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White men have no imagination and they have done the best they can. WE DESERVE AND CAN DO BETTER. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janicelagata.substack.com/subscribe

Apparently this hiforrest person is an evangelical… entertainer? I don’t know. A “friend” sent a video of very earnest individual legitimately shooting their shot in this “open verse challenge” and as soon as I saw hiforrest, I felt something I hadn’t felt in a while and I realized — I have a type. Not for attraction but for getting traction out of rage, because I was yesterday years old when I re...

What does it say about what he must think the future is going to be when… the ballroom he wants is not for good things to flaunt it’s to protect him from enemies, so many enemies not of us, but of him and it’s clear he considers us closer to them when the outer reaches of who he sees as mattering lives is ballroom-size This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers...

I’m just a storyteller considering a character in a story I’m trying to make sense of. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janicelagata.substack.com/subscribe

Jamal didn’t give it to us and Jamal can’t take it away. This video, my work and my platform are for Black women and those who love Black women. If that aint you - this aint for you. And so while your presence, comments, questions, suggestions are allowed - everything is allowed - they are not needed, they are not wanted and not welcome. Proceed accordingly. This is a public episode. If you'd like...

I entered the exvangelical space sick of evangelical megachurch passholes and I’m exiting sick of exvangelical missionaries. If the arguments you’re having now are the same ones you’ve been having since 2016 — why? The frustration I’m feeling/raging against is a big part of what inspired good people — the game I created to provoke good folks into having conversations that slip underneath the label...

Well… a picture is (allegedly) worth a thousand words, so I guess it makes sense that this lil 45 second video has me sorting through multiple thousands of them to try and explain what I’ve been going through. And how I’ve been getting through. And who I’ve been seeing through. (And damn! That’s a bar.) Ultimately, I’m just… weary. Not at all of well-doing, but very much so of all the commentary f...

For more on why I'm rooting for everybody Black AND fully expecting Sinners to be disrespected by the Academy Awards, check out the Substack post... Why Sinners Is Going To Lose janicelagata.substack.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janicelagata.substack.com/subscribe

I’m so sick of circular political conversations and the journalists, podcasters, content creators who keep them a’spinning. Are we really this dumb? And by “we” I’m speaking as a standard issue American, but when it comes to us… ain’t no we. I love us. And I just want us to be free of all this. Free of the burden of everybody else. Let ‘em fight. And let them have it. The label of Christian, of Pr...

When i wrote, shot and edited the first version of this in 2021, it was the end of a spoof about megachurch culture in general and Hillsong NYC specifically. Five years later, as some of y’alls white faves are JUST now getting comfortable with saying “You should leave your megachurch.” and “Evangelicalism might be problematic.” — I want you to clock it — Black women be knowing, and y’all don’t be...

Quick thoughts on Lizzo, apples, JayZ and them files. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janicelagata.substack.com/subscribe

Anything I can do, WE can do better. You don’t need to get better at the parts of the process that are not your strong suit - You need better people. Let me introduce you. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janicelagata.substack.com/subscribe

The only time he’s not lying is when he’s telling his truths to lie about others. Thanks for stopping by Live. Love. Lagata.! This post is public so feel free to share it. StoryTell School is starting soon! A ten week screenwriting course for artists & storytellers, whether they want to be screenwriters or not. Classes begin Feb 8th. StoryTell exists for the stories that must be told. Do you have...

Some questions for white exvangelicals. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janicelagata.substack.com/subscribe

StoryTell School is not for people who want to be screenwriters, it’s for storytellers whether they want to be screenwriters are not. TEN WEEK COURSESUNDAYS // FEB 8TH - APRIL 12TH $121 [Special Birthday Pricing] until Friday, January 23rd $321 after 12pm ET Saturday, January 24th janicelagata.com/storytell-school This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or ge...

Tomorrow (1/21) is my birthday. And here’s what I want — if you are going to text or call or drop a comment with a general birthday greeting - save it. (Let’s just consider it said!) Getting older is the easiest and least useful thing I do everyday and the way my insecurities are set up, it’s kinda hurtful when that’s all I get congratulated for. **Capitalism has us all messed up, we equate just h...

Racists have always been good at shelving their hate when it's helpful to do so. Doesn't mean it's not a central and indelible part of their stock. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janicelagata.substack.com/subscribe

For the past few nights, I’ve been falling asleep to one of the YouTube videos of the Cowboy Carter tour (there are quite a few to choose from) and there’s just something about the part of the set that goes from “Freedom” to “YaYa” to “Why Don’t You Love Me”… Black women be knowing, y’all. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episode...

I suspected I would probably go full feral at some point in 2026. Did not think it would be day 3. Anyway, if you see Evangelicalism, tell him it's on sight. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janicelagata.substack.com/subscribe

Social media is so weird. We cross paths with people by being ourselves and then start being afraid to be ourselves because we don't want to cross people... anyway, I made some music. You don't have to like it, but I do have to stop worrying about being cringe to people I am not for and who are not for me. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit janicelagata.substack.com So something I started working on over the summer and then dropped and then put on the backburner and then remembered and finished a few days ago, is an audiobook version of the divide - my book of poetry about race and American Christianity. I wrote it and first released it in 2017 aka the first year of the fi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit janicelagata.substack.com My final post for 2024. Is it late? Yes. But in another way, time is a construct so… still yes. Anyway, THANK YOU to all my subscribers, this post doesn’t even talk about what I’m scheming/dreaming up for 2025, but if you’re here, have no fear - I’m sure I’ve got something for you in the works. ps… For anyone n...

Let Janice read to you from “The Divide” Audiobook in the works. To get a read-it-yourself copy: https://a.co/d/3ztveHb This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janicelagata.substack.com/subscribe

Audiobook in the works. Get a read-it-yourself copy: https://a.co/d/3ztveHb This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janicelagata.substack.com/subscribe

Audiobook in the works. Get a read-it-yourself copy: https://a.co/d/3ztveHb This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janicelagata.substack.com/subscribe