Myra Flynn
Host and Executive Producer, HomegoingsMyra Flynn joined 开云体育 in March 2021 and is the DEIB Advisor, Host and Executive Producer, Homegoings. Raised in Vermont, Myra Flynn is an accomplished musician who has come to know the lay of dirt-road land that much more intimately through touring both well-known and obscure stages all around the state and beyond. She also has experience as a teaching artist and wore many hats at the Burlington Free Press, including features reporter and correspondent, before her pursuits took her deep into the arts world. Prior to joining 开云体育, Myra spent eight years in the Los Angeles music industry.
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Marjani Fort茅-Saunders is a mother, choreographer, performer, community organizer and three-time Bessie Award winner. In this episode, Marjani speaks about the score a dancer鈥檚 body keeps, both on and off the stage. It鈥檚 a journey of acceptance, fearless expression and hard personal truths. -
Brave Little StateReporter Myra Flynn brings us on a sonic journey across the globe from Los Angeles to the Dominican Republic and Jamaica to chat with expat Vermonters. -
Kiran 鈥楳adame鈥� Gandhi gained notoriety as a drummer who toured the world drumming with superstar M.I.A., and as an activist 鈥� who ran the London City Marathon free bleeding while menstruating. In this episode, Kiran talks about leaning into the multidimensionality of our humanity and viewing our traumas as superpowers. In the end 鈥� we have no other option. -
Toussaint St. Negritude is a poet, teacher and musician who has chosen his own path and his own name. In this episode, Toussaint speaks about fierceness as a survival tool for Black queer men, like him, who were out and gay in the 1970s. -
What is jazz? And who gets to call themselves a jazz musician? Recorded live at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, host Myra Flynn sits down with renowned musicians Nicole "Lady" Wray, Adi Oasis and Melanie Charles to unpack how they are redefining the landscape of jazz on their own terms. -
We released this episode, 鈥淏lack birth, laboring for justice,鈥� back in October 2023. At the time, we felt it was crucial to make because Black women had the highest maternal mortality rate in the United States. The CDC actually called it a crisis. Recently, we checked back in with this crisis to see what鈥檚 changed in two years, and learned that maternal deaths have dropped 鈥� just not for Black women. So, we figured it鈥檚 time to press play on this. Again. -
Our sister podcast Stitch Please is a sewing podcast that centers around Black women, girls and femmes, weaving threads of creativity, technique and passion with every episode. And in this episode we鈥檙e dropping into our feed, 鈥淧atchwork to Power,鈥� renowned quilter Chawne Kimber sits down with host Lisa Wolfot to talk about how she strives to maintain a balance between aesthetic beauty and activist messaging in her quilts. -
Los Angeles native Shelley Bruce joins Myra Flynn as they discuss the devastating impact of the recent fires in L.A., particularly the Eaton fire that has destroyed so many homes and businesses, including many in the historically Black suburb of Los Angeles, Altadena. Together they discuss the systemic issues that have led to the fire鈥檚 disproportionate impact on marginalized communities. -
For this intimate Homegoings Shorty, Vermonter Raph Draws asks host Myra Flynn a question that doesn鈥檛 have one right or wrong answer: 鈥淲hat does motherhood mean to you?鈥� Myra sits down with her mother Martha Mathis and her daughter Avalon as three generations share the holidays and their thoughts about mothers and daughters. -
Vermonter Kiah Morris wants to know why Black folks have a history of carrying hot sauce in their bag. In this spicy Homegoings Shorty we dive right into it with Torrance, California, hot sauce maker Brittney McCray, and unpack how the Great Migration impacted the portability of this spicy condiment.
