Ancestral game as literature. Black historical periodicals as time machines. Black Philly as a catalyst. Got a great episode for you this week with our very special guest, Josh Odam from Healing While Black!
Josh Odam (he, him) is the Founder & Curator of Healing While Black LLC, an online platform dedicated to the mental health and wellness of Black queer, transgender, and gender non-conforming people with 65,000 social media followers and one million annual impressions. He is a Google & Squarespace Black Creator Fellow and operates a Black, queer bookstore in West Philadelphia. His work has been featured on and in the Human Rights Campaign, My Brother’s Keeper, Refinery29, Essence, PAPER Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Black Mental Wellness, Vera Institute for Justice, StoryCorps, and the Library of Congress.
He is from Brooklyn, New York.
IG: @josh.odam
About this episode's host:
golden lionheart collier, M.F.A., is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher whose work explores diasporic wisdoms that defy linear or static narratives. They are a Fall '25 MacDowell Fellow, and were awarded the CODEX International Biennial Research Scholarship as well as finalist spot for this year’s XENO Book Artists' Prize. Through their nimble imprint, Diasporan Savant Press, their artistic research publications are in the esteemed collections of The Getty Museum Research Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Library of Congress, and their lens-based work has been shown internationally, including at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Outfest LA, and The Director's Guild of America. They were an invited reader for this year’s New Interfaces for Musical Expression, and their highest ambition is that their research activate creative practice in accessible ways that envision generative possibilities for our world.
- KBOO