3.10 The Black Girl’s Guide
Omisade Burney-Scott (she/her) is a 7th generation Black Southern feminist, creative and social justice advocate. Over the past 25 years, her “work” has been grounded in social justice movement spaces focused on the liberation of marginalized people, beginning with her own community.
This commitment to liberation has manifested through advocacy work, philanthropy, community organizing, and culture work. She is the creator/curator of The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project that curates the stories of Black women, women identified, and gender-expansive people who are perimenopausal, menopausal, or post-menopausal. This project is a direct result of Omisade finding herself and her peers living at the intersection of social justice movement work, creative healer identities, and aging. She has chosen to use the medium of storytelling to disrupt the erasure of Black women's voices as they age through sharing their first-person narratives and lived experiences.
Omisade is a member of the 1999-2001 class of the William C. Friday Fellows for Human Relations, a 2003 Southeastern Council on Foundation’s Hull Fellow, and founding member of NGAAP, the Next Generation of African American Philanthropy. She has served on various nonprofit boards, including the Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom, Fund for Southern Communities, Spirithouse NC, Village of Wisdom, Working Films, and The Beautiful Project.
She is a 1989 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and the proud mom of two sons, Che and Taj. She resides in Durham, North Carolina.
In this amazing episode, we discuss:
Menopause
Blackness
Black women
The Power of Storytelling
Rewriting Our Story
Systemic Oppression
Truth-Telling
Different Stages of Life
Mothering
Imposter Syndrome
Spiritual Practice
Destiny
Faith
…and more!
You can connect with Omisade on her website, Instagrams @blackgirlsguidetomenopause @omisadeburneyscott, Twitter, and Facebook
Podcast music by Charles Kurtz