Live and Online: Expression Session - March Edition (Featuring Shelby Birch)

Live and Online: Expression Session is a monthly writing workshop which culminates in a featured performance by an internationally recognized artist.  This month, we’re excited to present Shelby Birch as our feature!

In anticipation of the event, Shelby joined me for an interview.  We talked all about her journey as a poet, her new book Lit, and of course, she spit some of her poems!

We went into depth about her ideas on love, womanhood, Blackness, awkwardness, and heartbreak. I can’t even describe how much fun this was. Tune in and get inspired!

For this week's Free Gift, Shelby is sharing a chapter from her fantastic new book Lit! To download it, click here or below.

HERE'S THE INTERVIEW:

Or LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW AS A PODCAST BELOW OR ON ITUNES.

Listen to "T.H.E. Celebration With Special Guest: Shelby Birch" on Spreaker.

T.H.E. Celebration With Special Guest: Terna

This week, I had the pleasure to host a phenomenal and in depth interview with the amazing Terna, of (among many things) Coming Out Muslim. We had a deep dialogue with all about her insights and relationships with education, Islam, sexuality, health, healing, and self-care!

Terna is a Nigerian/ Liberian/American artist, facilitator and healer. She holds an MA in Counseling Psychology and Global Mental Health, and graduate degrees in International Conflict Analysis and Teaching.  She has worked as a public school teacher in New York, at the United Nations, and currently works to help survivors of homicide and victims of community violence.

Terna is also the co-writer of Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of Love,  which captures stories and experiences of being at the intersections of Islam and queerness and its relationship to family, lovers, one’s sense of self and relationship with our faith.

Get ready to be absolutely enthralled!

This interview is always available as a podcast!

Listen to "A Talk With Terna" on Spreaker.

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