Regina Banks and Emily O’Connor
Recorded
September 25, 2022
Archived
September 25, 2022
43:57 minutes
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Id:
ddv002057
Description
Regina Banks [no age given] and One Small Step partner Emily O'Connor (41) exchange their experiences growing up, religion, as mothers, and varying other roles.Subject Log / Time Code
RB analyzes living on the East coast versus her life now in Fresno.
RB shares with EO how she lost her mother-in-law to during the Pandemic and how hard that has been.
EO expresses her frustrations managing and living with her parents-in-law.
RB shares a story about how her father was stripped of his ordination at the African Methodist Episcopal church.
EO shares her struggle living in a small town mainly made up of churches and thrift.
EO is a mother of queer children and talks about how she navigates that in her town.
RB shares what she hopes for her children in the future.
RB analyzes the changes between being a minority in her school to going to a predominately black high school.
RB remembers the time her daughter came to her feeling insecure about her hair texture.
EO gives her experience of having home-schooled her children for 12 years.
EO and RB share stories about how they confront and challenge social normalities.
EO talks about what it was like growing up with parents who were drug addicts.
RB explains her family lineage as being a descendant of someone who was forced into the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
Participants
- Regina Banks
- Emily O’Connor