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Ash and Feather: A Bird/Girl and Her Father's CancerBonus Episode: Emotional Well-being during Cancer and COVID, Black and LGBTQ Family Lives MatterThe Ash and Feather project explores how cancer affects everyone, the one who is sick and their family and friends.… The Ash and Feather story centers the black family, and allows space for that family to be comprised of gay males raising a daughter. It is incredibly affirming to a population that so often has to trumpet for equity and inclusion. In the panel, we examine the intersection of social justice, emotional well-being and mental health. The panel centers Blackness and the strength of Black leaders who advocate for families in medical and community spaces. We di...2020-08-081h 01Ash and Feather: A Bird/Girl and Her Father's CancerEpisode 6: "Rising from the Ashes"When you look up at the sky, what do you see? What do you think about? As day turns to night, the trees become silhouettes and the stars start to twinkle. What is possible in the blue purple of dusk? When old and new meet? When laughter echoes down the bumpy street? We find sunsets, soulmates, and sometimes, roller-skates. It is time for Phoenix to rise from the ashes.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ashandfeather/support2020-07-2922 minAsh and Feather: A Bird/Girl and Her Father's CancerEpisode 5: "A New Normal"You know how things change? When something really big happens in your life, like moving to a new state or losing a loved one? There is a time right after the change that feels awkward or scary. Lonely or different. Sometimes people call that transitioning into a new normal. We want to find rainbows in the midst of gray. Let’s look together as Phoenix transitions with her dads into their new normal, post-cancer treatment.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ashandfeather/support2020-07-2919 minAsh and Feather: A Bird/Girl and Her Father's CancerEpisode 4: Post Surgery Treatment, “The Headdress”Touch your head, what do you feel? Long hair, short hair, baldness? Feel under your hair. Find the shape of your skull, its waves. Feel its hardness. Your skull protects you. Our bird-girl Phoenix learns about a device that will help with her dad Eagle's cancer. He wears it on his head. Phoenix helps him feel strong.… like a bird, like a plane. Like super dad!
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ashandfeather/support2020-07-2917 minAsh and Feather: A Bird/Girl and Her Father's CancerEpisode 3: Surgery, “Waiting”Hospitals are places with new smells, mysterious rooms, and equipment that can make us shiver. Hospitals remind us of the beginnings and ends of life. This episode explores surgery, the next step in Eagle’s treatment. Get ready for big feelings, shoulder rubs, rock painting, and warbler nests.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ashandfeather/support2020-07-2720 minAsh and Feather: A Bird/Girl and Her Father's CancerEpisode 2: Chemotherapy, "Dressed in Black"Have you ever wanted to escape when things are hard? Grow wings and fly high in the sky? Jump in the water and swim away? In this episode, the news of Eagle’s cancer settles in, and Phoenix searches for ways to make the hurt feel better.
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ashandfeather/support2020-07-2721 minAsh and Feather: A Bird/Girl and Her Father's CancerEpisode 1: Diagnosis, "When Living Was Easy"Bake a cake, wear your hoodie, greet the sun and clouds. These are things you can control. And then there are things you can’t. Life’s messes. COVID is raging, cancer has been raging, and racism and injustice have always been raging, so it matters that we explore real lives and the magic that helps them through.
In Ash and Feather, We will imagine a family with a Duck, an Eagle and a daughter who is a Phoenix! At first it sounds strange, not possible, until you look in your family and realize ther...2020-07-2715 minAsh and Feather: A Bird/Girl and Her Father's CancerPreview of Ash and Feather: Bird/Girl and Her Father's CancerAsh and Feather: a Black family with teen and two dads, one of whom has brain cancer, addresses minority mental health, medical trauma, anti-racism, and queer family life. It is written by Sharon Frances, director of Well Beings Studio, a non-profit that supports the emotional well-being of families impacted by cancer through the arts.
About Ash and Feather, Frances says, "I wrote this podcast, as a person with cancer and a lifetime child of a parent with cancer. I wanted to explore my relationship with my daughter, as she watched me fight for my...2020-07-2002 min