✨ Show Notes – Daily Liberation Through Our Eyes
🎙️ Episode Title: Daily Liberation Through Our Eyes – Inaugural Episode (9/30/25)📡 Podcast: The Family Table🗣️ Host: Dr. Tanya Alkhaliq
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“Headlines don’t just happen to us. They shape us unless we reclaim the lens.”
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Daily Liberation Through Our Eyes.This new mini-show under The Family Table Podcast is our daily briefing: a Black-centered, psychologically grounded take on the world’s news. We don’t just digest chaos, we interpret, we contextualize, and we ground ourselves in liberation.
In this very first episode, I take time to share the vision for this show, then walk us through the biggest stories of September 30, 2025, from looming shutdowns to global leadership out of Africa, naming their impact on Black minds, bodies, and communities, and pointing us toward solidarity and preparation.
🔥 In this episode, we explore:
* Why the U.S. government shutdown is not just politics, it’s a trauma event for Black communities.
* How “peace plans” for Gaza mask systems of control, and why solidarity matters.
* Deportations and visa restrictions as strategies of belonging and erasure.
* The federal takeover push in D.C. and what it signals for Black self-determination.
* Africa leading the High Seas Treaty, a story of global Black leadership and ecological justice.
* The quiet exclusion hidden in the phase-out of federal paper checks.
🎧 LISTEN NOW:Click to hear the full episode.Bring your journal, bring your clarity, and bring your spirit. This table is sacred, and you belong here.
💡 Quotes from the Episode:
“Instability is not normal. It is not inevitable. Scarcity is not holy.”
“Liberation means telling the truth about our wounds, but also telling the truth about where we lead.”
“The news is not just what happens. It is how we respond.”
🧘🏾♀️ Mental Health:This episode highlights how government shutdowns create anticipatory anxiety in the Black psyche, a nervous system bracing for scarcity. We explore how to resist despair by naming stress, grounding ourselves, and leaning into mutual aid as a liberatory practice.
📚 Book Mentioned:Reimagining Women in the Bible (by Tanya Alkhaliq)A Womanist re-telling of Eve, Hagar, Deborah, Lilith, Junia, Mary Magdalene, and more, reframing their experiences as sacred resistance, not shameful footnotes.➡️ COMING SOON!!!
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🎶 Music Credit:All music in this episode is used by permission from:🎧 X the Maestro➤ https://soundcloud.com/x-the-maestro
📌 TAGS:#DailyLiberation #ThroughOurEyes #BlackPsychology #LiberationTheology #ResilientReclamation #TheFamilyTablePodcast #SpiritualDeconstruction #BlackLiberation #NewsThroughOurEyes
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