My Colorful Nana

My Music is My Identity

Lauren Stockmon Brown (Host & Founder) sits down with Jordan Dorsey ( NYU '19). This episode features two queer, black, women who do not conform to societal standards of femininity discussing the intimacy of loving another woman and this "trifecta of struggle." Jordan Dorsey is a Rap and R&B artist who believes that "A women is someone who is strong. Strong in her purpose and knowing what she has to do. Someone who's motherly, can take charge, has her own energy and really sticks by it." ..... This will be our last Episode featuring a Generous Thinker for Season 1 Fall 2019. Thanks for thinking generously!

Black Hair & Self Care

Lauren Stockmon Brown (Host & Founder) dicusses the nuances of black hair and the importance of self care with Linda Duverné (Senior at NYU). To love is a revolutionary act. To love another is expected. Whereas to love the self is frequently questioned. Linda will describe the challenges of loving the self especially as a Haitian black woman growing up in America. The black experience is not monolithic and every space demands a new level of effort and energy. For this reason, Linda encourages us all to be patient with ourselves when figuring out how to "feel" authentically and productively.

White Suburbia & Me

Lauren Stockmon Brown (Host) & old high school friend, Alyssa Ashley (University of Delaware '18), reminisce about their hair-care experience growing up in a predominately white community located in Westchester (Chappaqua) New York. It was simultaneously an amazing and challenging upbringing: to be surrounded by faces that do not reflect your own. It is a complex feeling to both question and appreciate how a reclamation of self can shape the person you are and the world you now choose to see.

It's Not Just Hair.

Lauren Stockmon Brown (Host & Founder) and Ale Gonzalez (Junior from NYU) studying History & Politics will explore the complexities of oppression on black hair. Ale calls himself "racially ambiguous" to the eye, though people often associate his physical attributes with black features. So, when Ale was little, he would get made fun of and picked on for being who he naturally is. This conversation on black hair expands to all oppressed people in complicated ways-- Why are we encouraged to look a way that we don't naturally?

When Do Black Women Get To Be an Individual?

Lauren Stockmon Brown (Host & Founder) explores Camille Lo Bianco's (Senior from NYU) essay about Black feminism inspired by TMCNP's event last February. Lo Bianco covered Black women being viewed as representatives of a collective experience. We're always reminded of the original message of the podcast: to share stories of Black women as unique individuals.

Young Black Women In The Corporate World

Lauren Stockmon Brown (Host & Founder of TMCNP) asks Marquel Love ('19 graduate from NYU, former college athlete, NBC Studios employee, Page Program recipient) to take us through her hair-care experiences, the pressures of working in the corporate world right after undergrad, dating primarily white men and why.

 

What Does It Mean to Have an Identity That Has No Limits?

Lauren Stockmon Brown (TMCNP Host & Founder) asks Meskie Taylor (Sophomore from NYU) about her experience with her hair as a Black Ethiopian woman who was adopted at 8 years old . When Meskie met her American family, it was the first time she saw white people.

 

Is There Space For The White Man's Perspective?

Lauren Stockmon Brown (TMCNP Founder) asks Mike Flom (A Junior from NYU) if there is space for the white man's perspective in a discussion about black women's hair.