The Black Girl Condition

welcome to the second episode of season two. i don’t have much to say except i’m tired. i want the world to let me rest. can i ask for mercy, enough mercy to just take a break? i want to know that the world is listening to our cries. most of all, i want to know that i am helping my people. this is my plea to my community to hear me and my demand to the world to hear us. • you can find me and my platforms here: linktr.ee/elahltob/.

welcome to the first episode of the second season. i’m so excited to be back. there’s change coming, a new dawn for Africa is on the horizon. at the same time we look back and see our people collecting whatever they can to still hold onto their power, the power that they used in greed and malice. what awaits us as humans, as we face ourselves and the consequences of our actions? let’s see where and how our justice begins as we begin the season of our people. i hope you enjoy this one. • as usual, you can find me and my platforms here: linktr.ee/elahltob/. stay ready. ❤️

welcome to the final episode of the season. thank you for making it this far. for this last episode we’re going to talk about love again, but this time in depth. the answer to our problems is love but what does that actually mean? it means being able to choose life, instead of having to live life. thereafter, being able to choose to live in ways that are true and authentic to you. love is choosing life. so, let’s talk about what choices we can make to find the love that gets us our freedom, in the season finale of the podcast. i hope you enjoy this one. • find me and the rest of my project here: linktr.ee/elahltob/. stay cozy. lots of love from lelo. ❤️

welcome to the ninth episode. i’m going to talk about men in this episode. i specifically want us to see their bodies and minds as time capsules, giving us insights into the past and our ancestors. “that’s just how it is” is what we commonly hear about men and their actions, but what is “it” that we’re all holding onto? is it really our culture and tradition? or is it how we’ve been forced to adapt to our oppression? our history informs our present, so that we can know what our future holds. so, let’s talk about our men and how we can use their bodies to see the past, present and future of our community in this fourth and last episode of the “Culture Makes Me Human” series. thank you for making it this far. hope you enjoy. • find me and the rest of my project here: linktr.ee/elahltob/. stay cozy. lots of love from lelo. ❤️

welcome to the eighth episode. how are we as black women able to survive so much oppression and still give, and still love and still thrive? what is it about the black femme experience, in a culture that consistently ostracises and dehumanises us, that still allows us to cultivate and create our own humanity and identity? “they hate us cos they ain’t us,” but we still love ourselves, and we love them (or we try to). this one is super long but you’ll have to hear this one. hear us, see us and understand our stories in this third instalment of the “Culture Makes Me Human” series. hope you enjoy. • find me and the rest of my project here: linktr.ee/elahltob/. stay cozy. lots of love from lelo. ❤️

welcome to the seventh episode. so we are Black and we are African, but what does that truly mean? do we know ourselves and our history? well, maybe. maybe we can never fully know. but we have to try and start somewhere, if we really want to see a better future for ourselves where we are healed and thriving. so let’s talk about what our reality entails as Black and African people today, in the second part of the mini series called “Culture Makes Me Human.” • find me and the rest of my project here: linktr.ee/elahltob/. stay cozy. lots of love from lelo. ❤️

welcome to the second episode. i’ve lived as an outsider my whole life. for once i can say that i’m cool with being outside everything. there’s magic in the outside, have you ever tried to find it? • to find all the platforms you can access me: linktr.ee/elahltob/. hope you enjoyed the episode. lots of love from Lelo. ❤️

welcome to the sixth episode. what makes us the people that we are today as Black people and African people? is it our ‘race’, our heritage, or our actual dna? well, it is more than all those things. especially since there’s a difference between being Black and being African, and just like me, you can be both. so, let’s discuss what it means to be Black or African, or both, in the first part of the mini series called “Culture Makes Me Human.” • find me and the rest of my project here: linktr.ee/elahltob/. stay cozy. lots of love from lelo. ❤️

welcome to the fifth episode. just like art, being yourself is a skill that you master as you grow and experience life. here’s the thing, even though we all struggle with expressing ourselves, all of us can become artists at self-expression. so, let’s talk about it: the act & art that is - being yourself, with my great friend, Bhambatha, as a special guest. • find me and the rest of my project here: linktr.ee/elahltob/. stay cozy and enjoy your holiday. lots of love from lelo. ❤️

welcome to the fourth episode. we’re talking about love, yay! i’m kidding. i’ve never been in love so i don’t know what this is all about. let’s just start a convo, yeah? hope you enjoy the episode, though. • find me and the other aspects of my project here: linktr.ee/elahltob/. stay cozy and lots of love from lelo. ❤️