{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstitchpleasepodcast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fstitching-in-the-spirit-with-rev-dr-renita-weems-_auer8Cp","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Stitching in the Spirit with Rev. Dr. Renita Weems","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/8d9bc93f-d1c9-4887-848a-a525647eb756/52ccc2ca-f79a-449e-9a49-02c19050492b/rmweems.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"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. \n\nRev. 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.\n"}