Sad Girls Club

Your very fav sad girls of color couldn't let 2017 go by without reflecting, reminiscing, and rating our favorite things this year: music, moments, memes and more. This episode was recorded on Jan 1 2018.

Join your very favorite sad girls of color, this week as always talking abt what we've been listening to, reading, watching, and how the legacy of colonization has been affecting us.On this epi: everything that's been going on in the past week including but not limited to: Charlottesville, white supremacy, nazis, Trump, free speech, and confederate monuments. Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep49. This episode was recorded on Aug 21 2017.

Join your very favorite sad girls of color, this week as always talking abt what we've been listening to, reading, watching, and how the legacy of colonization has been affecting us.On this epi: 1) Trump's tweets banning transgender people from the military 2) the Department of Justice's new plan to look at whether affirmative action is discriminatory, and 3) digital blackface in reaction gifs. Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep48. This episode was recorded on Aug 7 2017.

Join your very favorite sad girls of color, this week as always talking abt what we've been listening to, reading, watching, and how the legacy of colonization has been affecting us.On this epi: 1) the Buzzfeed article abt R Kelly's alleged cult, 2) the Minneapolis police shooting of a white victim, and 3) Issa Rae's HBO show Insecure (spoilers for season 1). Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep47. This episode was recorded on July 24 2017.

Join your very favorite sad girls of color, this week as always talking abt what we've been listening to, reading, watching, and how the legacy of colonization has been affecting us.On this epi: 1) the aftermath at the University of Missouri two years after the racist violence that led to student protests, 2) what all the pizza, donuts, and ice cream on Instagram foodies really means, and who can be one, and 3) racism as plot points on the first black Bachelorette. Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep46. This episode was recorded on July 10 2017.

Join your very favorite sad girls of color, this week as always talking abt what we've been listening to, reading, watching, and how the legacy of colonization has been affecting us.On this epi: 1) photoshopped and curated diversity in our institutions & how value is extracted from images of people of color, and 2) what the road to college looks like for students who are poor, non-white, undocumented, and our own experiences w the college process. Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep45. This episode was recorded on June 26 2017.

Join your very favorite sad girls of color, this week as always talking abt what we've been listening to, reading, watching, and how the legacy of colonization has been affecting us.On this epi: 1) America leaving the Paris Agreement and why we don't care abt climate change, 2) the terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester and violence in safe spaces, and 3) Kathy Griffin's artsy photoshoot, Trump adjacents, and who gets protected. Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep44. This episode was recorded on June 5 2017.

Join your very favorite sad girls of color, this week as always talking abt what we've been listening to, reading, watching, and how the legacy of colonization has been affecting us.On this epi: 1) getting into the Obama's pockets now that they're back in the spotlight, 2) understanding some of the changes that the American Health Care Act will bring, and 3) making memes, co-opting memes, and killing memes. Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep43. This episode was recorded on May 8 2017.

Join your very favorite sad girls of color, this week as always talking abt what we've been listening to, reading, watching, and how the legacy of colonization has been affecting us.On this epi: it's been a slow news week so we're doing a "mini" epi focusing on one topic: skincare. Hear our thoughts on anti-aging and perfect skin messaging, routines of all the things we can't pronounce but put on our faces, and plans to keep our skin under control as the weath changes. Find our product list here: https://tab.bz/sgcep42. This episode was recorded on Apr 24 2017.

Join your very favorite sad girls of color, this week as always talking abt what we've been listening to, reading, watching, and how the legacy of colonization has been affecting us.On this epi: performative allyship a play in three acts: 1) Muslim teen Ziad Ahmed who was accepted to Stanford w a college essay that just said #BlackLivesMatter 100 times, 2) Kendall Jenner's Pepsi ad, and 3) how body positivity never means fat acceptance, and the excuses people with privilege have for standing up for fat people. Find our reading list here: https://tab.bz/sgcep41. This episode was recorded on Apr 10 2017.

Join your very favorite sad girls of color, this week as always talking abt what we've been listening to, reading, watching, and how the legacy of colonization has been affecting us.On this epi: drama at 'feminist' company Thinx as She-E-O Miki Agrawal steps down and our love for Shonda Rhimes and #TGIT. Find our reading list here: https://tab.bz/sgcep40. This episode was recorded on Mar 27 2017.

Join your very favorite sad girls of color, back and better than ev, this week discussing the American Health Care Act (aka Trumpcare) and what's gonna happen to all the poor sick Trump voters when it's in effect, and the new film Get Out (hella spoilers obv) and the evils of white womanhood. Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep39, & follow us at twitter.com/sadgirlspodcast. This episode was recorded on Mar 13 2017.

Join your very favorite sad girls of color, this week discussing: 1) follow up thoughts after the Women's Marches, 2) punching Nazis, and 3) season one of Search Party (spoiler alert). Find our Reading List here: http://tab.bz/sgcep38. This episode was recorded on Jan 23 2017. 

Join your favorite sad girls of color for the first time in 2017! This week we're discussing all things political and presidential: Obama's legacy and farewell address, all the drama surrounding Trump including golden showers, first press conference, and inauguration, and the Women's Marches planned to protest this weekend. Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep37.This episode was recorded on Jan 16 2017.

Some SGC resolutions for the new year: research, reach out, and sloooooow down...Bring in the new year listening to your very fav sad girls of color for the last time this year. This week we review & reminisce on 2016 faves: music, articles, memes, tv shows, moments, and more. This episode was recorded on Dec 26 2016.

Join your very favorite sad girls of color, this week discussing: 1) a presidential update: Trump's cabinet and transitional team picks and Mike Pence at Hamilton, 2) Kanye's latest antics, and 3) identity politics. Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep35. This episode was recorded on Nov 21 2016, but technical difficulties caused it to not be released til 3 weeks later when this is all old news. Enjoy bbs!!

Your v favorite sad girls of color, this week discussing 1) the saddest presidential update ever: Trump won the 2016 election. This episode was recorded on Nov 9 2016. 

Join your v fave sad girls of color, this week discussing: 1) the end of iconic social media app Vine and the loss of a creative outlet for kids of color, and 2) the Standing Rock Sioux protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota and environmental racism, white supremacy, and settler colonialism. Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep33. This episode was recorded on Oct 31 2016.

This week your v fav sad girls of color discuss: 1) a Presidential Update on the third presidential debate and that time Democrats raised hella money to reopen a North Carolina GOP office after it was firebombed, and 2) the PBS documentary 'Hamilton's America.' Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep32. This episode was recorded on Oct 24 2016.

Join your v fave sad girls of color, this week discussing: 1) a Presidential Update and the second debate between Hillary Clinton & Donald Trump, 2) a long-awaited return to This Week in White Feminist Fuckery, featuring Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's comments on Colin Kaepernick's protest. 3) the US census adding a Middle Eastern/North African category, and 4) the change in TV to shows to darker, more emotional 'comedies' (spoiler alert for past seasons of Scandal, OITNB, Friday Night Lights, HTGAWM). Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep31. This episode was recorded on Oct 10 2016.

Join your v fav sad girls of color, this week discussing: 1) a presidential update abt the first debate between Donald Trump & Hillary Clinton, 2) the recent killing of Terence Crutcher by cop Betty Shelby and white women's response, and 3) why we want to be rich women (& so do you). Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep29. This episode was recorded on Sept 27 2016.

Join your v fav sad girls of color, this week discussing: 1) American slavery's effects on college campuses and Georgetown's recent attempt at making amends, 2) the absence of class diversity on television, and 3) selfie feminism and where women of color fit into it. Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep28. This episode was recorded on Sept 19 2016.

Join your favorite sad girls of summer, this week discussing 1), 'Birth of a Nation' (2016) creator Nate Parker's college rape charges, interview in Ebony mag & responses to male privilege and rape culture (TW 12:45-29:45), 2) San Francisco 49ers' Colin Kaepernick refusing to stand for the national anthem & the racist hypocrisy that followed, and 3) body politics and positivity, including Alicia Keys #nomakeup trend, Teyana Taylor's post-baby #bodygoals. Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep26. This episode was recorded on Aug 31 2016. Music: Steve Combs: I Don’t Like Me Either. I Don’t Like Me Either by Steve Combs is licensed under a Attribution License.

This week yr fave sad girls of color are 1) reviewing Shira's new album Subtle Creature; 2) discussing online abuse on the internet, specifically on Twitter; 3) breaking down the blame and guilt put on POC in fear of a potential Trump presidency in a presidential update; and 4) theorizing on the idea that feminism is about being nice. Find our Reading (& Listening) List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep25. This episode was recorded on Aug 15 2016. Music: "Honey In My Pot" by Shira.

Join your v favorite sad girls as we discuss: 1) Meliana Trump plagiarizing Michelle Obama at the Republican National Convention, 2) Florida cop shooting of unarmed black behavioral therapist Charles Kinsey as he was protecting an autistic patient, Arnaldo Eliud Rios Soto, & 3) Leslie Jones racist & sexist abuse online and Twitter's response, and what happens when women are opinionated and contrary. Find our Reading List here: https://tab.bz/sgcep24. This episode was recorded on Jul 25 2016. Music: Steve Combs: I Don’t Like Me Either. I Don’t Like Me Either by Steve Combs is licensed under a Attribution License.