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The Joyous Justice Podcast
The Joyous Justice Podcast is for kind, committed professionals, leaders, and spiritually-inclined folks who want to cultivate resilience, deepen their impact, and co-create justice with clarity and joy.
Leadership isn’t just about action—it’s about mindfulness, healing, wise discernment, and the courage to radically reimagine what’s possible and necessary.
If you’re ready to shift from navigating challenges in default stress mode to cultivating your capacity to increasingly lead with intentional power and co-creative wisdom, tune in!
Hosted by award-winning Black & Cherokee Jewish social justice leader and certified coach, Kohenet April Nichole Baskin.
The future is ours to co-create!
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The Joyous Justice Podcast
Ep. 142: Black Women & Vashti Vindicated, Part 2, with jesi "rocki" taylor
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In this episode, Kohenet April N. Baskin and poet, archivist, and visionary jesi "rocki" taylor dive into a rich and layered conversation about disposability and extraction of black and global majority leaders, power, and the complexities of identity, as inspired by the limited, but potent lore surrounding Vashti.
Together they explore the ways harm is named and weaponized, the nature of joy as a liberatory force, and the systemic patterns of extractive labor in justice work.
This is a conversation that holds nuance, challenge, and depth—an invitation to examine the spaces we navigate and the truths we carry.
To learn more about jesi and connect with faer work, you can find them on Instagram and here's access to the links for their newsletter, website, and so much more!
Discussion and reflection questions:
- What in this episode is new for you? What have you learned and how does it land?
- What is resonating? What is sticking with you and why?
- What, if anything feels hard? What is challenging or on the edge for you?
- If relevant. what feelings and sensations are arising as you reflect on themes from this episode, and where in your body do you feel them?
- What key insights or strategies are you carrying forward and how do you want to weave them into your living and/or leadership?