Recollect Season 3 Episode 6 - with Victoria Scott-Miller: Red Cups & Fish Fries - Two Black Book Loving Women Musing about Sharing and Collaborating

Recollect: Black Women Decolonizing thru Story & Nature

In this last episode of Season 3, Victoria Scott-Miller, children’s book author, and owner of Liberation Station Bookstore in Raleigh, NC is visiting me at Her Story Garden Studios. What starts out to be a conversation and first meeting to collaborate on my book release party and her bookstore opening this summer, turns into a conversation about all the ways we put plastic on the furniture not knowing we are keeping the good butts from sitting down in our reality. How can we as Black women remember to make the children and all the folks feel special by letting them in to play? How can we as Black women discern between separating for self-preservation and separating because we have internalized colonized notions that keep us separated and not collaborating? How do we get our instincts back? There are lots of giggles and lots of depth here.

I ain’t saying nothin else. Ya’ll do some things for me – Listen to this podcast, then do a couple things: donate to Liberation Station’s fundraising campaign. They open of course on Juneteenth, but could use your help in bringing us this Black Southern bookstore focussed on making sure our Black children get the education we intend for them to have. And, spoiler alert, Liberation Station is the pre-order bookseller for my multigenerational diasporic novel Trinity which is of course released on July 4th, because Frederick Douglas asked and answered the question, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.” Well, Trinity done historically flipped that script on its head, and Liberation Station Bookstore is bringing you all the answers. Donate to Liberation Station Book & Pre-order Trinity Y’all.

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