In this piercing and tender conversation, author felicia klingenberg joins The Red Tent Storytellers to read from her memoir a little bit of god — a haunting chronicle of survival, silence, and self-discovery. From the ashes of childhood trauma to the light of creative defiance, Felicia’s words remind us that truth-telling is sacred work, and women’s stories are revolutions in themselves.

Listen, feel, and remember: we are not alone in the telling.

When Felicia Klingenberg began writing a little bit of god⁠ , she was doing more than crafting a memoir — she was excavating truth from centuries of silence.

In this deeply moving episode of The Red Tent Storytellers, felicia joins Blackbird Peeja for an intimate conversation about memory, art, anger, and the long road to healing. Together, they explore the courage it takes to face family, faith, and the shadow of trauma — and the redemptive beauty of finding voice after decades of repression.

From her first poem at eight years old to her adult confrontation with truth, Felicia’s journey is both a warning and a beacon. Her story spans the forbidden, the feminine, and the fiercely sacred — a testimony to every woman who has ever been told to stay quiet.

“When I open the pages of a book, I open the doors of a prison — not to release the prisoners, but to join them.”

— Felicia Klingenberg, a little bit of god.

Felicia Klingenberg is an author, survivor, and truth-teller whose words pulse with courage. Her memoir, A Little Bit of God, spans four centuries of lineage, faith, and defiance — tracing the ripple effects of generational trauma and the quiet revolutions born from confronting it.

In this episode, she speaks with surgical precision about the cultural silencing of abused children, the patriarchal rot inside “respectable” families, and the rage that ultimately becomes fuel for transformation. Her story isn’t only about survival; it’s about alchemy — transmuting suffering into language, anger into clarity, and silence into art. Through her lyrical honesty, Felicia becomes both witness and warrior for every woman learning to trust her own voice again.

Felicia’s words remind us that liberation begins the moment we dare to name what was never supposed to be spoken.

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In this wickedly funny and disarmingly honest episode of The Scarlet Frequency, The Tasty Terf takes us on a nostalgic romp through her lifelong love affair with bread and cheese — two ride-or-dies who eventually turned into dietary double agents.

It’s a story of childhood comfort, adult betrayal, and the bittersweet grief of giving up the foods that once felt like home. From Velveeta sandwiches to gluten-free despair, My Two BFFs: Bread and Cheese is equal parts eulogy and stand-up routine, delivered with biting humor and tender self-awareness.

Read aloud by Peeja Blackbird in her role as The Tasty Terf, this episode reminds us that sometimes, the most sacred separations aren’t romantic — they’re culinary.

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In this charged and luminous episode of Red Tent Storytellers, filmmaker Vaishnavi Sundar joins Peeja Blackbird and Nat La Pirate for a conversation that unfolds like a manifesto in motion — equal parts grief, grit, and gallows humor. From her childhood in patriarchal India to her evolution as one of the fiercest feminist documentarians of our time, Vaishnavi takes us through the making of Behind the Looking Glass — a film that shatters the silence surrounding the wives and children of men who claim to be women.

What begins as a discussion of filmmaking becomes something far more sacred: a reflection on the inheritance of womanhood, the solitude of resistance, and the quiet miracle of hope. Vaishnavi speaks of cleaning floors while men dined, of learning to listen to her own body, of creating art from the ashes of erasure. She reminds us that hope isn’t fragile — it’s defiant. It takes courage to imagine a freer world while living inside a broken one.

This episode is a love letter to women who refuse to disappear — the storytellers, the fighters, the dreamers, and the mothers still daring to believe that art can be weapon and balm at once.

Vaishnavi Sundar is an Indian filmmaker, writer, and activist — founder of Lime Soda Films and the global platform Women Making Films. Her body of work, spanning over a decade, exposes the cracks in culture where women’s voices have been buried: from But What Was She Wearing? — India’s only documentary on workplace sexual harassment — to Dysphoric and Behind the Looking Glass, which dare to center women erased by gender ideology.

Driven by what she calls “humor and rage,” Vaishnavi has built her career without film-school privilege — learning by doing, failing loudly, and refusing to bow to censorship. In this episode, she speaks of filmmaking as both labor and liberation: “It felt like birth,” she says, recalling her first film. “It was sweat, exhaustion, and joy — proof that I existed.”

Her work is not entertainment; it’s testimony. Her art is a torch passed from hand to hand — proof that women everywhere are still here, still seeing, still filming.

Vaishnavi reminds us that every woman has a story — and every story deserves to be heard, unfiltered and unafraid.

If her words moved you, follow and support her work at Lime Soda Films and explore her documentaries on YouTube.

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