Welcome to the Possibility Lounge. Monthly conversations with some of my favorite healers, dreamers, thinkers, and innovators about how they’re dreaming up and living their most liberated lives.
Somebody, anybody sing a Black girl’s song… Sing a song of her possibilities.
Ntozake Shange
Episode 5: Rasheeda Creighton
In our last episode before summer break, I talk to my big sister and friend, Rasheeda Creighton. Being that Rasheeda has known me for more than half of my life you can imagine this conversation is full of memories, revelations, and deep honesty.
Episode 3: Dr. Christina Harrington
This month I’m joined by Dr. Christina Harrington, Design researcher and professor at Carnegie Mellon University and one of my design partners in this work. We met a little over a year ago on a panel and since then have been able to join forces to create Building Utopia, an Afrofuturist inspired Speculative Design toolkit. Christina’s goal in her work is to bring the ideas of design to our communities, the ones who have always been at the forefront of new innovative ideas.
In this episode, which I’m calling Do the Thing, Christina talks about finding her authentic self as a queer, preacher’s kid, ditching engineering for design and having the courage to put new ideas into the world.
Learn more about Christina and our Building Utopia project at buildingutopiadeck.com.
Episode 2: Arianne Edmonds
This month we’re joined by my beautiful sister Arianne Edmonds of the J. L. Edmonds Project. Ari and I met over a year ago as cohort mates in the USC Civic Media Fellowship. It felt pretty obvious from the start we were supposed to know each other; and in that time we’ve built a sisterhood that allows for a soft and sturdy stillness, one where we find immense joy and deep reflection. Ari has that way about her and I think you’ll feel it as you listen. If I had to think of a theme for this episode I’d say it is “nothing is lost.” Arianne digs into her journey to archiving and sharing her great, great grandfather’s work, how a year in Ghana changed the way she creates, and how she’s looking at her contribution to her family’s legacy differently than before.
Learn more about Ari and the J.L. Edmonds Project at jledmondsproject.com.
Episode 1: Courtney Hall
Today’s guest is one of my best friends, Courtney Hall, intimacy coach at Sundara Intimacy. In our conversation, we touch on finding the courage to be authentically you in every space you enter, why she started Sundara Intimacy and how her parents’ unfulfilled dreams may have influenced her life of freedom.
