Pleasure is treated as a serious practice, not a luxury or slogan.
The special, created by Narrative Justice Leadership Lab participants, treats pleasure as a form of liberation in honor of National Black HIV AIDS Awareness Day 2023.
The CNP Podcast
Counter Narrative Project
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The CNP Podcast is a podcast from the Counter Narrative Project. This podcast will feature stories from CNP that shift narratives about Black gay and queer men. We also center narratives about the larger Black and LGBTQ+ community.
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Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Personal testimony gives The CNP Podcast a grounded way into care, faith, pleasure and representation in Black queer life.
The CNP Podcast turns questions about health, faith, pleasure and representation into candid group conversations rooted in lived experience. Episodes made for National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2023 bring together participants who speak personally about seeking care, living…
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A church elder names the words that wounded him, and you hear the difference between faith and cruelty.
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- to hear how one man found monkeypox appointments for people he had never met
- a church elder living with HIV to refuse the shame others attach to faith
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A grounded National Black HIV AIDS Awareness Day conversation about HIV, spirituality, shame, and church hurt.
Set around National Black HIV AIDS Awareness Day, this special episode brings Denise Drayton and Michael Morris into a conversation about HIV, spirituality, and church hurt.
A candid conversation about pleasure, visibility, and the stories media teaches Black queer men to carry.
This special CNP episode, made for National Black HIV AIDS Awareness Day 2023, traces how media and entertainment shape Black queer men's sense of pleasure.
A steady conversation about access to care, health management, and mutual support.
This CNP special keeps its focus on National Black HIV AIDS Awareness Day 2023 and treats access to care as an everyday, practical concern. It moves from childhood visits to adult responsibility, with attention to scheduling, symptoms, and the strain of fitting treatment around…
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Episodes
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Episode #3 - Access To Care (National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2023 #NBHAAD)
Hidden gemThis CNP special was released for National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2023.
·54m·3 clips - 2
Bonus Episode - Life With Cecilia (National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2023 #NBHAAD)
Feb 7, 2023·6m - 3
Episode #2- HIV & Spirituality (National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2023 #NBHAAD)
Hidden gemDenise Drayton, living with HIV for 30 years, discusses how Black churches fail to adequately address HIV stigma and sexuality.
Feb 7, 2023·46m - 4
Bonus Episode - Pleasure and Media Representation (National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2023 #NBHAAD)
This special CNP episode, created by Narrative Justice Leadership Lab participants, is for National Black HIV AIDS Awareness Day 2023.
Feb 7, 2023·25m·5 clips - 5
Episode #1 - Pleasure As Liberation (National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2023 #NBHAAD)
This special CNP episode brings together a Narrative Justice Leadership Lab group on pleasure as liberation.
Feb 7, 2023·52m·4 clips - 6
Episode #4 - Al Cunningham (Narratology)
Feb 9, 2021·24m - 7
Episode #5 - Michael Oby and Chi Hughes (Narratology)
Hidden gemChai Hughes and Michael Oby, friends since about 1979-80 in Atlanta, describe the Black LGBTQ arts scene of 1980s "Chocolate City" Washington, D.C., a city then 70-80% African American.
Feb 9, 2021·35m·2 clips - 8
Episode #3 - Dan Royles (Narratology)
Feb 9, 2021·26m - 9
Episode #2 - Rev. Duncan Teague (Narratology)
Feb 9, 2021·30m - 10
Episode #1 - Dr. Ashley Coleman Taylor (Narratology)
Feb 9, 2021·14m