Jaded Forum: Event 2 (feat. Navy Blue)

Date Recorded: August 19th, 2025 In this episode, hosts Z and Yedoye Travis are joined by Navy Blue to discuss how to be of service in this moment, “self-care” as rebellion, the weaponization of music, and making conscious art. Filmed LIVE at Elsewhere in Brooklyn, New York. JADED FORUM is a series of open dialogues and parties based in New York City, host­ed by Z (@zetto.plus) and Yedoye Travis (@yedoye_). If you get anything out of Jaded Forum — whether in person, at work, or at home — please consider helping us continue. CONTRIBUTE: https://opencollective.com/jadedforum If you feel moved to action by anything covered in this program, please visit https://spark.repair to explore ways in which you and others can find a better situation for yourselves in concert with other communities exploring the same. INSTAGRAM:   / jadedforum   TIKTOK:   / jadedforum   BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/jadedforum.b... TWITTER:   / jadedforum   QUORUM: https://www.opencollective.com/quorum JADED HQ: https://jaded.site/ Tired, but here. --- 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:30 - Struggling to Be of Service 00:07:48 - Building Alternative Systems Without Looking Inward 00:08:58 - Navy Blue’s Family History 00:13:50 - Felling Like You’re Not Doing Enough 00:15:52 - “Take My Strong Hand” 00:17:30 - When Self-Care Becomes Avoidance 00:23:00 - Live Laugh Love 00:25:50 - Choosing Your Family 00:27:44 - Cultivating Core Values 00:32:31 - Enter the Tupac-Verse 00:35:39 - Cam’ron in the Audience?! 00:37:02 - Music as Poison 00:43:46 - Music as Medicine 00:47:59 - Are We Living Right? 00:54:07 - Albert Ellis’s REBT/ACT 00:55:21 - Live Without Being Exploited 00:57:42 - Donate to Jaded Forum 00:58:58 - Q&A: Balancing Self-Care and Doing Liberatory Work 01:09:05 - Q&A: Community-Minded Mental Health 01:19:10 - Q&A: Space for Spirituality in Organizing and Mental Health 01:32:56 - Q&A: Combatting Irony With Earnesty and Authenticity 01:38:40 - Q&A: Finding Creative Community 01:47:30 - Outro 01:49:25 - Spark 01:50:15 - Quorum