The Glorious Mess
The Glorious Mess is for people who didn’t inherit a clean story.
Mixed. Fostered. Raised in systems. Raised across cultures. Raised by people who loved you but couldn’t give you your origin.
Hosted by Raymond Jordan Johnson-Brown, the show sits inside identity, memory, race, belonging, and the strange work of becoming yourself when you had to assemble the pieces.
No self-help. No performance.
Just lived experience, sharp conversation, and the honesty of building a self in public.
If you’ve ever felt like the exception in your own family, you’re home.
Welcome to the mess.
The Glorious Mess
The Collective Eye Roll | Why Are We Policing Each Other Instead of Power?
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In this episode of The Glorious Mess, Raymond and Carla start with eye-rolling and somehow end up talking about power, disruption, and the politics of policing each other.
We unpack how collective exhaustion shows up in the body, why eye-rolling isn’t dismissal but a somatic release, and how constant demands for composure blur the line between harm and discomfort. From post-holiday doomscrolling to everyday moral surveillance, we question who benefits when frustration is redirected toward individuals rather than systems.
The conversation moves through call-out culture, respectability politics, and the quiet violence of compliance. We reflect on being labelled “disruptive,” why disruption is often necessary, especially in education, and how accountability can slide into surveillance when it loses its connection to imagination and care.
Messy, embodied, and politically awake exactly as promised.
New episodes every month. Recorded at Virage Studios.