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Vulnerability in Pregnancy


What do you know about black maternal mortality rates? Listen in to get insights on the issues black women face during pregnancy and the birthing process. In this second episode of Moji’s Wellness Spiral series, her guest, Kimberly Staton, shares her pregnancy and birth experience as a black woman whose weight made her pregnancy high risk and how that experience led to see and shed some cultural ideas about pregnancy and birth, like the myth of “childbearing hips”. Also discussed is the lack of quality prenatal health care for black women, the importance of childbirth education and bits of the history of black midwives and birth experience in the United States. #BIPOCinSDE #Blackdoulas

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June 29, 2018

Raising the Queer, Black, and Free


This episode is in support of the queer, black child. Alicia Lucas (from Episode 81) and her husband have five children. They used to say they have four daughters and one son, but they’re learning to practice a different narrative. Today, Alicia and her husband tell people they have three daughters, one son, and a child named Roxanne. Roxanne is their 8-year-old, gender-fluid child whose personal pronoun is “They.” Roxanne’s brother is 12 and identifies as bisexual. Together, their family is learning how to use terms and make space for every one of them to be comfortable and confident in being exactly who they are. As they learn how to do this, they’re shifting from conventional homeschooling and over into a more self-directed life. Self-Directed Education is helping them to deschool from ideas of gender roles and norms, and Alicia wants us to remember how this particular shift is tied to the greater issues of freedom, particularly for black families like hers. #BIPOCinSDE

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June 26, 2018

Surviving Survival Mode – Getting Unstuck


In Part 2 of Monique Allison’s self-care, motherhood, and adulting podcast, Surviving Survival Mode, she talks about the feelings that kept her stuck in the very space she wanted to emerge out of. She also shares the “not enough” mindset that showed up, what helped her create a shift and how journaling played a major role in that process toward self-acceptance and learning to tap into that Now What? aspect of her work. #BIPOCinSDE

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June 20, 2018

Our Deschooling Circle in Tuscon


In Tuscon, Arizona, there are several families, many of whom are of Mexican descent, are seeing the ways Self-Directed Education supports a mindset of decolonizing education and returning to community and culture. This episode is a recap of an event for BIPOC using unschooling and other forms of self-directed studies to liberate themselves from oppressive systems. The event was organized by Lane Santa Cruz along with Traci, Yvonne, Jim, and other members of Tuscon’s conscious parenting community.

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June 14, 2018

Disrupting Our Disturbing Diet Habits


We’re deschooling diets up in here! In episode 1 of Wellness Spiral with Moji Yai, we’re talking about disrupting eating habits and decolonizing food activism. Thanks to the candor of Moji’s guest, Christine Pierrelys, you’ll hear about one woman’s ongoing journey with cultivating a healthy personal and spiritual relationship with food. They’ll also touch on how routine work schedules can affect our sense of self-worth and our energy for self-care.

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June 6, 2018

Moving Abroad to Design Your Liberation


Single Mom Travel: Here’s the story of Aja Rutledge, a single mother who moved abroad with her son, to design their liberation: Put your kid in public school, you fight through the fight, and you build your life around the best school district you can afford. And you find a good job to help you fund this life. But one day your son comes home and says, “Can you please put me in a school where they get me?” A year later, you’re on an unschooling path, living in Mexico with your son, and a growing community of other people who are learning how to live out their liberation and make room for their children to live out theirs too. #BIPOCinSDE

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May 31, 2018

Ujima and Unschooling in New Jersey


Thanks to this engaged group of New Jersey unschoolers, this episode will be particularly dope for folks who want to start doing more in-person community building, face to face, around understanding and practicing SDE. That lack of local community is a tough space from which to grow.

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May 23, 2018

Curing Colonized Imaginations


In episode 80, I am going to offer you a definition for unschooling, so you can invite people in your life to listen to episode 80. I was inspired by the bell hooks quote about how our imaginations have been colonized, and I want to talk about ways to free ourselves from a colonized imagination. Beginning 8 minutes and 29 seconds into this episode, you’ll get a definition, both a short one, and a more detailed one, about what unschooling is and and what it means.

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May 18, 2018

Deschooling Politics and Parenting


Daritcia Rivera talks about living on her home island of Puerto Rico while navigating education, politics, and personal beliefs. She is deschooling from her old ideas, learning about the history of her island, and embracing being Black and self-directed. In this short segment, she talks about International Worker’s Day (May Day) and its connection to our need to embrace deschooling. #BIPOCinSDE

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May 12, 2018

Surviving Survival Mode – Emerging Out…


In Part One, Emerging Out of Survival Mode, single mother, entrepreneur, and Self-Directed Education advocate, Monique Allison, talks about pain, shame, adulting, and learning that surviving just isn’t enough. She’ll introduce her listeners to the change-up process, an agile learning tool used in many self-directed learning collaborative spaces. Plus, she’ll talk about taking change-up hella personal, by applying it to her own life. #BIPOCinSDE

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May 10, 2018

Through, Not Around, Our Feelings


Sometimes my daughters need to see me in my impatient space. Sometimes I can’t plead for their understanding — I have to inspire that shit through raw emotion and honest, unfiltered, non-violent expression. That’s my truth. The reality is that any person I love, including my daughters, can deeply hurt my feelings. Does this mean that I hold my daughters to the same level of emotional accountability as my husband or my best friend? Nope, but it for damn sure doesn’t mean that I morph into some feeling-less version of myself because I’m a mother, either. I refuse to hold myself accountable to some ridiculous standard of motherhood, and I refuse to see my daughters as people devoid of the capacity to use feelings and logic to decide how they want to be. They are not empty buckets made of impulses and giggles. As such, I hold them accountable, and I show them real-life responses to their real-life choices. As a matter of fact, I told three things to my dismissive daughter that day — not exactly in these words, but very much so in this energy… Listen to the essay.

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May 3, 2018

Deepening and Discovery


In this episode, we’ll talk about the importance of recognizing the connection between unschooling and spirituality. When we see how the practice of raising free people is changing our perspectives and our habits, it might be time to revisit the personal leadership practices that were aligned with the not-true you.

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April 27, 2018

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