea in intimate relationships, and even bigger on a society level. I explore a little of both and give some food for thought, and a challenge of investment. SHOW NOTES: The Navajo and Hopi nation SAVED us by flipping Arizona in this last election, and I'd like to extend the thanks by helping sprea...

Racism isn't something that just floats in the air and no one can trace who and how it has been protected by the white community as something that is inevitable to human nature. The truth is, Racism is a delusion of grandeur. Considering extreme racism as a mental crisis could lead to real healing for the entire community, white, and BIPOC. Take a listen and let me know what you think! Please cons...

I invite two guest with me to discuss the Elections of 2020. How, as black women, do we see the progress made when Kamala Harris was selected as Vice President. Please listen in. We went over time, because it was a subject we all felt so passionate about...2 hours!! Join us !! Website for merchadise: www.blackgirlfromeugene.org Patreon donation: www.patreon.com/blackgirlfromeugene_1 $5 support $10...

I'm giving my thoughts on mental health wellness, boundaries and how to make it Wednesday of this week! Please join me for a moment if you're feeling the least bit anxious or wound up around this US elections. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayisha-elliott/message Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-girl-from-eugene--60357...

My guest Isiah Wagoner is a black man running for Mayor in Eugene as a write-in candidate. He has made previous remarks about Black women that are highly controversial and absolutely unfortunate. As he would be the first black Mayor if he won, I felt it was important to address who he is, what he represents, and what he has to say about his reputation marred with misogyny. Join us. ***Check our th...

Everyone is feeling this heaviness that is surrounding us. We are doing our best to work through it and make it to the other side. My guest and I have a great conversation around how microaggressions are adding up in ways that are some what expected and not so expected. PTSD is a reality for most black people in America, conscious or not. Join us in hearing some intimate stories about coping and m...

So. Monday is Indigenous Day, previously Christopher Columbus Day and I'm encouraging us to move on from the controversy. It is time for us to stop arguing about the validity of BIPOC trauma at the hands of colonization. I have a meme on IG that has lead to some ignorant comments that I just had to address...join me won't you!! ALSO! please consider supporting me with a $5 monthly donation at www....

I was stuck on a plane with a Trump supporter, for 5 hours. It was....an experience. Check it out. Also! if you're local to Eugene: support www.kepw.org as they are a local radio station that I am aired on and are doing a fundraising effort to grow this grass root radio community. Secondly: MY PATREON!! Please support the podcast by contributing $5 at www.patreon.com/blackgirlfromeugene_1 Thank yo...

In a time of pain, fear and crisis we look for leadership. We look for something or someone to talk to us about where to go, how to be. Black women are notoriously labeled as strong. In times like these, LISTEN to strong black women. We have lived through this trauma and have resolved societies hatred for us into grace, candor, strength and resilience. If you're looking for leadership, we have bee...

This month September 2020, I have had one year with the radio station Kepw.org...My guest Willamette Racism Response Network is with me to discuss lived experience, creating while in crisis, and exploring new ways to heal our community. White conditioning, mental health, and seeing our own value has been a journey. More on my guests: Check WRRN on IG@willametteRRN, their FB page and website www.wi...

With the RNC, the shooting of Jacob Blake, death of Chadwick, summer fires-it feels like being Black is even harder than usual. How are we coping?? How do you cope? How can we still see and love each other?? It’s all here --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayisha-elliott/message Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-girl-from-e...

FB and IG censored my advert for my merchandise and for my website, stating political tones. It is because my name has Black Girl in it. The commercial has Race Equity.  Blackness as a commodity is a foundational sin of this United States, and here it is playing out yet again in 2020. Please join me as I work this out.... BTW, link to my website here where you can see what I'm up to, and where you...

I welcome my guest Kokayi, to the show as we share similar household conversations as we grew up. He is a community leader. He coins himself The community builder, he is an activist. Our households were both unapologetically black households, that lived in this world in proximity to differing cultures, both balancing oppression. Perspective on white pain, and black beauty are explored...join us! -...

Joined by Marcus Holloway, aka m5!! We discuss why the fear and need to hold onto things we don't understand can hinder us from growth and ultimately love.  We talk personal journey, ask the question what if racial inequity was just a lack of love or a misuse of an idea of love.  How do you recognize healthy love and love that is conditioned, like racism. Racism has love?? depends on who you ask....

Meet Maisie Davis. She is black (bi racial), a single mother, gay, disabled, chronically ill and she is one of our newest Eugene Commissioners! She runs a food delivery resource called The Peoples Freedom Food and is KILLING THE GAME.  We discuss how she has made it to this point, how her life and the many facets she answers to have pushed her to this point.  I was SO happy to have her on the show...

My guest Vanessa Fuller, a black business owner here in Eugene, and I talk about how this pandemic disproportionally effects the black community, the STRESS, and returning to school during a Pandemic. It feels a lot like Money over People, and in order to thrive we believe we need to have a different conversation....Listen in...  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show...

A week ago my daughter and I came across a store owner and a homeless man.  The homeless man was mentally unstable and the store owner and her employee was threatening calling the police. She had already called and was waiting on the phone. The verbally abusive man was there all of 2 minutes. He had gone. My daughter, 16, having witnessed the whole thing, asks the woman not to call the cops but to...

Today I sit down with two lovely people Cherie Gatson and Serena Markstrom Nugent. One woman is bi racial and passing and the other transracially adopted and "recognizably" black.  They are both active and vocal in this National uprising around Human Rights struggle with Race. Their perspective, being so closely related to whiteness has been challenged and even their experience as black women inva...

Eugene Juneteenth's celebration was the largest to date. It was organized in 10 days by 6 women and one man. It was impressive and well done...but like anything black folks do, there was backlash and questionable actions...we are here to discuss it all. Patreon: www.patreon.com/blackgirlfromeugene_1    Supporters Club:  https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-girl-from-eugene--6035717/support   Nur...

Dr. Adaurennaya C. Onyewuenyi joins me to discuss the trauma around police in schools, the discrimination the education system is designed to uphold, as well as directions that real solutions could develop from.  Everyone has work to do in recognizing white supremacy and how we work with it to uphold the decimation of our children's quality in education.   --- Send in a voice message: https://podc...

The uptick in support, emotionally, financially, and by actual gifts has been welcomed, and overwhelming. We discuss the longevity of this support, is it sustainable support or is it as long as black death is popular. The correction to the podcast mentioned at the end of the episode: . ALSO, I say in the end of this episode that I am joining my brother on his podcast, and I said the title of his p...

Mallory, Stormie and myself are back together in person and it's oh so good!! We discuss the sensationalized death of Black men and the cascade of white tears that come after. The impact this has on the black community, and the actions needed to gain trust. It's lively, hilarious and insightful. This episode is a free flowing, and was recorded previously on Facebook live.  --- Send in a voice mess...

Love is love. Black women and white partners require a level of self awareness that dives further into white supremacy than most people are willing to address unless faced with circumstances that require it.  When desire and curiosity make authenticity questionable, you are treading on victimizing.  We talk about black women and white partners and what it takes to bridge that gap, and have truly W...

Part 2 I'm joined by Mallory and Stormie (briefly) to discuss being Bi-racial, black and white and feeling uncomfortable in Black Spaces. Mallory being bi-racial herself dives into her perception of the experience, while we discuss the necessity of self exploration, rejection of white normative behaviors and expectations, and the difficult road to self acceptance.  --- Send in a voice message: htt...

Part 1 of 2, of a conversation discussing the common thread of conversation from bi-racial, black and white, that they are on many instances are not accepted by their fully black counterparts. We call BS..and you can listen here as to why,,, --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayisha-elliott/message Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podca...