Where intersectional stories meet prophetic truth-telling. Host Rasheera Dopson creates sacred space for the conversations that matter most - exploring the raw, beautiful, and complex realities of living at the intersection of womanhood and disability.
This isn't your typical inspiration podcast. Here, we dig deeper into the stories that don't make it to Pinterest boards: the church girls who feel invisible, the complexity of singleness and disability, the burden of forced optimism, and the revolutionary power of simply existing authentically.
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She Saw Me First: A Mother's Story of Raising a Disabled Daughter with Dr. Jasmine Gray & Janice Gray
What does it mean to watch your child navigate a world that wasn't built for them — and to grieve the milestones you imagined while celebrating the ones that actually came?In this Mother's Day episode, I sit down with my friend, transformative storyteller and Pepperdine University scholar Dr. Jasmine Gray, and her mom, Janice Gray, for a conversation that is raw, tender, funny, and deeply real.Janice shares what it was like to raise Jasmine before anyone put a name to what she was experiencing — the late diagnosis, the confusion, the grief of not having the language to understand her own daughter. She talks about the moments that broke her heart: Jasmine not going to prom. Dating coming later than expected. And the word that took so long to arrive — disability — and what it meant when it finally did.This episode is for every Black mother who has ever had to fight for her child in a system that wasn't designed to see them. It's for the daughters who became who they are because their mamas never stopped believing. And it's for anyone who has had to unlearn what they thought their child's life was supposed to look like.This one is special. I hope you feel it.Topics covered:• Late diagnosis in Black children and the racial gaps in identification• Cultural silence around disability in Black families• A mother's grief — prom, dating, and the milestones that looked different• The moment "disability" became a word Janice could hold• Advocacy, adjusting expectations, and radical love
27 Apr 2026
I Said What I Said: Self-Advocacy, Shared Decisions, and Black Maternal Health
In this episode, Rasheera sits down with Dr. Kris for a candid conversation about Black maternal health, what it really means to advocate for yourself in medical spaces, and why shared decision making isn't a luxury it's a right. From navigating a system that too often ignores Black women's voices to the power of taking up space unapologetically, this episode is for every Black woman who has ever felt unseen in a healthcare setting.
8 Mar 2026
Disabled Women in Leadership Steaphie Woodward
Inn honor of Women’s History Month, this episode of Critical Conversations: Womanhood & Disability explores what leadership looks like when disabled women are not just included but leading.
Host Rasheera Dopson sits down with Stephanie Woodward Executive Director of the Disability EmpowHer Network to talk about the power of disabled women building community, shifting narratives, and creating spaces where leadership is redefined.
Together, they discuss:
• The importance of disabled women in leadership
• How disabled women are shaping the future
Women’s history is not just something we celebrate it’s something we continue to write.
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