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This Womanist Work PodcastA Seat at the Table: A Mother's Day Table TalkRecorded live over a beautiful, catered dinner at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, your hosts Kelli King-Jackson and Kendra Ross gathered with special guests to honor the sacred work of mothering. With laughter, a few tears, and lots of love, we kicked off Season Two exploring the beauty and complexity of motherhood and daughterhood.This conversation holds multitudes: the joy and ache of mothering, the ways trauma shows up and gets transformed, the complicated legacy of the Black church, and the things we wish our mothers had told us, but didn’t. And still, we hold space for gr...
2025-05-111h 05This Womanist Work PodcastEp. 6- Forging Our Way Towards a New Church: On Allyship and Healing with Denele BiggsSign us up for the Christian Jubilee because we are getting into it on this episode! Our guest, Denele Biggs, takes us on a journey exploring critiques of the church and its exclusion of certain community members. She also shares her healing journey after a painful response from the church when she sought support, and the women share ways they've experienced church at musical performances (shout out to Beyonce and Kamasi Washington!). Content warning: if you want to protect your peace and are sensitive to discussions about LGBTQ+ harm and/or domestic violence, please fast f...
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Journey To SuccessDenele D Biggs Author of The Unspoken: A Better Life From Lessons LearnedKelly Russell from Pittsburgh interviewed Denele D Biggs, whoe lives in Pittsburgh, about her book 'The Unspoken: A Better Life Through Lessons Learned.
Denele is an Author. Poet. Optimist. Friend. Falling in love with writing was not intentional—it developed and evolved for Denele over time. She has always loved words and the way they can describe an accumulation of feelings. Poetry is her preferred mode of writing as it helps to enact feeling and enliven experiences. Her work tends to focus on the emotions, spirits, and moods of self and others evoked by various circumstances. Although she didn't set out to be a...
2015-07-2737 min