Ep 96: It's Not Woo. It's Black.

When someone says "it's giving" or "no cap," people call it Gen Z slang. We know what that actually is. The same erasure is happening inside the spiritual and wellness industry — and this episode is going to spell out what's been going unsaid. In this episode, Nikki makes the case that what the New Age industry packaged and sold as spirituality, energy work, and manifestation has African and African diasporic origins that got scrubbed and sanitized for white consumption and profit — and that the word "woo" is not a neutral descriptor. Pointing to the history of H...