00:00:00:03 - 00:00:01:04 V3, 1 What’s up, I’m Yolo.

00:00:01:04 - 00:00:02:01 V3, 1 And I’m Natalie.

00:00:02:01 - 00:00:04:22 V3, 1 And this is Black Healing Remixed – the podcast.

00:00:05:01 - 00:00:06:14 V3, 1 I felt like the conversations

00:00:06:14 - 00:00:07:15 V3, 1 on mental health and healing

00:00:07:15 - 00:00:08:14 V3, 1 were so corny.

00:00:08:14 - 00:00:10:11 V3, 1 They just wasn’t fly!

00:00:10:11 - 00:00:12:07 V3, 1 It wasn’t giving.

00:00:12:07 - 00:00:15:07 V3, 1 I wanted to create this program and this space

00:00:15:07 - 00:00:17:20 V3, 1 where we could get into the real critical nature of it.

00:00:17:20 - 00:00:20:06 V3, 1 and talk about systems and structures and the history.

00:00:20:06 - 00:00:22:17 V3, 1 And to be able to do that together.

00:00:22:20 - 00:00:26:00 V3, 1 When we’re setting up systems

00:00:26:00 - 00:00:29:03 V3, 1 and assembly lines for something

00:00:29:03 - 00:00:32:07 V3, 1 that will not be the highest quality of care.

00:00:32:07 - 00:00:36:00 V3, 1 In fact it will be the minimum requirement.

00:00:36:00 - 00:00:38:01 V3, 1 We’re meeting the requirement.

00:00:38:01 - 00:00:40:05 V3, 1 And I go, “Is that how we want our folks cared for?”

00:00:40:05 - 00:00:42:07 V3, 1 The people who are in the most distress,

00:00:42:07 - 00:00:44:06 V3, 1 that’s the system they’re gonna engage?

00:00:44:09 - 00:00:46:08 V3, 1 The mental health distress we were experiencing

00:00:46:08 - 00:00:48:02 V3, 1 was from generations of distress.

00:00:48:02 - 00:00:50:13 V3, 1 Oh, we did have healing modalities though,

00:00:50:13 - 00:00:54:06 V3, 1 because “sit on the porch” is a contemplative practice.

00:00:54:09 - 00:00:58:14 V3, 1 It’s the desire for connection without the bravery –

00:00:58:14 - 00:00:59:21 V3, 1 – Oooh, c’mon now! –

00:00:59:21 - 00:01:02:10 V3, 1 – to do the work to be connected.

00:01:02:10 - 00:01:05:01 V3, 1 And that is what is so unappealing to me,

00:01:05:01 - 00:01:06:02 V3, 1 because I’m like,

00:01:06:02 - 00:01:08:05 V3, 1 “If we doin’ this human shit, let’s do it.”

00:01:08:08 - 00:01:11:14 V3, 1 If we don’t hold that there’s carceral systems

00:01:11:14 - 00:01:14:18 V3, 1 that are not invested in care but invested in making money

00:01:14:18 - 00:01:17:07 V3, 1 off of black bodies inside of these institutions

00:01:17:07 - 00:01:20:07 V3, 1 and challenge these systems to actually be about healing

00:01:20:07 - 00:01:21:19 V3, 1 we’re missing the remix.

00:01:21:19 - 00:01:22:18 V3, 1 Absolutely.