Elder is the New Black

Dr. Myra Sabir — a narrative psychologist at Binghamton University who has spent twenty-five years on reminiscence, life-writing and mothering — makes the case that elderhood is a developmental stage rather than a number, and that elders, elder mothers above all, have cultural work that nobody else can do.

Episodes run six to eighteen minutes in a spoken-word register: coherence, stillness, presence, and what Black women elders know about rest. Not self-improvement, as she puts it. Recognition.