Hip-Hop and House Dance Veteran Brooklyn Terry kicks back with Celtic as they discuss coping with the long-term effects of the pandemic, being saved by social media, being inspired by his family and dancing in park jams as a youth, the connection between roller skating and Black dances, groove progression in his classes and workshops, what he loves to see and what could be improved in the new generation of dancers, the clubbing ecosystem and why clubbing is essential to your dance, Japan for Black Lives and anti-racism work in Japan, the role of economics in systemic racism, the origin of his journey to understanding his neurodivergence in the forms of dyslexia and ADHD, the effects and repercussions of underdiagnosing/misdiagnosing neurodivergence in Women and in the Black Community, his process to finding workarounds for managing ADHD, leaving a legacy of a better world for his children, Speakeasy TYO, and the theory behind the way he dances.
To read the article quoted in this episode: https://www.additudemag.com/race-and-adhd-how-people-of-color-get-left-behind/
Workarounds mentioned for dyslexia: using the dictation and text-to-speech functions on Mac
Workarounds mentioned for ADHD: https://www.goodnotes.com/ paired with one of these templates: https://www.etsy.com/market/digital_life_planner
To help support Terry during this period of social and economic upheaval, please make a donation of any size to: PayPal.me/bklynterry
