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.
Episodes
7 episodes
S01E04 | Until the Lion Speaks, the Hunter Is the Hero — The Podcast Origin Story
BAMMM is a documentary-style podcast exploring the lives of Black women through story, theory, and cultural critique.In this special mid-season episode, Mikaila revisits the conversation that started it all.Recorded before a singl...
BONUS EPISODE | Beyond the Episode: A Live Conversation with Our Ep. 3 Guests
BAMMM is a documentary-style podcast exploring the lives of Black women through story, theory, and cultural critique.In this special live episode, we go deeper into Episode 3: “What You Carry Can Break You — The Refusal.”...
What You Carry Can Break You — The Refusal
BAMMM is a documentary-style podcast exploring the lives of Black women through story, theory, and cultural critique.In Episode 3, we enter one of the most misunderstood parts of any transformation: the refusal of the call.Often f...
BONUS EPISODE | Beyond the Episode: A Live Conversation with Our Ep. 2 Guests
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 u...
A Drum Knows Its Rhythm
In this episode of B.A.M.M. — Beyond a Mammy, Maid, and Mule, we begin retelling the story of everyday Black women — not as side characters, but as the superheroes they’ve always been.Using the frameworks of Joseph Campbell’s
BONUS EPISODE | BAMMM Live: Three Generations in Conversation w/ Ep. 1 Guests
This is a special bonus episode of B.A.M.M.M. — Beyond a Mammy, Maid, and Mule.After the release of Episode 1, I sat down live with the three women whose stories opened this season — Dr. Yvonne, Piper, and Ashanti — ...