Woke Mental Wellness

Woke Mental Wellness

Woke Mental Wellness is a podcast devoted to Black Queer mental wellness and the issues which impact our community. Currently we play tabletop role playing games and talk about gaming and how it relates and impacts Black Queer mental wellness. Woke Mental Wellness aims to increase knowledge and awareness about Black Queer mental wellness and intersectionality to help both people in the Black Queer communities as well as providers and allies. Cassie, is the founder and GM of Woke Mental Wellness and a Black Queer person with a mental illness as well as a mental health professional.

Episodes

November 17, 2025 57 mins

Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities.

 
It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the ...

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Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. 

It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the const...

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October 20, 2025 54 mins

Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities.

 
It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the ...

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October 6, 2025 46 mins

Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. 

It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the const...

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September 22, 2025 55 mins

Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. 

It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the const...

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September 8, 2025 68 mins

Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. 

It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the const...

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Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. 

This is our talkback for Episodes 5 & 6. We discuss the game and our lived experiences and how they relate to mental health, activism and live as Black Queer people in the US. 

Please also be aware that talkback episodes cover a wide range of t...

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August 11, 2025 73 mins

Woke Mental Wellness is back with a new cast and a full season! 

Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. 

It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Th...

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July 28, 2025 55 mins

Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. 

It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the const...

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Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. 

This is our talkback for Episodes 1-3. We discuss the game and our lived experiences and how they relate to mental health, activism and live as Black Queer people in the US. 

Please also be aware that talkback episodes cover a wide range of topics ...

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June 30, 2025 51 mins

Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. 

It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the const...

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June 16, 2025 42 mins

Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. 

It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Romero is an experienced activist who is struggling with the const...

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June 2, 2025 66 mins

Woke Mental Wellness is back with a new cast and a full season! 

Windy City Nihilism is an Urban Horror Podcast Series. We do not shy away from touchy topics and the politics of horror, mental health, games, and life as a person of targeted identities. 

It is summer in Chicago and once again protests have taken over the city as the people demand more care and community and less state violence and austerity cuts to public programs. Ro...

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WELCOME BACK!!

It took some time, but Woke Mental Wellness is back with another new cast and a full season! Want to know what you are in for? Well luckily this is our Session 0! you can get a vibe for the cast and hear about the general idea for the story!

Content Warnings:

Please also be aware that talk back episodes cover a wide range of topics which may be hard for some listeners. Topics include but are not lim...

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Welcome back for the final discussion of Season 2 of our actual play series on Woke Mental Wellness!

This is our final episode. 

We are discussing the entirety of our play through of  Kalymba, a new TTRPG by Daniel Pirraca.  We are using the quickstart as the game is not yet released, but it did successfully Kickstart!!

This series is called Finding Home and our 3 players are, Randall, Kevi, and Moon!

Please be awar...

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Apologies for the delay. As you know the world has been a lot, but we are back with the final game play episode! 

Welcome back for the finale of Season 2 of our actual play series on Woke Mental Wellness!

This is our final game play episode. 

See how our play through of  Kalymba, ends .  We are using the quickstart as the game is not yet released, but it did successfully Kickstart!!

This series is called Finding Hom...

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June 4, 2022 48 mins

Welcome back to Season 2 of our actual play series on Woke Mental Wellness!

This is our 2nd discussion episode. 

We are discussing up to episode 6 of our play through of  Kalymba, a new TTRPG by Daniel Pirraca.  We are using the quickstart as the game is not yet released, but is on Kickstarter NOW!  http://kck.st/3w8kyeS 

This series is called Finding Home and our 3 players are, Randall, Kevi, and Moon!

Please be ...

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May 21, 2022 49 mins

Welcome Back to Season 2 of our actual play series on Woke Mental Wellness! 

We continue our adventure with Episode 6!

We are continuing our play through of Kalymba, a new TTRPG by Daniel Pirraca.  We are using the quickstart as the game is not yet released, but is now on Kickstarter! 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/craftandogames/kalymba-roleplaying-game?ref=clipboard-prelaunch

This series is called Finding H...

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May 7, 2022 40 mins

Welcome Back to Season 2 of our actual play series on Woke Mental Wellness! 

We continue our adventure with Episode 5!

We are discussing episodes 1 -3 of our play through of  Kalymba, a new TTRPG Daniel Pirraca.  We are using the quickstart as the game is not yet released, but is now on Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/craftandogames/kalymba-roleplaying-game?ref=clipboard-prelaunch 

This series is ...

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April 30, 2022 46 mins

Welcome to Season 2 of our actual play series on Woke Mental Wellness! 

This is our first discussion episode.  

We are discussing episodes 1 -3 of our play through of  Kalymba, a new TTRPG Daniel Pirraca.  We are using the quickstart as the game is not yet released, but will be on Kickstarter April 29th! This series is called Finding Home and our 3 players are, Randall, Kevi, and Moon!

Please be aware that this ser...

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