Season 5: The Magical Menopausal Multiverse School Bus Tour!

Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause

March 28, 2023 ∙ 20 mins
Episode 34

About

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 menopausal lived experiences across the African diaspora.

We will be in the UK this spring, working in partnership with Karen Arthur, fashion creative, model, menopause advocate, and creator of the UK-based podcast Menopause Whilst Black centering the menopause stories of Black women in the UK.  New York is scheduled for this summer, partnering with Ebony Noelle Golden of  Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative, and Luquillo, Puerto Rico is scheduled for this fall, and we will be partnering with Molly Jones of  Love, Soul, Beautiful. We are finalizing our partnership with Toronto native  Michelle Osborne and are looking at September to come to Canada!


Meet our new team member Madylin Nixon-Taplet, founder of Love Önwa Photography, Associate Director of Artist Training for The Beautiful Project and BGG2SM Documentary Creative Advisor:


Madylin started Love Önwa Photography in 2020 in response to losing her job of 13 years, wanting to spend more time indulging in her photography as a love, wanting to advance her artistry, and wanting to develop & grow as an entrepreneur. Their mission is “I Capture Souls and the Magic of Life”. Madylin truly believes that every human on this planet has something beautiful about them, even if they can’t always see that within or for themselves. She shares, "my goal is to show people themselves! Exactly and as beautifully as she sees them".

The name Önwa means moon in Igbo, as Madylin is a child of the moon (Cancer ♋️ Energy). When she photographs, what she presents to the client resonates as a letter that she is writing to their soul. To their experiences. To the beauty, she sees that she wants to be reflected back to them. And so she ends with ~Love Önwa.


STAY TUNED!!


Season 5 and BGG2SM Hits The Road Sponsors Include:


The Honey Pot Company 

Kindra

Elektra Health


We also want to thank our GENEROUS donors:


The Groundswell Fund

Common Counsel Foundation Honeybee Fund

Jeanette Stokes


Episode Details:


Host: Omisade Burney-Scott

Producer: Mariah M.

Podcast Theme Music: Taj Cullen Scott


Send your thoughts, suggestions, questions and more to decolonizingthecrone@gmail.com!

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Podcast

Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause

Episode

34

Date

March 28, 2023

Length

20 mins
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