Standpoints

Jul 09 2024 21 ep. 62 mins 1
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Standpoints is a podcast for living and loving blackness, in which hosts Andrea Baldwin and Jenaya Amore welcome guests who explore black feminist experiences within a scholarly, pedagogical, and community praxis of care.

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Beyond Borders: Navigating LGBTQ Advocacy in the Eastern Caribbean

Jul 09 2024 98 mins  
In this episode, Dr. Andrea Baldwin joins in conversation with leaders from the Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality (ECADE) former Chair Lysanne Charles and Executive Director Kenita Placide to discuss their work in advocating for LGBTQ rights in the Eastern Caribbean. This interview covers the organization's origins, mission, and challenges, as well as the cu

Black Aliveness in Action: A Conversation with Dr. Brandy Faulkner

Jul 08 2024 40 mins  
In this episode, Dr. Andrea Baldwin and Jenaya Amore sits down with a prominent academic, community advocate, and activist Dr. Brandy Faulkner. Known affectionately as the 'People's President' at Virginia Tech, Dr. Faulkner discusses their journey in balancing work within academia and the Black community, exploring the concept of 'Black aliveness' and its signif

CurlyMe!

Feb 22 2024 60 mins  
In this episode, Dr. Andrea Baldwin and Jenaya Amore, chat with our guest Alyssha Dairsow, co-founder and executive director of CurlyMe! Ms, Dairsow has engaged with the Utah community since she moved there over 10 years ago. She focuses on young Black girls ages five to 14, at Curly Me! and provides mentoring and hosts events that help children of color embrace their best selves.

Mentoring Within Community

Aug 08 2023 48 mins  
Community building serves as a bridge to the collectivity of all Black womxn in and outside of the academy. In our final episode of the season, co-hosts Jenaya Amore and Dr. Andrea Baldwin engage in conversation with Producing Collaborator Shalonda Ingram about the importance of relationality between individuals and organizations which informs how mentoring is (re)defined and prac

Deeper Shades of Purple

Aug 01 2023 53 mins  
"Womanist is to feminist, as purple is to lavender." Following Alice Walker's sentiment, this episode explores and delves into the intricacies of religion and spirituality for Black women during the 18th century. Co-hosts of Standpoints Jenaya Amore and Dr. Andrea Baldwin join in conversation with Dr. Jaimie Crumley to discuss her research and the mentoring impacts of

North Star Collective: Mentoring of Early Academic Professionals

Jul 25 2023 65 mins  
In an effort to resist multiple oppressions across various spaces, Black women academics and graduate student often create alternative spaces to center themselves within the academy. In this episode co-hosts Dr. Andrea Baldwin and Jenaya Amore speak with co founders of the North Star Collective, Dr. Tatiana Cruz and Dr. Kamille Gentles-Peart. Dr. Cruz is an Assistant Professor and

The Contours of Black Women Co-Mentorship

Jun 20 2023 70 mins  
Guess who's in the hot seat? This episode highlights the long-standing co-mentoring relationship between co-host Dr. Andrea Baldwin and friend of the show, Dr. Nana Brantuo. Jenaya Amore, co-host of Standpoints, interviews both phenomenal scholars on their perspectives of community care and praxis within their pedagogy. Dr. Andrea N. Baldwin is an associate professor of gender

Dance, Liberation, and Co-Collaboration

Jun 13 2023 69 mins  
Within the African diaspora, dance continues to serve as a medium for cultural and self expression amongst BIPOC communities. Today's guest uses dance as a pedagogical tool to combine the performing arts and education to reconnect the (dis)embodied experience of being in the academic space. Co-host Jenaya Amore speaks with Shani Collins and Truth Hunter, about Black feminisms a

Support and Leadership Experience

Jun 06 2023 46 mins  
In this episode, co-hosts Jenaya Amore and Andrea Baldwin engages in a conversation with Kimberly Clark surrounding her leadership within a director role at Virginia Tech. From this dialogue, we learn how mentoring includes not only serving as a buffer, but intentionally centering and caring for students' holistic selves against racial oppression at predominantly white institut

Mentoring Reflections

May 30 2023 47 mins  
Mentorship has provided Black women the agency to define their own success while supported by those who have undergone this arduous journey. Particularly, within PWIs, co-mentorship and community have served as a homeplace and solace for Black women while navigating such spaces. Co-hosts Dr. Andrea Baldwin and Jenaya Amore discuss the impact of mentoring on their academic trajector