Season 6
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This Is Our Future
Season 6, Introduction
Happy new year KSFam and welcome back to a brand-new season of KSB! We’ve missed you all so much (as much as you’ve missed us we hope) and sitting here knowing the kinds of episodes we’ll be dropping in ✨the future✨, all we can say is, get hyped!! The new year is always dedicated to new beginnings and looking to what’s ahead, so we’re sitting down for our sixth season, “This is Our Future”, to discuss what exactly that looks like.
Your caring, loving, and overall wholesome hosts for this season are Dinah Clottey, Nicole Maria Mateo, Jon Brooks, Narvella Sefah, and Fernanda Ponce. The team has gotten together for this episode to chat about their anxieties about the future, which can no doubt be nerve-wracking, but they have some wise words to offer on how exactly to overcome them. As always, you won’t want to miss this episode, so sit back, relax, and enjoy, “This Is Our Future”.
This episode's hosts: Dinah Clottey, Jon Brooks, Nicole Maria Mateo, Narvella Sefah and Fernanda Ponce
Heartbeat of Mother Earth
Season 6, Episode 2
“There is no beginning and there is no end, and this drum is a big part of who we are as people…I use my drum when I sing to people and I refer to this drum as the Heartbeat of Mother Earth”. If you’re curious about how this episode got its name and/or the full context of our conversation with Ronnie Preston, Cultural & Education Programs Director at the American Indian Center in Chicago, make sure to tune in to this episode’s Brown Breakdown! At the core of “Heartbeat of Mother Earth”, KSB is taking a look at the colonialist policies that have affected Indigenous communities, and how Indigenous people have fought against oppression to be present in the making of futures where they reclaim their rights and space, and rewrite the narratives of who Indigenous people are.
This episode's hosts: Fernanda Ponce and Narvella Sefah
Black to the Future
Season 6, Episode 3
Do Black people exist in the future? This question, a tough question, seems to sit unanswered amongst the Black community. Often the victims of police violence and discrimination, a people where a Black girl can literally disappear without a trace, it’s a real question. One way to think about futures is to literally dream about it, and there is so much rich literature that provides contexts, solutions, and more questions on this very topic. In this episode, we’re discussing the futures of not just Black people, but more specifically, Black women as we dive into the discourse surrounding Black feminist theory and place it on a continuum we have yet to traverse. We are joined by guest T Lacy, the assistant director here at the University of Chicago writing program, to merge the discourse on Black Science-Fiction and Black Feminist Theory. We’re taking y’all to the future! Are you ready?
This episode's host: Dinah Clottey and Nicole Maria Mateo
Healing: Making Way For Our Future
Season 6, Mini Episode
What does it mean to practice self care? And why is self care so important for Black people, especially Black women? With this on her mind, Narvella set out to explore the answers to these questions. And in seeking answers, she consulted with family and friends by asking them: how do you practice self care? For this episode, we encourage you to take a minute to take a deep breath, relax, close your eyes, and think about what self care means to you. What will you do today to care of you? We hope listening to KSB is on that list of healing and caring practices. Enjoy the episode!
This episode’s host: Narvella Sefah
Green Visions: Growing Gardens & Community
Season 6, Episode 4
Green spaces are vital to our growth and survival as people. These spaces help provide sanctuary to care for ourselves and allow us to strengthen our connections to others and our community. The amazing benefits of engaging with green spaces, like gardens, however, may not be immediately apparent given the systemic forces that keep BIPoC from accessing places where we can be in nature. But as it so often happens, BIPoC have not allowed these obstacles to get in the way of sowing seeds of change and growing green communities where we look out for each other. Join us on this episode as we tend to our garden of stories and ideas, with guests Cade Kamaleson and LaQuandra Fair from Southside Blooms and Growing Home!
This episode’s hosts: Jon Brooks and Fernanda Ponce
Future as Reimagined Presents
Season 6, Episode 5
What exactly is our future? How do we envision it? After four intense season episodes where the KSB Team tried defining the future from four unique angles, we’re turning the questions inward once again. Here, we share our reflections of where we imagine ourselves once we have reached our imagined futures…and it just so happens that in said futures, we are find ourselves scattered throughout the vastness of the universe. Taking direct inspiration from episode 3 of this season, Black to the Future, we hope that you have enjoyed the journey, and we’ll see you again soon—in the future.
This episode’s hosts: Fernanda Ponce, Dinah Clottey, Jon Brooks, Narvella Sefah and Nicole Maria Mateo