Mikaila Unmuted: Beyond A Mammy, Mule, & Maid
This season of Mikaila Unmuted, Beyond a Mammy, Mule, and Maid, explores how Black women can shed the roles we were conditioned to carry — the caretakers, the laborers, the silent strength holding everything and everyone together at the cost of ourselves.
These roles were never ours by choice. They were inherited through survival, expectation, and systems that required our exhaustion.
Here, we begin the unlearning. We question what we were taught to be, release what no longer serves us, and reclaim the fullness of who we are — soft and powerful, rested and worthy, complex and free.
This season is not just a conversation. It’s a return to ourselves.
Mikaila Unmuted: Beyond A Mammy, Mule, & Maid
BONUS EPISODE | Beyond the Episode: A Live Conversation with Our Ep. 2 Guests
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This episode is a live, unfiltered continuation of Episode 2 of the podcast Mikaila Unmuted—where the conversation goes even deeper. Together with Ashanti, Christina, and Charlotte, we move beyond the stories themselves and into the questions underneath them.
We explore the ways identity can both ground us and restrict us…how many of us have been conditioned to perform—for safety, for acceptance, even within our own communities…and what it might look like to stop performing altogether.
What unfolds is an Afrofuturistic conversation about possibility: about releasing externally imposed narratives, reclaiming authorship over who we are, and imagining new ways of being that aren’t rooted in survival alone.
And maybe most importantly— we ask what it means to build. If the systems we’ve navigated are no longer working—if they were never built for us in the first place—what are we creating in their place?
This is a conversation about identity, decolonization, belonging, and the courage to imagine—and build—something new.
If you'd prefer to watch this episode on YouTube, here's the link: https://youtube.com/live/AASAH1nooBM