Hosted by High Priestess Lakeisha, The Story Temple · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 10 episodes
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A podcast for Black and Brown writers who know their block isn't about discipline; it's about wounds. Hosted by High Priestess Lakeisha, developmental editor and founder of The Story Temple, each episode explores ancestral silence, the white gaze, nervous system patterns that shape creative resistance, and craft practices rooted in truth instead of performance. Ebonics as literary language. Code-switching as a choice, not obligation. Writing rage without apology. No performance required. thestorytemple.substack.com
High Priestess Lakeisha, The Story Temple hosts Writing While Black, a society show with 10 episodes published.
In this episode, I talk about a sentence I’ve written in editorial letters more times than I can count: I wasn’t pulled in. I break down what I actually mean when I write it — and why it has nothing to do with showing ve
Nobody taught us to listen to our bodies. For a lot of Black and Brown people — particularly women — the opposite was true. We were taught that the body is to be beaten into submission. The thing you override. The thing
James Baldwin didn’t mistake comfort for clarity. He loved America. He said so plainly. And because he loved her, he insisted on the right to criticize her perpetually. That’s not a contradiction. That’s integrity. In th
There is a kind of silence that looks like wisdom. It shows up as restraint. As discernment. As knowing when not to say too much. For Black and Brown folks especially, silence has often been a strategy — one that kept us
This reading happened kind of spontaneously. Empress Theadora and I were on FaceTime, winding down at the end of the workday like we usually do, and she mentioned needing to do her full moon reading. I just happened to b
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thestorytemple.substack.com Shoutout to everyone who tuned into my live video with Empress Theadora. We had such a good time (like always), and truly enjoyed
Pull up a chair, beloved. Let’s talk for a min. Editor to writer. Somewhere along your writing journey, you learned that the problem was you. Not the system. Not the feedback that was really just assimilation dressed up
Hello, temple friends. Pull up a chair. Pour yourself some tea. I want to share something that came through this morning during my shower, which is where Spirit likes to find me most often, apparently. I was planning to
Happy October and happy autumnal vibes. In this voice note, I wanted to share the story of how The Story Temple came to be. Because it wasn’t planned. It kind of happened by accident. A couple years ago, I was sitting in
How many times have you been told to “tone it down” or “make it more universal”? How many times have you thought: man, f**k that. Who are you to tell me how my voice should sound? If you've ever felt that frustration — t
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