May 31, 2021
Season 3 of the Black Oxygen Podcast will be about Black folks exploring Wisconsin. There are so many stereotypes of Black folks and the outdoors - often based in historical trauma. But as bell hooks said in her essay called Earthbound, “to live in communion with the earth, fully acknowledging nature’s power with...
May 24, 2021
Yanna Willams came go Madison, WI to study dairy sciences. Since her time in Madison, she’s gone from completing her graduate studies and teaching animal sciences at UW-Madison to starting her non-profit Dear Diary Madison and serving on the Board of Directors for the Verona Area School District. In this episode of...
May 17, 2021
This week on Black Oxygen we are rebroadcasting the Season 1 conversation with Myra McNair. In 2016, Myra McNair, Marriage & Family Therapist and trauma specialist, founded Anesis Therapy Center - a therapy center that centers and provides culturally appropriate mental health care services for Black, Indigenous,...
May 10, 2021
This week on Black Oxygen we feature Dr. Linda Vakunta. Dr. Vakunta is the Deputy Mayor for the City of Madison and one of the co-founders of Fourward Madison. This episode covers a wide range of topics including her background in psychology, the intersections between disability justice, environmental justice, and...
May 3, 2021
In her book, Salvation: Black People and Love, bell hooks says, “Patriarchal thinking certainly does not encourage men to be self-loving. Instead it encourages them to believe that power is more important than love, particularly the power to dominate and control others.” On this week’s episode of Black Oxygen the...