Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast
A Decolonized Podcast for lovers on the margins, join your resident sexuality educator Ericka Hart and Deep East Oakland's very own Ebony Donnley, as we game give, dismantle white supremacy and kiki in the cosmos somewhere between radical hood epistemological black queer love ethics, pop culture, house plants and a sea of books. Light an incense to this. #nigchampa #hrhw #theblackpoweredpodcast To monetarily support Hoodrat to Headwrap Venmo @Ericka-Hart or PayPal: ericka@ihartericka.com
Episodes
September 18, 2025 • 98 mins
...And the beauty of not falling in line.
Ya'll asked, we complied: the desirability episode part 2!
A special ask: if you liked what you heard and want this fully indie listener supported, currently pay-wall free, ad-free g-thang to continue, please consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ihartericka
or via Venmo: @Ericka-Hart, Paypal: ericka@ihartericka.com. Be sure to like, subscribe and share with your networks h...
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August 21, 2025 • 96 mins
This episode is dedicated to the life of Selamawit D. Terrefe, George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson. Rest in Power. Free Em All
Join us for a very special Black August episode with our Black Loves, the only two light skin friends we have left: the illustrious Deme Brown (she/her), Brooklyn community advocate, screenwriter and director (@Demegawd_) and Dr. Isaiah Blake (he/him), Phd, East New York BK all-day, geography student at U...
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June 27, 2025 • 85 mins
This episode is dedicated to the life and memory of Adriana Smith
Donate to the Celebration of Black Transwomen Cookout in NYC: https://www.gofundme.com/f/gia-love-x-angelito-black-trans-love-cookout-fundraiser
The episode (note, there is a 6 second breather in the beginning, don't worry, just breathe, we still here lol)
"Happy" Pride** with a major asterisks
No pride with genocide
Everything you are being told about Iran in the ...
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June 12, 2025 • 113 mins
-Said another way, all the lies white cis men have told Black cis men about manhood (p1)--Happy Pride!
- They thought they found "aMerIKA" and the nigga they say "founded" it never made it to North America but fast forward centuries later and ya'll still believe it
- They said they descended from Aryans because the word had a ring to it, used to create the myth of a superior race but now they hate the actual Aryans (in and near I...
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April 28, 2025 • 104 mins
...under global racial capitalism and whose lives are seen as valuable in the first place? What makes a life worth living to those who decide whether we live or die? Valuable and worthy enough to suffer, to fight and resist said suffering without validation from those causing it. The racial capitalism episode part 1.
Recommended Reading:
https://antipodeonline.org/geographies-of-racial-capitalism/
https://ia801806.us.archive.org...
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March 24, 2025 • 102 mins
Episode dedicated to the memory of Sam Nordquist (Rest in Power)
Free Melissa Atwell-Holder, Rumeysa Ozturk, Mahmoud Khalil NOW
Free Em All
Justice for Momodou Taal Now
Alt Episode Titles:
There were no executive orders to ban sundown towns but there is one in West Virginia named Eleanor--wonder why?
What Happened to Black People Predates the Creation of Fascism and is Far Worse
Who Said the US was a Democracy?
When Will White Pe...
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February 13, 2025 • 106 mins
If you'd like to join the Spring 2025 Cohort for Sex Ed as Resistance, apply here!: https://ihartericka.com/sex-ed-as-resistance/
"Racism and racially structured discrimination have not been deviations from the norm; they have been the norm"---Charles W. Mills
"White supremacy forced white americans into rationalizations so fantastical that they approached the pathological."--James Baldwin
Alt episode titles:
Hegemony, Iniquit...
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November 5, 2024 • 96 mins
...What we finna do come tomorrow?
...especially if the overseer of your choice doesn't win
...will you fear power or contest with it?
A hallmark feature of any presidential election in a racist country is the continued psychological warfare against the colonized, especially Black people, who, along with Arab Muslims, will be inevitably blamed, scapegoated or strategically pitted against one another in service of the powers that ...
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August 30, 2024 • 92 mins
Intro: Fannie Lou Hamer's Credentials Committee Testimony (1964) for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party which she co-founded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRCUUzpfV7k
Alt episode titles: Vote and/or Die
The Revolution Will Not Be TikTok'd at the DNC
Voting in this country was created as a means of giving those least empowered the veneer of control over a democratic system that was designed to be autocratic really and on...
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June 20, 2024 • 91 mins
Alt episode titles: Somewhere Over the Chase Bank, There is Community and Solidarity
They Just Want Our Money, Not Our Pride: The Rainbow Capitalism Episode
Intro Audio Excerpt: Sylvia Rivera (Rest in Power) interview from NYC Pride 2001
https://x.com/ben_0207/status/1800675695661842651
Who does rainbow capitalism benefit most? Who does it protect?
What it is and what it is not
Who gets seen in rainbow capitalism and who gets...
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No Pride without Black Trans Liberation and Reparations--Not Rations, Pooh.
Black trans liberation, much like Black liberation and the liberation of all oppressed peoples across the globe, requires a complete redistribution and reorganization of the current power structure/status quo--is GLAAD ready? Is GLSEN ready? Are you ready?
Alt episode titles:
How do we respond to white violence? (aka what's the proper procedure?)
Coddlin...
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For Hind, For Dexter, For Wadea, For Jordan and all others whose names go underreported, whose lives are undervauled, whose resistance is met with no fanfare.
Support Within Our Lifetime, Palestinian led NYC based community organization: https://wolpalestine.com
The genocidal settler colonial regime of Israel will be brought to heel, the genocidal settler colonial United States government will be brought to heel.
We must do this...
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March 5, 2024 • 175 mins
Parts 1 and 2
If the shoe fit, go grab some socks
"without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and [their] oppression."--Audre Lorde
Join us for a special episode of Black People Tell Black History (yes, it's giving very much Anita Baker 365 days of the year same ol love) with our love Elle Moxley talking about community, how some of ya;ll wouldnt know what it ...
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February 28, 2024 • 33 mins
Alternate episode titles:
-Be a Revolution or Keep it Moving, either way don't step on a n*gga toes
-Just Circling Back to Next Steps from 2020
-Ijeoma is about to go chill and write mysteries cus a lot of yall dont want to be a revolution nor talk about race
Join us for a very special episode with Ijeoma Oluo talking about her new book, "Be a Revolution", out now, the racism in the publishing world as a Black writer and a path fo...
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February 26, 2024 • 31 mins
...and can save your life. Join us for a very special episode of Black People Tell Black History with the one and only Tricia Hersey (IG @thenapministry) as she gives you a quick 30 minutes of necessary game on this Monday afternoon made for wage theft and dream death on how imagination was a requisite for our ancestors' freedoms, the blueprint they laid out for revolution and how to take back your body from the State from can't se...
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February 23, 2024 • 51 mins
...it is now a multiracial collaboration, an amerikkkan "folk" tradition, if you will.
From its pseudoscientific, colonial roots to nick cannon, join us for another episode of Black People Tell Black History and a deep deep conversation with one of the leading voices drawing attention to and upending colorism as it iterates itself in all facets of life, across the globe, @mayowasworld. We cover what it is, what it's not and how to...
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February 16, 2024 • 47 mins
“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
― Audre Lorde
Join us in discussing the Black intersex revolution, imagination beyond violence visited upon our bodies and community as home with our dear love Saifa Wall.
Sean Saifa Wall (he/him/his) is a Black queer intersex activist and rising scholar. Born and raised in the Bronx, Saifa attended Williams College and is currently a P...
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February 13, 2024 • 64 mins
Alternate episode titles:
-Dr. Joy James Might Break the Internet If You Would Let Her Upgrade You
-This is a wonderful, Establishment, Trump and Swiftie friendly episode, absolutely nothing to shadow ban here, nope not at all (devil emoji)
If you couldn't tell, we are super juiced to invite you all to a very special, mind reconfiguring politic shaking and shaping episode of Black People Telling Black History with the Icon hersel...
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February 9, 2024 • 88 mins
Traditional Midwives were criminalized, exploited and erased, their 1000 year old practices mined to create the field of obstetrics and this marginalization of Black and Indigenous midwives continues today. Learn more about the origins of the Black maternal health crisis in this country and movements to resist it--one birth at a time.
Alternate episode titles:
-We gone be known as the niggas that be crying on here podcast
-A Blac...
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February 1, 2024 • 103 mins
It's me again...and we're back...
Alternate episode titles:
-One genocide minds
-Destabilize, Disrupt and Destroy: US Foreign Policy in Palestine, Syria, Yemen and the entire Middle East
-AFRICOM: Obama's Scramble for Africa Still Scraping By Under the Doppler in 2024
-Freedom ain't free: On a politics of indifference to Black death
From Congo to Tigray to Darfur, there are multiple genocides happening on the continent of Afric...
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