Stitching in the Spirit with Rev. Dr. Renita Weems

In this first fabulous episode of 2022, Lisa joins Rev. Dr. Renita Weems for a vibrant and textured conversation exploring and celebrating the common threads of Black women’s experience, weaving seamlessly the complexities of identity and passion through literature, religion, and spirituality, while honoring self-expression and creativity, especially through the domestic arts. Rev. Dr. Weems reflects on her colorful life experiences from a brief and unhappy career in Economics, to Black feminist collectives, discovering writing, attending seminary, and her remarkable life beyond. Rev. Dr. Weems’ relays her evolving relationship with sewing- how, for example, sewing her own clothing brought the theory of body positivity, into her embodied experience. And, while speaking very personally, Rev. Dr. Weems shares a direct message to listeners encouraging self-regard without judgment or stigma, protecting and honoring “the work that the soul must have,” tending to one’s own self- fashioning and on-going formation.