Season 1: Episode 4 Summary

Mother Waddles—a Detroit-based community activist—shares about navigating poverty and people, and how fashion and self-presentation weren't vanity—they were what kept her going. Getting dressed with intention helped her feel better when she was struggling.

She recounts the oppressive welfare systems that sought to strip her dignity, her shifting relationship to money, and traditions of other-mothering. We explore internalized capitalism and injected oppression that shape how Black women move through the world.

I share guidance on adornment as an energetic practice—reframing the self as sacred space. This episode invites you to consider adornment not as vanity but as a ...