Rich Queer Aunties

By Christabel Mintah-Galloway

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Episodes: 34

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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...

Episode Date
34: Aftercare, Repair, and Coming Back to Love (Part 2)
Mar 19, 2026
33: Money Loves Circles: Why You Should Do Business with Your Friends
Mar 02, 2026
32: Navigating conflict as African Lesbians. How childhood trauma shapes our present relationships.
Dec 30, 2025
31: Queer, African & Engaged: Grieving family while choosing ourselves
Nov 19, 2025
30: It’s Not a Mother Wound. It’s Patriarchy.
Jun 17, 2025
29: Love & Rage - What Did You Inherit and What Are You Choosing
May 29, 2025
28: Severed Selves, Righteous Rage & the Courage to Reintegrate
Mar 27, 2025
27: Building Relational Skills to Defy Empire
Feb 25, 2025
26: If Your Spirituality Is Isolating You, It’s Not Working: A Critique of How We Practice Indigenous Spirituality
Jan 30, 2025
25: Healing Beyond the Master’s Tools: Therapy, Queerness, and Rediscovering Indigenous Wisdom
Jan 07, 2025
24: 2024 Reflections: What we’re leaving behind & what we’re carrying forward
Dec 25, 2024
23: Choosing Between an Anti-Black Country and a Homophobic One: Building a Youth Empowerment Center in Ghana
Nov 11, 2024
22: Dear Queer Babies, Your Healing Matters: Lessons from Our Stories
Oct 08, 2024
21: Percent Better by 80 - A Conversation on Rage with Christabel
Sep 17, 2024
20: Coming Home to Self: A Conversation with Kachi
Sep 03, 2024
19: Boundaries in Context: A Guide for Those of Diasporic Origin
Aug 13, 2024
18: Is a Lack of Authenticity Keeping You Stuck?
Aug 02, 2024
17: Showing Up as Your Authentic Self.
Jul 21, 2024
16: Navigating Religious Trauma, Self-Discovery, and Family Estrangement: A Journey of Healing and Growth. A conversation with Dan.
Jul 24, 2023
15: Coming Out as Gay: My Journey of Overcoming the Fear of Rejection as a Jehovah’s Witness
Apr 24, 2023
14: My Journey of Balancing Collectivism and Individuality: Personal Stories and Cultural Reflections
Apr 07, 2023
13: Unconvering Authenticity- A Solo Episode on Love Loss and Learning to Heal
Mar 25, 2023
12: Is meme repost culture gaslighting you into thinking you’re doing the work? Doing the work irl and finding your people.
May 25, 2021
11: Capitalism vs. pay me for my work
Feb 17, 2021
10: Relationships as my biggest teacher.
Dec 29, 2020
9: Back Like I never Left
Oct 08, 2020
8: Q&A : Coming out, skin care, organized religion, and more.
Jul 02, 2020
7: Black joy, white fragility, and everything in between
Jun 16, 2020
6: Not Racist? Not Enough! - How to become anti-racist.
Jun 03, 2020
5: Liberation from Subconscious Conditioning
May 23, 2020
4: Spankings and Slavery
May 16, 2020
3: Religion and Internalized Homophobia
May 05, 2020
2: My Healing Journey
Apr 30, 2020
1: My Why
Apr 29, 2020