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Questions for Honoring Creative Energy and Play

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Everyday Feminism By Beth Godbee February 13, 2021 Leave a Comment

seven balls of yarn (in shades of yellow, orange, cream, green, and teal) for my current crochet project

Throughout today's writing retreat, I've been considering how to honor creative energy and engage in creative play. Inspired by the CHANI app (and surely by this week's new moon), I’ve been feeling such a pull toward creative play (crocheting, drawing, baking, gardening, and even listening to and writing poetry). And I’m realizing that creative play (with color, texture, shape, craft, and purpose) might be just what’s needed to fuel, inspire, and sustain more serious ... Read more ...

Invitation to Join Upcoming Theatre of the Oppressed Workshops

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Emotional Literacies, Everyday Feminism, Racial Justice By Beth Godbee October 13, 2020 Leave a Comment

This screenshot shows the online article “Forum Theatre: Using Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed to Build Receptive Competence by Rasha Diab, Ph.D. and Beth Godbee, Ph.D.,” part of the website Contemplative Practices for Anti-Oppression Pedagogy. It shows a paragraph of text against a blue background and the black, red, and white book cover of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed.

This fall, as part of the 40-Day Practice: Strengthening Emotional Stamina to Counter White Fragility, I’m facilitating two workshops using theatre of the oppressed. I invite you to join one or both of these workshops, if you’d like to experience Augusto Boal’s powerful approach, rehearse interventions into everyday racism, and connect with others engaged in this work. Here are the workshop dates and description: Friday, October 16th 2-5pm EasternFriday, November 6th ... Read more ...

Turning 40 with the Gift of 40 Miles: Why I’m Taking Myself on Walks This Month

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Everyday Feminism By Beth Godbee May 8, 2019 1 Comment

Here a teal-blue hiking backpack (lighter day-pack with thermos visible) sits against a stone bench.

May is both my birth month and a time of transition (when the school year ends and summer begins). For as long as I can remember, I’ve looked forward to May and its potential for renewal. This year I’m celebrating my 40th birthday and wanting to mark the occasion with extended time on trails. Specifically, I’m setting a goal to hike 40 miles on my own this month: miles that I’ll walk toward understanding how to be independent within interdependence. Why This ... Read more ...

Sweet Peanut-Butter Spread for Snacks, Parties, Lunches, and More

Filed Under: Recipes By Beth Godbee December 27, 2018 6 Comments

This photo shows a blue bowl against a white tabletop. Inside the bowl is the sweet spread (a light brown color with creamy texture) next to sliced apples (light, yellowish centers with red skin).

Years ago, I had a college cookbook with super easy recipes: each with roughly 5 ingredients, taking about 5 minutes, and costing only $5. That cookbook taught me that “cooking” can be easy and still delicious. Recipes can be simple enough to be remembered and reproduced through rough estimations. That cookbook had a sandwich that I enjoyed for years while vegetarian, and it was one of the first recipes I “veganized” by making a few substitutions. The idea is to create ... Read more ...

Parenting Myself 101

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Emotional Literacies By Beth Godbee December 21, 2018 4 Comments

This image shows two abstract figures -- a larger person (presumably parent) and smaller person (presumably child) reaching for each other's hands. The title "parenting myself 101" appears in blue against a light teal background. The figures are in a darker shade of teal.

Over the past few months, I’ve been learning more about how to care for myself—a sort of self-care that I’m calling “parenting myself 101.” After a career change, cross-county move, and intense internal work “inside the chrysalis,” I’ve recognized the need to put good self-parenting into place. The language of “parenting” has been helpful for me to break from “self-care” focused on relaxation as an escape from everyday life. Rather than experiencing self-care as ... Read more ...

A New Spell for a New Space

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Everyday Feminism By Beth Godbee August 3, 2018 Leave a Comment

Printed copy of the spell (words that appear in this blog post) taped to a bathroom mirror with a colorful shower curtain showing part of a tree reflected in the mirror. The photo has a pink tint.

These past few weeks I’ve been focused on moving and settling into a new home. The move has called attention to all sorts of stuff, habits, and emotional swings—things I’d like to keep and release, to shore up and tear down. This process has reminded me, too, of the contemplative practices that contribute to a sense of grounding: grounding needed to stand TALL for justice. One of these practices is spell-casting, which I learned from activist-writer-healer adrienne ... Read more ...

“We’re All the Ages We’ve Ever Been”

Filed Under: Emotional Literacies By Beth Godbee March 24, 2018 Leave a Comment

Coloring page with image of four owls.

As much as I value self-care, there are times when it flies out the window. I’m no longer the adult caring for my inner child, but I'm the toddler or teen full of emotion and pursuit of immediate pleasure. This week, I’ve been really in touch with my 2-year-old self, who’s been demanding attention. When it’s running the show, I’m inclined to emotional meltdowns, sugar binges, irregular sleep, over-tired crying, and resistance to naps. I readily settle in front of the TV ... Read more ...

A Few of My Favorite Things

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Everyday Feminism, Recipes By Beth Godbee December 13, 2017 Leave a Comment

December. It’s a hard time for folks walking on wires to please others. It’s a hard time for folks finishing semesters when running on fumes. It’s a hard time for folks grieving family hurts or losses. It’s a hard time for processing what comes up in contemplative moments and social interactions alike. This December is especially hard because it punctuates a year of great injustice, dehumanization, and the increasing visibility of wrongdoings. Now, as so many of us ... Read more ...

Holding Space and Being Present: Two Resolutions Following the Las Vegas Shooting

Filed Under: Emotional Literacies By Beth Godbee October 3, 2017 Leave a Comment

This excerpt from the blog post appears in white font against a dark grey background: "In the wake of the Las Vegas shooting—and with a lot of humility and love—I’m asking myself how I can better hold space and be present."

I woke yesterday morning to news of the Las Vegas shooting, continued calls for aid needed in Puerto Rico, and boos for kneeling NFL players at Sunday’s games. Though seemingly unrelated, these news stories relayed a larger message about the presence of everyday violence in our lives. My social media feeds were naming and critiquing this violence. People were already calling for action, for donations, and for prayers—for linking individual narratives with larger social ... Read more ...

Roasted Veggies with Tahini Sauce: Linking Creativity and Self-Care

Filed Under: Recipes By Beth Godbee September 27, 2017 Leave a Comment

I never thought I’d be involved in recipe creation because, for years, I didn’t think of myself as a cook. I loved to eat, but I hated the time involved in food preparation. As I grew more interested in replicating foods (especially ones I’d try in restaurants or remembered from youth), I found more motivation to experiment in the kitchen. And as I thought of cooking as experimentation—as art, as play, as creative self-care—I could see why others liked it. I began to ... Read more ...

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Charis welcomes Briona Simone Jones (@brionasimone) for a launch of Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought with Spelman College's (@spelman_college) Holly Smith (@hollygail05) and Beverly Guy-Sheftall (@bevshef), and contributors Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (@meccajamilah), Bettina Love (@blovesoulpower), and Cheryl Clarke (@bdpoet). A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press's (@thenewpress) perennial seller Words of Fire. This event is co-hosted by the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History (@aarl_atl).
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African American lesbian writers and theorists have made extraordinary contributions to feminist theory, activism, and writing. Mouths of Rain, the companion anthology to Beverly Guy-Sheftall's classic Words of Fire, traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black Lesbian writers, spanning the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century.

Using "Black Lesbian" as a capacious signifier, Mouths of Rain includes writing by Black women who have shared intimate and loving relationships with other women, as well as Black women who see bonding as mutual, Black women who have self-identified as lesbian, Black women who have written about Black Lesbians, and Black women who theorize about and see the word lesbian as a political descriptor that disrupts and critiques capitalism, heterosexism, and heteropatriarchy. Taking its title from a poem by Audre Lorde, Mouths of Rain addresses pervasive issues such as misogynoir and anti-blackness while also attending to love, romance, "coming out," and the erotic
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Held on the last Wednesday of each month, the gathering space focuses on knowing and living out commitments to justice. Each month we follow the same format: introductions, guided meditation, freewriting, and then conversation for recommitment.
 
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Oh, how this speaks to me today ... The truth as I Oh, how this speaks to me today ... The truth as I notice tough, tough spots. So grateful to @prentishemphill (again & again).

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What randomly came when I sat still. 

Morning Thoughts: Nuance is a gift of embodiment. Binaries are the limits of language. When I take apart the places where I’ve been ‘tough’ I find the places where I’ve been hurt.
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I'm an educator and former college professor who believes our fully embodied selves matter in the world. We can’t just think our way out of the incredible injustices, dehumanization, violence, and wrongdoing that characterize everyday life. We must feel and act, too. [Pronouns: she/her.] Read more ...

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