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18 | Spoiler Alert!

Shaun just turned 40-something and she celebrated by going to see SINNERS, the new film directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan—so you know we gotta talk about it! Today, P & Shaun are breaking down the importance of this movie: the character development, cultural representation, an…

Black Religion in Comics: Voodoo, Ancestors, and Agency

In this episode, scholars Dr. Yvonne Chireau and Dr. Rita Lucarelli, along with author Ayize Jama-Everett, explore the portrayal of Black religion and spirituality across history, noting that words like "religion" and "magic" are often colonial or Western impositions that misrepresent African and a…

Captain Britain 13-16: From the Ashes! And an interview with Yvonne Chireau!

It's a new month on Graymalkin Lane! We open with a Captain Britain script read, featuring the Brit Crew (Christian Smith, James-Lee Campbell, Geezah Gobble, and Robyn Moffat), with a special guest voice by Adam Koussari! Evil super-computers and fascist super-villains are in the wings as Captain A…

Sinners Gives Hoodoo Its Due

Sinners got a historic 16 Academy Award nominations, which was remarkable for a film with vampires. But the film is also a rich exploration of race, religion, culture and music in 1930s Mississippi. Professor Yvonne Chireau played a key role behind the scenes. She’s a historian of the spiritual tra…

Religion and Ryan Coogler's Sinners: an Interview with Dr. Yvonne Chireau

As an extension of our coverage of Ryan Coogler's masterful film Sinners, this week we present to you a special conversation author and professor, Dr. Yvonne Chireau. Dr Chireau has spent much of her academic career studying religious history and supernatural traditions, particularly within African…

Religion and Ryan Coogler's Sinners: an Interview with Dr. Yvonne Chireau

As an extension of our coverage of Ryan Coogler's masterful film Sinners, this week we present to you a special conversation with author and professor, Dr. Yvonne Chireau. Dr Chireau has spent much of her academic career studying religious history and supernatural traditions, particularly within Af…

13: Hoodoo: Healing & Harm - Yvonne Chireau

What if the dead are not gone at all, but woven into the fabric of everyday life? Historian, scholar of religion and Black studies, and Sinners consultant Yvonne Chireau joins Joanna Ebenstein for a rich conversation about African American conjure, hoodoo, ancestry, and the many ways we misunders…

Yvonne Chireau - Department of Black Studies, Swarthmore College

This is Ashley Newby and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers,…

Ep. 30: What Does Magic Look Like in Everyday Life?

When I was a little girl, I was CONVINCED my magic was just around the corner. Like at any moment my hands were going to start sparkling, some unseen being was going to reveal itself to me, and I was going to discover that I had magical powers. Turns out, magic was a part of the world, I just coull…

Who Decides What’s Magic? Religion, Science & the Supernatural| Dr. Yvonne Chireau

Who gets to decide what's magic? In this episode of Perspective Shifts for Healing with The Hanged Woman, host Julienne Irons sits down with religion and magic scholar, professor, and author Dr. Yvonne Chireau to question the boundaries we've created between magic, religion, science, superstition, …