{"id":140495,"date":"2025-02-21T10:27:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T16:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=140495"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T16:27:22","slug":"uplift-book-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/uplift-book-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"UPLIFT Book Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Book Talk with \u201cImani Rituals\u201d Author, Ayanna Kafi<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Thursday, February 27th @ 12:00pm ET\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join us for a rich discussion of disability and black spirituality as I interview my friend and colleague, Ayanna Kafi about their upcoming skinner house release,\u00a0\u201cImani Rituals: Nurturing African Spiritual Heritage.\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ll discuss the book writing process, the intersection of race and disability, and ways to adapt rituals for individual access needs.<\/p>\n

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Ayanna Kafi\u00a0<\/strong>(they\/them\/theirs) is a neurodivergent, nonbinary, Black woman living on occupied Creek land, commonly known as Stone Mountain, a beautiful city within the collective of cities known by locals as Atlanta. They cohabitate with their partner, teenager, and granddog. They believe that their ministry springs from their embodiment, home, and community so they strive to fill their life with laughter, music, movement, intentional rest, and the discipline of ever-expanding joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book Talk with \u201cImani Rituals\u201d Author, Ayanna Kafi Thursday, February 27th @ 12:00pm ET\u00a0 Join us for a rich discussion of disability and black spirituality as I interview my friend and colleague, Ayanna Kafi about their upcoming skinner house release,\u00a0\u201cImani Rituals: Nurturing African Spiritual Heritage.\u201d We\u2019ll discuss the book writing process, the intersection of race…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140495"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140505,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140495\/revisions\/140505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}