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On this episode of The Black Rest Podcast, host Dejha Carrington sits down with two extraordinary guests, Dr. Bettina L. Love and Khary-Lazarre White, to talk about what rest looked like in their childhoods, how they learned it (or didn’t), and how they’re reshaping rest and joy for the next generation.  Together, the three explore the crisis of rest for Black children today, the generational patterns we inherit, and the radical possibility of joy—the kind of joy where whiteness can’t intrude, where spades tables, kitchen music, and big belly laughs become portals to freedom. White and Love reflect on their life’s work in education, justice, and movement-building, and the tension between urgent struggle and the need for stillness.

In this episode of The Black Rest Podcast, host Dejha Carrington is joined by writer, scholar, poet, and Black feminist love-evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs for an ancestral and deeply restorative conversation. Together, they explore how water becomes a teacher, metaphor, and sanctuary for Black people across generations. Gumbs reflects on the lessons she learned from her grandfather in the ocean of Anguilla, the ways Black Caribbean cosmologies shape our understanding of rest, and how time bends when we are in a genuine relationship with our ancestors. Drawing from her book Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, Gumbs expands on Lorde’s legacy of collective self-care as political warfare, and discusses what it means to create daily practices that reconnect us to infinite ancestral love. From weathering and liberation, to cosmic Black feminist science, and surrendering productivity in favor of presence, this episode offers a profound meditation on what it means to rest, to be held, and to live freedom as a repeating practice.

In this episode of The Black Rest Podcast, host Dejha Carrington sits down with Miami-based researcher, writer, and community archivist Nadege Green to explore rest as a radical practice for Black and queer bodies. Together, they journey through the power of movement, the grounding presence of water, and the necessity of slowing down in a world that demands constant output. Nadege shares stories from her groundbreaking project Give Them Their Flowers, reflects on the labor of memory-keeping, and discusses what it means to decentralize history while nurturing community spaces of softness and belonging. This episode invites listeners to reclaim rest, not as a luxury, but as a birthright.