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.