Life, I Swear

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Black Masculinity and Black Girlhood featuring Omó Pastor, Photographer Apr 17, 2022

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In this episode, Chloe speaks with Omó Pastor, writer, photographer and filmmaker who uses these artistic mediums to heal, to empower and to express the reality of African people across the globe. In this conversation, Omó Pastor shares her recent work around Black male masculinity.

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Telling the Story of the Story featuring Adriana Parrish, Healer Apr 10, 2022

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Chloe speaks with her best friend Adriana Parrish about the experience of telling her story for the first time. Adriana was a contributor to the Life, I Swear book, where she chronicled her experience of losing her mother and navigating life without her.

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Loving and Leaving New York, featuring Renae Bluitt, Filmmaker and Creator, She Did That Apr 03, 2022

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In this episode, I chat with Renae Bluitt, filmmaker and advocate for Black women entrepreneur’s narratives, and Creator and Executive Producer of the Netflix documentary “She Did That.” We talk about what calls us to be passionate about telling other Black womens' stories, negotiating balance in our lives, and the invitation of new seasons and locations as she talks of loving and leaving New York.

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The Sex Lives of African Women featuring Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah and Salem Afangideh Mar 27, 2022

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Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Ghanaian feminist activist, award-winning blogger, and author sits down with Salem Afangideh, lawyer, consultant and sexuality anthropologist. They talk about Nana’s book “The Sex Lives of African Women”, self-agency, the ideologies that influence our assumptions or judgements around sex, and the perspectives of anthropology and feminism respectively. (Note: FGM mentioned in this episode is an acronym for female genital mutilation)

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Truth, Light, and No Blueprints featuring Brandie Freely, founder of Lumin Magazine Mar 20, 2022

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In this second episode, I have with me Brandie Freely, founder of LUMIN Magazine and The Escapism Retreat. We talk about light—how we follow it, how truth helps us keep it going, and how the path to it looks different for each of us. Plus, the power of breaking rules.

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Season Opening: Transformation and Perspective Mar 13, 2022

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Welcome to season five of the Life, I Swear podcast! In this episode, Chloe starts the season with a few words of her own on this journey, this season, and the reflections she's been having lately, answering the question: what do we do with that freedom from our pasts? How do we leverage our new perspectives? How can we share these new versions of ourselves? How can we expand, evolve, and seize our newest revelations of self to carry us into new levels?

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A More Perfect Union: To Be Black, Woman and American featuring Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Poet Oct 24, 2021

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Teri Ellen Cross Davis is a phenomenal poet and author of A More Perfect Union (Ohio State University Press, 2021) and Haint (Gival Press, 2016). She is also the Poetry Coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. In this season four finale, Teri talks about the desire she has for the country to create a more perfect union for Black women.

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Since 1968, the Folger's poetry reading series has brought hundreds of distinguished poets to read from their work on stage. A new Virtual Poetry Writing Workshop, titled Shakespeare's Sisters: Say Her Name, will be led by poet and Folger Poetry Coordinator Teri Cross Davis and poet and author Kim Roberts. This workshop explores the poetry of Black women in America, encouraging workshop participants to write responses to esteemed poets of the contemporary moment. The workshop will be offered in two 4-week sessions and course will run virtually on Wednesdays from 5-7pm ET, now through December 1, 2021.

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Authentic Voices: Because Our Voices Matter featuring Natalie Obando, President, Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Oct 10, 2021

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Natalie Obando, president of the Women’s National Book Association, talks about the organization’s Authentic Voices program, which introduces women writers to publishing through four weeks of writing, editing, marketing, and publication. She also covers the resources writers need to do share their stories as published works, and the affirmation women of color need to believe that their stories matter and deserve to be shared more broadly. Visit www.wnba-book.org. {Pre-order a copy of Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust. Visit www.chloelouvouezo.com}

Conditions of a Creative: Stop, Start, Listen featuring Courtney Phillips, Creator, GumboMedia Oct 10, 2021

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Courtney Phillips, co-founder of Gumbo Media and Gumbo Fit chats about her journey to creative entrepreneurship, how she’s encouraging Black people to define success differently, and what she needs to stay creatively inspired and focused. {Pre-order a copy of Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust. Visit www.chloelouvouezo.com}

Sensuality and Sexuality: Feminism, Religion and Mental Wellness featuring Brianne Patrice, Sensuality Doula Oct 04, 2021

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Brianne Patrice breaks down for us how she sees sexuality, sensuality, and spirituality mastering their own lane but also overlapping--and when they do, this is the wholeness we speak of.
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