Reimagining the Possibilities with Junauda Petrus-Nasah

Personal Growth, Podcast, Womanhood

Are you living your ideal life?

This week’s episode features author, artist, and activist, Junauda Petrus- Nasah. As we discuss her latest book- CAN WE PLEASE GIVE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO THE GRANDMOTHERS?, we delve into what it means to reimagine a better, more positive future.

Based on her viral poem after the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014, Petrus inspires readers to imagine a radically positive future where police aren’t in charge of public safety and community well-being.

Guest Feature

Junauda Petrus is a writer, pleasure activist, filmmaker and performance artist, born on Dakota land of Black-Caribbean descent. Her work centers around wildness, queerness, Black-diasporic-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, shimmer and liberation. Her debut novel, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, earned a Coretta Scott King honor. She lives in Minneapolis with her wife and family.

How to connect with and support Junauda:

Purchase her books here

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Mentioned in this Episode:

The Erotics of Abolition by Junauda Petrus-Nasah

Erased Ly*chings- Ken Gonzales-Day

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Reimagining the Possibilities with Junauda Petrus-Nasah

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