Rich Queer Aunties

About Rich Queer Aunties

Two queer African lesbians aunties having the conversations our cultures told us to swallow. Rich Queer Aunties is a space for truth-telling at the intersection of culture, queerness, relational healing, and diaspora life. Hosted by Christabel and Kachi, two Igbo daughters, lovers, thinkers, and truth-telling aunties, we unpack the emotional, cultural, and relational stuff we were never supposed to name out loud. From hierarchical colonial collectivist conditioning to people-pleasing, from religious trauma to queer love, from rupture to repair, we talk through the real work of becoming whole. We’re not here to perform wisdom, we’re here to practice liberation in real time, through honest conversations, cultural analysis, and the relational skills we’re still learning ourselves. If you’ve ever felt split between worlds…the obedient child and the rebellious self…the good daughter and the free adult…the hyper-competent professional and the lonely inner child…this is your space. We see...

Publisher

Christabel Mintah-Galloway

Category

education · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Apr 2020

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 37 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   37: None of our friendships are well under capitalism — Part 2

   Hosts Christabel Mintah-Galloway and Kachi discuss practical strategies for building reciprocal friendships and community care infrastructure, challenging capitalist notions of connection in this interview.

2. 

   30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   36: None of our friendships are well under capitalism — Part 1

   Host Christabel Mintah-Galloway and Kachi interview guest Lola about cultivating resilient friendships amidst capitalism, exploring consent, intimacy, and the practice of building strong connections.

3. 

   6 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   35: If Not Us, Who? Stop outsourcing indigeneity to your parents.

   In this episode of Rich Queer Aunties, Christabel and Kachi go down the rabbit hole: how far back does Western influence actually go in Igbo land, and what does that mean for the way we talk about “African culture” today? Christabel went down a research rabbit hole after someone on Instagram told her that Africans must have been beating their children long before colonialism, otherwise why is it so widespread today? She went looking. What she found should make every person of African descent pause. In this episode, Christabel and Kachi trace the actual timeline: 500 years of colonial contact, a British model of child-rearing that was explicitly theological, and an Igbo cosmology in which children were revered as reincarnated ancestors sacred beings you could lose if you struck them too hard. This is not ancient African tradition. It is colonial management practice, repackaged as culture and handed down as inheritance. They also get into what it costs us today: hiding tattoos from parents who are themselves 500 years removed from knowing any better, calling queerness un-African, policing each other's bodies, performing respectability for a version of culture that was installed by the people who beat the original one out of us. And the question that sits underneath all of it: if not our generation, who is actually doing the work of re-indigenization? This is the first of many conversations on what it looks like to come home. If you enjoyed this episode, rate and review us because it really helps. Leave a comment and forward it to one friend today. Stay connected: Instagram: @richqueeraunties | @christabelmintahgalloway | @Qingkachi Catch you in the next one. XO, Christabel & Kachi.

Inside a recent episode

37: None of our friendships are well under capitalism — Part 2

Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] What does it look like to set up Susu with 10 people and say, 20, 20, 20, 20 makes 200. Every month, someone gets 200. And we keep going round and round. And if there's a big need, 50, 50, 50, 50, someone gets a thousand. So, yeah. And I think there's just more here, isn't there? I 100% agree with you. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

62 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

117 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 25 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

30

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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