Are We Free Yet?
Tina Strawn
"Liberation is ultimately a celebration of our deepest humanity, and our fight for it must include a deeper examination of how we relate to oppressive systems while centering our joy, peace, and pleasure." — Tina Strawn
Are We Free Yet? The Black Queer Guide to Divorcing America is simultaneously a personal reflection and a collective examination of our relationship to liberation and oppression.
In it, Tina Strawn, host of the Speaking of Racism podcast and Instagram platform of the same name, shares her intimate experiences of queerness and Blackness, heartbreak and loss, foreign and home, as she navigates and finds freedom.
Alongside Tina's personal journey through a year of challenging transitions, Are We Free Yet? offers an interactive guide to four pillars of activism: joy, liberation, pleasure, and connection.
From the role of cannabis to the importance of embracing our grief, this book offers a critical take on all it means to be an activist, offering deep reflection and discussions on race, social change, sex, and healing.
Duration - 8h 53m.
Author - Tina Strawn.
Narrator - Tina Strawn.
Published Date - Saturday, 21 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2023 Tina Strawn ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
"Liberation is ultimately a celebration of our deepest humanity, and our fight for it must include a deeper examination of how we relate to oppressive systems while centering our joy, peace, and pleasure." — Tina Strawn Are We Free Yet? The Black Queer Guide to Divorcing America is simultaneously a personal reflection and a collective examination of our relationship to liberation and oppression. In it, Tina Strawn, host of the Speaking of Racism podcast and Instagram platform of the same name, shares her intimate experiences of queerness and Blackness, heartbreak and loss, foreign and home, as she navigates and finds freedom. Alongside Tina's personal journey through a year of challenging transitions, Are We Free Yet? offers an interactive guide to four pillars of activism: joy, liberation, pleasure, and connection. From the role of cannabis to the importance of embracing our grief, this book offers a critical take on all it means to be an activist, offering deep reflection and discussions on race, social change, sex, and healing. Duration - 8h 53m. Author - Tina Strawn. Narrator - Tina Strawn. Published Date - Saturday, 21 January 2023. Copyright - © 2023 Tina Strawn ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:21
Dedication
Duration:00:00:08
Quote
Duration:00:00:21
The Guide to the Guide
Duration:00:10:03
PART I: Grief and Healing - 1. The United Shades of Black Grief
Duration:00:04:39
2. The Threat of Black Death
Duration:00:12:08
3. Just Mercy
Duration:00:05:21
4. Activist Timeline
Duration:00:00:57
5. It Began in Shorter, Alabama
Duration:00:06:26
6. Get Therapy
Duration:00:14:36
7. Black Suffering
Duration:00:02:33
8. False Allyship
Duration:00:07:58
9. One Nation under Black Trauma
Duration:00:11:17
10. A Black American Horror Story from Texas
Duration:00:06:42
11. Find Stillness Every Day through Breath
Duration:00:06:50
12. Reaching the (Housing) Limit of Racialized Trauma
Duration:00:17:44
13. Heartbreak Is a Gray Grief for Activists
Duration:00:10:25
14. Reparations and Black Bereavement Time
Duration:00:16:29
15. Grief Is Intergenerational
Duration:00:11:34
16. Grieving Is the Starting Point to Getting Free
Duration:00:05:27
17. Find Movement Every Day
Duration:00:02:42
18. Sit with Your Anger
Duration:00:06:56
19. Run Away
Duration:00:02:28
20. Make Space to Grieve
Duration:00:02:26
21. From Broken Hearts to Divorces
Duration:00:06:45
22. Gather Your Spiritual Practices
Duration:00:05:53
23. Reclaim Your Time
Duration:00:05:12
PART II: Peace and Pleasure - 24. The Envelope in the Door
Duration:00:05:06
25. Unpack Your Relationship with Anti-Blackness
Duration:00:03:04
26. Unpack Your Relationship with Capitalism
Duration:00:07:07
27. Unpack Your Relationship with Credit
Duration:00:05:52
28. Learn about Rent Strikes
Duration:00:03:14
29. Create Radical Strategies for Your Own Personal Liberation
Duration:00:03:23
30. Let Go: Aparigraha
Duration:00:03:04
31. Nomad AF
Duration:00:02:52
32. Finding Peace in Pain
Duration:00:05:17
33. Protect Your Peace at All Costs
Duration:00:04:18
34. Unplug from the Virtual and Digital Chaos
Duration:00:01:50
35. Make Peace with Your Past
Duration:00:07:30
36. Get Outside
Duration:00:00:56
37. WPP (White People’s Problem)
Duration:00:04:45
38. Team Blaxit
Duration:00:03:51
39. Black Americans Who Moved Abroad
Duration:00:06:37
40. Welcome to Jamrock
Duration:00:10:20
41. Unpack Your Relationship with Patriarchy
Duration:00:04:45
42. Learn about Misogynoir and Intersectionality
Duration:00:01:50
43. Build Your Community
Duration:00:04:03
44. Get Queer AF
Duration:00:06:14
45. Breaking Out of Cis-heteronormativity
Duration:00:10:43
46. Unpack Your Relationship with Sexual Pleasure
Duration:00:02:02
47. Have Interstellar Sex
Duration:00:04:54
48. Increase Your Pleasure Capacity: Have More Orgasms
Duration:00:19:22
49. Pleasure Power Principles
Duration:00:02:41
50. Take a Nap
Duration:00:02:09
PART III: Celebration and Joy 51. A Brief History of Black Celebration
Duration:00:01:48
52. Find Your Voice
Duration:00:05:08
53. Eat
Duration:00:05:39
54. Yoga Meals
Duration:00:02:49
55. Comments Overheard While Eating in Costa Rica
Duration:00:01:10
56. Soul Food Stories
Duration:00:06:26
57. The War on Drugs
Duration:00:05:06
58. Cannabis as Liberation
Duration:00:06:41
59. Get High
Duration:00:04:24
60. Draw Your Pleasure Treasure Map
Duration:00:04:27
61. Get into Your Body
Duration:00:04:59
62. Dance
Duration:00:01:10
63. Honor All the Parts of Yourself, Then and Now
Duration:00:03:36
64: Forgiveness
Duration:00:04:10
65. Rename Yourself
Duration:00:05:12
66. Be Gracious
Duration:00:02:08
67. Find Restorative “Poetic” Justice
Duration:00:04:24
68. Queer Black Sheep
Duration:00:07:24
69. Follow Your Joy
Duration:00:02:15
70. My Solo Poly Honeymoon
Duration:00:09:19
71. The Pleasure and Politics of Polyamory
Duration:00:05:38
72. Take Risks
Duration:00:04:08
73. Create Your Own Constitution of Joy
Duration:00:05:32
PART IV: Activism and Liberation 74. The Case for Divorcing America
Duration:00:02:09
75. Meeting Stacey Abrams
Duration:00:06:11
76. Evaluate Your Relationship with the Democratic Party
Duration:00:03:45
Chapter 80
Duration:00:06:04
78. Losing the Black Woman’s Vote
Duration:00:06:48
79. Grumpy Old White Men
Duration:00:03:13
80. Satan or Lucifer
Duration:00:04:28
81. Science, History, Medicine, and Time
Duration:00:04:04
82. Radical Theory #1
Duration:00:03:46
83. Unvaccinated Black Lives Matter Too
Duration:00:02:44
84. If I Die of COVID-19
Duration:00:05:29
85. Loving Erica
Duration:00:04:15
86. One Love
Duration:00:06:54
87. Losing Erica
Duration:00:11:07
88. Alive
Duration:00:03:49
89. Being a Liberation Activist
Duration:00:03:17
90. Write Your Own Declaration of Liberation
Duration:00:02:58
91. White People for Black Lives: Educate Yourself
Duration:00:04:57
92. White People, Take Action
Duration:00:02:08
93. I Am Not Your Resource
Duration:00:01:24
94. The Liberation of Mutual Aid
Duration:00:07:35
95. Poor People Shit
Duration:00:05:28
96. Never Stop Listening to and Learning from Black Women
Duration:00:08:40
97. Closure
Duration:00:05:19
98. Saying Goodbye
Duration:00:03:23
99. Dear America
Duration:00:05:44
100. What Hope
Duration:00:04:18
Acknowledgements
Duration:00:03:33
Closing Credits
Duration:00:00:52