Sinners: Systemic Trauma & Musical Healing

Happy Halloween! For our spooky episode of 2025, we are discussing Sinners! This is Hannah and Brittney's favorite movie of 2025 and we are so excited to be talking about it.

We discuss many heavy topics: childhood abuse, racial violence, oppressive systems; so be mindful while listening.

Below you can find the research referenced by Brittney in this episode:

https://lazarussiafa.medium.com/myth-metaphor-and-meaning-a-deep-dive-into-the-overwhelming-symbolic-architecture-in-the-movie-24e39197990d

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2025/04/11881716/sinners-movie-ending-explained-wunmi-mosaku-interview

https://tapmagazine.org/all-articles/sinners-is-a-film-about-black-joy

https://theemancipator.org/2025/04/26/topics/movies-and-tv/sinners-movie-analysis-beautiful-struggle-belong-survive/

https://thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/sinners-have-souls-too-humanization-deep-south-ryan-cooglers-southern-gothic-horror-sinners

https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/black-joy-white-interruptions-sinners-and-the-afrofuturism-of-black-horror/

https://browderfile.substack.com/p/the-psychology-of-sinners-and-the

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