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Samantha Puc (she/they) is a fat, disabled, lesbian writer and editor whose work focuses primarily on LGBTQ+ and fat representation in pop culture. Their writing has been featured on Polygon, Refinery29, Bitch Media, them., and elsewhere. Samantha is the Community Voices Blog Editor at NAAFA, the co-creator of Fatventure Mag, and a contributor to the award-winning Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. They are an original cast member of Death2Divinity and they are pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative nonfiction at The New School. When Samantha is not working or writing, she loves spending time with her cats, reading, and perfecting her grilled cheese recipe.I hope you enjoy this conversation with Samantha! I did! Well, that's it for this week's edition of The Write Start podcast. Thank you all for listening. Please follow me on Instagram at @thevirgintraveler as well as @thewritestartpodcast and If you like what you heard on this podcast, please share it and leave me a rating or a review wherever you listen to The Write Start. Thanks again and I'll see you soon! Support the showIf you like what you've listened to and would like to support The Write Start podcast, please visit https://www.buzzsprout.com/1322467/supporters/new. I'll give you a shoutout on the show! Thanks!
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On this week's episode of TheFallenState TV, host Jesse Lee Peterson is joined by Dr. Sabrina Strings—She is Professor and North Hall Chair of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Strings brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise, having received the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship and holding a joint appointment in the School of Public Health and Department of Sociology. A certified yoga teacher, her insights on yoga have been featured in The Feminist Wire, Yoga International, and LA Yoga. Dr. Strings is also an acclaimed author, with her award-winning work appearing in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Fat Studies, and Feminist Media Studies. They delve into her groundbreaking book, "Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia," which has garnered significant acclaim and features in Essence, Ms. Magazine, Colorlines, Bitchmedia, and on NPR, KPFA, and WNYC. Don't miss this compelling discussion on race, body image, and societal perceptions.
On this week's episode of TheFallenState TV, host Jesse Lee Peterson is joined by Dr. Sabrina Strings—She is Professor and North Hall Chair of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Strings brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise, having received the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship and holding a joint appointment in the School of Public Health and Department of Sociology. A certified yoga teacher, her insights on yoga have been featured in The Feminist Wire, Yoga International, and LA Yoga. Dr. Strings is also an acclaimed author, with her award-winning work appearing in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Fat Studies, and Feminist Media Studies. They delve into her groundbreaking book, "Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia," which has garnered significant acclaim and features in Essence, Ms. Magazine, Colorlines, Bitchmedia, and on NPR, KPFA, and WNYC. Don't miss this compelling discussion on race, body image, and societal perceptions.
Gretchen Sisson, Ph.D. is a qualitative sociologist who studies abortion and adoption in the United States. She is a researcher at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Gretchen's studies on adoption include hundreds of in-depth interviews with women who have relinquished infants for domestic adoption over the past sixty years, with a particular focus on women who have relinquished since Roe v. Wade. Her research on adoption decision-making after abortion denial (as part of The Turnaway Study) was cited in the Supreme Court's dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Healthfrom Justices Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor. In response to the oral arguments and decision in Dobbs, Gretchen authored pieces in the Washington Post and The Nation. In these op-eds, Gretchen condemns the court's decision that adoption over abortion is the best moral alternative and outlines the harsh realities women face when relinquishing a child for adoption. Gretchen has a strong media presence and has been published and quoted in AP News, Atlantic, BBC,Bitch Media, Bloomberg, Christian Science Monitor, Intelligencer, Good Morning America, Ms Magazine, NBC News, Next Question with Katie Couric, Publisher's Weekly, Refinerhttps://www.pulledbytheroot.com/
Embodiment for the Rest of Us - Season 4, Episode 4: Imani Barbarin Chavonne (she/her), Jenn (she/they), and Maya (she/her) interviewed Imani (she/her/hers) about her embodiment journey. Imani Barbarin is a disability rights and inclusion activist and speaker who uses her voice and social media platforms to create conversations engaging the disability community. Born with cerebral palsy, Imani often writes and uses her platform to speak from the perspective of a disabled Black woman. In the last few years she has created over a dozen trending hashtags that allow disabled folk the opportunity to have their perspectives heard while forcing the world to take notice. #PatientsAreNotFaking, #ThingsDisabledPeopleKnow, #AbledsAreWeird and others each provide a window into disabled life while forming community. Imani is from the Philadelphia area and holds a Masters in Global Communications from the American University of Paris, her published works include those in Forbes, Rewire, Healthline, BitchMedia and more. She runs the blog CrutchesAndSpice.com and a podcast of the same name. Content Warning: discussion of genocide, discussion of ableism privilege, discussion of diet culture, discussion of fatphobia, discussion of medicalized racism, discussion of racism, discussion of fatphobia in the career space, discussion of mental health, discussion of chronic medical issues, mentions of ableism, mentions of suicide, discussion of ageism Trigger Warnings: 58:30: Imani discusses weight loss surgery and eating disorders The captions for this episode can be found at https://embodimentfortherestofus.com/season-4/season-4-episode-4-imani-barbarin/#captions A few highlights: 4:47: Imani shares her understanding of embodiment and her own embodiment journey 19:40: Imani discusses how the pandemic has affected her embodiment practices 47:22: Imani shares her understanding of “the rest of us” and how she is a part of that, as well as her privileges 59:33: Imani discusses her work with social media misinformation/disinformation and disability advocacy 1:14:11: Imanin shares how her embodiment around phobias and -isms 1:16:51: Imani discusses how listeners can make a difference based on this conversation 1:24:24: Imani shares where to be found and what's next for her Links from this episode: Ableism American with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) Autism Harriet Tubman Collective Iron Lung Movement for Black Lives Multiple Models of Disability PA Act 77 The Protest Psychosis Runaway Slave Syndrome Music: “Bees and Bumblebees (Abeilles et Bourdons), Op. 562” by Eugène Dédé through the Creative Commons License Please follow us on social media: Website: embodimentfortherestofus.com Twitter: @embodimentus Instagram: @embodimentfortherestofus
Ask a Feminist is back after a long hiatus with an episode about the current state of public feminism! Signs editor Suzanna Walters is joined by Marcie Bianco and Andi Zeisler. Andi is the cofounder of Bitch Media and the author of the book We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrl to CoverGirl, and Marcie is the author of Breaking Free: The Lie of Equality and the Feminist Fight for Freedom. Their experiences writing and editing for feminist publics and building feminist platforms give them unique insights into the difficulties faced by those trying to reach or create feminist publics today. What happens when feminism becomes part of a “personal brand”? What are the pitfalls of anointing a few individuals as the public representatives of a movement as broad and diverse as feminism? Why do there seem to be so many feminist public intellectuals and so few feminist spaces?
Amy is joined by journalist Dr. Leta Hong Fincher to discuss her book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, as well as recent changes in Chinese gender relations, and the courageous women defying their state in search of a more equitable future.Dr. Leta Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Dissent Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and others. As a long-time TV and radio journalist based in China, she won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, the Cowan Award for Humanitarian Reporting and other journalism honors for her reporting. The 10th anniversary edition of Leta's first book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (2023), was named one of the best books of 2023 by China Books Review. Leta's second book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, was named one of the best books of the year by Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Foreign Policy Interrupted, Bitch Media and Autostraddle; it was also a New York Times “New and Noteworthy” pick. The New York Public Library named Betraying Big Brother one of its “essential reads on feminism” in 2020. The original edition of her book Leftover Women was named one of the top 5 China books of the year by the Asia Society's ChinaFile and one of the best Asian books of the year by Asia House. It was on the New York Times list of recommended books on China in 2018 and on Book Riot's list of 21 recommended Chinese history books in 2021.Leta is the first American to receive a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University's Department of Sociology in Beijing. She graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and won a Harvard Foundation award for contribution to race relations. She was awarded a Shaw fellowship and Walter Shorenstein fellowship for her master's degree in East Asian Studies from Stanford University. She is currently a Research Associate at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
In today's episode, HeHe sits down with Allison Yarrow to discuss her new book, 'Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood.' What happens when hospital culture is rooted in tradition and not evidence? How does it impact patient care when incentives are set up to reward providers for doing expensive surgeries and seeing as many patients as possible, but theres no incentive for supporting unmedicated, biological labor and meeting patients where they're at in this journey? What happens when a system that is designed to be FOR PROFIT is faced with the decision profits or people— and, they can only choose one? Join us to discuss how the hospital system was designed to produce specific results and how that may affect your labor experience! Join The Birth Lounge! Connect with Ali: https://allisonyarrow.com/ Order Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood Bio: Allison Yarrow is an award-winning journalist, speaker, and author of 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality (Harper Perennial, 2018), finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club book award, and Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood (Hachette/Seal Press, July 2023). She has written about health, politics, and gender for many publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vox, Insider, USA Today, Time, and Newsweek. She was a national magazine award finalist, a TED resident, an Aspen Ideas Festival fellow, and a grantee of the International Women's Media Foundation. She produced the award-winning Vice News documentary “Misconception,” and gave a TED talk called “What to Expect Post-Expecting.”
Journalist Sarah Sunshine Manning discusses the politics of indigenous feminism - both inside today's Women's movement, and as a longer historical force in resistance to settler colonialism and environmental destruction - and calls on social movements to recognize, respect and listen to the voices of Native American women. Sarah wrote the article No Indigenous Women, No Women's Movement for Truthdig. Writer and Bitch Media co-founder Andi Zeisler explores 50 years of tension between feminism and capitalism in popular culture, and explains how mass media has adapted and amplified the language of empowerment, but in a depoliticized form in service of selling products, and why she's hopeful that a young generation of connected girls and women can reclaim feminism's radical, libratory potential. Andi is author of We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement from PublicAffairs.
Join us in this illuminating episode of the Health Nonprofit Digital Marketing podcast as we explore the dynamic world of digital advocacy within the health sector. In a candid discussion with our host Spencer Brooks and guests Callie Riley & Megan Kovacs of Compassion & Choices, we delve deep into the impactful campaign that safeguarded medical aid and dying in Montana. Discover how strategic digital communications, data-driven targeting, and compelling narratives converged to create a powerful movement that secured essential rights. We'll outline the importance of third-party validators, the art of message testing, and the pivotal role of segmentation in driving successful advocacy efforts. Join us for a comprehensive exploration of how nonprofits can harness the digital realm to amplify their advocacy initiatives and foster meaningful change. About the guests Callie Riley is the NW Regional Advocacy Manager for Compassion & Choices, and coordinates legislative advocacy and community education work in 9 states in the Pacific NW. She is a longtime community & union organizer in Oregon and Washington, and has worked on issues related to housing affordability, gentrification & displacement, public transit, health equity, land use, and police abolition. She also specializes in preventing burnout among organizers and building resilient organizations. Outside of work, she spends her time organizing mutual aid and community care projects for other queer and trans people, reading saccharine romance novels, listening to black metal and hyperpop, and doting on her adorable cat, Iz. She is based in Brooklyn, NY. Megan Kovacs is the Digital Advocacy Manager (West) for Compassion & Choices, she leads all digital communications strategy for the Western United States, manages integrated communications plans for state-specific advocacy efforts, overarching regional plans and advertising budget and directs all digital advertising for acquisition, education and awareness. Megan has spent over 15 years working in local, regional, and national non-profits and on political and electoral campaigns to promote social, racial, and economic justice, sexual and reproductive health, bodily autonomy, and gender equity. She is the recipient of the 2015 Judge Stephen B. Herrell Award for Outstanding Collaborative Efforts to End Family Violence. She formerly served on the Board of Directors for Bitch Media, and currently works to provide abortion access in the Pacific Northwest as a board member for the Northwest Abortion Access Fund (nwaafund.org) and co-chair of the Oregon Reproductive Health Equity Fund. Contact Callie & Megan Web: compassionandchoices.orgTwitter: @CompAndChoicesFacebook: facebook.com/CompassionAndChoicesInstagram: instagram.com/compassionandchoices/LinkedIn (Megan): linkedin.com/in/megankovacs/Email:mkovacs@compassionandchoices.orgcriley@compassionadnchoices.org
Allison Yarrow is an award-winning journalist, speaker, and author of Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood (Hachette/Seal Press, July 2023). She is also the author of 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality (Harper Perennial, 2018). She has written about health, politics, and gender for many publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vox, Insider, USA Today, Time, and Newsweek. She was a national magazine award finalist, a TED resident, an Aspen Ideas Festival fellow, and a grantee of the International Women's Media Foundation. She produced the award-winning Vice News documentary “Misconception,” and gave a TED talk called “What to Expect Post-Expecting.” Dr. Kate and Allison talk about how modern medicine should make pregnancy and childbirth safer for all. But in Allison's book Birth Control, she reveals how women are controlled, traumatized, injured, and even killed because of the traditionalist practices of medical professionals and hospitals. They talk about the dangerous misogyny that permeates pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood in our hospitals. Kate and Allison also talk about how doctors were trained by midwives and then stole control of birth from them in the 19th century. Allison touches on specific birthing practices that are steamrolling women by a male-dominated medical establishment that has everyone convinced that birthing bodies are inherently flawed and that every pregnancy is a crisis that it alone can “solve.” Misogyny and racism, not scientific evidence and support, shape the overwhelming majority of America's four million annual births. Drawing on extensive reporting, expert interviews, an original survey of 1,300 mothers, and her own personal experiences, Yarrow documents in her book how modern maternal health care is insidiously, purposefully designed to take power from women to the detriment of their physical and mental health—not just during labor, but for years after. She shares this in her conversation with Dr. Kate and discusses better ways this can be handled They also talk about a new post-partum depression drug and so much more. Website: www.modernintimacy.com Email your questions to: question@getnakedpodcast.com Stay Connected with Dr. Kate: IG: https://www.instagram.com/themodernintimacy/ https://www.instagram.com/drkatebalestrieri/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/drkatebalestrieri/ https://www.tiktok.com/modernintimacy/ SPONSORS: OMG YES: Go to www.OMGYES.com/GETNAKED for a special discount BETTERHELP: Visit www.BetterHelp.com/GetNaked today to get 10% off your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Don't tell ANY of these ladies your credit card number, because they'll never forget it! This. is. THE 40 Elephants gang, a gang of clever ladies that had boutiques all over London quaking in their boots. Join us today for an exciting tale that includes gangsters such as Alice Diamond and Babyface Maggie! Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Elephants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Diamond https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/remembering-forty-elephants-gang-cunning-brutality https://thecrimewire.com/institutional/The-Most-Notorious-All-Women-Criminal-Gang-in-History https://www.dannydutch.com/post/meet-the-forty-elephants-the-all-girl-gang-from-london https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QZEnyZyYo4 https://www.wondriumdaily.com/criminal-secret-society-the-story-of-forty-elephants/ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/dec/27/girl-gang-london-underworld https://www.historicmysteries.com/40-elephants/ https://www.avclub.com/meet-the-female-shoplifting-gang-who-ruled-london-s-wes-1842528335 https://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/female-gang-terrorised-london-200-20306560 https://www.cambridgeartstheatre.com/news/how-be-proper-victorian-lady-10-ridiculous-rules-women-1800s https://www.almanac.com/victorian-era-etiquette-and-manners https://stmuscholars.org/who-says-a-woman-cant-be-gangsta-alice-diamond-and-the-forty-elephants/ https://www.thesocialhistorian.com/victorian-etiquette/ Image Credits: Found through Wikimedia Commons, pulled from Bitch Media's webpage on the 40 elephants gang. Link: https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/remembering-forty-elephants-gang-cunning-brutality
Dr. Alyxandra Vesey is an assistant professor in Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. Her research focuses on the intersection between gender, music culture, labor, and media industries. She is currently finishing a book (that she tells us all about) related to the identity politics surrounding musicians' labor in the television industry during the post-network era. She also does research on the ideologies of gender that circulate within merchandising and endorsement work in the recording industry. Her work has been published in Television and New Media, Feminist Media Studies, Popular Music and Society, Cinema Journal, Saturday Night Live and American TV and Emergent Feminisms and the Challenge to Postfeminist Media Culture. She is also a long-time contributor to Bitch Media and the founder of the blog Feminist Music Geek. This episode is so much fun as we dive a little deeper into the music industry and learn more about the interplay between gender, the politics of gender, and commodification. To follow us on Twitter: @ICIRAlabama
Why did I want to talk with Erin Khar the Author of Strung Out: One Last Hit & Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me? Erin is greatly respected for her work as a journalist, author, addiction recovery advocate, and educator. Erin and I discuss perspectives on Harm Reduction, as well as the lack of government funding and policies to combat the alarming rate of overdose deaths in the United States. We also dig into various aspects of her autobiography, and the power of sharing our stories with others. Erin Khar is an author and advocate known for her writing on addiction, recovery, mental health, parenting, and relationships. Erin knows first-hand the challenges of addiction recovery and has established herself as a respected voice in the national conversation about the overdose epidemic. Strung Out, Erin's debut memoir, appeared on most anticipated lists from Apple Books, Goodreads, SELF, The Rumpus, Bitch Media, and others. The New York Times writes, "Khar's buoyant writing doesn't get mired in her dark subject matter. There is an honesty here that can only come from, to put it in the language of 12-step programs, a 'searching, and fearless moral inventory.' She needed to tell this story; the rest of the country needs to listen.” She writes the weekly advice column, Ask Erin on Substack, and her personal essays have appeared in SELF, Marie Claire, Salon, The Times of London Sunday Magazine, HuffPost, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, and others. Erin lives in New York City. When she's not writing, she's probably watching Beverly Hills, 90210. This is Erin Khar in her own words on Knockin' Doorz Down. For 51FIFTY use the discount code KDD20 for 20% off! https://51fiftyltm.com/ For more information on Carlos Vieira's autobiography Knockin' Doorz Down, the Carlos Vieira Foundation, the Race 2B Drug-Free, Race to End the Stigma, and Race For Autism programs visit: https://www.carlosvieirafoundation.org/ For more on Erin Khar and her book https://www.erinkhar.com/
Follow, subscribe, rate, review, and SHARE this episode! If you prefer watching episodes, you can now do that on YouTube! And don't forget to check out my SubStack where we talk about all the things we're not supposed to talk about. Learn more at www.alissaalter.com Follow along on IG @alissaalter As always I've got your back, I've got your front, and I've got your undercarriage. If you haven't read Erin's memoir Strung Out, it's not too late! Erin paints the human picture of addiction and how our assumptions and judgment of addicts are influenced by you guess it, the patriarchy, and not humanity. In this episode… We are all learning from our mistakes, always. As children and as adults Addiction is tied to emotional regulation. The best thing we can do to help future generations avoid addiction is self-efficacy Addicts are human beings struggling with the human experience Boundaries vs tough love. We all need boundaries with everyone, but that doesn't mean excommunication… Erin Khar is an author and advocate known for her writing on addiction, recovery, mental health, parenting, and relationships. Erin knows first-hand the challenges of addiction recovery. At just 13, she began a 15-year struggle with heroin addiction. With 19 years of recovery, she has established herself as a respected voice in the national conversation about the overdose epidemic. Erin's debut memoir, Strung Out , appeared on most anticipated lists from Apple Books, Goodreads, SELF, The Rumpus, Bitch Media, and others. Of the book, The New York Times writes, "Khar's buoyant writing doesn't get mired in her dark subject matter. There is an honesty here that can only come from, to put it in the language of 12-step programs, a 'searching and fearless moral inventory.' This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen.” She writes the popular weekly advice column on Substack, Ask Erin, and her personal essays have appeared in SELF, Marie Claire, Salon, The Times of London Sunday Magazine, HuffPost, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, and others. She lives in New York City. Learn more at www.erinkhar.com and on IG @ErinKhar
Erin Khar is an author and advocate known for her writing on addiction, recovery, mental health, parenting, and relationships. Erin knows first-hand the challenges of addiction recovery and has established herself as a respected voice in the national conversation about the overdose epidemic. Erin's debut memoir, Strung Out , appeared on most anticipated lists from Apple Books, Goodreads, SELF, The Rumpus, Bitch Media, and others. Of the book, The New York Times writes, "Khar's buoyant writing doesn't get mired in her dark subject matter. There is an honesty here that can only come from, to put it in the language of 12-step programs, a 'searching and fearless moral inventory.' This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen.” She writes the weekly advice column, Ask Erin, on Substack, and her personal essays have appeared in SELF, Marie Claire, Salon, The Times of London Sunday Magazine, HuffPost, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, and others. She lives in New York City. On this episode we talk about recovery modalities outside of twelve step models, benevolence for future self that is the act of journal keeping, horses, and very briefly (TW) childhood sexual trauma. Erin was a pleasure to talk to, we hope you love this episode! Follow us at @fuckyeahsobersex on instagram or at @sobersexpodcast on twitter!
Don't mind us. We just want a short but official intro episode that we can share across streaming platforms. We are Marsha's Plate, a progressive podcast hosted by three trans people of color. We launched in October of 2017 in response to the 2016 election. We didn't like how the media was covering the trans narrative by focusing just on the bathroom bills popping up all across the country. We wanted to create a show, named after the pioneer Black trans baddie Marsha P. Johnson, that shared the more pressing disparities of the trans community but also the victories and joys of our lives. Our hosts are millennials that represent the feminine and masculine sides of the trans experience. We have been featured on Spotify, ABC, The Root, Stanford, Bitch Media, Aljazeera, World Pride NYC, and at SXSW twice. Our creator and producer Diamond Stylz is a 25-year vet trans activist. She is the executive director of Black Trans Women Inc and a board member of Transfaith. Mia Mix is a Houston socialite and sex worker. LJ aka Jonathan is a black genderqueer trans guy from Milwaukee living in Seattle. We discuss pop-culture current events, sex, relationship, and gender every week. Diamond brings a wide range of experience and formal education and history. Mia Mix makes it hot by bringing humor and Southern belle spirit to every conversation. LJ aka Jonathan brings the masculine, genderqueer trans guy next door perspective. We know that everybody is not invited to the cookout and that this is for us by us. People can use our show as a resource to learn passively with force your trans friend to always have to do the labor of educating you. It is so easy and non-invasive. You tune in, just listen, and learn.BOOM!!! That's easy. We introduce our audience to the news with deeper trans insights and seasoned or emerging trans community leaders throughout the country. This is important work because it archives the current trans movement, spotlights activists doing amazing work, and highlights the news that impacts trans people's lives around the globe which is a narrative ignored by mainstream news outlets. #marshasplate #girlslikeus #boyslikeus #transgender #podcast #podsincolor #podernfamily #transisbeautiful #houston #lgbt #transmen #transwomen #blackfeminism #trans101 #trans #blacktranswomen #blacktransmen #houstonpride #indiepodcast #blacktranslivesmatter #lgbtqia #lgbtq #genderidentity #pride #blackgirlmagic #blackboyjoy #podcast
Most of us would love to have a perfect memory, but we often fall far short of this aspiration. Who hasn't forgotten someone's name right after being introduced, or failed to remember where you left your car in the parking lot? Our memories are rarely as reliable as we'd like them to be. And more so, our memories – even some of our most formative ones – can alter over time. Like a game of telephone, each time we return to a memory it can change ever so slightly until the story in our mind — while it may reflect a personal truth — is suddenly far from the facts of the lived reality. Memory is ephemeral, ever-shifting, and foundational to the ways we understand our worlds and ourselves. In this episode, we explore the phenomena of memory with two outstanding guests -- Emilly Prado and an Anonymous Contributor -- discussing and exploring the influence of patriarchy along the way. Emilly Giselle Prado (she/her) is a writer, DJ, and educator living in Portland, Oregon with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Michoacán, Mexico. As an award-winning multimedia journalist, Emilly spent half a decade independently reporting on a wide range of topics, most often centered on amplifying the voices and experiences of people from historically marginalized communities. Her writing and photographs have been published widely, appearing in more than 30 publications including NPR, Marie Claire, Bitch Media, Eater, Oxygen, The Oregonian, Remezcla, and Travel Oregon. Emilly is the author of Funeral for Flaca, a memoir-in-essays shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Book Award and called, “Utterly vulnerable, bold, and unique,” by Ms. Magazine. She is also the author of Examining Assimilation, a youth non-fiction title at the intersections of identity and U.S. history. Emilly is a Tin House and Las Dos Brujas Workshop alumna, Blackburn Fellow and MFA Candidate at Randolph College, and a co-founder of Portland in Color. She moonlights as DJ Mami Miami with Noche Libre, the Latinx DJ collective she co-founded in 2017.
What a treat! In this episode, author and recovering bluebottle Cory McCarthy joined us to talk about research holes from his latest novel Man O'War, a coming-of-age YA about a trans swimmer growing up near Sea Planet, a marine life theme park in small-town Ohio. I fully expected us to mostly talk about sea creatures, and then we had a heart-to-heart about the nuances of writing queer YA, parallels between growing up trans and animals in captivity, and who coming out is really for (*cough dinosaurs cough*). But don't worry—there are still sea creature facts! Cory gave us tidbits about the inherent plurality of Portuguese man o' war, upsetting shark sex, and joyful penguin interactions, and more. Bonus game: count the times Cory and I laugh semi-maniacally about queer kidlit writer stuff, or the amount of times I say “that's so real.” Remember, kids: it's not that it gets better; it's that straight people get less important. SHOW NOTES: The New York Times article “Boys Don't Cry' 20 Years Later: For Trans Men, a Divisive Legacy” gives an overview of the many complex responses to this movie. I personally like the piece “Fighting to Thrive: Reflecting on Boys Don't Cry 20 Years Later” by William Horn on Bitch Media, which reminds us that the project of the movie is educating straight, cis people, and was not necessarily made for queer and trans people. Here's a quote from Horn: “Boys Don't Cry is powerful, but it's traumatizing. The movie is intentionally designed that way: It pulls you into Brandon's story so that you feel his fear and his pain. Good movies do that, and Boys Don't Cry remains important viewing for a cis audience. For people like me, it's a fear and pain that we already innately know.” The other trans YA novels I mentioned (published before 2011) were Parrotfish by Ellen Wittlinger and Luna by Julie Anne Peters. The two documentaries Cory mentioned are Blackfish and My Octopus Teacher. I asked Cory where he got his sea creature facts. He said many of them were from the science tomes of his youth, but he is also a lifelong fan of National Geographic for inspiring random research holes to go topple down into. [pic of preorder perk] From “Jean-Michel Basquiat's Enduring Fame: Why the '80s Art Star Remains Relevant Now” by Tessa Soloman in ARTNews: Jean-Michel Basquiat was a Neo-Expressionist artist who was famous in the 1980s, before dying of a heroin overdose in 1988 at 27 years old. He started as a graffiti artist, spray-painting walls around SoHo and the East Village with his friend Al Diaz, under the pseudonym SAMO, short for “same old shit.” He blew up after displaying work at a “New York/New Wave” show at P.S. 1, when viewers called him the new Rauschenberg.” His iconic works include Dustheads (1982), a seven-foot-tall canvas featuring two vibrantly colored, chaotic figures against a black background, and the sculptural painting Ten Punching Bags, a collaboration with Andy Warhol. The article Leah sent me was also from ARTNews, titled “The FBI Seized 25 Contested Basquiat Paintings from the Orlando Museum of Art.” I can't really summarize it because it seems to deal with issues of authentication and theft specific to the high art world. But I'm glad it lead me to learn a bit about Basquiat! Visit the episode page on our website for the pics I promised: www.researchholepodcast.com/episodes/man-owar-and-sea-creature-facts-with-cory-mccarthy-episode-24 You can learn more about Cory McCarthy by following them on instagram at @cory__mccarthy or visiting their website https://onceandfuturestories.com/. Follow me on instagram @val.howlett or support me on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/valhowlett for bonus clips, extras, and more.
Today's international film pick is both the first film ever shot in Saudi Arabia and the first ever film made by a Saudi woman, director Haifaa al-Mansour's Wadjda. We talk about the film's symbolism and imagery, its genius use of American pop culture, and the big feelings we felt watching this story of a young girl fighting to express herself in a place that wants her to stay quiet. Read the Hollywood Reporter article we referenced, and this great review from Bitch Media. Join us all summer for the international films we've been meaning to see! And follow on Instagram for more content and our Summer Book Club picks! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pop-dna-podcast/message
Join Chris in conversation with Khalisa Rae, author of Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat (Red Hen Press), about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry! -- Khalisa Rae is an award-winning multi-hyphenate poet, educator, and journalist based in Durham, NC. She is best known for her community activism and nonprofit management as the co-founder of Poet.she (Greensboro), the Invisibility Project, and Athenian Press- QPOC writer's collective, resource center, and bookstore in Wilmington, NC. As a former English professor and public school teaching artist, Khalisa's passion lies in uplifting women and youth through community engagement. She has served as an outreach and program director for various nonprofits, as well as a teaching artist, and is always looking for a way to give back and serve as a mentor. Her first chapbook, Real Girls Have Real Problems, was published in 2012 by Jacar Press and later adapted into a sold-out play called, “The Seven Deadly Sins of Being a Woman” which was accompanied by a podcast. Her early work with stage performance and slam poetry landed her on stage at the National Poetry Slam, Women of the World Poetry Slam, Individual World Poetry Slam, and Southern Fried Regional Poetry Slam, among others. During her time as Outreach Director of the YWCA, Khalisa completed her MFA at Queens University of Charlotte where she studied under renowned authors, Claudia Rankine and Ada Limon. There she wrote Outside the Canon– a thesis dissertation on the history of spoken word and its isolation from the literary canon as a result of systematic racism. Currently, Khalisa is a 4-time Best of the Net nominee, multi-Pushcart Prize nominee, and the author of the 2021 debut collection, Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat, from Red Hen Press. Khalisa's performance poetry has led her to speak in front of thousands over the course of her career. She is a seasoned conference panelist and speaker, and the founder and creator of #PublishingPaidMe BIPOC Writers/Editors Panel at the AWP conference, as well as annual speaker at the SEWSA Women's Conference. Notably, she is the former Gen Z Culture Editor of Blavity News and former Managing Equity and Inclusion Editor of Carve Magazine. As a champion for Black queer narratives, Khalisa's articles appear in Fodor's, Autostraddle, Vogue, Catapult, LitHub, Bitch Media, Black Femme Collective, Body.com, NBC-BLK, and others. Her work also appears in Electric Lit, Southern Humanities Review, Pinch, Tishman Review, Frontier Poetry, Rust & Moth, PANK, HOBART, among countless others. Poetry has led Khalisa to be a Watering Hole Fellow, Frost Place Fellow, Winter Tangerine Fellow, among other residencies and fellowships. Currently, Khalisa serves as Senior Writer at Jezebel, Assistant Editor of Glass Poetry, and co-founder of Think in Ink and the WOC Speak reading series. You can also find her teaching Spring 2022 at Catapult Classes. Her YA novel in verse, Unlearning Eden, is forthcoming in 2023. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Conspiracy theorists are everywhere and unfortunately, just because you believe something can't happen before your talents may lack in a certain area that you do not believe it to do true- there in lines the unnecessary duo of Ableism & Insecurities. Last week's #womentowatch episode took a deeper dive into the remarkable woman that Helen Keller was- breaking down all your accomplishments, struggles and her achievements throughout her years as a deafblind individual. And interestingly enough, some people think she's fake, so I am here to help educate you along with my friends (and resources) below to debunk babes, let's go. Today's Episode topic, research and resources (Thank You so Much for the education): The Weddington Witness: TikTok Conspiracies doubting the achievemants of Helen Keller: https://weddingtonwitness.com/2139/opinions/tiktok-conspiracy-doubts-the-achievements-of-helen-keller/ Daily Moth/ Deaf News with ASL Captions I was reading: https://www.dailymoth.com/blog/viral-tiktok-video-helen-keller-did-not-exist @krunk19 viral video: https://www.tiktok.com/@krunk19/video/6908910170391235846?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1 Rethinking Schools article 'The Truth about Helen Keller' in childrens' books: https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/the-truth-about-helen-keller/ Bitch Media, Helen Keller & Ableism: https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/helen-keller-conspiracy-theories-ableism Perkins School for the Blind article 'Doubting Helen Keller We Go From Here': https://www.perkins.org/doubting-helen-keller-where-we-go-from-here/
I recently took a break from listening to my boo Hozier so much. I had started feeling self-conscious about how often I was listening to him, and how I felt like I knew him even though we had never met. Today's guest knows all about what happens when fandom can get a little extra, and we got into all the good and bad parts of the parasocial relationship that happens between artists and their audiences. Indulgence Nichole recommends being a digital tourist! Guest Vanessa Willoughby is an editor and writer. Her bylines include but are not limited to Bitch Media, the New York Times, and BookPage. Find Us Online - Twitter: @ThisIsGoodPod - Instagram: @ThisIsGoodPod - Merch: thisisgoodpod.com/merch - Patreon: thisisgoodpod.com/patreon - Nichole: @tnwhiskeywoman - Multitude: @MultitudeShows - Email: thisisgoodpod@gmail.com Production - Producer: Eric Silver - Editor: Mischa Stanton - Executive Producers: Amanda McLoughlin and Nichole Perkins - Theme Music: Donwill - Artwork: Jessica E. Boyd About The Show Nichole Perkins wants people to stop feeling bad about feeling good, and This Is Good For You lets you know you are never alone in what you like. Every episode, Nichole explores something that people love—whether it's needlepoint, watching bad movies with friends, or cowgirl exercise classes—and asks experts and devotees why it makes them happy. She ends each show with an Indulgence: a recommendation that listeners can enjoy with no remorse. There's no such thing as a guilty pleasure when you learn to love it freely! To find out what's good for you, listen to new episodes every other Friday.
On this week's episode of The Waves, we're reflecting on the impact of Bitch Media, which started as a zine in the 90s, and grew into a print publication and website . Slate staff writer Heather Schwedel is joined by Bitch co-founder Andi Zeisler to talk about the history of Bitch. Then, they explore why feminist media is struggling, despite maybe being more necessary than ever. In Slate Plus: Is asking if things are feminist, feminist? Recommendations: Heather: Ghosts by Dolly Alderton Andi: Time Zone J by Julie Doucet Mentioned in the Show: “Bitch and the End of Independent Feminist Media” by Jude Ellison S. Doyle Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Shannon Palus and Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this week's episode of The Waves, we're reflecting on the impact of Bitch Media, which started as a zine in the 90s, and grew into a print publication and website . Slate staff writer Heather Schwedel is joined by Bitch co-founder Andi Zeisler to talk about the history of Bitch. Then, they explore why feminist media is struggling, despite maybe being more necessary than ever. In Slate Plus: Is asking if things are feminist, feminist? Recommendations: Heather: Ghosts by Dolly Alderton Andi: Time Zone J by Julie Doucet Mentioned in the Show: “Bitch and the End of Independent Feminist Media” by Jude Ellison S. Doyle Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Shannon Palus and Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this week's episode of The Waves, we're reflecting on the impact of Bitch Media, which started as a zine in the 90s, and grew into a print publication and website . Slate staff writer Heather Schwedel is joined by Bitch co-founder Andi Zeisler to talk about the history of Bitch. Then, they explore why feminist media is struggling, despite maybe being more necessary than ever. In Slate Plus: Is asking if things are feminist, feminist? Recommendations: Heather: Ghosts by Dolly Alderton Andi: Time Zone J by Julie Doucet Mentioned in the Show: “Bitch and the End of Independent Feminist Media” by Jude Ellison S. Doyle Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Shannon Palus and Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this week's episode of The Waves, we're reflecting on the impact of Bitch Media, which started as a zine in the 90s, and grew into a print publication and website . Slate staff writer Heather Schwedel is joined by Bitch co-founder Andi Zeisler to talk about the history of Bitch. Then, they explore why feminist media is struggling, despite maybe being more necessary than ever. In Slate Plus: Is asking if things are feminist, feminist? Recommendations: Heather: Ghosts by Dolly Alderton Andi: Time Zone J by Julie Doucet Mentioned in the Show: “Bitch and the End of Independent Feminist Media” by Jude Ellison S. Doyle Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Shannon Palus and Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this week's episode, Mary chats with Addissyn House an alumni from the class of 2022. They discuss how she landed her internship at Bitch Media, a non-profit journalism organization with a feminist slant. They also talk about how she adapted to interning remotely, some of the challenges she faced and how she overcame them. Finally, she gives some advice for other students who might be looking to find an internship focused on developing their writing skills. Don't forget to check out Career-ish Uncut on our YouTube channel for the full, unedited version of this interview. ___ Intro: Never Forget - ROJJ (Feat. Christopher Simms) Bumper: Get Out of My Way - Tape Machine Outro: Friendshippers - DayFox Produced by the Center for Career and Professional Development at Kalamazoo College ___ Instagram: @kzooccpd | Twitter: @kzooccpd | youtube.com/kzooccpd | facebook.com/kzooccpd
I say goodbye to feminist media organization Bitch Media which closed down after 26 years of bad ass takes on pop culture. Where are the alternative feminist media outlets these days? Let's look at some feminist manifestos and zines over the past few decades to find out! --------------------SourcesBitch Media Bitch ManifestoTobi Vail "Jigsaw" Courtney Love "Bad Like Me" --------------------Music"Terrorist" by Heavens to Betsy Provided to YouTube by Kill Rock StarsCalculated℗ Kill Rock StarsReleased on: 2012-10-19Auto-generated by YouTube.https://youtu.be/vjso84Fwpos --------------------Find Kinda Kyle on:InstagramTikTok--------------------Subscribe to the Saddergay newsletter here!
This month Bryan, Christina, and Jules take a break from talking about the hostile legislation queer and trans people are fighting against to talk about what they're fighting for. Brooklyn kindergarten teacher Eliza Cutler joins the hosts to share what it looks like when teachers are free to speak about LGBTQ lives in the classroom. Then they discuss the queer family drama at the heart of the new genre-bending, multiverse-hopping film Everything Everywhere All at Once. (NOTE: If you don't want to hear spoilers for Everything Everywhere All at Once, you can jump from the 33-minute mark to the 59-minute point, but come back after you've seen the movie. You don't want to miss this conversation.) Items discussed in the show: Robbie Pierce's Twitter thread about the homophobic harassment his family endured while riding Amtrak Queers responding to homophobic legislation with … merch The long life and sad demise of Bitch Media. They She He Me: Free to Be, by Maya Christina Gonzalez and Matthew SG Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, by Christine Baldacchino and Isabelle Malenfant Jacob's New Dress, by Sarah and Ian Hoffman and Chris Cage Introducing Teddy, by Jessica Walton and Dougal MacPherson Pugdog, by Andrea U'Ren “Everything Everywhere All at Once Is a Queer Masterpiece of Colossa Sincerity,” by Drew Gregory, in Autostraddle “Everything Everywhere All at Once Is an Emotional Gut Punch About Queer Erasure, Acceptance,” by Patrick Ryan, in USA Today “This One Stale Joke Won't Let Everything Everywhere All at Once Be Great,” by Kyle Turner, in W “On Being Trans and Watching Everything Everywhere All at Once,” by Linda Codega, in Gizmodo Gay Agenda Christina: “Sex, Love, and Art in the Suburbs,” by Garth Greenwell, in Esquire Bryan: “This Beach in Mexico Is an L.G.B.T.Q. Haven. But Can It Last?” by Oscar Lopez and Lisette Poole, in the New York Times Jules: Manhunt, by Gretchen Felker-Martin This podcast was produced by June Thomas. Please send feedback, topic ideas, and advice questions to outwardpodcast@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This month Bryan, Christina, and Jules take a break from talking about the hostile legislation queer and trans people are fighting against to talk about what they're fighting for. Brooklyn kindergarten teacher Eliza Cutler joins the hosts to share what it looks like when teachers are free to speak about LGBTQ lives in the classroom. Then they discuss the queer family drama at the heart of the new genre-bending, multiverse-hopping film Everything Everywhere All at Once. (NOTE: If you don't want to hear spoilers for Everything Everywhere All at Once, you can jump from the 33-minute mark to the 59-minute point, but come back after you've seen the movie. You don't want to miss this conversation.) Items discussed in the show: Robbie Pierce's Twitter thread about the homophobic harassment his family endured while riding Amtrak Queers responding to homophobic legislation with … merch The long life and sad demise of Bitch Media. They She He Me: Free to Be, by Maya Christina Gonzalez and Matthew SG Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, by Christine Baldacchino and Isabelle Malenfant Jacob's New Dress, by Sarah and Ian Hoffman and Chris Cage Introducing Teddy, by Jessica Walton and Dougal MacPherson Pugdog, by Andrea U'Ren “Everything Everywhere All at Once Is a Queer Masterpiece of Colossa Sincerity,” by Drew Gregory, in Autostraddle “Everything Everywhere All at Once Is an Emotional Gut Punch About Queer Erasure, Acceptance,” by Patrick Ryan, in USA Today “This One Stale Joke Won't Let Everything Everywhere All at Once Be Great,” by Kyle Turner, in W “On Being Trans and Watching Everything Everywhere All at Once,” by Linda Codega, in Gizmodo Gay Agenda Christina: “Sex, Love, and Art in the Suburbs,” by Garth Greenwell, in Esquire Bryan: “This Beach in Mexico Is an L.G.B.T.Q. Haven. But Can It Last?” by Oscar Lopez and Lisette Poole, in the New York Times Jules: Manhunt, by Gretchen Felker-Martin This podcast was produced by June Thomas. Please send feedback, topic ideas, and advice questions to outwardpodcast@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This month Bryan, Christina, and Jules take a break from talking about the hostile legislation queer and trans people are fighting against to talk about what they're fighting for. Brooklyn kindergarten teacher Eliza Cutler joins the hosts to share what it looks like when teachers are free to speak about LGBTQ lives in the classroom. Then they discuss the queer family drama at the heart of the new genre-bending, multiverse-hopping film Everything Everywhere All at Once. (NOTE: If you don't want to hear spoilers for Everything Everywhere All at Once, you can jump from the 33-minute mark to the 59-minute point, but come back after you've seen the movie. You don't want to miss this conversation.) Items discussed in the show: Robbie Pierce's Twitter thread about the homophobic harassment his family endured while riding Amtrak Queers responding to homophobic legislation with … merch The long life and sad demise of Bitch Media. They She He Me: Free to Be, by Maya Christina Gonzalez and Matthew SG Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress, by Christine Baldacchino and Isabelle Malenfant Jacob's New Dress, by Sarah and Ian Hoffman and Chris Cage Introducing Teddy, by Jessica Walton and Dougal MacPherson Pugdog, by Andrea U'Ren “Everything Everywhere All at Once Is a Queer Masterpiece of Colossa Sincerity,” by Drew Gregory, in Autostraddle “Everything Everywhere All at Once Is an Emotional Gut Punch About Queer Erasure, Acceptance,” by Patrick Ryan, in USA Today “This One Stale Joke Won't Let Everything Everywhere All at Once Be Great,” by Kyle Turner, in W “On Being Trans and Watching Everything Everywhere All at Once,” by Linda Codega, in Gizmodo Gay Agenda Christina: “Sex, Love, and Art in the Suburbs,” by Garth Greenwell, in Esquire Bryan: “This Beach in Mexico Is an L.G.B.T.Q. Haven. But Can It Last?” by Oscar Lopez and Lisette Poole, in the New York Times Jules: Manhunt, by Gretchen Felker-Martin This podcast was produced by June Thomas. Please send feedback, topic ideas, and advice questions to outwardpodcast@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
To say a lot has changed in the media landscape since the late 1990s would be an understatement. That's when a small feminist zine began publishing in San Francisco. Soon it became a nonprofit, publishing the magazine “Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture.” In 2007, Bitch Media relocated to Portland, a move cofounder Andi Zeisler said landed it “at the right place at the right time.” The organization expanded online and started producing podcasts and other digital content. But with the pandemic and the pressures of making an independent media nonprofit financially sustainable, Zeisler says the decision to close was simply one that had to be made. She joins us to talk about the last 25 years as a feminist media organization and her take on the role of independent publications today.
[Originally released Oct 2017] Zoe Samudzi is a black feminist writer whose work has appeared in a number of spaces including The New Inquiry, Warscapes, Truthout, ROAR Magazine, Teen Vogue,BGD, Bitch Media, and Verso, among others. She is also a member of the 2017/18 Public Imagination cohort of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Fellows Program, and she is a member of the Black Aesthetic, an Oakland-based group and film series exploring the multitudes and diversities of black imagination and creativity. She is presently a Sociology PhD student at the University of California, San Francisco in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences where academic interests include biomedicalization theory, productions of race and gender, and transgender health. She is a recipient of the 2016-17 Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship. Her dissertation "'I don't believe I should be treated like a second citizen by anybody': Narratives of agency and exclusion amongst male and transgender female sex workers in Cape Town, South Africa" engages hegemonic gender constructs in South Africa as they affect identity construction and health of transgender women and cisgender men in sex work. Zoe sits down with Brett to apply critical race theory to our current US society. Topics Include: The Anarchism of Blackness, Double Consciousness, Zoe's experiences growing up as a black girl in the Midwest, the failures of white liberalism and the democratic party, Trump, racist and sexist tropes in film, the White Gaze, and much more! Here is Zoe's website: http://www.zoesamudzi.com/ Outro: "African Son" (featuring Chindo Man, Songa, Wise Man, Mic Crenshaw. Recorded at Watengwa Studios, Kijenge, Tanzania as part of the Afrikan Hiphop Caravan 2015) Support Rev Left Radio: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio
This weeks guest is Aruni Kashyap. Aruni is the author of His Father's Disease: Stories and the novel The House With a Thousand Stories. Along with editing a collection of stories called How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency: Fifteen Tales from Assam, he has also translated two novels from Assamese to English, published by Zubaan Books and Penguin Random House. Winner of the Arts Lab Faculty Fellowship from the Willson Centre for the Humanities, and the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh, his poetry collection, There is No Good Time for Bad News was a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry. His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Catapult, Bitch Media, The Boston Review, Electric Literature, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from Northeast, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, The Guardian UK, and others. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, Athens. He also writes in Assamese and is the author of a novel called Noikhon Etia Duroit, and three novellas.
Aditi Mayer, a sustainable fashion and labor rights activist, reminds us that "a return to Indigenous wisdom is the first step towards decolonization" (Green Dreamer podcast, Episode 253). We get a sense of what this "return to Indigenous wisdom" looks like, as public health researcher Abaki Beck shares her journey of decolonization in this episode. A member of the Blackfeet and Red River Metis, Beck calls us to recognize Native knowledge as legitimate and to share power (not just space) with Native people. In so doing, she offers a key tenant of decolonization: that the solutions to systemic oppression are found in communities most harmed by those systems. Put another way, Native communities don't hold the problems; they hold the solutions.Resources:Abaki Beck's Website (learn more about her here!)"Hey Nicki Minaj, Pocahontas was a rape survivor, not a sex symbol," (Bitch Media's top read story in 2017)As We Have Always Done by Leanne Simpson
In the first episode of our Consent & Coercion 101 series, we dive deep into the topic of Mardi's PhD thesis: everyday coercion – that is, the way that sexual coercion has been normalised in heterosexual sex. Tune in as we explore sexual coercion broadly, the tactics that people (mainly blokes) use to turn a ‘no' into a ‘yes', the connection between coercion and rape, and some of the best bits of Mardi's PhD. If this episode brings anything up for you, you can contact 1800RESPECT or check out the support services here: https://bit.ly/3tcehNV Babes, we'd love if you could subscribe to this podcast and follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sexandconsent/ Resources Popaganda Podcast by Bitch Media: https://www.bitchmedia.org/feminist-podcasts/popaganda Wilson, Mardi, 2021, 'Everyday Coercion: An Exploration of Young Adults' Negotiations of Heterosexual Sex, Consent and Intimacy', PhD Thesis, Griffith University, Australia
Britni de la Cretaz is a freelance writer who focuses on the intersection of sports and gender. They are the former sports columnist for Longreads and for Bitch Media. Their work has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, espnW, Vogue, The Washington Post, Teen Vogue, The Ringer, Bleacher Report, The Atlantic, and more. Their work on racism in Boston sports media received the 2017 Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Journalism from the Transformative Culture Project, and that story was also a Notable Story in the 2018 Best American Sports Writing. Their writing on the queer history of women's baseball for Narratively was nominated for a prestigious baseball writing award, the 2019SABR Analytics Research Award. Lyndsey D'Arcangelo writes about women's college basketball and the WNBA forThe Athletic. Her articles, columns and profiles on female/LGBTQ+ athletes have previously appeared in The Ringer, Deadspin, espnW/ESPN, TeenVogue, The Buffalo News, The Huffington Post, NBC OUT and more. She received a Notable Mention in the 2018 BestAmerican Sports Writing anthology for her story, “My Father, Trump and The Buffalo Bills.” Lyndsey lives in Buffalo, NY. Britni and Lyndsey joined us to discuss their new book, HAIL MARY: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League. In their captivating book, they share the little-known, yet utterly fascinating story of the rise and fall of the National Women's Football League (NWFL), told through the players whose spirit, rivalries, and tenacity carried the league and furthered the legacy of women in sports. ___ Fluffy by Smith The Mister https://smiththemister.bandcamp.com Smith The Mister https://bit.ly/Smith-The-Mister-YT Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/stm-fluffy Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/OM9G3nyLT_w --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thebloompod/support
In the midst of the continued fallout from Dave Chapelle's transphobic jokes from his Netflix comedy special, Hiba and our guest co-host Dennis are here to break it all down – and have the important conversation around narrative, free speech, and the link to potential hate speech/ actions. Social justice leader and media critic Dr. John Paul Higgs (they/them) joins us to talk about their article “Why Netflix Deserves Some of the Heat for Dave Chapelle's Transphobic Comments.” Throughout the conversation Dr. Higgins touches on important topics such as the erasure of Black trans people, the damaging narratives and tropes that are still being leveled against trans, queer, and non-binary folk, and “real” accountability versus “cancel culture.” Update: Chevon will return from her sabbatical and will be on the next episode of Momentum –– a big thank you to Dennis for filling in! Reminder: Race Forward's 40th Anniversary Celebration is taking place November 18th! RSVP for our special virtual gala celebrating 40 years of catalyzing the racial justice movement, streaming on Facebook and YouTube Live. Make sure to tune in for an evening of memorable historic highlights, humor, and cultural performances!RSVP: https://bit.ly/RaceForward40 Resources (by order of mention) Netflix Staff Raised Concerns About Chappelle Special Before Its Release (via Bloomberg) https://bloom.bg/3EzlpHY Why Netflix Deserves Some of the Heat for Dave Chapelle's Transphobic Comments (via Bitch Media) https://bit.ly/3EGKbpA Terra Fields' Tweets on Netflix/ “The Closer”https://bit.ly/3nVUek9 Netflix Employee Walkout Grows Tense as Trans Rights Protesters Clash With Dave Chappelle Supporters (via Variety) https://bit.ly/3GEQT1n Dave Chappelle says he'll meet with transgender critics, but he's 'not bending to anybody's demands' (via CNN)https://cnn.it/3GNuIpw Dr. John Paul Higgins (They/Them) Official Website www.doctorjonpaul.com Twitterwww.twitter.com/doctorjonpaul Instagram www.instagram.com/doctorjonpaul About Race Forward: Race Forward catalyzes movement building for racial justice. In partnership with communities, organizations, and sectors, we build strategies to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture. Race Forward imagines a just, multiracial, democratic society, free from oppression and exploitation, in which people of color thrive with power and purpose. Follow Race Forward on social media Follow us on Facebook:www.facebook.com/raceforward Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/raceforward Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/raceforward Building Racial Equity (BRE) Trainings www.raceforward.org/trainings Subscribe to our newsletter:www.raceforward.org/subscribe Executive Producers: Hendel Leiva, Cheryl Cato Blakemore Associate Producer/ Editor: Kendy Solis
Lindsay Merbaum (she/her) is a queer feminist author and high priestess of home mixology. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, she earned her MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, where she was a recipient of the Himan Brown Award. Her award-nominated short fiction has appeared in PANK, Anomalous Press, The Collagist, Epiphany, Gargoyle, Day One, Harpur Palate, and Hobart, among others. Her essays and interviews can also be found in Electric Literature, Bustle, Bitch Media, The Rumpus, and more. Lindsay lives in Michigan with her partner and cats. THE GOLD PERSIMMON is her first novel. Follow Lindsay on Instagram: @pickyourpotions - be. (bewomn.com) is a newsletter & community here to empower women and non-binary people to step into their collective experience and share what makes theirs different and the same. Subscribe to our newsletter here: https://campsite.bio/bewomn Follow us on Instagram: @be.womn Follow us on Twitter: @bewomn
In this episode, Johanna and Nathan interview one of our favorite critical sports journalists, Britni de la Cretaz, about their tireless work spotlighting trans and non-binary athletes and critiquing sporting discrimination. They have written for a phenomenal array of outlets, including the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Vogue, the Washington Post, Teen Vogue, and many more, and have a co-authored book with Lyndsey D'Arcangelo coming out in November 2021: HAIL MARY: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League. Britni begins by sharing how they got into sports journalism. They pinpoint why mainstream sports media remains loathe to hire and include critical analyses of sport like their work and why hustle culture absolutely is exhausting for them and other freelance journalists. We transition to Britni's Vice analysis in “Why Can't WNBA Broadcasters get the Players' Names Right?” Britni walks us through various tools available to broadcasters, racism, as well as the role played by the decentralization of the league's coverage on the mispronunciation of Black, Brown and international basketball players in the WNBA. The work that broadcasters' pronunciation forces onto the players is of crucial importance. Our discussion of Britni's superb work on nonbinary athletes such as Layshia Clarendon and others in Sports Illustrated last summer continues this theme by highlighting how the questions that Clarendon and other nonbinary players have to ask themselves just to keep playing constitutes additional labor that we often forget about. The WNBA's collective efforts to support her in an inclusive announcement about him provide ideas for how leagues can support nonbinary athletes' humanity first and foremost. The conversation explores what can make sport unsafe for trans and nonbinary people (such as cishet white feminists who argue for segregating cis athletes from trans and nonbinary ones), and to what extent sport can be reformed or recreated to make it safe for them. Britni also takes us through their Bitch Media piece about the NBA's hiring and preference for male coaches with known assault and/or predatory qualities like Jason Kidd and Chauncey Billups over Becky Hammond. The possibilities and limits of representation for women – namely white and white-passing women - in sport organizations, broadcasting, and teams continue to prevent altruistic inclusion, as they analyzed in ‘progress for whom?' Britni's work explores the intersection of sports, gender, culture, and queerness. Their website is here where you can (and should!) subscribe to Britni's newsletter. You can follow them on Twitter here @britnidlc. For a transcription of this episode, please click here. (Updated semi-regularly Credit @punkademic) Research Assistance for The End of Sport provided by Abigail Bomba. __________________________________________________________________________ You can support the show via our Patreon. As always, please like, share, and rate us on your favorite podcast app, and give follow us on Twitter or Instagram. www.TheEndofSport.com
Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood is forthcoming from Norton Young Readers on October 5. It's a resource guide for young feminists designed to help them navigate some of the most pressing issues young people face. Authors Susana M. Morris and Chanel Craft Tanner join The Feminist Agenda to discuss their book, how they bring feminism to their work, and how they keep themselves organized. Susana M. Morris is Associate Professor of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the co-editor with Brittney C. Cooper and Robin M. Boylorn of the anthology The Crunk Feminist Collection (Feminist Press, 2017). She is the co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective. Chanel Craft Tanner serves as the Director of the Center for Women at Emory where she also earned her Ph.D. in women's, gender, and sexuality studies. As director, her work focuses on creating programs, events, and learning opportunities that recognize and redress historic and persistent gender inequity at Emory and beyond. She is a member of the Crunk Feminist Collective and is passionate about class oppression, prison abolition, and Black feminism. A city girl with a country flair, she calls both Brooklyn, NY and Danville, VA home. Things mentioned in the podcast: Bitch Media's 25th Anniversary party They Better Call Me Sugar: My Journey from the Hood to the Hardwood Sugar Rodgers Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood Feminist AF book tour Feminist AF "Like a Boss" playlist Black Bujo Accounts: BlackinBujo | Kimberlysdesk | Millys Journals The Feminist Agenda Bookshop [affiliate link] Archer & Olive [affiliate link] use code "feminista10" to save 10% on most items. Follow The Feminist Agenda on Twitter
Access the entire 82 minute episode (and additional bonus episodes) by becoming a patron of Junk Filter: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52243824 Comedian and podcasting queen Sooz Kempner joins the pod from Surrey, England to discuss Garry Marshall's 1990 smash hit Pretty Woman, which made a massive star out of Julia Roberts and created a new template for the rom-com. Disney's grown-up movie division Touchstone Pictures redeveloped J.F. Lawton's dark dramatic screenplay about the dangers of the L.A. sex trade (originally titled 3000) into a frothy fairy tale about a young and somewhat innocent sex worker Vivian (Julia Roberts) hired by handsome vulture capitalist Edward (Richard Gere) to be his week-long companion for $3000 while he's in town for a big business acquisition. Despite the arrangement, they fall in love. Along the way we discuss how co-star Jason Alexander's career might have gone if he hadn't been cast on Seinfeld right after this film, Garry Marshall casting Héctor Elizondo in every movie he directed, and how this vaguely problematic but lightweight movie has aged better than you would assume. Plus a general chat about our respective countries' racist statues, anti-lockdown weirdos and Reply Guys! Follow Sooz Kempner on Twitter Check out Sooz's podcasts: The Queen Podcast Mystery On The Rocks “Rescue Rom-Com: Sex Workers Reflect on the Fantasy of Pretty Woman” by Kayla Kibbe for Bitch Media, December 17, 2020 Trailer for Pretty Woman (Marshall, 1990)
When I started exploring the kinkier side of my sex life, I focused on what it meant to be more dominant, but it also helped me get in touch with my submissive side. I realized I had to un-learn many of the misconceptions I had about what it meant to have someone in control of me. Lina Dune AKA AskASub shares her journey as a sub and breaks down subspace, red flags on dating apps, and why it feels so good to let go. Read Nichole's article, “What It's Like Being A Black Woman In A Dom/Sub Relationship With A White Man,” and the Bitch Media article on WAP as a feminist anthem. Indulgence Nichole recommends flameless candles! Guest Lina Dune is a bisexual submissive in a 24/7 D/s relationship and a proponent of healing BDSM. She goes by @askasub on Instagram where she makes kink-centered memes, gives D/s relationship advice, and serves as fairy-submother to her 70K followers. Sponsors - BetterHelp, a secure online counseling service. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/thisisgood - Listen to Beatrix Green every Monday, wherever you get your podcasts. Find Us Online - Twitter: @ThisIsGoodPod - Instagram: @ThisIsGoodPod - Merch: thisisgoodpod.com/merch - Patreon: thisisgoodpod.com/patreon - Nichole: @tnwhiskeywoman - Multitude: @MultitudeShows - Email: thisisgoodpod@gmail.com Production - Producer: Eric Silver - Editor: Brandon Grugle - Executive Producers: Amanda McLoughlin and Nichole Perkins - Theme Music: Donwill - Artwork: Jessica E. Boyd About The Show Nichole Perkins wants people to stop feeling bad about feeling good, and This Is Good For You lets you know you are never alone in what you like. Every episode, Nichole explores something that people love—whether it's needlepoint, watching bad movies with friends, or cowgirl exercise classes—and asks experts and devotees why it makes them happy. She ends each show with an Indulgence: a recommendation listeners can enjoy with no remorse. There's no such thing as a guilty pleasure when you learn to love it freely! To find out what's good for you, listen to new episodes every other Friday.
Critiquing The Squad's response to economic populism, anti-imperialism, and the #CapitolRiots with Fiorella Isabel and Shant Mesrobian, discussing the UK government's embarrassing £30 food parcels, and then fun time with Dumb Bitch Media: ethical cannibalism under digital capitalism?
Happy New Year, Intertrekkies, and welcome to Risa! All that is ours is yours. Today's topic: SEX WORK. Strap in for a deep dive into this important topic. Also, 2nd wave feminism, Picard's package, costume obsessions, and more! Episodes: The Next Generation "Captain's Holiday" (S3E19) DS9 "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." (S5E7) Enterprise "Two Days and Two Nights" (S1E25) Recommendations! Future Man (TV show): comedy sci-fi/time travel show starring Seth Rogan. Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (TV show): mystical musical dramedy set in SF's tech world. Sex Work is Work “Hustlers” Explodes the Damaging Stereotype of Sex Workers as Thieves by Aya de Leon via Bitch Media 6 Sex Workers Explain How Sharing Client Lists Saves Lives by Kitty Stryker via Vice “When They're Dead, They're Hookers” — The Media Trope that is Literally Killing People by Riley Smith via Medium Between 17 and 34% of workers have reported being harassed, threatened, or assaulted by police in the United States. We need to talk about Anna Kendrick's dead 'hooker' joke by Molly Fitzpatrick via Splinter Studies have shown that female sex workers, frequent victims of sexual assault and physical violence, are 18 times more likely to be murdered than other women of their age and race. Stigma and stereotypes about sex work hinder regulatory reform by Paul J. Maginn and Emily Cooper via The Conversation Unpacking Harmful Myths Around Sex Work via the Equality Institute Common Myths About Sex Work, Debunked By Sex Workers by Frankie Miren via Vice #119 No More Safe Harbor episode of Reply All (April 20, 2018) Malcolm Reed, Closet Case? Lt. Malcom Reed: Intergalactic Man of Confusion by Michelle Zamanian via Women at Warp Malcolm Reed via Memory Alpha What to wear on Space Hawaii Costumes of Risa This picture of Picard
Welcome to our first Happy Hour episode of the fall semester! Your palate cleansing podcast is here to provide some fresh insight on the relationship between the SF State Black Students' Union and the Golden Gate Xpress, social media slactivism, and how we experience reporting from certain identity roles. Join hosts Malakai Wade (@malakaiwade) and shaylyn martos (@shaylynmartos) in our second part of a conversation with Xpress reporters Nia Coats and Whitney Papalii about their recent work and personal experiences. We find our happiness through sharing our passions with people we respect. Change begins with necessary conversation, and results from organized action. Find this week's stories and background below! Nia's stories: Black entrepreneurs make way for racial equity in cannabis industry https://goldengatexpress.org/93667/city/entrepreneurs-of-color-make-way-for-racial-equity-in-cannabis-industry/ Black Invincibility: The Myth https://goldengatexpress.org/93062/latest/opinion/black-invincibility-the-myth/ Whitney's stories: BSU fundraiser unites campus groups to support Black businesses https://goldengatexpress.org/93745/campus/bsu-fundraiser-unites-campus-groups-to-support-black-businesses/ SF State's Black Student Union raises money for local Black-owned businesses https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eqGCDIH8HaTtOsfU-x6ucG-a69m1lV6ULu_LJy1hm4I/edit Black Residents United in Housing hosts its first meeting of the semester to welcome back students https://goldengatexpress.org/90911/campus/black-residents-united-in-housing-hosts-its-first-meeting-of-the-semester-to-welcome-back-students/ Background research (optional!): SFSU Resource Guide, collected by the BSU https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x87NkMmRoyiEYnxWk0uI05d-HAk5Et-ogfZrNAwB0zk/edit#gid=0 Fighting inequity in the face of COVID-19 https://www.apa.org/monitor/2020/06/covid-fighting-inequity Gater article from 1967 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U7OACXHB3pruVF9ivULeDtaR266grrBh/view?usp=drivesdk ‘We still have a long way to go,' say 1968 SF State activists https://goldengatexpress.org/85419/latest/news/we-still-have-a-long-way-to-go-say-1968-sf-state-activists/ The fight for Ethnic Studies continues https://goldengatexpress.org/89909/latest/news/the-fight-for-ethnic-studies-continues/ Promises unfulfilled for College of Ethnic Studies https://goldengatexpress.org/78322/latest/news/promises-unfulfilled-for-college-of-ethnic-studies/ Bitch Media's Editor in Chief Evette Dionne tweets about identity roles https://twitter.com/freeblackgirl/status/1277617851902255104 Overcoming systemic racism begins in our own newsrooms https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2020/overcoming-systemic-racism-begins-in-our-own-newsrooms/
After viciously being slandered a “Drama Podcast” by Bitch Media, we are here to prove the rumors true. Well-known instigator Alexis G. Zall is back to rip our family-friendly show to shreds and taint our good names. Zall comes clean about quarantining at fellow sex symbol Ava Capri's house and how they've been coping. We are then joined by Ava to hear her side, play a game of Personal Preference and also answer some of your most disturbing advice questions yet. Fuck y'all. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In latest installment of An Extraordinary Recap, we're joined by White Feminism's archenemy Evette Dionne Brown of Bitch Media to discuss the ongoings of the third episode of the second season of HBO's Insecure, "Hella Open". And for more from The Extraordinary Negroes: Facebook: The Extraordinary Negroes Twitter: @theextranegroes, #IAmExtraordinary Instagram: @theextranegroes Email: theextraordinarynegroes@gmail.com And if you're interested in supporting our movement, we graciously accept Patreon and PayPal donations.