Ep 6. Crossing Delmar ft. Your Words STL, Moline Elementary School, New City School, Ed Hub STL In this episode, Who Raised You? Podcast collaborated with Your Words STL to record stories about how poetry helped 4th and 5th graders from different sides of St. Louis’ Delmar divide understand each other and themselves. In this episode, you’ll hear excerpts from our time with students from Moline Elementary School and New City School at Innovation Hall, the headquarters of EdHub St. Louis, a center...
Apr 10, 2019•37 min•Ep. 12
Season 2 / Ep. 5 Eden Seminary ft. Rev. Dr. Dietra Wise Baker, Amanda Tello, Rev. Michael Atty In this episode, Who Raised You? Podcast goes to Eden Seminary, where Jia Lian earned a Master of Divinity. We were invited to host a live podcast at their 2018 Spring Convocation with the theme Church at the Intersections of Race and Sexuality. Newly recovered from a car accident and missing A TOOTH, Jia facilitated a conversation between Eden Seminary alumni while Treasure attended a celebration of M...
Jan 05, 2019•54 min•Ep. 11
Season 2 / Ep. 4 Returning West ft. Treasure Shields Redmond & Jia Lian Yang In this episode, Who Raised You? Podcast returns West. First, we go to Seattle for PodCon 2017, where we ask other podcasters of color: Who Raised You? We talk to Franchesca Ramsey aka Chescaleigh, comedian, Youtuber, and host of MTV’s Decoded . We also talk to two black podcasters, Bacon ( Unreasonable Fridays ) and Rashanii ( Single Simulcast ), about who raised them. Then we hop on a plane to the Bay Area and sto...
Nov 07, 2018•46 min•Ep. 10
Season 2 / Ep. 3 Beyoncean Theology ft. Marvin K. White In this episode, Who Raised You? Podcast goes to Oakland, Treasure’s old stomping grounds. We visit Marvin K. White, a Facebook statustitian, workship facilitator, and poet who has books published by Redbone Press. Join us for a conversation about the theological implications of the slay motha herself: Beyonce. • Cash App Tithes and Offering: $MarvinKWhite • VenMo Tithes and Offerings: @MarvinKWhite • PayPal Tithes and Offerings: marvink.wh...
Oct 16, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 9
Season 2 / Ep. 2 Soul Food ft. Michael Atty In this episode, Who Raised You? Podcast returns to Jia Lian’s kitchen table for a conversation with Michael Atty, a liberation theologian based in St. Louis. Join us for a conversation about kim chi and butter beans, white fragility, and strategic organizing. • Follow Michael on Twitter @mla652
Oct 02, 2018•57 min•Ep. 8
Season 2 / Ep 1. Hot Pot ft. Jessica Yang, Eli Chi, Ana Vargas Lau, Brian Lau In this episode, Who Raised You? Podcast goes West. Jia Lian grew up as a 2nd generation Taiwanese American in Silicon Valley and Treasure took her talents to Oakland as a hip hop artist signed to M.C. Hammer’s label. Join us for a hot pot conversation in Oakland's Chinatown with Jessica Yang, Eli Chi, Ana Vargas Lau, and Brian Lau about immigration, roots, and food. Follow Jessica on Twitter Follow Eli on Instagram Fo...
Sep 02, 2018•28 min•Ep. 7
Season 1 / Ep 5. The Master's Tools ft. Sunni Hutton Sunni Hutton and Treasure Shields Redmond are poets and educators. Treasure has been impressed by Sunni's leadership in Socialist Alternative and knew that Sunni would be able to speak about "The Master's Tools" with respect to politics, poems, and education. Join us for a kitchen table chat about growing up poor and black in Kinloch in St. Louis County, attending Vanderbilt and navigating Teach for America, and how she decided to stay in St. ...
Mar 05, 2018•54 min•Ep. 4
Season 1 / Ep 4. Church & State ft. Brittini Gray (Ree Belle) Brittini Gray (Ree Belle) and Karen (Jia Lian) Yang attended Eden Theological Seminary together. They've grown leaps and bounds through those years, being formed as faith leaders in the midst of the Ferguson uprising . Join us for a kitchen table chat about faith-based organizing, twists and turns in our callings, and holding space for the questions. • Support Ree Belle...
Feb 23, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 3
Season 1 / Ep 3. Don't Touch My Hair ft. De Nichols De Nichols and Karen (Jia Lian) Yang studied Social Work together at the Brown School of Social Work of Washington University in St. Louis. Since then, De did the "big chop" and has embraced her hair as her crown. Treasure and De have roots in Memphis, so join us for a kitchen table chat about appearance and "professionalism," the Memphis hair scene and black power movement, and the importance of being unapologetically yourself. • Attend and Ho...
Feb 01, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 2
Season 1 / Ep. 2 Drag ft. Joss Barton Joss Barton and Treasure Shields Redmond met at a poetry reading at Goodie House , a St. Louis intersectional literary scene serving truth, fire, love and free wine and snacks. Treasure was blown away by this fierce, beautiful Latinx woman, and they have been friends ever since. Join us for a kitchen table chat about growing up queer and adopted in rural Missouri, fashion and political expression, and how the queer imagination liberates its damn self . • Sup...
Jan 15, 2018•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 1
Season 1 / Ep. 1 The Sound of Dissent ft. Koach Baruch Frazier Koach Baruch Frazier is impossible to miss in St. Louis. His drumming has been called the "heartbeat of the movement" and he shares his spiritual leadership in his synagogue and on the streets. He is part of Justice Beats , which drums for protests and did 49 days of drumming in honor of those killed in the Pulse massacre. Join us for a kitchen table chat about remembering to breathe, the music of black church and Judaism, and revolu...
Jan 02, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 6
Season 1 / Ep. 0 Who Raised You? ft. Treasure Shields Redmond & Karen (Jia Lian) Yang Treasure Shields Redmond and Karen (Jia Lian) Yang are the co-hosts of Who Raised You? Podcast. We met while engaging in civil disobedience at The Muny's performance of Aida on the third anniversary of the murder of Michael Brown. We open this first episode with a Who Raised You? inaugural poem. Treasure has a chat with her father, the poet laureate of East St. Louis, Eugene B. Redmond , while Karen has a c...
Dec 16, 2017•43 min•Ep. 5
