Belonging to Blackness
S2, Ep 015 with Tonya C. Hegamin, award-winning YA author, on the importance of play as a way to amplify Black joy and healing artwork

S2, Ep 015 with Tonya C. Hegamin, award-winning YA author, on the importance of play as a way to amplify Black joy and healing

Belonging to Blackness
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Award-winning YA author Tonya C. Hegamin chats with host Yndia about Black-Indigenous family folklore, being a (dis)ability advocate along with her diabetic alert dog Bobo, and the importance of integrating play as a way to amplify Black joy and healing. Listen in to learn more about her upcoming memoir and Bisexual BIWOC T1Diabetes activism via DIABITCHY. The post S2, Ep 015 with Tonya C. Hegamin, award-winning YA author, on the importance of play as a way to amplify Black joy and healing appeared first on Yndia Lorick-Wilmot, PhD.

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