Sprinkle Sparkle

Sprinkle Sparkle

Sprinkle Sparkle celebrates Black women and people of marginalized genders prioritizing pleasure as an act of defiance. Host Nubia Bennett builds each conversation about a simple question: How did you center your own pleasure today? This podcast is an important reminder that even a sprinkle of the sparkle that pleasure infuses into our lived experience—whether it is something big, like a vacation, the decadence of a bite of your favorite dessert, or a simple affirmation that you made the right choice—can be enough to keep going. It's the only way we can get to where we want to be.

Episodes

Pleasure is Ours

December 14, 2022 • 78 mins
It's the last episode of our season, and we’re spending it with Dr. Kaila Story, an Associate Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies… and an original pleasure ninja. Kaila and Nubia unpack the complexity of experiencing pleasure in a world that expects you to dress and act in certain ways in order to earn respect. “If you're a black woman in the public sphere, your identity has to be digestible, and something that peop...
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Pleasure in Depth

December 7, 2022 • 52 mins
“[W]e can't talk about joy until we talk about the grief. They are two sides of the same coin.” In this episode, Nubia introduces us to her friend Austen Smith, a Louisville writer featured in Taunt and QueerKY. Austen shows us the spiritual side of pleasure and what they do to unlock pleasure from within, and connect even with the ugly parts. “If we're willing to go that deep on joy, if we're really willing to go that hard on ...
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Pleasure is Imperfect

November 30, 2022 • 60 mins
Felicia Corbett is a unicorn. "When I was 31, I was diagnosed with a super rare form of cancer. It happens to like, one in 10 million people," she says, and it's called Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans. "You know how most cancers have a ribbon and it's a particular color? This one is yellow and purple and has a literal unicorn in it. Yeah, so they call us unicorns." In this episode, she and host Nubia Bennett explore what it means t...
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Pleasure in the Details

November 23, 2022 • 61 mins
Being the only Black woman in the room in a business setting can make you put your own behavior under a microscope. “You’re always thinking about, what do they think of me?” Jordan Parker Means says owning her own business took away that particular mental and emotional labor. “I've felt great freedom to be able to not have that as a thought,” she says. “We're a Black-owned business, the majority of our clients are Black. It's...
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Pleasure in Transitions

November 16, 2022 • 66 mins
Artists create. It’s just something we need to do, for ourselves, like eating and sleeping. And most people would say it’s lucky if we can figure out how to pay the bills with it. But doing art as your business can change your relationship with it. Robin G is a poet who also teaches poetry workshops and founded The Stanza Collective, an apparel company with affirming poetry on the designs. “At first I struggled with, okay, I don...
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Pleasure is Generational

November 10, 2022 • 62 mins
State Representative Attica Scott and her daughter Ashanti Scott are the mother/daughter version of a power couple. They were on the front lines of Louisville’s racial justice protests in 2020 and have made activism and public service a part of their daily lives. Attica says those values were instilled in her by strong role models in her family. “There are some things I feel like I was born into and that were granted to me by m...
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Pleasure in Balance

November 2, 2022 • 67 mins
When your business is pleasure-based, the line between work and leisure can feel thin. This episode’s guest, Tiffany Elle, says balance is key in her life. “You can only engulf yourself in your work for so long, even though like what I do with Sensual Bliss and it’s pleasurable for me,” she says. “Then when I come home from that I have to sit on the couch and watch TV.” Tiffany’s company creates body-inclusive lingerie, provi...
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Pleasure as Access

October 26, 2022 • 71 mins
Capitalistic definitions of self-care always involve spending money. Get a massage. Get your hair done. By yourself something nice. Treat yourself. And that might be part of pleasure for today’s guest but it’s not the whole story. Dr. JaBani Bennett is an artist and arts advocate, a scholar, an award-winning arts education consultant and more. And she’s host Nubia Bennett’s sister.  They explore what pleasure meant in their ...
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Pleasures of Motherhood

October 20, 2022 • 66 mins
All season so far, you’ve heard host Nubia Bennett ask her guests, “Who taught you how to feel pleasure?” For Nubia herself, one of the answers is this episode’s guest, Porsche Gilbert. Porsche talks about her long journey to motherhood, and how it shaped her relationship with joy. “It’s the pleasure of looking at my kids and knowing I prayed for them,” she says. “The next part of the pursuit of happiness is putting these two hu...
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Pleasure in Evolution

October 12, 2022 • 68 mins
Entrepreneurship can be exhausting. You have to run your business but also you have to run your life. It can be hard to find time for pleasure. For Kishya Hayden, it was meeting her own family’s needs that eventually lead to her business. “My children had eczema really bad, especially my girls” she tells host Nubia Bennett. And she says the product their doctor prescribed wasn’t really helping, and worse, it was changing the kid...
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Pleasure in Partnership

September 28, 2022 • 64 mins
When you were young, who showed you what pleasure could look like? For Kendrick Jones, it was his parents — his dad had an after-work ritual he followed every day, and his mom spent Sunday mornings dancing to gospel and cleaning house. But he also had a more unusual role model: a drag performer named Li’l Ronnie. “He was one of my mom's closest friends. When he was not performing, be the cleanest fella in the room. Girls is f...
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Pleasure is Healing

September 21, 2022 • 64 mins
On this episode, we meet Arielle Clark, owner of Sis Got Tea, a Queer-owned, black-owned, Louisville-based tea shop. Nubia and Arielle explore how mental health is a vital part of pleasure, and what obstacles can get in the way. Arielle takes us through her own mental health journey through learning the beauty in boundaries and their enforcement. She says her home is her home is her safe space, and she's curated it inten...
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The Audacity of Pleasure

September 14, 2022 • 63 mins
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a huge period of change for everyone. For Phelix Crittendon, it was a chance to improve her pleasure practice, and reimagine her future—which for her, meant moving to New York City. “I don’t want to be a what-if person,” she says. "I am self sustainable, and I'm a hustler, and I'm gonna make whatever I want to make happen." On this episode, Phelix joins host Nubia Bennett to explore the ple...
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Pleasure as Liberation

September 7, 2022 • 60 mins
Y'all know life beats you down sometimes. You know the people, places, and things that you lean on to get you through. Your crew. Your girls. Your chosen family. Host Nubia Bennet shares the mic on this inaugural episode with two of her best friends, Minda Honey and Shauntrice Martin. Minda says you can't have pleasure without agency: "I think for women, particularly Black women, trans women, women who are marginalize...
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How did you center your own pleasure today?

August 31, 2022 • 1 min
Sprinkle Sparkle celebrates Black women and people of marginalized genders prioritizing pleasure as an act of defiance. Host Nubia Bennett builds each conversation around a simple question: How did you center your own pleasure today? Because even a sprinkle of the sparkle that pleasure infuses into our lived experience—whether it is something big, like a vacation, the decadence of a bite of your favorite dessert, or a simple affirm...
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