On Dreaming & Decolonizing Authority with EbonyJanice

Sustainably Human at Work

Actionable insight about admitting what we don't know, authority, and dreaming ourselves free.

EbonyJanice Moore is a womanist scholar, author, and activist doing community-organizing work, most specifically around Black women’s body ownership as a justice issue, Black women's access to ease, joy, and play, and Hip Hop as a tool for sociopolitical and spiritual/religious movement making. She has created curriculum for leadership development for high school-aged girls in Kenya and South Africa, developed programming for teenagers in housing projects in Decatur, Georgia giving them exposure to culture, STEM programs, and the arts, and she supports the tuition of several girl students at PACE High School in Nyahururu, Kenya - towards her passion to ensure gender parity in spaces considered "the least of these."

EbonyJanice has presented papers on Hip Hop as Liberation Theology, Hip Hop As The Language Of The AfroFuture, Black Girl Hand Games As Spiritual and Religious Ritual, Beyonce & African Spirit Justice, and Hip Hop And Womanist Theology at Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, the Institute of Buddhist Studies, the Graduate Theological Union, University of Southern California, and UC Berkeley.

Her research interests include issues pertaining to Blackness, woman-ness, and spirituality - most specifically Black women's use of spirit, conjure, and/or the supernatural as a tool to impact social justice, and the pluralism of Black Christianity and the interconnectedness of the Southern Black Christian experience with Indigenous African religions and African Spirituality. She is a Hip Hop Scholar and hosts a podcast focused on hip hop and womanism called Rap Theology. She recently performed an original creative piece about The Rebellion at Igbo Landing at The Public Theater in New York City and is currently working on an expansion of that play focused on the women that often get lost in the story.

EbonyJanice has a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Political Science, and a Master of Arts in Social Change with a concentration in Spiritual Leadership, Womanist Theology, and Racial Justice. She is the founder of Black Girl Mixtape, a multi-platform safe think-space, centering the intellectual authority of Black women in the form of a lecture series, a podcast, and an online learning institute lead by black women scholars.

Connect with EbonyJanice:
https://www.thefreepeopleproject.com/
https://www.thefreejoyexperience.com/
http://patreon.com/ebonyjanice
https://twitter.com/ebonyjanice
https://www.instagram.com/ebonyjanice/

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