Author: Trelani
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Foremother Fridays – Week 4: Fannie Lou Hamer + Working the Roots
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This week, we’re lifting up the legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer—a visionary who understood that healing a community meant healing the body too. She knew liberation couldn’t happen if folks were hungry or disconnected from the land. So I wanna share a passage from Working the Roots, an oral history…
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Foremother Fridays – Week 3: Betty Shabazz + Tina McElroy Ansa
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In The Hand I Fan With by Tina McElroy Ansa, the main character Lena starts off as a woman with a packed schedule and a powerful presence. She’s sharp, successful, and always doing for others. Fanning the whole community. But when she meets Herman—a soft-spoken, grounded man with an old…
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Foremother Fridays – Week 2: Rosa, Bambara, Octavia, and Alice
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When we talk about meditation, prayer, breathwork—sometimes we picture folks sitting cross-legged, humming “om,” or deep in yogic stillness. Although the pics of Rosa Parks practicing yoga are some of my favorites, for many of our foremothers, mindfulness looked a little different. It looked like sitting on the porch and…
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Foremother Fridays – Week 1: Rosie the Riveter + Krak Teet
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Self-Care School is a 10-week podcast series by GirlTREK. Every Friday features Trelani Michelle, sharing elder/ancestral wisdom through personal observation and book excerpts. You can also listen in versus reading here: This week, we’re talking Body Reset 101, how we reclaim our health by tapping into the wisdom of our…
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Sankofa in the Rail: Notes from the Ancestors at Coffee Bluff
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Today felt like a love note from the ancestors. I was on set for Port SAVant’s music video “Movin,” which features a snippet of my TEDx Talk layered into the track. The song is all about returning to self, moving with purpose, and honoring our origins. So it felt perfect…