I am super proud to be sharing this discussion I had with Ēlen Awalom on the trans-Apocalyptic Oasis Show. I truly believe that her lived experience and evolution from Radical Black Feminist to Embodied Leadership Coach has the power to be transformational for many who are searching for a way to move beyond the limitations of woke ideology. Ēlen declares that the Revolution is not to be found out there—it's inside each of us!

We explore the following:

👉🏾 What is Post-Blackness?

👉🏾 What does it mean to transcend blackness in a world that is still deeply racist?

👉🏾 What does post-blackness look like in action?

👉🏾 Ēlen's personal experience with Patrisse Cullors, founder of Black Lives Matter

👉🏾 Marxist stage theory, and what actually is late-stage capitalism?👉🏾 Bringing a trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive approach to health care and politics

👉🏾 and more! See below:

Ēlen Awalom's website:

http://www.elenawalom.com/

Ēlen on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/EKAwalom/

2:04 The very blurry lines of race in Elen's lived experience 6:24 Why Elen no longer identifies as Black 7:20 Elen's spiritual awakening 9:00 What is Post-Blackness? 9:22 Post-Black is a part of Cultural Metamodernism 9:35 Thelma Golden coined "Post-Black Art" at the Studio Museum of Harlem 10:00 How can we be post-black in a world still deeply racist? 10:46 What Post-Blackness looks like in action 12:11 Unraveling false narratives around race and gender 12:58 The limitations of a postmodern interpretive framework that views everything as systems of oppression 13:55 In post-blackness, what is being transcended? 16:00 The assumption of shared ancestry as the foundation for a sense of kinship 17:39 The rejection of traditionalist frames and identity in integral or metamodern circles 21:22 Elen's personal experience with Patrisse Cullors, founder of Black Lives Matter, in the tech startup for social change they founded 22:57 Elen's renewed interest in religion, particularly Orthodox Christianity and Judaism 27:47 Elen's interest as a kid in Eastern spirituality, French existentialism, Buddhist psychology 28:05 What does it mean to be post-feminist? 33:27 Elen's radical leftist parents raised her with an appreciation for Marxism, Marxist feminism, anti-colonial thinking, Maoism 34:39 Marxism's recognition of development stages (via Corey DeVos and Ken Wilber) 35:36 Critiques of integral theory as white colonial ideology based in Maoist thinking and post-colonial feminism 36:03 Stage theory in Maoism 37:21 How is post-colonial feminism Maoist? 32:32 Post-colonial thought emerged from the USSR and China to win an ideological battle against the USA 40:34 Marxist stage theory 42:36 The problems with late stage capitalism are actually late-stage modernity or materialism 42:48 The solution is not the overthrow of capitalism, but a return to spirit 43:36 Jeff Brown, student of Bioenergetics founder Alexander Lowen 44:10 Lowen and Brown's argument is that Marxist revolution can be found in healing somatically from trauma 46:21 False consciousness and Leninism 47:30 Ēlen freezes 🥶 50:40 Speaking from the pelvis 52:16 Somatics teachers at Green tend to show up in aggressive ways 55:38 Ēlen's new project: Embodied Leadership Coaching 56:10: Ēlen's history with Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Black Radical Congress 58:02 Ēlen discovers a trauma informed perspective 1:01:10 Revolutions don't succeed because their leaders are highly traumatized 1:03:10 Working with hospitals and health care providers to bring a trauma sensitive approach to healing and health care 1:06:17 You can't provide effective leadership without resolving trauma and becoming more embodied 1:08:10 Transcending social justice.