Dr. Nicole Truesdell
Consultant Creative Strategic Dreamer
~An Anthropologist Committed To A Liberatory Humanity
Dr. Nicole Truesdell
Welcome! My name is Dr. Nicole Truesdell and I am an anthropologist by training and an abolitionist scholar, astrologer, writer, teacher, creative and dreamer in practice.
I use my knowledge and training to deconstruct societal mindsets and imagine a world without oppressive systems governing us. I obtained my Ph.D. in Anthropology from Michigan State University in 2011, specializing in race, racism, citizenship, and the nation-state. I previously taught and worked at Michigan State University, The University of Bristol (UK), Beloit College and Brown University before leaving higher education in 2021. You can read more about me here.
My work and offerings are multifaceted.
I am the founder of Truesdell & Associates, LLC - a boutique Executive Strategy Firm. With a focus on creating clarity, choice, and action through a humane lens, I offer support and guidance to individuals and organizations/businesses alike. I combine my anthropological expertise with my training as a practicing western tropical astrologer to help individuals understand their journey to self through private coaching sessions and astrology readings.
I am really interested in exploring the question: What does it mean to be human? And to answer that one must go on a ride through space and time and understand how we became a society that values dehumanization in the first place. This is where my creative work “Abolitionist Dreamscapes” comes in. As the founder of Abolitionist Dreamscapes, I help others break the things that remove us from our humanity and do not allow us life while dreaming of other ways of living in the now through my podcast, Patreon, writings, speaking, creative projects, and active social media presence, where I discuss a wide range of topics including the concept of the human, ancestors, and society. My multidisciplinary approach allows me to bridge the gap between academia and spirituality, offering a unique perspective that challenges existing norms and encourages individuals to imagine a world free from oppressive systems. I am currently working on my first book, “Planting Seeds of Abolitionist Dreamscapes”.
My passion lies in my commitment to social change and the belief in the transformative power of imagination and dreaming to have us come back to our humanity.
ABOLITIONIST DREAMSCAPES: THE PODCAST
(LATEST EPISODE)
Hey folks, welcome back! This is Season 3 and this time around I am focusing on stories from the margins. To kick off this season I am in conversation with my friend and kick ass intellectual Dr. Moya Bailey. We are talking about what it means and takes to gather people together in this present moment. A moment where folks are more lonely than ever while also being more connected via social media than ever. So than what do we need to shift, break, reimagine about how we come together in order to make the spaces we say we want for our liberation and freedom? Have a listen and see what comes up for you!
Moya Bailey (https://www.moyabailey.com/) is a professor at Northwestern University, the founder of the Digital Apothecary (https://www.digitalapothecary.org/), and co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective (https://blackfeministhealth.com/). Her work focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice, and she is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She is the digital alchemist for the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network (http://octaviabutlerlegacy.com/) and the Board President of Allied Media Projects (https://alliedmedia.org/), a Detroit-based movement media organization that supports an ever-growing network of activists and organizers. She is a co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (MIT Press, 2020) and is the author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance (New York University Press, 2021). She is the director and producer for the forthcoming documentary, Misogynoir in Medicine (https://www.misogynoirinmedicine.com/). https://linktr.ee/moyabailey
Music produced by Forest Brooks.
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