Cultivating Blackness, wisdom, and love are the remedy to dismantling anti-blackness across the diaspora.
current projects
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SoulShift: Transforming Radical Possibilities - The Podcast
Transforming Radical Possibilities is a podcast that empowers social change-makers to dismantle anti-blackness, inequality, and injustice in their communities. Hosted by JyOba X, this show explores the theory of Community Wisdom and its role in cultivating radical possibilities. Through engaging solo episodes and thought-provoking interviews with wisdom practitioners, grassroots activists, and proximate leaders, Transforming Radical Possibilities provides listeners with the tools, knowledge, and inspiration they need to create a just and fair society.
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Emergent Well-being: People, Pets, and Place - Humane Communities
The Emergent Well-being Initiative is a holistic approach that operates at the intersection of animal well-being and social justice to expand the industry’s work beyond its traditional boundaries to lifesaving strategies for human-animal well-being and our shared environments. The initiative provides thought leadership and project collaboration through advocacy, relationship-building, and collective work to advance comprehensive well-being and create a more equitable and humane world.
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Community Wisdom: Dismantling Anti-Blackness in the Everyday
In communities of color experiential knowledge is a valuable resource that performs as community wisdom. This knowledge spans across generations in communities that endure the inequities of structural racism and cultural appropriation. The JyObaX Project examines community wisdom through a Black queer theoretical lens to strengthen community resilience and cultivate collective solidarity. Community Wisdom is a key component to achieving a Black radical love.