03: FLORIDA WATER with adrienne maree brown and Ayo Ngozi

In this episode, we discuss role of imagination in the movement toward land sovereignty and liberation with adrienne maree brown and Ayo Ngozi.

adrienne maree brown (she/they) is growing a garden of healing ideas. Informed by decades of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship and doula work, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Loving Correction as ideas and practices for transformation.

Soul Fire alum Ayo Ngozi has worked as a community herbalist for over a decade, with a practice that centers the land, the community, Spirit, and ancestral ways of being. Ayo has co-created several projects, including Planting Reparations, Black Mystery School (an Afrofuturist learning community dedicated to liberatory healing, knowledge and practice), and most recently, Brickyard Gardens

Sovereign: Reclaiming Black Land is a series, rich in storytelling, history, and ritual, in which we explore what it means to be sovereign. With Black land at the center, this podcast brings together prominent activists, artists, and weavers with the rising generation of Black land stewards for inspiring conversations that honor the past and create blueprints for the future.

This podcast is hosted by Crysta Bloom and Clara AgborTabi, and co-produced by Crysta Bloom and Zera Bloom. Our theme music is created by Naima Penniman and Zera Bloom. Our artwork and graphics is created by Crysta Bloom. Sovereign: Reclaiming Black Land is presented by Soul Fire Farm.

Find out more about adrienne's work at https://adriennemareebrown.net/ and on social media @adriennemareebrown

Follow Ayo's work at @ayo.herbalist and @brickyardgardens.savannah on instagram

Find Soul Fire Farm at https://www.soulfirefarm.org/ and on social media @soulfirefarm

Follow Crysta Bloom's work at https://www.embodiedbloom.com/ and on social media @crystaembodiedbloom

Follow zera bloom on social media at @zera.bloom

Learn more about Naima Penniman's work at https://www.naimainfinity.com and on social media at @naimainfinity