Season of Orisii : gina Breedlove & Ash-lee Woodard Henderson

Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause

March 20, 2024 ∙ 60 mins
Episode 38

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Welcome 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 our loved ones.


On this first episode, we have gina Breedlove and Ash-lee Woodard Henderson: partnered orisii

gina Breedlove is a grief doula, sound healer, vocalist, mother, grandmother, author, and oracle of grace. (website | IG)

Ash-lee Woodard Henderson is an organizer, strategist, soon-to-be author and the first Black woman co-Executive Director at the Highlander Center for Research and Education. (Ash-Lee's IG | Highland's IG)


Produced by BGG2SM Creative Director, Mariah M.

Hosted by BGG2SM Founder & Chief Curatorial Officer, Omisade Burney-Scott

Edited by Kim Blocker of TDS Radio

Theme music by Taj Cullen Scott

Season 6 Artwork by Assata Goff, artist & in-house Iconographer of BGG2SM


Season 6 of the podcast is sponsored by The Honey Pot Company


Learn more about Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause at www.blackgirlsguidetosurvivingmenopause.com


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Podcast

Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause

Episode

38

Date

March 20, 2024

Length

60 mins
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Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause

Black women are negotiating the different stages of menopause along with their ever evolving identifies, relationships, careers, responsibilities and societal tropes. This is a curated intergenerational exchange, a space for exploration, mentorship, intimacy and vulnerability around life, identity and change. It’s the excavation of the things that you need to know, but were never told. […]

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