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The Stay Juicy PodcastThe Menopause Multiverse:Expanding the Frame with Omisade Burney-ScottMenopause is not just hormonal.It’s historical. Cultural. Political. Personal.In this powerful Black History Month conversation, Dr. Arianna sits down with Omisade Burney-Scott — cultural worker, storyteller, and founder of The Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause — to radically expand how we understand midlife.This episode challenges the narrow, binary narrative that has long defined menopause in the United States and asks a deeper question:Who has been centered in this conversation — and who has been left out?Together, we explore:The concept of the Menopausal Multiverse...
2026-02-161h 32
On The Issues With Michele GoodwinWhy Menopause Belongs in Democracy Conversations (with Omisade Burney-Scott)Menopause will affect most women during their lifetime—but until fairly recently, it was a topic largely relegated to the shadows. More and more, advocates are calling for the spotlight to be put on menopause—highlighting not just the important health issues at play, but the ways in which they affect diverse populations, from Black and brown women to queer and trans people to incarcerated people and more. Omisade Burney-Scott, creator of The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause, is one of those advocates. She joins Dr. Michele Goodwin to discuss why intersectional conversations around menopause are so impo...
2026-02-1024 min
Due South‘Remembering Blood’ convening in Durham aims to reimagine menopause. Plus, a fall foliage forecast.0:01:00‘Remembering Blood’ conference in Durham aims to reimagine menopauseMenopause is not quite the taboo subject it once was, but many are just beginning to talk about it frankly. Others have been talking about menopause for a long time, how it impacts historically marginalized communities, and how to reframe our thinking on menopause, not as an ending but as a “portal.”This weekend, that portal will be centered here in Durham at a conference called Iranti Ẹ̀jẹ̀: Remembering Blood. Due South’s Leoneda Inge speaks with conference organizer Omisade Burney-Scott and conference speaker Sonya Renee Tayl...
2025-10-0836 min
The Practice of a Hoodoo BaptistRemembering Blood: Menopause, Memory, and Ancestral WisdomHave you had the “M” talk? You know, that talk. About menopause!In this conversation with Omisade Burney-Scott, I have the opportunity to explore the intersections of ancestral wisdom, spirituality, and the experiences of Black women, Black bodies navigating menopause. Omisade shares her ancestral led journey into advocacy for reproductive justice and the importance of community support in understanding and normalizing menopause. Just in case you don’t know, Omisade Burney-Scott (she/her) is a seventh-generation Black Southern feminist, storyteller, and reproductive justice advocate. She is also the Founder and Chief Menopause Steward of The Black...
2025-09-051h 30
Sex With AshleyThe Black Girl's Guide To MenopauseIn this episode, Ashley Cobb and Omisade Burney-Scott discuss the often-taboo topic of menopause, particularly from the perspective of Black women. They explore the importance of open conversations about menstrual health, the symptoms and experiences of perimenopause, and the impact of societal narratives on women's identities as they transition through menopause. The discussion also touches on the complexities of sexuality during menopause, challenging common myths and emphasizing the potential for positive sexual experiences during this life stage. In this conversation, Omisade Burney-Scott and Ashley Cobb explore the multifaceted experience of menopause, discussing its impact on sexuality, self-discovery, and health...
2025-04-2836 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseSeason of Orisii: The Burney GirlsWelcome to our 6th iteration of the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast: the Season of Orisii.
Building on our international diasporic tour from last year, this season's theme is Orisii, or 'pairs' in the Afric language of Yoruba. We've invited different types of pairs to explore the through-line between menarche and menopause. You will hear parent/child, partner/lovers and siblings to offer their reflections and observations about this journey as individuals and as Orisii. We, as people capable of menstruation, understand that each experience is unique and impacts both ourselves and the connections we have...
2024-11-1400 min
Pleasure in the Pause: Midlife Conversations About Menopause, Sex & Pleasure29 | The Power of Storytelling to Transform Your Menopause Experience with Omisade Burney ScottDo you see menopause as a beginning? Or as an ending? Can you see it as a dynamic transformation from one version of yourself to another? My guest today, Omisade Burney-Scott, believes menopause is more than a physical experience and every person has a unique story to tell. This week, episode 29 of Pleasure in the Pause is about embracing menopause as a transformative journey! In this episode of Pleasure in the Pause, Omisade Burney-Scott shares the importance of centering stories from the margins to elevate voices that have been historically invisible. and actionable steps you can take r...
2024-10-161h 06
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseSeason of Orisii: Jasiatic Anderson Usher and Elsworth UsherWelcome to our 6th iteration of the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast: the Season of Orisii. Building on our international diasporic tour from last year, this season's theme is Orisii, or 'pairs' in the Afric language of Yoruba. We've invited different types of pairs to explore the through-line between menarche and menopause. You will hear parent/child, partner/lovers and siblings to offer their reflections and observations about this journey as individual and as Orisii. We, as people capable of menstruation, understand that each experience is unique and impacts both ourselves and the connections we have with our l...
2024-09-271h 09
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseSeason of Orisii: The Sisters Brown, adrienne and AutumnWelcome to our 6th iteration of the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast: the Season of Orisii. Building on our international diasporic tour from last year, this season's theme is Orisii, or 'pairs' in the Afric language of Yoruba. We've invited different types of pairs to explore the through-line between menarche and menopause. You will hear parent/child, partner/lovers and siblings to offer their reflections and observations about this journey as individual and as Orisii. We, as people capable of menstruation, understand that each experience is unique and impacts both ourselves and the connections we have with our l...
2024-08-011h 13
Health By Heather Hirsch206. Omisade Burney-Scott on menopause and taking control of your life's destiny.Omisade Burney-Scott on menopause and taking control of your life's destiny.
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2024-06-1248 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseSeason of Orisii: Michelle Graham Freeman & Sterling FreemanWelcome to our 6th iteration of the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast: the Season of Orisii. Building on our international diasporic tour from last year, this season's theme is Orisii, or 'pairs' in the Afric language of Yoruba. We've invited different types of pairs to explore the through-line between menarche and menopause. You will hear parent/child, partner/lovers, and siblings offer their reflections and observations about this journey as individuals and as Orisii. We, as people capable of menstruation, understand that each experience is unique and impacts both ourselves and the connections we have with our love...
2024-05-2356 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseSeason of Orisii : gina Breedlove & Ash-lee Woodard HendersonWelcome to our 6th iteration of the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast: the Season of Orisii. Building on our international diasporic tour from last year, this season's theme is Orisii, or 'pairs' in the Afric language of Yoruba. We've invited different types of pairs to explore the through-line between menarche and menopause. You will hear parent/child, partner/lovers and siblings to offer their reflections and observations about this journey as individual and as orisii. We as people capable of menstruation understand that each experience is unique and impacts both our selves and connections we have to...
2024-03-2059 min
Holly Cotton ConversationsSurviving Menopause: Black Women's ExperienceIn this episode, host Holly Cotton and Omisade Burney-Scott talk all things “woman”. In this episode not only do they talk about Omnisade’s specialty of women over 50, but also dive into defining sexy over 50, how they also focus on LBGTQ communities, empowerment, common questions about menopause, and of course laughs!
Omisade is the creator of The Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project seeking to curate and share the stories and realities of Black women and femmes over 50.
Omisade is a sought after, nationally recognized speaker whose energy and auth...
2024-03-141h 00
Breaking Through with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (Powered by MomsRising)From Menarche through Menopause and More, the Child Tax Credit (CTC) takes off, and Your Voice is Your Power!On the radio show this week we cover how the more we know about life changes through the years – from menarche through menopause and more – the more we're empowered; we hear the inside scoop on the Child Tax Credit (CTC) and how you can help keep it moving forward; learn the ways YOUR voice is likely more powerful than you think; and listen in with a viral mom comedian! *Special guests include: Omisade Burney-Scott, Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause @osunsweetnsour; Laura Peralta-Schulte, NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, @NETWORKLobby; Donna Norton, MomsRising, @MomsRising; and Giulia...
2024-02-0557 min
EmbodiedMenstruated: What Our Period Blood Tells UsIn the 34 years that guest host Omisade Burney-Scott was a menstruating person, she always felt that blood held more significance than just the biological. She meets an OB/GYN who shares little-known facts about period blood, and talks with two menstrual health advocates about how art and community have connected them to their cycles. Plus, an attorney discusses what she's paying attention to this year in terms of period policy.Meet the Guests:- Dr. Charis Chambers, who is known as "The Period Doctor," talks about how period blood can inform menstruators about other things...
2024-02-0231 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseBGG2SM Hits the Road Final Episode: Toronto and Puerto Rico!During 2023, the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause continued to bushwack a maroon path for those menopause stories left at the margins by launching a diasporic tour that took our team to the UK, Harlem, Toronto, and Puerto Rico.
Our intergenerational team has learned to hold the “both/and” dynamic tension of curating storytelling spaces more deeply. We are infinitely grateful for the lessons we have learned from our travels together, community conversations, and partnerships that include:
What it means to make offerings in communities where we do not reside
What...
2023-12-3143 min
The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland FoundationEmbodiment: A Recap of 2023This year’s theme at The Loveland Foundation has been Embodiment. In this recap episode, our insightful host, Rachel Keener, dives into the essence of embodiment by exploring what it means for each of our esteemed guests.Throughout this series, our guests have eloquently shared their perspectives on embodiment, shedding light on the diverse ways they incorporate it into their lives—from being present in their bodies to engaging in movement practices like yoga, our guests emphasize the importance of feeling sensations, trusting intuition, and nurturing themselves both physically and emotionally. Join us on this jour...
2023-12-1526 min
Practice You with Elena BrowerOmisade Burney-ScottOn holding space for the realities of menopause, normalizing the multiple truths of aging, prioritizing the power of shared intergenerational story to end the negative ways in which we relate to our bodies. Omisade Burney-Scott (Oh-me-SHAH-day, she/her) is a seventh generation Black Southern feminist, storyteller and social justice advocate. She is also the creator/curator of The Black Girls' Guide to Surviving Menopause (BGG2SM), a multimedia project focused on normalizing menopause and aging through the centering of the stories of Black women, women-identified and gender expansive people. BGG2SM cur...
2023-10-1440 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseBGG2SM Hits the Road: The Harlem, NY Episode!Happy World Menopause Month!
This year, the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause has been deepening our intergenerational narrative shift work by co-creating peer learning exchanges to normalize the menopause experience of Black people in the UK, New York, Toronto, and Puerto Rico. We are also co-hosting intergenerational menopause storytelling events called "Orisii" ( "pairs" in Yoruba).
The peer learning and the Orisii dinner are being offered in partnership with community-based women-led organizations. We identified each of these locations because of their strong Black diasporic communities. We have local partners on the ground...
2023-10-0919 min
Spiritually Fly Podcast with Faith Hunter14. Thriving and Glowing through Menopause with Omisade Burney-ScottIn this episode, Faith Hunter connects with Omisade Burney-Scott . Omisade (she / her) is a Black southern 7th generation native North Carolinian feminist, mother and healer with decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, philanthrophy, and social justice. She is a founding tribe member of SpiritHouse and previously served as a board member of The Beautiful Project, Village of Wisdom, and Working Films. Omisade is the creator of The Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project seeking to curate and share the stories and realities of Black women and femmes over 50. She is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, th...
2023-08-161h 08
HystericalBlack Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause with Omisade Burney-ScottOmisade Burney-Scott is the visionary creator behind the sensational "Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause."This multimedia project is an exquisite tapestry woven with the authentic experiences, stories, and realities of non-binary, Black women, and femmes over 50, exploring the delicate threads of aging, intimacy, body, spirituality, and transformation through the captivating medium of audio storytelling.Omisade's work has taken the world by storm! With sold-out events gracing the vibrant cities of Washington, DC, and Durham, NC, and an unforgettable international conference in Kenya, her impact knows no boundaries. Her sensational project has garnered over 5K...
2023-08-131h 07
The Hotflash inc podcast86. SOLO episode: 'I belong in this room'Send a textBIG NEWS: Hotflash inc is the #1 Women's Health Podcast on Goodpods, and in the top 1.5 percent of podcasts according to Listen Notes. Thanks so much for making that happen! In today's episode, I talk about traveling to New York for my first big event on behalf of Hotflash inc. And how I finally realized that I belong in the room. The broad themes are connection, confidence and purpose.But the...
2023-08-0430 min
The Mindset Shift With Jezelle's podcastSession 318: Demystifying Menopause, Part IThe Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly conversation with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves. Simply uttering the word “menopause” can result in feelings of dread for anyone born with a pair of ovaries. Hot flashes, sleepless nights, and painful sex are some of the many transitions that we associate with getting older and experiencing menopause. But menopause doesn’t have to be the secretive, painful experience that so many of us wer...
2023-08-0238 min
Therapy for Black GirlsSession 318: Demystifying Menopause, Part IThe Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly conversation with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves. Simply uttering the word “menopause” can result in feelings of dread for anyone born with a pair of ovaries. Hot flashes, sleepless nights, and painful sex are some of the many transitions that we associate with getting older and experiencing menopause. But menopause doesn’t have to be the secretive, painful experience that so man...
2023-08-0238 min
Parenting for LiberationEpisode 70: Intentioned: Parenting Ourselves and Our Kids (From Embodied Podcast)On this episode, Trina is an invited guest on the Embodied podcast to discuss Gentle Parenting along with content creator Destiny Bennett and guest host Omisade Burney-Scott. Listen as Trina outlines her parenting evolution and breaks down how she creates consequences without using punishment.
Resources:
www.wunc.org/podcast/embodied-podcast/2023-06-23/intentioned-parenting-ourselves-and-our-kids-parent-child-gentle-conscious-intentional-generational-trauma
2023-07-2727 minThe Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland FoundationMenopause: Let's Talk About It with Omisade Burney-ScottIn this episode, we invite you to join us in ending the taboo surrounding a normal phase in a person's life–Menopause: Let's Talk About It This episode of The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation with Rachel Keener and Creator of The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause, @omisadeburneyscott(TW // Suicide mentioned in podcast episode) Omisade Burney-Scott is a seventh-generation Black Southern feminist, storyteller, and social justice advocate. She is also the creator/curator of @blackgirlsguidetomenopause(BGG2SM), a multidisciplinary culture shift project focused on normalizing menopause and aging through the c...
2023-07-2046 min
Dem Black Mamas PodcastDBM Ep 56: Menopause, Black Women & Spiritual Ritual with Omisade Burney-ScottDear Mama, What if I told you understanding menopause was a matter of life and death? In her 2022 book You Got Anything Stronger, Gabrielle Union went into deep detail about how in her words, "the surge and retreat of hormones" during perimenopause and menopause caused her to have passive suicidal ideations and pointed out that science has focused on hiding symptoms or treating the symptoms of menopause that have mattered most to men like vaginal dryness. The part of Union's book that made me pause (see what I did there) was when Union stated, "According to a 2020 C...
2023-06-261h 27
EmbodiedIntentioned: Parenting Ourselves And Our KidsGuest host Omisade Burney-Scott is well aware that gentle parenting is a divisive concept. So she's gets into it! Omi talks with two other Black mothers about their definitions of gentle parenting and how it can break cycles of generational trauma. Then her older son shares how he has seen her parenting evolve over the past three decades.
Meet the guests:
- Destiny Bennett, a content creator and mother of three boys, explains why she chooses to describe her parenting philosophy as "intentional" and how important connection and communication is in her parenting
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2023-06-2335 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseBGG2SM Hits the Road: The UK Episode!This year, the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause plans to deepen our intergenerational narrative shift work by co-creating peer learning exchanges to normalize the menopause experience of Black people in the UK, New York, Toronto, and Puerto Rico. We are also co-hosting intergenerational menopause storytelling events called "Orisii" ( "pairs" in Yoruba). The peer learning and the Orisii dinner are being offered in partnership with community-based women-led organizations. We identified each of these locations because of their strong Black diasporic communities, we have local partners on the ground, or we are seeking to connect with more partners on the...
2023-06-0224 min
How to Survive the End of the WorldWitch School, Chapter 1: Omisade Burney-ScottWitch school is in session. adrienne interviews the resplendent Omisade Burney-Scott, curator of the Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause, doula, priestess of Ifa, and Black southern mama. Omisade talks about the magic of place and relationship, the witchcraft of knowing beaten paths from bushwhacking, and the practice of protection.
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2023-05-101h 11
Women & Wellbeing with Natalie AndersonOmisade Burney-Scott: The Menopausal Multiverse, Creating Community & Self Love & HealingThis week Natalie is joined by the founder and curator of the hugely successful Black Girls Guide To Surviving Menopause podcast and platform, Omisade Burney-Scott. During this empowering episode the pair discuss Omisade’s concept of the menopausal multiverse alongside how we can smoothly evolve into new iterations of ourselves and the importance of intergenerational conversations in navigating the perimenopause & menopausal path. Omisade notes how our changing bodies deserve to be treated with compassion and kindness and how experimenting with fashion and the way in which we present ourselves to the world can help us sh...
2023-04-301h 03
The Radically Loved PodcastEpisode 503. ⏪ Rewind ⏪ Navigating Personal Experiences of Menopause, Aging, and Family with Omisade Burney-ScottIn this week's episode, join us in Radically Loved as Omisade Burney-Scott tells us how to normalize difficult conversations about aging and menopause. Aging is a natural transition in life. However, it's common for people to view aging negatively. But if we don't discuss aging and menopause, we'll never understand it. Compassionate conversations about aging and menopause are vital to break the stigma around them. Together, we can reclaim your menopausal journey. This episode is brought to you by: LMNT Right now LMNT is offering my listeners a free sample pack with any purchase, That’s 8 single serving packets FREE wi...
2023-04-1446 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseSeason 5: The Magical Menopausal Multiverse School Bus Tour!This year, the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause plans to deepen our intergenerational narrative shift work by co-creating peer learning exchanges to normalize the menopause experience of Black people in the UK, New York, Toronto, and Puerto Rico. We want to take you all along with us on our Magical Menopausal Multiverse School Bus tour!
In each location, we will also co-host curated intergenerational menopause storytelling events called "Orisii" ( "pairs" in Yoruba). The peer learning and the Orisii dinners are being done in partnership with community-based organizations fulfilling a pre-COVID commitment to center the...
2023-03-2820 min
Finding RefugeThe Black Girl's GuideOmisade Burney-Scott (she/her) is a 7th generation Black Southern feminist, creative and social justice advocate. Over the past 25 years, her “work” has been grounded in social justice movement spaces focused on the liberation of marginalized people, beginning with her own community. This commitment to liberation has manifested through advocacy work, philanthropy, community organizing, and culture work. She is the creator/curator of The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project that curates the stories of Black women, women identified, and gender-expansive people who are perimenopausal, menopausal, or post-menopausal. This project is a direct result of Omisade...
2023-02-151h 03
Come As You AreThe Science of Great Sex in Long-Term RelationshipsA listener in his eighties wants to know if there’s an expiration date on his sex life, and how to reconnect in the bedroom with his wife. Luckily, Emily is writing a new book about sex in long-term relationships. She delves deep into what the research reveals about couples who sustain a strong sexual connection over many years. Plus, she shares practical, science-backed sex advice on aging and navigating your changing body. If you have a question for Emily, call the Come As You Are hotline at (646) 397-8557 or send a voice memo to emily...
2022-12-2836 min
Circling the DrainScheduling Our Farts - A CTD 2022 Wrap-UpSend us a textListeners... we're really going for it on our year-end wrap-up. At this point, we assume you have been listening regularly and that you don't need us to review every single guest we've loved and every lesson we've learned, so we decided to have a blast going rogue. Join us as we roll a set of sexy dice given to Ellie by her husbo, we review a map of porn fetishes broken down by U.S. state (sent to Julia by HER husband), and perform a dramatic reading of a particularly contentious email exchange...
2022-12-2142 min
Hello Menopause!“Apparently There’s a Pre-Game to Menopause” with Omisade Burney-ScottMeet Omisade (Omi) Burney-Scott, founder of the multimedia project, Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause. Omi is a Black Southern 7th generation native North Carolinian feminist, mother and healer. She uses her platform to uplift stories of Black women, femmes, nonbinary, and trans people navigating menopause through the Black Girl’s Guide to Menopause podcast, zines, and intergenerational dialogues. In this episode, she talks about her experience learning about perimenopause after getting pregnant with her second child and how her clinical depression and anxiety were linked to menopause. Join Robin, Christine, and Omi as th...
2022-12-1337 minThe Radically Loved PodcastS9: Episode 487. Navigating Personal Experiences of Menopause, Aging, and Family with Omisade Burney-ScottIn this week's episode, join us in Radically Loved as Omisade Burney-Scott tells us how to normalize difficult conversations about aging and menopause. Aging is a natural transition in life. However, it's common for people to view aging negatively. But if we don't discuss aging and menopause, we'll never understand it. Compassionate conversations about aging and menopause are vital to break the stigma around them. Together, we can reclaim your menopausal journey. Resources ●Connect with Omisade: https://twitter.com/Osunsweetnsour l https://www.instagram.com/blackgirlsguidetomenopause/?hl=en l https://www.linkedin.com/in/omisadeburney/ ●Shop the Black Girl’s Guide...
2022-11-2542 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseWelcome to Black Technologies: BGG2SM Season 4 Recap!Welcome to the O. Estelle Butler Intragalactic Train Station, where all of our Milky Way is always within your reach. Please follow the illuminated paths to the ticket kiosk, your train line, and other needs you may have about the station.
This is Omisade Burney-Scott and welcome to ‘Black Technologies of the Menopausal Multiverse.’ The voices and stories featured in this exhibition include our guests from Season 4 of the Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause and myself. But what exactly are Black Technologies? These are methods, strategies, and formulas those born with uteri have learned and adopte...
2022-11-1830 min
Directionally ChallengedOh Yes, You’re Getting Older w/ Omisade Burney-ScottKayla is joined by feminist, mother, and healer, Omisade Burney-Scott, who has a mission to make the topic of aging and menopause more commonplace and accessible. All bodies, all ages, and all identities are welcome to this important conversation. Follow Omisade Omisade’s Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/blackgirlsguidetomenopauseCheck out the Black Girls Guide to Surviving Menopause Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/black-girls-guide-to-surviving-menopause/id1462589097Follow Us:Instagram: www.instagram.com/candicekayla/ Twitter: www.twitter.com/CandiceKayla Website: www.candicekayla.com
2022-11-1450 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseEthosBlack Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause measures our impact by the continuation of expanding and normalizing the conversations and understanding around menopause to be inclusive and centering all Black people---all gender identities, sexual expression, and ages. There is a growing ecosystem of Black people talking about menopause and aging. Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause has played a vital leadership role in ushering in this landscape and movement. We are menopausal alchemists, doulas, cartographers, and advocates. We have created a space that hasn't existed on this scale before this platform for Black women, women-identified and gender-expansive people navigating menopause...
2022-10-1754 min
Circling the DrainWhat's Gonna Happen to My Vagina, Auntie? with Omisade Burney-ScottSend us a textOmisade-Burney Scott is the coolest. She is the creator/curator of The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project engaged in culture and narrative shift work which includes, among other things, a podcast, a zine titled Messages From The Menopausal Multiverse, and the Say More Card Deck, which is a collection of conversation and journaling prompts that empower you to deepen your relationships with people in, preparing for, or supporting loved ones through menopause and aging — as well as your relationship with yourself. And that's not even all of it. We were...
2022-10-121h 13
EmbodiedHorrified: Joy, Memory & The Body In Black HorrorFor most of guest host Omisade Burney-Scott's life, she was a reluctant viewer of horror films — squinting through her fingers long enough to get to the closing credits. In recent years, that trepidation has turned into thrill as she's watched the Black horror genre evolve. She talks with a filmmaker, director and horror scholar about how they see their own experiences reflected in the Black horror renaissance.
Meet the guests:
- Lana Garland, writer, director, producer and curator of the Hayti Heritage Film Festival, reminisces about the Black horror films that left their mark on he...
2022-10-0730 min
SHE2.0The Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseMenopause is a confusing and alienating time for most of us. We don't know whether we're coming or going and we can't seem to get the information and support we need. Now, imagine going through that same frustration but not as a white woman, but as a black woman? Just the colour of a woman's skin can change her experience with her symptoms and the support she receives. This inequity can be very harmful for women of colour. Omisade Burney-Scott, the founder of Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause joins me to talk about the jo...
2022-09-2955 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseFrom Zane to Judy BlumeThere is a growing ecosystem of people talking about menopause and aging. The Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause sees ourselves as menopausal alchemists, doulas, cartographers, and advocates and has taken up an intentional role in ushering in intergenerational Black voices and narratives into the menopausal landscape.
We see our intergenerational work, healing, and storytelling as an ethos.
An ethos is "an element of argument and persuasion through which a speaker establishes their credibility and knowledge, as well as their good moral character".
Ethos elements include:
Phronesis or the wisdom or intelligence you ha...
2022-09-151h 12
EmbodiedDestined: Using The Stars As A GuideGuest host Omisade Burney-Scott is a proud Aries Sun-Leo moon-Virgo rising and has been looking to the stars since the ‘70s. She and her best friend of over 50 years look back on how astrology influenced their relationship growing up and how they move in the world today. Plus, she talks to two astrologers about how this practice can play a role in social justice movements and in the intersections of our identities.
Meet the guests:
- Cheyanne Headen, a community and de-escalation specialist and Omisade's cousin and best friend, talks about how astrology influences her wo...
2022-09-0934 min
Ghost of a Podcast: Astrology & Advice with Jessica Lanyadoo274: Omisade Burney-Scott + HoroscopeOmisade Burney-Scott of The Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause joins Jessica for a look at her birth chart. She gets a surprise about her rising sign, and they go deep into loving oneself while loving someone else.
This week's horoscope starts and ends with oppositions, but first Jessica offers a refresher on the big-picture themes at play in the sky and how they are impacting us both personally and socially.
🎟 Register for Jessica's September 3rd class, Sex & Sexuality In Astrology, here: https://www.astrologyuniversity.com/shop/search-by-astrologer/jessica-lanyadoo/sex-sexuality-in-astrology/
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2022-08-281h 47
HOT FLASHES & COOL TOPICSBlack Women and Menopause with Omisade Burney ScottDid you know that black and latino women enter menopause earlier and may have more intense symptoms?
Did you know black and latino women have hot flashes longer on average than non-hispanic white women?
On this week's episode, we speak to Omisade Burney Scott, host of the podcast/media platform The Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause. Omisade shares her personal journey through menopause and the need for education and awareness. Omisade developed her platform because she wanted to "create[d] a space where the wildly diverse stories of different types of Black people could be he...
2022-07-2046 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseLight and Shadow: The Politics of Body Liberation"Above all else, Our politics initially sprang from the shared belief that Black women are inherently valuable, that our liberation is a necessity not as an adjunct to somebody else’s may because of our need as human persons for autonomy...
We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation are us. Our politics evolve from a healthy love for ourselves, our sisters and our community which allows us to continue our struggle and work.
This focusing upon our own oppression is embodied in the concept of id...
2022-07-1354 min
A Certain AgeRethink Menopause with Omisade Burney-Scott of the Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving MenopauseRethink menopause with Omisade Burney-Scott, the creator of the Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project seeking to curate and share the stories and realities of Black women and nonbinary people navigating menopause. We explore aging, intimacy, body change, pleasure, love, spirituality, and the liminality of menopause. We get into the ongoing fight for bodily autonomy, the importance of listening beyond our echo chambers, how to ground ourselves during the swirl of change, and why transformation is not linear. SHOW NOTES + TRANSCRIPT:acertainagepod.comFOLLOW A CERTAIN AGE:Instagram...
2022-06-2749 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseWhat If?There is much we can learn-- or maybe unlearn about menopause and aging if we apply a Speculative Fiction lens. Our current understanding of Speculative Fiction is tethered to science fiction and fantasy, and the way this genre broadens the story or narratives begging shared to include the potent age-old question of “what if.” This question that has been posed by poets, folklorists, writers, and philosophers invites us to reimagine our present reality, and it offers us multiple diverse opportunities to understand “who” is speaking and what is happening from their vantage point.
Black Speculative Fiction is often gro...
2022-06-1556 min
EmbodiedCo-Parented: Raising Children In CommunityAnita turns the mic over to guest host Omisade Burney-Scott to explore the many ways folks are raising kids outside the nuclear family unit. First, Omi talks with her former romantic partner about their evolution from significant other to co-parents. Plus, she meets a woman who is part of a four-person parenting structure and hears from someone who is creating resources for folks in blended families.
Meet the guests:
- Michael Scott, Omisade’s coparent and father of Taj talks about their evolution as partners in parenting
- Zena Sharman, writer, LGBTQ+ health advo...
2022-05-2035 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseMurphy's LawSince we launched the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause, I have learned quite a bit about how Murphy's Law plays a role in what we produce. We are all familiar with Murphy's first law; if anything can go wrong, it will. However, I don't think many of us know that there are two other laws; nothing is as easy as it looks, and everything takes longer than you think it will. If I were to offer a podcaster's version of Murphy's law, I would posit: There's no such thing as stable Wi-fi. If your computer/tablet/cellphone battery...
2022-05-1848 min
The Emergent Strategy PodcastTransiting with Omisade Burney-ScottOmisade Burney-Scott of The Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause comes through to talk with ESII host, Sage Crump, about the difference between being older versus being an elder. Burney-Scott and Crump jokingly question the term "yelder," and reflect on the oftentimes rough edges of the liminal space. Burney-Scott's words encourage a gentle pause and (maybe) a soft example of being more truthful with ourselves.
Transcript found here.
2022-05-1252 min
Truth Be Told: Time to ThriveThe WombWhat do body autonomy and reproductive health look like in a post Roe vs. Wade world? The stress of racism and barriers to care–including abortion care–are part of a downward spiral in reproductive justice. Too often, those stressors play out in our wombs as fibroids and cancers. We talk about seeking justice and liberation with our guests.GUESTS:Anoa Changa, journalist and writer of “What’s Next for Roe v. Wade?”Dr. Ashley Davis, Gynecologic Specialist at the Fibroid and Pelvic Wellness Center of GeorgiaOmisade Burney-Scott, healer and host of Black Girl’s Guide to Surv...
2022-05-1238 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseMade with Love...“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
-- Toni Morrison
When I was a kid in the 1970s, School House Rock, short educational cartoon vignettes put to music, were ubiquitous on Saturday mornings. We learned about grammar, math and how the government work (kind of) all with a catchy tune. There was a particular School House Rock titled Mother Necessity" and it extolled "with Mother Necessity and where would we be without the inventions of your progeny"? Where would we be...
2022-04-201h 05
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseAll You Gotta Do Is Say "Yes"!"This body does not bare destruction well.
This body likes warm drops of rain and bare feet. Toes grounding in rich soil, and having my scalp greased. To move and to stretch just a little beyond reach, There is glory over there, a hallelujah in my feet.
This body likes hot sun on bare shoulders, summer rain and not running inside. This body likes first morning light in her arms, new day sun streaming through open windows.
This body likes warm fingers on the dip of my back. Lips brushing the hollow between...
2022-03-1657 min
The Menstruality PodcastThe Power, Beauty and Soul of Menopause (Omisade Burney-Scott)Menopause is often portrayed as a disaster waiting to happen. Omisade Burney-Scott is a leading voice in the movement to change the conversation about menopause, as a powerful initiatory phase of life.Omisade is the creator of the Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project seeking to curate and share the stories and realities of Black women and femmes over 50. In today’s conversation, she discusses the menopause ‘remedies’ she’s learned through creating the guide; including the medicine of self-forgiveness, vision, self-acceptance, and living your passion. We e...
2022-03-101h 00
The Codependent Millennial PodcastOmisade Burney-Scott on Being Sweet to Your Damn Self The Black Girls' Guide To Surviving Menopause Read Omi's Zine! Follow Omisade on instagram. Watch Omi's interview with Stylikeu. Other Inquiries: decolonzingthecrone@gmail.com About Omisade: Omisade Burney-Scott is a Black southern 7th generation native North Carolinian feminist, mother and healer with decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, philanthrophy, and social justice. She is a founding tribe member of SpiritHouse and previously served as a board member of The Beautiful Project, Village of Wisdom, and Working Films. Omisade is the creator of The Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project seeking to curate and share the stories and reali...
2022-02-231h 10
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseMenopausal Multiverse Dispatch: Season 3 Recap!At the end of each podcast episode, I close by saying, "we will see you again on the dark side of the moon". I chose this language because of the way moon phases have been divinely associated with menstruation throughout antiquity. The dark side of the moon is under the dominion of the crone, the wise one, the astrological sign of Scorpio, the goddess Hecate, and Orisa Oya. It is a place of power, ancient magic, healing, ancestral connection and transformation. The idea of the dark side of the moon may also illicit an image of place that is c...
2022-02-1727 min
Change The Narrative with JD FullerSpeak Your Truth with Pierce Freelon revisitDurham City Council member Pierce Freelon is an accomplished Hip Hop/soul/electronic musician and Emmy-award winning producer, director and professor from Durham, NC whose work has been featured on the TODAY Show and at NPR, Parents Magazine and more. He is the co-founder of the Emmy Award winning PBS web-series Beat Making Lab- an and has taught in the departments of Music and African American Studies at the University of NC at Chapel Hill. Pierce is the writer, composer and co-director of an animated series called History of White People in America, an official selection of the Tribeca F...
2022-01-2149 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseGrief, Rage and the Liminality of Menopause"Often, when people talk about going through “the change”, it brings up all the images of a tearful, rageful, sweaty and emotional woman. This journey is not seen or held up as a positive transformation with a spectrum of stages and manifestations, but an ending to be cloaked in fear. Another, more potent way to frame the menopausal experience is to see it as actually another powerful representation of a rite of passage that is present to the liminality of the experience. In anthropology, liminality is “the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of ritual...
2021-11-0357 min
EmbodiedMenopaused: Life's Misunderstood ChapterAnita sometimes fantasizes about no longer having to deal with having a period. But folks along the perimenopausal parkway remind her that menopause is no quick and easy road. Anita's mom and others navigating the change share how it's shaped their relationships with their bodies, sex and where they turn for support.
Meet the guests:
- Sheila Rao, Anita’s mom, shares her experience of bodily changes once menopause set in
- Dr. Anna Camille Moreno, certified menopause practitioner at Duke Health, explains what's happening in the body during menopause and some of th...
2021-10-2933 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseNothing but an OG Thang...Last year, in the middle of the pandemic, I was perusing through social media when something caught my eye. It was a post of the Original Bad Girl of Comedy, Luenell, modeling Savage x Fenty lingerie. BE STILL MY BEATING HEART! When I tell you our big sis/auntie Luenell was giving us something we could feel, that is an understatement! Right then and there I knew I had to interview her for the podcast. I reposted her pictures on my feed and made a proclamation to the universe as well as folks checking out the post that I...
2021-10-071h 06
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseBlack Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause meets Stacy London and the State of Menopause!“There is no face of menopause. Why are there no celebrities and personalities out there really promoting menopause? It's not a one comment conversation. It is not a one-time acknowledgement issue. It's not a fad. This is a fact of life. And there's nobody willing to take it on because frankly, I think they, it makes them feel old past their prime. Unfuckable. I don't care about that. Someone who has been in the public eye needs to start fighting to not normalize this conversation, but to optimize this conversation.” Stacy London
I am so ex...
2021-07-281h 09
Change The Narrative with JD FullerSpeak Your Truth with Pierce FreelonDurham City Council member Pierce Freelon is an accomplished Hip Hop/soul/electronic musician and Emmy-award winning producer, director and professor from Durham, NC whose work has been featured on the TODAY Show and at NPR, Parents Magazine and more. He is the co-founder of the Emmy Award winning PBS web-series Beat Making Lab- an and has taught in the departments of Music and African American Studies at the University of NC at Chapel Hill. Pierce is the writer, composer and co-director of an animated series called History of White People in America, an official selection of the Tribeca F...
2021-07-1649 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseIs There a Doctor in The House?The doctors are in the house!
You have asked for it and here it is! Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause is so excited to bring you all this fantastic interview with OB/GYNs Dr. Cindy Duke and Dr. Arianna Sholes-Douglas. We talked about what menopause is and what it is not, sex and menopause, menopause health/support and health disparities experience by Black women, femmes and non binary people. We hope this episode provides some clarity around how to navigate menopause from a healthcare provider perspective.
Meet the do...
2021-07-151h 07
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseNonlinear"Transformation doesn't happen in a linear way, at least not one we can always track. It happens in cycles, convergences, explosions. If we release the framyework of failure, we can realize that we are in iterative cycles, and we can keep asking ourselves----- how do I learn from this? Emotional growth is nonlinerar." adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategies: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
To normalize menopause means to operate with a deep understanding of the complex diversity of experiences people have on their journeys and creating safe spaces to talk about that. It also requires...
2021-06-1748 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseFrom Calabash with Love"The calabash is a domesticated plant that depends on us for its survival, like wheat or almonds. Its closest wild relatives grow in Africa. When people domesticated the gourd, they bred a rugged, light-weight shell that could hold up for years. Archaeologists have found pieces of calabash dating back 11,000 in East Asia. In the New World, people were using calabashes at least 10,000 years ago. For over ten thousand years, people have used the calabash (known also as the bottle gourd and formally as Lagenaria siceraria) in all sorts of ways. They’ve eaten it as food. They’ve used it a...
2021-05-191h 12
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseThe Sweetest TabooBefore we jump in: a note on our content for this episode.
"The Sweetest Taboo" episode is a candid conversation with Sexologist Goody Howard about sexuality and sexual expression. It is created for adult audiences only. We advise listener discretion for graphic conversation about sexual expression, frank portrayal of sexuality, discussion of sex toys and products; and some strong language. We hope you enjoy this frank, funny and very informative conversation about sex and aging, but if you need a breather—we’ve got your back. Whenever you’re feeling ready and able: we hope yo...
2021-04-2252 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseBONUS BIRTHDAY EPISODE: Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause Meets HBO's Lovecraft Country!It's my birthday y'all!
So grateful for another rotation around the sun. So grateful for this 54 year old body that continues to carry me and teach me about how to love, heal and take risk to be more of who I am meant to be. I can't think of a better way to celebrate my birthday with our podcast listeners than to share this delicious bonus episode! My dear brilliant and super talented sister of the heart, Lana Garland*, is a filmmaker, producer and the curator/director of the Hayti Heritage Film Festival (see w...
2021-04-161h 02
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseThe Millennial Takeover!“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.”
Toni Cade Bambara
When my sister and I were little girls, we developed a skill set to be present in rooms with my mother and her best girlfriends without being detected. If we could be quiet and not make any quick movements, we could have access to the world of older Black women and bear witness to the magic of their friendship and sisterhood. We called it ear hustling. The ear hustle was a skill that improved with age...
2021-03-241h 00
The Coffee and Collaborations PodcastEp. 3 The Ultimate F.A.N Club Podcast w/OmisadeBurney-ScottIt's Women's History Month and we've relaunched the podcast with a new focus and name, The Ultimate F.A.N. Club Podcast! Tune in to find out more of what it's all about with our next episode, featuring the Creator/Curator of the "Black Girls Guide to Surviving Menopause"
More about our featured history-making woman:
Omisade Burney-Scott is a Black southern 7th generation native North Carolinian
feminist, mother and healer. Omisade has spent the better part of the past 25 years of
her life focused on the liberation of marginalized people, beginning with her own
2021-03-1550 minThe Coffee and Collaborations PodcastEp. 3 The Ultimate F.A.N Club Podcast w/OmisadeBurney-ScottIt's Women's History Month and we've relaunched the podcast with a new focus and name, The Ultimate F.A.N. Club Podcast! Tune in to find out more of what it's all about with our next episode, featuring the Creator/Curator of the "Black Girls Guide to Surviving Menopause"
More about our featured history-making woman:
Omisade Burney-Scott is a Black southern 7th generation native North Carolinian
feminist, mother and healer. Omisade has spent the better part of the past 25 years of
her life focused on the liberation of marginalized people, beginning with her own
2021-03-1550 min
Black Issues Forum03/12/21: Reform Redo, Evolving Elections & the Voice of Black WomenMary C. Curtis (columnist for "Roll Call" & host of the "Equal Time" podcast), attorney and political analyst Jessica Holmes, and writer Courtney Napier break down some of the week’s headlines through the eyes of Black women. Marcella Howard (In Our Own Voice) and Omisade Burney-Scott (“Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause”) also break down the growing reproductive justice movement.
2021-03-1204 min
Built By UsStorytelling and Healing Justice with Omisade Burney-ScottCelebrating Black Movement Makers in North Carolina. — In this episode, Alyssa and Taylor chat with Omi about the dynamics of movement work, the importance of spiritual hygiene, and the intersections of storytelling and social justice. Tune in as we talk Storytelling and Healing Justice with Omisade Burney-Scott.Support the showFollow us on all your favorite platforms! Instagram: @democracyncTikTok: @democracyncThreads: @democracyncBluesky: @democracyncFacebook: @DemocracyNorthCarolinaYoutube: @DemocracyNorthCarolina
2021-02-1049 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseSisters of the Yam“We are often ‘too busy’ to find time for solitude. And yet it is in the stillness that we also learn how to be with ourselves in a spirit of acceptance and peace. Then when we re-enter community, we are able to extend this acceptance to others. Without knowing how to be alone, we cannot know how to be with others and sustain the necessary autonomy.” --bell hooks
What year this has been. It's feels glib to say that it's been hard, but it has been and it's been hugely transformative for us all. I have been personally struck by how deep...
2020-12-231h 13
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseCan I get a Witness?When I was in my late 20s, I felt like I was going through a tremendous identity shift and growth spurt. The shift was from a more conventional aspirtationally bougie identity of my early 20s to one that was seeking to find my authentic self. The self at home in this body and understanding the origins of my culture beyond these shores. I was a single mom, working full time in the non profit sector, had stopped relaxing my hair (i.e. cut off my hair and was growing my first set of locs) and was seeking a spiritual...
2020-12-0252 min
EmbodiedAged: Sexual Desire And Dating After 50Anita is admittedly anxious about aging and what she'll have to re-negotiate about her body and her relationships as she gets older. Wisdom wanted.Meet the guests:- Omisade Burney-Scott, creator and host of "The Black Girls' Guide To Surviving Menopause" talks about how aging has affected her mind, body and spirit- Pepper Schwartz, a sociologist, sexologist and relationships expert, talks about how the cultural myths around aging shape how people approach sex and relationships- Ellen Ashley, talks about getting divorced at 60 and her varied experiences of dating online
2020-10-0129 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseHealing is your birthrightEmergency Care Of Open Wounds/When It Hurts
by Indigo
Calmly rinse the wound with copious amounts of cold tap water. This will significantly reduce the possibilities of infection. If available, use clean linen applied firmly against the wound to inhibit bleeding. If the pressure is not adequate, do it again. Another method allows the bottom of a stainless steel saucepan to be applied to the wound. The cold of the pan reduces swelling as well as bleeding. A poultice of mandrake berries can be of great use also, until further care...
2020-09-2458 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseBetween a rock and a hard place...Things I remember about being 12...
Faded Glory jeans
A terrible hair cut that took 2 years to grow out
My parents got divorced
Starting junior high school
Being kissed for the first time
Being pressured to have sex for the first time
Starting my period
Starting a friendship that became a sisterhood that has lasted 41 years
Wanting to be seen...
In this episode of the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause, I was able t...
2020-08-191h 04
The Thing About AgingPodcast 10 Omisade Burney-ScottOmisade Burney-Scott creator of "Black Girls Guide to Surviving Menopause" podcast and "Decolonizing the Crone," multimedia events and stories of women over 50. She is an activist for social and reproductive justice. Ms. Burney-Scott is a birth & death doula, public speaker, has appeared on NPR, and received many awards for her activism and philanthropy work.
Engaging, wise, and real, Omisade shares stories and counsel on aging, dying, depression, challenges for Black women during menopause and living in America, grieving during the pandemic and so much more. Fun, deep, bawdy, bold, intelligent, fabulous!
2020-08-1500 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseMy Sister's Keeper...“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” ― audre lorde
When I started this podcast last year, I started with a vision of centering the narratives of Black women around menopause and ageing that resonated with me. Of course that meant that as cisgender, Black, heterosexual woman born and raised in the American South I needed to check myself on the fact that menopause, and all of the complexities that comes with it and ageing, doesn't just happen to cis hetero...
2020-07-3159 min
Black Girl Mystic04. How Omisade Burney-Scott Uses Legacy, History + Story to Create LiberationOmisade Burney-Scott is a Black southern 7th generation native North Carolinian feminist, mother and healer.
As the creator + curator of The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause, her multimedia project curates and shares the stories and realities of Black women and femmes over 50.
In this gathering, Omisade shares her wisdom about:
The eternal gift of storytelling, lineage, history and ancestry.
Reclaiming self-power in the face of colorism + anti-Blackness
Her spiritual journey as Ifa practitioner
Becoming a death doula as spiritual initiation
Find Omisade online:
Black Girls Guide to Surviving Men...
2020-07-211h 10
Black Girl Mystic04. How Omisade Burney-Scott Uses Legacy, History + Story to Create LiberationOmisade Burney-Scott is a Black southern 7th generation native North Carolinian feminist, mother and healer. As the creator + curator of The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause, her multimedia project curates and shares the stories and realities of Black women and femmes over 50. During this conversation, Omisade shares her wisdom on: The eternal gift of storytelling, lineage, history and ancestry. Reclaiming self-power in the face of colorism + anti-Blackness. Her spiritual journey as Ifa practitioner. Becoming a death doula as initiation. And so much more! Find Omi...
2020-07-211h 10
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseThe Star of a Story" we would never leave you. we would never leave you here. we would never leave the world like this. that's why we put you here. you hear us? we put maps behind your eyes and over the entire sky. we put stories everywhere you stepped. but child services would have called it neglect."
Dub : Finding Ceremony, Alexis Pauline Gumbs
We all carry stories. Some of us like loose change absentmindedly left in a coat pocket. Others like an obedient acolyte carrying the sacred text of our grandmothers. Oftentimes, the stories we carry do...
2020-05-2247 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseWhen Saturn Returns, Again...Many of us who follow astrology recall our first Saturn Return in our late 20's. Some people refer to your Saturn Return as a "cosmic rites of passage", a time period that happens between your 27th and 29th year of life and can last about 3 years (what fun). It is during that time that the planet Saturn returns to the the sign it was in the moment you were born. When it returns, Saturn brings with it adulthood rites, lessons, questions, decisions and relationships. Saturn is the planet of life lessons that can break you down to show you what y...
2020-05-1445 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseBeing Well is Gonna Cost You“There she is. . . the “too much” woman. The one who loves too hard, feels too deeply, asks too often, desires too much.
There she is taking up too much space, with her laughter, her curves, her honesty, her sexuality. Her presence is as tall as a tree, as wide as a mountain. Her energy occupies every crevice of the room. Too much space she takes.
There she is causing a ruckus with her persistent wanting, too much wanting. She desires a lot, wants everything—too much happiness, too much alone ti...
2020-03-0156 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseTea and Toddies" Sister,
You've been on my mind
Sister, we're two of a kind
So sister,
I'm keepin' my eyes on you
I betcha think
I don't know nothin'
But singin' the blues
Oh sister, have I got news for you
I'm somethin'
I hope you think
That you're somethin' too..."
Miss Celie's Blues, The Color Purple
WHAT DO OUR COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS SOUND LIKE?
A laugh, greetings...
2020-02-2001 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseWhat if?What if?
What if we fully embraced the changes that comes with passing of time? Changes in our bodies, intimate relationships, friendships, career paths, etc. What if we didn't view these changes as a bad thing to be feared? What if we shifted the narrative to explore the liberation and joy in this process of becoming something new? What if menopause is more than hot flashes and gray chin hairs? What if we are more than fluctuations in weight and our moods?
What if.... We are sexy
We are creative
We are lush
We are powerful
We are reimagining
We...
2019-12-2702 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseGifts From The Oracle: The Muse and The MedicineNorth Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green drops blessings like ripe mango into our laps. Walls breathe a heavy sighs of relief as she shreds the puny narratives we have about who we are and our power to reanimate and reclaim our medicine... our magic. She calls forth specters who resemble our own shadows and reminds us that we can, that we have no choice but to reknit ourselves back together with the medicine that never left us. It sits at the back of our throats waiting for release. It burns. It illuminates.
She says...
“Medicine is dark and thick li...
2019-10-1655 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseAperture: Leo SeasonLionsgate Stardate 080819
Sovereignty, Awakening, Creativity, Power, Prosperity, Portal, Stargate ... Infinity.
It's Leo season and in this episode of The Black Girls Guide to Surviving Menopause, we are honored to share our interview with Leo Lana Garland with you!
Lana Garland IS aperture.
She is the portal through which our diverse narratives as Black folx can come through safe and intact. She uses her film camera and feline eyes to capture the shapes and stories that honors all of who we are, to honor our divinity. She bears witness to our sacred personhood with passion, integrity and care. She invites us t...
2019-08-0849 min
The Fragmented WholeA Guide to Decolonizing a CroneCrone (n.): an old woman who is thin and ugly. What happens when that 'old' woman is Black, beautiful, bold, and outspoken? What happens when she's above the age of 40 and still wants bodily, sexual, and professional autonomy? In this episode, I speak with activist and storyteller, Omisade Burney-Scott, about all of this and more. Happy listening!
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2019-07-1537 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseIt’s Cancer Season! Meet Crone Delores “Mama Dee” Eaton!Delores Sanky “Mama Dee” Eaton was born June 30, 1930 in Montgomery, Alabama. My mother, Mary Kinsey Mcconner Burney, Ibaiye, was born 16 days later on July 16th that same year in Pitt County, North Carolina. Though born under different circumstances and realities in the American south, their paths in life were oddly similar. If you know anything about Cancerian women, you know they are fiercely protective of their loved ones, nurturing, emotional, affectionate, funny, trustworthy and steadfast. Having been raised by two Cancers as a fire sign, you would think I would have had an adverse reaction to all that watery moon muta...
2019-06-2851 minBlack Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseListener Letters!Hey Folks! The response to The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause has been amazing! Thank you to all our new listeners and subscribers. We want to hear from you! Send us a listener letter to decolonizingthecrone@gmail and in the subject line put “LISTENER LETTER”. Your letters can be questions or thoughts that we can discuss with our guest host or they can be offerings the guide we will be creating. Either way, we want to share questions, thoughts and collective wisdom from you! We look forward to hearing from you on the dark side of the moon!
2019-05-2800 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving MenopauseThe Dark Side of the MoonThis is a new place. 52, divorced, one adult child, one preteen about to start middle school, parents gone, and reimagining what my work identity will be after 25 years of social justice work. It feels so foreign, exciting and scary. When did I arrive on the dark side of the moon? Am I alone here?
There is so much ritual around your first period as a girl. Within in your family circle, culture and circle of friends, it seems like everyone is waiting the arrival of this marker-- the portal to womanhood. There are books like “Are you there God it’s me...
2019-05-1138 min