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In this episode: Jay Northcott is a director, educator, and multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in joy, specificity, and a deep commitment to centring the full humanity of Black and queer artists. In this conversation, Jay joins Stageworthy host, Phil Rickaby to talk about Bootycandy, Robert O'Hara's wildly funny and emotionally complex play running at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in association with Obsidian Theatre; and why a play written by an American offers a powerful opportunity to interrogate what it means to make distinctly Canadian art. Guest:
This week, we're joined by comedian, actor, and writer Punkie Johnson! We're getting into her gay upbringing in New Orleans, moving to LA to chase her comedy dreams, her time on SNL, and what she's building next, including her upcoming comedy special and first movie. Plus, Punkie gets real about her “baby daddy mama” drama while co-parenting dogs, dating, being all the way out, and what it means to build a life her younger self wouldn't believe.Shoutouts:Kris: ELR News w/ Kevin Ortega-Rojas - a progressive news show breaking down the biggest news stories impacting our communities weekly on YouTube Fridays. Subscribe to the show on Youtube @TheEbroLauraRosenbergShow and follow Kevin on IG @hereswhykevinShana: Co-WRQ - a safe space for lesbian and queer creative professionals seeking connection, opportunity and visibility. With a community first approach, they aim to curate a third space for people who look, think and create like us. Their aim is to create opportunities for underserved communities to build connection and thrive in professional spaces. Follow on IG @co.wrq Punkie: Queen Latifah - I really want to work with her, I love the way she keeps to herself, the way she handles her business. She's a phenomenal, her strong sense of Blackness, her beautiful spirit. I'm speaking into existence working with her @queenlatifahFollow Punkie on IG @punkiejohnson____________EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://bbvibes.com/badqueers#bbpartner____________Episode Notes:1:06 - Queer Urban Dictionary3:10 - Guest Intro4:26 - Origin Story20:17 - Doggy Baby Daddy Life31:54 - What Punkie Looks For In A Partner39:30 - WNBA All-Star Weekend45:13 - Comedy Influences + SNL & Writing Room Experiences1:02:17 - Upcoming Projects 1:07:42 - Bad Queer Opinions1:22:33 - Shoutouts Share your Am I A Bad Queer? hereSupport the showPATREON: patreon.com/BadQueersPodcastSubscribe to our Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/@BadQueersPodcast The opinions expressed during this podcast are conversational in nature and expressed only for comedic purposes. Not all of the facts will be correct but we attempt to be as accurate as possible. BQ Media LLC, the hosts, nor any guest host(s) hold no liability over the conversations on this podcast and by using this podcast you understand that it is solely for entertainment purposes. Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, parody, scholarship and research.
This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing!In Part 1 we discussed the basics of hernia repair for higher-weight people. In part 3 we'll discuss the options for fighting BMI-based denials for hernia care. While I take the stance that people of all sizes deserve equitable care, in Part 2, I want to talk about the issues with these weight loss recommendations (this is a piece I've been meaning to write for a while so I'm incuding it in this series, but know that this isn't just about hernia repair but about anytime weight loss is recommended or required for a patient to be “optimized” for surgery.) Today we're going to look at it from the perspective of someone who agrees with these recommendations (which I d not) and/or of somene who is so desperate for care that they are willing to try to pay the weight loss ransom (which is a valid choice, but one that patients should never be coerced into making by a healthcare system that holds their care hostage.) Even in these circumstances, there are multiple issues with these weight loss recommendations including feasibility, side effects, and long-term prognosis.Feasibility and Side EffectsThe first question to ask is the feasibility of the requirement. “Optimization” for surgery doesn't happen in a vacuum and it doesn't matter if something would make the patient's surgery easier or improve their outcomes if it is not possible and/or if it harms the patient more than it helps them. Despite this, the feasibility/likelihood of the patient experiencing the required weight loss is, in my experience, far too often not discussed or even considered.I have met with patients who were told they needed to lose 40% of their body weight whose surgeon told them to eat less and exercise more. This is an “intervention” for which about a century of research has found the likelihood of losing even 5% of body weight is quite low and the likelihood of maintaining it is incredibly small (though we'll get to that.) The doctor might as well have told the patient to grow 6 inches to change their BMI sufficiently.Enter GLP-1s. Here again we're seeing patients being prescribed these drugs not based on the drugs' actual capacity to create (at least short term) the required weight loss but based on the sincerely held personal belief of the provider that any amount of weight can be lost with these drugs.In the recent research article that Angela Meadows, Louise Adams, and I published on GLP-1s for weight loss, we included tables in the supplemental materials that include information for all of the phase 3, placebo-controlled trials of GLP1-s for weight loss. One of the reasons I am glad these tables are out in the world is so they can be used in these discussions.As the tables show, about half of people don't ever reach average weight loss in these trials with around 5-15% failing to lose even 5%. For semaglutide, the STEP 1 trial only looked at weight loss up to 15%, and 49.5% of the subjects failed to lose even 15% of body weight over 68 weeks and in the STEP 3 trial, even when combined with a restrictive diet, 64.3% of subjects failed to lose even 20% of their body weight over 68 weeks. For tirzepatid, the SURMOUNT 1 trial included weight loss up to 25% and 63.8% of the people on the maximum dose (15mg) failed to lose even 25% of their body weight over 72 weeks. In the 2-year weight loss analysis of the SELECT trial ( Ryan et al., 2024) 95.1% of patients failed to lose 20% of their body weight, average weight loss was down to 10%, and at four years the study had lost 89.5% of participants! Other studies showed significant loss of muscle mass as part of the weight loss.You can find the tables here in the supplemental materials. If you are being told to use GLP-1s to qualify for healthcare I also have a case study here that offers more information and some specific scripting that you can use.Then there is the recommendation for weight loss surgery. This is a surgery in which a healthy, correctly functioning digestive system is surgically manipulated into what would otherwise be considered a disease state in order to force restriction and produce weight loss. It is a very serious surgery with the potential for very serious side effects that can have significant negative impact on long-term quality of life and even be fatal. I wrote about the basics of these surgeries here. I also have a series about weight loss surgery and long-term quality of life in which researchers admit sparse and low-quality evidence, and that in multiple studies health-related quality of life was the same between those who had surgery and those who didn't.At the bare minimum, giving the patient correct information about the likelihood of these surguries of actually leading to the weight loss that is being demanded in order for the patient to get the surgery they actually need is incredibly important when the patient is being refused a surgery that they need but recommended to undergo a surgery that alters an entire body system in a way that is, by and large, irreversible with potentially life-altering and even fatal side effects. A 2022 study called “Predictors for weight loss after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: the trend and associated factors for weight loss” by Eghbali explains that while most people expect to lose more than 70% of the “excess weight” in reality the mean total weight loss is about 32% at 1-2 years. So, even if the patient is willing to have this surgery (and risk the significant side effects) and even if they could reach the mean total weight loss, that would still not necessarily be enough weight loss for the patient to qualify for the surgery they actually need/want.Medical interventions must be evidence-based and wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin' that all higher-weight patients will be outliers and experience more weight loss than the research suggests is likely (even in the short term) so that they can be seen as worthy of surgery is not ethical, evidence-based medicine.Long-Term OutcomesWe know that the vast majority of weight loss attempts end in weight regain and that regain with GLP-1s has been shown to be even faster than with lifestyle interventions. Guidelines around weight loss for hernia repair typically brush this off with simple admonitions that amount to “don't do that.” Given that intentional weight loss changes the body physiologically to induce weight regain, using the equivalent of “doctor, it hurts when I do this….well don't do that” here again falls seriously short of ethical, evidence-based medicine.Even if someone believes that people could lose any amount of weight and maintain that weight loss, medicine must be practiced in the context of reality. That means understanding the risks of delaying the surgery while the patient attempts weight loss that research shows is unlikely to unlikely to ever happen, and considering the risks of weight regain on the surgical repair, which research shows is highly likely to happen. This is especially important given the existence of research for other procedures that finds that weight loss prior to surgery, including through weight loss surgery, does not improve outcomes.The sad reality, which is all too common, is that there isn't enough research about hernia repair when it comes to higher-weight people. And as long as the healthcare system is comfortable allowing higher-weight patients to suffer and die unless or until they can comply with a directive to lose weight, those with power, privilege, and leverage to make change will need to do whatever can be done to fund and conduct the research that is needed so that people of all sizes can have equitable care.In part 3 we'll discuss the options for patients who are dealing with BMI-Based Denials for hernia care.This month's online workshop is Weight-Inclusive Sleep Apnea Management with special guest Dr. Lisa Erlanger! There is a pay-what-you-can option so money isn't a barrier and all registrants will receive a video. Details and registration are here! If you appreciate the work I do here, you can support my ability to do it by becoming a free or paid subscriber!Liked the piece? Share the piece!More researchThe Research PostMore resourcesThe Resource Post*Note on language: I use “fat” as a neutral descriptor as used by the fat activist community, I use “ob*se” and “overw*ight” to acknowledge that these are terms that were created to medicalize and pathologize fat bodies, with roots in racism and specifically anti-Blackness. Please read Sabrina Strings' Fearing the Black Body – the Racial Origins of Fat Phobia and Da'Shaun Harrison's Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness for more on this. Get full access to Weight and Healthcare at weightandhealthcare.substack.com/subscribe
The Politicks crew unpacks the chaotic saga of The Last Ditch, a Boston lesbian bar where a single mask-optional night sparked threats of firebombing from immunocompromised patrons. From there, the conversation spirals into universal suffrage, the radicalization of the Democratic Party, and Nikole Hannah-Jones sacrificing her daughter's education for ideology. Plus a Last Ditch bar update involving accusations of "anti-Blackness" and a debate on whether college degrees mean anything anymore. Video Chapters 0:00 — Intro 1:15 — Back Pain & Stress Banter 3:44 — The Last Ditch Butch Bar Battle 7:38 — The Mask-Optional Night That Started a War 8:25 — Community Backlash & Social Media Threats 11:30 — Universal Suffrage & Voting Rights 15:05 — Gay Bars vs. Lesbian Bars 15:52 — The Firebombing Threatener 21:05 — No Good Deed Goes Unpunished 22:39 — Enter "Noire" 25:05 — Mask Mentality in 2026 & The Democrat Threat 30:00 — Nikole Hannah-Jones & The 1619 Project 34:27 — Charles Cooke's Devastating Takedown 36:26 — Can You Argue With Ideologues? 41:34 — College Degrees & NYC Teacher Tests 43:23 — Last Ditch Update: "Anti-Blackness" Claims 46:08 — Closing & Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Politicks crew unpacks the chaotic saga of The Last Ditch, a Boston lesbian bar where a single mask-optional night sparked threats of firebombing from immunocompromised patrons. From there, the conversation spirals into universal suffrage, the radicalization of the Democratic Party, and Nikole Hannah-Jones sacrificing her daughter's education for ideology. Plus a Last Ditch bar update involving accusations of "anti-Blackness" and a debate on whether college degrees mean anything anymore. Video Chapters 0:00 — Intro 1:15 — Back Pain & Stress Banter 3:44 — The Last Ditch Butch Bar Battle 7:38 — The Mask-Optional Night That Started a War 8:25 — Community Backlash & Social Media Threats 11:30 — Universal Suffrage & Voting Rights 15:05 — Gay Bars vs. Lesbian Bars 15:52 — The Firebombing Threatener 21:05 — No Good Deed Goes Unpunished 22:39 — Enter "Noire" 25:05 — Mask Mentality in 2026 & The Democrat Threat 30:00 — Nikole Hannah-Jones & The 1619 Project 34:27 — Charles Cooke's Devastating Takedown 36:26 — Can You Argue With Ideologues? 41:34 — College Degrees & NYC Teacher Tests 43:23 — Last Ditch Update: "Anti-Blackness" Claims 46:08 — Closing & Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on Termagant Talk, Goodie and Shantel are asking a question that keeps getting louder every time somebody invokes “the culture”: who the fuck is we? From the way Blackness, hip-hop and collective loyalty get used to defend individual opinions, they unpack who actually gets to speak for everybody. Then they get into Kim Osorio's federal case and the dangers of doing entirely too much for OPP: Other People's Person, break down the first two episodes of Jay-Z in 8 and whether Rick Rubin is digging deep enough, and take a hard look at Colin Kaepernick's ongoing issues with Jay-Z, the NFL, Target and the stories we tell about betrayal. Plus, Goodie recaps her Power Your Pivot panel and Sistas in Sales experience. Funny, argumentative, reflective and very New York, this episode asks whether “the culture” is really a shared set of values or just a convenient place to hide an individual opinion.
Have you ever looked at something and thought, "Am I the only one seeing this?" If you're a Black parent, you may have had that reaction to some of the viral advertising and products we've seen recently—from Converse and Target to American Eagle. What happens when our children encounter images and messages rooted in a history they may not yet understand. Host Shanera Williamson talks about why Black parents need to teach our children history, how we can help them recognize anti-Blackness without internalizing it, and why an apology from a company is only the beginning of accountability. Most importantly, this is a reminder for Black mothers: you're not crazy, and you're not alone. We may not be able to control everything our children see—but we can help them understand it, talk about it, and know that harmful messages about Black people are never a reflection of their worth.
(re)Pebbling: A Story of Blackness and Curling is a sharp, stylish, and soul-stirring glide through the unspoken rules of curling. Intimate reflections from the life of Richard Norman, brought to life by the art of Jon Olbey, set the stage for the chilly welcome racialized players face at the curling rink and the unnerving murmur of lounge talk. This graphic novel cracks open the culture of the sport to ask questions about its future and whether clubs are willing to do the work to make their spaces inclusive.With equal parts insight and irreverence, (re)Pebbling reimagines curling as a site of cultural collision, a space where the house isn't always a home, and the ice holds stories most haven't dared to tell. In a visual journey through the world of sport you didn't know you needed, author Richard Norman honestly reflects on our past, boldly interrogates our present, and dares to imagine what a real future of belonging in sport could look like.Buy (re)Pebbling here.Sports Politika is a media platform dedicated to the intersection of sports, power and politics. If you like what you see, upgrade to a paid subscription (or gift a subscription if you already have your own). We would appreciate if you could also like the post and let us know what you think in the comment section below. Get full access to Sports Politika at www.sportspolitika.news/subscribe
Hello, my dear Scorekeepers! Welcome to another episode of your favorite podcast, THE SCORE! This week, we take a journey into the deep dark recesses of Raven Symone's mind and examine some of the comments she made recently about Blackness (or anti-Blackness as it were) on her podcast. Spoiler alert: we don't find a whole lot that makes sense. Also, a round of Icebreakers that's sure to get us in trouble, Paige's adventures learning the art of shibari, and of course a little PBJ to take us out on a good note. Let's do it to it, y'all!Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksWe Were Here by Stephanie Phillips (Pre-Order Now)--Hey hey, THE SCORE is now on social! Follow us @thescorepod on Instagram here and Bluesky here!--New episodes of THE SCORE drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you're listening is a great way to help people find our show. Email your questions or comments to thescorepodcast2.0@gmail.com.Ways to Listen: Apple | Spotify | YouTubeFollow Your Hosts on Insta! Lee | Paige | Rocky
In this week's episode, we discuss Beyoncé's most recent limited-edition "B'Day"20th anniversary album release, and Fat Joe's Black identity crisis. For politics, we discuss A. I apocalypse and Netanyahu's alleged betrayal. Join us...Contact Us:Hotline: (215) 948-2780Email: aroundthewaycurls@gmail.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/aroundthewaycurls for exclusive videos & bonus episodesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Yo Aunteas are back from a whirlwind weekend taking over New York City, and the tea is piping hot! Auntea Kerel and Auntea Jerrell tackle the viral podcast conversation between Raven-Symoné and Kalen Allen. Did That's So Raven get watered down, or are people unfairly blaming Raven's wife for statements Raven has been making for over a decade? We unpack Hollywood policing Blackness, the green-people argument, and why nostalgic hero worship always gets complicated. Yo Aunteas also recap their WILD wedding weekend in NYC (Horse Meat Disco may have ruined us for every other party), a $188 US Open ticket disaster, new iPhone rollout, and a real conversation about oversharing, misinformation, how September is Suicide Prevention Month, and a critical deep dive into Out.com's guide on 8 ways adults can show up for LGBTQ+ students this school year. Was That's So Raven Black culture to you, or Disney-fied for the masses? Drop your thoughts below!
Welcome back to our minisode series, "I Have Some Thoughts." These short episodes are designed to contextualize the pop culture moments we're currently paying attention to through a mental health lens. Pop culture isn't just fun to chat about, it can reveal important information about how we relate, cope, and understand ourselves. Join us each Friday to hear Dr. Joy share her thoughts about the happenings of the week. This week, we're chatting about influencer behavior at the U.S. Open, Raven Symone's relationship to Blackness, and Vic Mensa & Chance the Rapper's friendship challenges. Stay Connected Wanna chat more about the pop culture hot topics of the week? Join us inside our Patreon community. Is there a topic you'd like covered on the podcast? Submit it at therapyforblackgirls.com/mailbox. If you're looking for a therapist in your area, check out the directory at https://www.therapyforblackgirls.com/directory. Make sure to follow us on social media: Instagram: @therapyforblackgirls Threads: @therapyforblackgirls Our Production Team Executive Producers: Dennison Bradford & Gabrielle Collins Director of Podcast & Digital Content: Ellice Ellis Producer: Ndeye Thioubou Production Assistant: Bria MosleySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this bonus “Let’s Talk About Race” episode of Selective Ignorance, Mandii B, A-King, and Jason “Jah” Lee open with some new-segment jokes [ 00:00 ] before acknowledging that somehow everything eventually becomes about race [01:01 ], recapping a Jamaica trip [ 02:24 ], and revisiting the potential problems with Meta smart glasses [ 02:45 ]. The main debate begins with Fat Joe defending his use of the N-word on The Joe Budden Podcast [ 05:04 ] and Marc Lamont Hill’s response [ 06:38 ], as the crew questions whether growing up alongside Black people or being deeply connected to hip-hop culture gives non-Black people permission to use the word [ 08:27 ]. They examine Latino anti-Blackness, racism, and colorism [ 12:40 ], the unique racial and cultural dynamics of New York versus other parts of the country [ 24:03 ], and who gets access to language rooted in Black culture [ 25:49 ]. The conversation expands to accountability, allyship, and who really earns a proverbial “cookout invite” [ 31:35 ], contrasting cultural proximity with actually showing up for Black issues. The discussion continues with Raven-Symoné’s comments about race and Black identity [ 33:08 ], including her argument that Blackness can be “universal” [ 34:29 ] and why her famous “I’m American, not African-American” explanation creates what the crew describes as “All Lives Matter” vibes [ 39:50 ]. From there, things get considerably lighter with light-skin jokes and a Harriet Tubman reference [ 42:17 ], a pressure-cooker chitlins story [ 43:00 ], and a late-night Jamaica cookie situation [ 43:37 ]. The food debate keeps rolling through soul food and its history of making something out of scraps [ 45:58 ], an argument involving grits, sugar, and pizza [ 48:55 ], and a passionate seafood boil and Old Bay rant [ 50:19 ]. Finally, the crew checks back in on Dr. Umar Johnson’s long-promised school [ 54:05] before closing the bonus episode with credits and a reminder to subscribe [ 55:00 ]. No Holes Barred: A Dual Manifesto Of Sexual Exploration And Power” w/ Tempest X! Sale Link Follow the host on Social MediaMandii B Instagram/X @fullcourtpumps Follow the crew on Social Media @itsaking @mrhiphopobama Follow the show on Social MediaInstagram @selectiveignorancepodTiktok @selective.ignoranceX/Twitter @selectiveig_podSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A stroke has left a wealthy recluse unable to speak or move, and every night after dark his eyes fix on something beside his bed that nobody else in the room can see.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “High Caquetta” (September 13, 1978) ***WD00:46:40.532 = BBC Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “The Inexperienced Ghost” (August 09, 1980)01:12:37.532 = The Haunting Hour, “Revenge” (August 10, 1945)01:37:33.431 = Hermit's Cave, “The Blackness of Terror” (April 06, 1947)02:02:51.680 = Mystery Is My Hobby, “Wife Poisoned” (1945-1950) ***WD02:27:41.835 = Sherlock Holmes, “The Scarlet Worm” (March 24, 1947) ***WD02:56:44.523 = Mystery House, ‘Dagger In The Dark” (July 05, 1946) ***WD03:24:11.257 = Inner Sanctum, “Bog Oak Necklace” (April 10, 1945) ***WD03:53:52.392 = Jeff Regan, “The Lady With No Name” (September 25, 1948) ***WD04:24:48.466 = The Key, “Showgirl Murdered” (1956)04:48:59.695 = Tales of the Frightened, “Dr. Harvey Cushing” (1057-1963) ***WD04:53:19.056 = Beyond The Green Door, “Harwell And The Matland Indians” (1966) ***WD04:56:48.898 = Tales From The Tomb, “Hooked” (1960s)05:01:00.583 = Show Close(ADU) = Air Date Unknown(LQ) = Low Quality***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0770
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On this new episode of THE POLITICRAT daily podcast Omar Moore on anti-Blackness and white silence.NEWS STORY: Voter fraud is extremely rare in the USA: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-widespread-is-election-fraud-in-the-united-states-not-very/EXTRA: Omar's essay on "Mama Parton", the late great Dolly Parton. https://substack.com/@popcornreel/note/p-212846253?r=275tyr&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-actionOfficial GoFundMe for Dr. Jason Arday, set up by Sir Patrick Vernon of Stand Up Against Racism: https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-dr-jason-atta-kwei-ardayJoin the Spark community now! A Black-owned social media platform by Isaac Hayes III.Open an account today and follow Omar @ popcornreel Go here now: https://app.sparktheworld.app (soon to be an app)ADVISORY: This episode contains foul language. Listener discretion is advised.Recorded September 9, 2026.Subscribe on Substack: https://popcornreel.substack.comSubscribe on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thepoliticratpodBUY MERCH FROM THE POLITICRAT STORE:https://the-politicrat.myshopify.comBUY BLACK!Patronize Black-owned businesses on Roland Martin's Black Star Network: https://shopblackstarnetwork.comBLACK-OWNED MEDIA MATTERS:(Watch Roland Martin Unfiltered daily M-F 6-8pm Eastern)https://youtube.com/rolandsmartin
The last thing the world needs in 2026 is yet another Halloween film but, to be fair, the last thing the world needed in 2007 was yet another Halloween film, especially one directed by Rob Zombie. Given that the film does in fact exist, Movie Meltdown's Bryan Renfro joins the Kulturecast for the first time to talk all about the finer points of reboots, Rob Zombie, and a whole lot more in this oversized part one of a two part series covering the Zombie reboot series.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kulturecast--2883470/support.———The Kulturecast is a film and culture podcast from Weirding Way Media, hosted by Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, alongside a rotating table of guest co-hosts. Each week digs into where film and culture meet — and how each one bends the other. Now home to sub-feeds including Required Viewing: A 360° Film Study with Dr. David D. Perlmutter.New episodes weekly.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-kulturecast/id931361376Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/5wjxip9XVYapYuY12yEaGY.Back the show: https://www.patreon.com/cw/kulturecast
To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod This is the first recording in a series of sessions we organized at this year's Socialism Conference. We're posting it ahead of our usual schedule as clips from this session have started circulating online and kicking off a round of discourse on health, health fascism and "fitness," and we wanted to make sure everyone has access to the full remarks. Full session description: As governments retreat from care, and health increasingly becomes a signifier of discipline—rather than provision—fitness, disability, fatness, illness, Blackness, impairment, and bodily capacity are mobilized into measures of moral worth and political belonging. This panel examines how health, disability, body size, and race are instrumentalized by the state and being reorganized under health fascism. Da'Shaun L. Harrison and Beatrice Adler-Bolton will discuss what these transformations reveal about the changing relationship between capitalism, the state, and everyday life. Speakers: Beatrice, Da'Shaun L. Harrison Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179
Send us Fan MailIn this “Raven Baxter was Black” episode, Ernest dives deep into Trump's mail-in voting dispute, the anti-Blackness problem with the Dems political spectrum, a major bombshell in the Feds probe into Philly Mayor's campaign, about that mistrial regarding Lindsay Clancy, the complicated legacy of Gloria Steinem, revisiting Beyoncé's B'Day 20 years later, and much more! Ernestly Speaking! is executively produced and hosted by Ernest Owens. Check him out at ernestowens.com and follow him @MrErnestOwens on Twitter & Instagram.
Kehinde is back from holiday and reflects on the reaction to the death of Jason Arday and says we need to to better to support each other when we are still here. He also drops the poll question of whether now that he is out of the university he should renounce the title of professor? He also briefly touches on the the latest Reform scandal but reminds us that Whiteness is a psychosis so don't expect it to change many voters minds. This weeks interview is with Joy Mbakwe, who brings the perspective of a former head of English and assistant principal who now works in educational consultancy, helping parents understand the realities of schooling from the inside. They discuss how anti-Blackness shows up in uniforms, hairstyles, toilet rules, detention culture, and the language of "behavior management." Joy breaks down how schools can quietly punish Black children for simply being visible, while still presenting themselves as neutral, rigorous, and fair. The conversation also gets into the gap between what schools claim to prepare children for and the world young people actually enter, especially in an era shaped by AI, burnout, and widening inequality. We break down the deeper question behind all of it: are schools designed to educate, or to reproduce the same hierarchy over and over again? Joy explains why belonging matters more than slogans, why recruitment and retention shape whether students feel seen, and why some children need support that the mainstream system simply does not provide. There is also a powerful discussion about supplementary education, Saturday schools, and what a community-led curriculum could look like if Black families were building it for themselves. This episode matters if you are a parent, teacher, educator, or anyone asking why the same patterns keep repeating, especially for Black children. If you have ever felt that schools demand compliance more than care, or that "success" is being defined in ways that leave too many children behind, this conversation will stay with you. Check out Kehinde and Joy on 'We Are Black and British': https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0014t9r Find out about Joy Mbakwe's work: https://www.msjoymbakwe.com/ Buy Jason Arday's book, Great and Unfortunate Things: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Great-and-Unfortunate-Things/Jason-Arday/9781398542747 Support the call for a public inquiry: https://goodlawproject.org/petition/jason-arday-letter/ Sign up for the Harambee OBU AGM. In person and online October 24th 2.30pm: https://HarambeeOBUAGM26.eventbrite.co.uk Join Harambee OBU: www.blackunity.org.uk Written and hosted by: Kehinde Andrews Edited by: Kadiri Andrews Artwork by: Assata Andrews
Today on Higher Learning, Van and Rachel talk about the passing of Gloria Steinem, Stephen A. Smith's continued feud with Colin Kaepernick, and Raven-Symoné's recent comments about the Blackness of 'That's So Raven.' Plus, 20-year-old Pierre Damas Bel dies by suicide, reportedly out of fears of deportation, eight Democrats vote alongside Republicans to condemn socialism, and friend of the show Geno Smith makes a surprise phone appearance and spills the tea on Van's fraternity life. Then, they talk trials and the guilty verdict in Tupac's murder, and Lil Durk gets snitched on. (00:00) Welcome to Higher Learning (06:01) Gloria Steinem Passes Away at 92 Years Old (19:22) Raven-Symoné back in the news cycle (40:29) Stephen A. Smith on Kaepernick vs. Jay-Z (59:20) 20-year-old Haitian dies by suicide, reportedly because of fears of deportation (1:12:20) Battle of the Bands (with Geno Smith) (1:29:19) Keffe D found guilty of Tupac's murder (1:44:07) Murder for hire (Lil Durk trial) (1:54:18) Eight Democrats vote to condemn socialism (1:59:00:) Let's Get Sensual Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Marco Escalante and Jade Whaley Social Producer: Bernard Moore Video Supervision: Jeff Shearin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Black on Black Cinema breaks down Raven-Symone's resurfaced comments questioning whether her own iconic character, Raven Baxter from That's So Raven, was actually Black. On her podcast Tea Time, Raven told Kalen Allen, "Take away the color, make them green, and hear the words. What color are they?," challenging the idea that the show's Blackness was inherent rather than just visual.The internet had immediate and strong reactions. Fans pointed to the show's entire episode about racial profiling, Tonya's locs, Victor's soul food references, Cory's Black history paper storyline, and Della Reese's jazz singer character as clear, undeniable markers of Black identity woven directly into the writing, not just the casting.We break down both sides of this: is Raven making a nuanced point about Blackness not being monolithic, or is she minimizing a show that meant something real to a generation of Black kids who rarely saw themselves centered on Disney Channel?The next film to be reviewed is Tyler Perry's upcoming third movie in the "Why Did I Get Married trilogy." We will be breaking our promise about no more Tyler Perry films to review "Why Did I Get Married Again?" which reunites most of the original cast for one last wild time.Black on Black Cinema is a long-running podcast featuring in-depth Black movie reviews and frank conversations that matter to the Black community. We review Black films across every genre — from Black horror and Black sci-fi to indie dramas, comedies, and blockbuster action. Covering filmmakers like Spike Lee, Jordan Peele, Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay, and more. Hosted by Jay, Micah, Terrence, and T'ara. Featured on RogerEbert.com. A TNP Studios production. New episodes weekly on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and all major platforms. For more TNP Studios content, check out The Nerdpocalypse (movie & TV news), Look Forward (progressive politics), and Dense Pixels (video game news).
In this episode of Oh That's Deep: Black Women Conversations, Jănine shares an emotional update following her second myomectomy and reflects on finally experiencing life without the debilitating symptoms of fibroids. Meanwhile, Dr. Nicole Plenty takes listeners inside the politics of wedding planning, from missed RSVP deadlines to guests who refuse to accept that the list is closed. During “What's on Our Timeline?”, Jănine and Nicole examine troubling social media stories from biracial adults who say they experienced racism, prejudice, or discomfort with Blackness inside their own families. The ladies discuss whether love alone is enough when raising a child across racial lines, the responsibility parents have to confront their biases, and why shared values and self-awareness matter more than appearances. In “Letters From Our Listeners,” a biracial woman questions her childhood after recognizing a pattern in her white mother's comments about her hair, Black women, and her dark-skinned Black fiancé. Is she unfairly rewriting the past—or can someone genuinely love individual Black people while still holding racist beliefs? Jănine and Nicole offer two very different perspectives on parental love, racial bias, accountability, and grace. The episode closes with a “Motivational Moment” inspired by Maya Angelou and a reminder that growth does not require perfection—it requires the humility to learn, understand someone else's experience, and love them better. Until we meet again… Pray. Work. Slay. And show off your melanated excellence. Find more shows like this on the Mean Ole Lion app.
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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. Join Host Miko Lee as she introduces Dr. Robynn Rodriquez's show “Spitting Fire.” Dr. Robynn speaks about Filipinx and colorism with Dr. Joanne Rondilla. LINKS Dr. Robynn, The People's Professor SHOW TRANSCRIPT [00:00:00] Opening: Apex Express Asian Pacific expression. Community and cultural coverage, music and calendar, new visions and voices, coming to you with an Asian Pacific Islander point of view. It's time to get on board the Apex Express. [00:00:35] Miko Lee: Welcome to Apex Express. I'm your host, Miko Lee, and tonight we get to hear the podcast from Dr. Robin Rodriguez called Spitting Fire, and I'm so excited for you to listen to it. Check it out, and if you wanna hear more, we're gonna link in the show notes an earlier interview I did with Dr. Robin Rodriguez. So please listen to Spitting Fire with Dr. Robin [00:01:01] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: I can't actually remember a specific episode when my parents or my Lola, who helped raise me, explicitly said, “Don't stay out in the sun.” But I always knew growing up that staying out in the sun was something I shouldn't do because being dark was something to be avoided. I remember being embarrassed by my mom who would bust out an umbrella on a bright and shiny day. “Mom, it's not even raining outside,” I remember complaining. I hated the big hats she would wear or insist I wear, or the comments of, “You're getting darker,” also in a disapproving tone. I remember, too, the high praises anyone with lighter skin was heaped, even when I didn't think they were that particularly attractive. Or how if my relatives knew someone was going to be marrying an American, basically a white person, they would exclaim, “Oh, they're going to have beautiful children.” When I brought home a hapa, a dude who was Filipino and white, I was told that if we got married, I would be improving the race. I've always known, whether I can remember being told, “Don't stay out in the sun,” that if there was a skin hue to aspire to, it was to be light. [00:02:49] To be called mestiza was to receive one of the best compliments. To be a mestiza is always already to be beautiful. Of course, if anyone said I was mestiza, it was always qualified as mestizang morena. That is, someone who exhibits certain types of physical traits that are associated with a mestiza, like having a more pointed nose or being slightly taller than the average Pinay, but not the lighter skin of a genuine mestiza. So that's why I was sometimes called mestizang morena. Still meant as a compliment. After all, I could still enjoy the privilege of being associated with mestizaje, but only partially So many Filipinas in the diaspora, especially those of us who live in white settler colonial societies like what we now know as the United States as well as Canada, so many of us share experiences similar to the ones I've experienced. [00:03:58] My dear friend and colleague, a fellow sociologist, Dr. Connolly De Leon, who currently teaches at Ryerson University in Canada, made this shared experience a topic of study in her book chapter, “Mas Maputi Ako Sa'yo,” I'm Lighter Than You: The Spatial Politics of Intraracial Colorism Among Filipina-Filipino Youth in the Greater Toronto Area. It was a chapter that was part of the very historic anthology, Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility, edited by Roland Coloma, Bonnie McElvaney, Ellen Ethel Dongohan, John Paul Katungol, and Lisa M. Davidson, and it was published in 2012. Now, I've taught, uh, Dr. De Leon's chapter, Connolly's chapter, in my Filipino American experience courses in the past, and it's always, always deeply resonated with my Filipina students. In Dr. De Leon's chapter, she starts off with a quote that so many of us are familiar with in some way. She writes, quote, “You're so dark. Yuck.' My cousin would say to me in disgust as she would place her forearm beside mine to compare her light skin to my dark skin.” End quote. Dr. De Leon continues, quote, “As early as the age of four, as early as the age of four, I was taught to feel ashamed of my complexion. I did not understand what was so shameful about being the particular shade of brown that I was.” End quote. The shaming that Dr. De Leon and so many of us experience comes from colorism, which scholars define as the discriminatory treatment of individuals falling within the same racial group on the basis of skin color. [00:06:01] On this episode of Spitting Fire, Dr.- Doctora Robyn Speaks, you'll actually hear less from me and more from yet another friend and colleague, Dr. Joanne Rondilia, who I recently hosted as part of a lecture series jointly sponsored by the Bolosan Center for Filipinx Studies, of which I serve as the founding faculty director, and the School for Liberating Education, my platform for offering Filipinx or Filipinos and ethnic studies courses that are often only available to those who happen to be able to get accepted into the four-year, often elite institutions where they are taught. It's where I get to teach all of these amazing courses that I think all of us should have to the broader community. Dr. Rondilia has researched on colorism in the Philippines and the diaspora for over a decade. It was a topic of her 2012 dissertation, which was entitled Colonial Faces: Beauty and Skin Color Hierarchy in the Philippines and the United States. In her 2007 book, co-edited with Paul Spickard, entitled Is Lighter Better? Skin Tone Discrimination Among Asian Americans, she explores colorism as a phenomenon that no- not only plagues Filipinos, but Asian Americans actually more broadly. So now I'm gonna turn to Dr. Rondilia and her lecture entitled Don't Stay Out in the Sun: Understanding Filipinx and Colorism. Go ahead, Joanne. Take it away. So happy you're here. [00:07:44] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: All right. Thank you so much, Robyn. It's, uh… Do you mind if I call you Robyn? Shall I call you Dr. Robyn? [00:07:50] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: Oh my God. You only know me as Robyn. Okay. [00:07:56] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: I will call you Robyn, but everybody else, you, you are required to call her Dr. Robyn- … Queen Robyn. You know, that's, that's how. But it's, it's such a, a joy to be here. Um, you know, before we opened the doors, uh, Robyn and I were talking about, um, you know, what it is to be an academic and the type of language and, and spaces in which we share our research. And I think one of the things that's really hard, especially for the soul of a lot of, uh, academics, is that we… it's so rare for us to really share our research, uh, with the community, right? ‘Cause I don't think of myself as a researcher. I think of myself more as a, a storyteller Right? And I think that that's really, uh, when students- when I have students who refuse to, like, engage in research, I try to remind them, like, research is not… I don't think of research as, uh, sort of like the white person's, uh, uh, game. I think of research as something that is connected to us, um, and it's our birthright. It's our ancestral birthright, right? Because storytelling is our ancestral birthright, and that's the lens in which I come into, uh, to exploring this issue of colorism. [00:09:15] So show of hands, for those of you in the room, I'm curious to know how many of you were told, uh, were, were told this: “Don't stay out in the sun or you're- or, or else you'll get too dark.” How many of you were raised with that sort of mantra? Yes. Right. I, I almost feel like these words, uh, are so quintessential to the Filipino experience or the Filipinx experience. Like, “Don't stay out in the sun or else you'll get too dark.” And I'm someone who, I was born and raised on Guam, um, and so everybody on Guam is dark because we are always out in the sun, right? And my mother is very light-skinned. Uh, she came from a middle-class family from San Pablo City in the Philippines. My father's from Lucena, and he ca- he grew up poor, uh, and rai- was raised by a single mother. And so m- there was this definite class difference between my parents, uh, but there's also a, a skin tone difference between my parents. Like, my dad was someone who was very, very kuripot. He was very cheap, but he had this great love for my mother. Um, you know, and I think part of that was he saw her as like, you know, this, this wonderful, like, prize almost, you know. Because she came from a well-to-do family, and, you know, when they got married, her family did not want them to get married because, uh, he was not wealthy. But he was someone who, because he works on Guam as an engineer for the government of Guam, uh, and, and the US military, like that sort of… and, and he had, uh, I think in total like 13 deeds to his name. That's sort of what eased my, my mother's family into, you know, being supportive of their marriage. But there was… And, and on my mother's side of the family, this is a family, and mind you, I love them very much, but this is a family that, um, values beauty a lot, right? My mom and my aunties were all some form of provincial, uh, beauty queen And so this is why me and my brother and my sister were always told, “Don't stay out in the sun or you'll get too dark.” Because the idea was you had to preserve whatever, whatever it was our mother gave us, right? Even though, um, you know, like, uh, you know, even though, like, members of her family say didn't, didn't necessarily find us attractive , you know, the idea was, like, you know, as children of this, this woman or as chil- as, as, you know, members of this particular family, you had to, um, you had to sort of preserve yourself. [00:12:18] So as a young kid growing up on Guam, I always wanted to go swimming, uh, 'cause my, my neighbors across the street, actually one of them, uh, represented the island of Guam, uh, during the 1988 Olympics in, in Seoul, right? So I always wanted to go swimming. I wanted to learn swimming, but my mother wouldn't let me because I would get too dark And so that, you know, like, there, there was so much of our lives that were limited because of this need to preserve beauty. And this is how I entered the research, uh, the exploration of colorism. So very quickly, for those of you who do not know what colorism is, simply put, colorism is a looks-based or, you know, um, you know, physical look, a looks-based system of discrimination where light skin and Eurocentric features are favored over darker skin and non-Eurocentric features. [00:13:13] These discriminations typically occur within the same racial or ethnic community. Uh, the term colorism was coined by, um, the writer Alice Walker. And when she first started writing about colorism, she was talking about, she was talking about colorism in a very intimate way. She was talking about the way in which lighter-skinned Black women evoked pain, right, uh, onto darker-skinned Black women. And so this is where she comes up with this term called colorism. Colorism is intimate. It happens within the same racial or ethnic group, typically. And the reason why I say typically is because, um, in our society, we live in a very colorist society. So I'm sure some of you, and you can throw up reactions, some of you know people, may be related to people who say, “I'm not a racist. I don't have a racist bone in my body, in my body. I love Black people. I listen to Beyoncé. Halle Berry's my favorite actress.” Like, you know, they'll go on and on and on about how they're not racist. But when you look at the patterns of what they deem is attractive or, um, sort of civilized among, uh, the Black or African American community, they always resort to people who tend to be, like, lighter skinned, right? And that's also a way that, um, colorism manifests itself. It starts in the intimate space, but it manifests itself in a much larger, um, you know, in a much larger sphere. So for, um, the Filipinx community, when we look at popular culture, right? And, um, I don't know if any of you have heard of the show or are watching a show called, uh, The Cleaning Lady It's a new show that was, uh, it just premiered last week through Fox. And The Cleaning Lady, the reason why this is really big for, uh, the Filipinx community is because the… It, it's supposed… It originally was supposed to be a Filipino storyline, right? And it was a way to sort of introduce, uh, you know, Filipinx characters in the public sphere. But what happened was S- Shannon Sossamon, the actress Shannon Sossamon, uh, was originally slated to play the main character, who is an undocumented, uh, Filipina maid, right? But something happened during the initial table read, so they end up casting Elodie Yung, who's, uh, French Cambodian. So they changed the character a little bit, but when you look at the setting, it's set in Los Angeles. It's really a Filipino family. And my argument when I look at popular media and colorism is that oftentimes in popular media when they're trying to introduce Filipino, Filipinx characters, it's done through the mixed race body. It's done through a mixed race person, right? So for those of you who may be familiar with Shannon Sossamon, she's mixed race. She's a mixed race Filipina, but she's very white-passing, and it's usually mixed race white-passing or mixed race white-pleasing, what I call white-pleasing, uh, Filipinos that popular culture suddenly becomes interested in us, right? [00:16:45] And that's what we see in a show like The Cleaning Lady. In the next few months, I think Jo Koy, uh, is going to have a movie called, um, I think it's called Easter Sunday. And again, Jo Koy, very Filipino, right? It, it's ingrained in his comedy. But what makes, what allows his fame to happen in the United States is that he's very white-passing and white-pleasing, very different from someone like a Rex Navarette, whose career is much longer, right, than someone like a Jo Koy, right? So there's definitely colorism at play, right? But when we're looking at the intimate spaces, the way colorism plays out in the Filipinx community, it's the lighter skinned Filipino discriminating against the darker skinned Filipino. In the Asian American community, it's the Chinese person discriminating against the, the Cambodian person, right? So there, there's these different levels of, of colorism at play. Colorism, um… It's important to know that colorism is the discriminatory system that makes anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism exist. It actually maintains anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism. And the reason why this is important is, one, when we look at anti-Black racism, and you, you're hearing this a lot, you know, um, either in academic circles or even in, uh, sort of, um, more popular conversations. I feel that it's important to talk about anti-Black racism in conjunction with anti-Indigenous racism because they happen hand in hand. And when we look at the founding of the United States, for example, the founding of this country happens through the genocide of Indigenous peoples as well as the enslavement of African peoples. So they're not separate. They come together. And so when we're looking at colorism, the system of colorism, right? Colorism is what, is what allows anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism to exist Um, what makes, um… And, and, and we see this through the different, uh, colonial periods of the Philippines. There's something very distinct about colorism in the Filipinx community, and it really has to do with our, um, our, our colonial history. [00:19:25] And so on the worksheet, there's just a very sort of like quick and dirty kind of list of like these three major periods of colonization in the Philippines. What I really wanna ta- uh, point to is the role of the Chinese throughout these historical periods in the Philippines. Because, um, typically when you talk about colorism, uh, colorism is most prevalent in, um, the African American community and the Black diaspora. But there's something very distinct about Filipinx colorism, and it's that our notion of lightness is defined by Eurocentric standards of beauty, right? And this is because of Spanish colonization. But it's also defined by Chinese standards of beauty or East Asian standards of beauty, and this is because of the positioning of the Chinese throughout these colonial periods. Because the Chinese, um, historically were the, um, were the merchant class, they were often elevated above indigenous Filipinos, right? And so that's why today in the Philippines when you see people who are in power and you look at the mixed race or mestizo, you know, uh, the mixed race people who are in power in the Philippines, they're often, uh, mixed race Chinese, right? And that's because of the, the legacy and the presence of Chinese in the Philippines. And so it's, um, it's, it's the history of the Chinese in the Philippines, th- these notions of Chinese lightness that really make colorism in the Philippines and among Filipinx very distinct. Uh, it's a very distinct conversation. [00:21:14] Um, uh, I wanted to pause and say if you have any questions or if I'm going too quickly, feel free to, you know, put this in the chat, and I will try to address it, um, as I go along. Um, in– At the beginning of the talk, I asked how many of you were told, “Don't stay out in the sun.” And for those of you who said that you were told this, by show of hands, how many of you heard this in the context of family? How many of you were told this in the context of friends or any other intimate, uh, setting? ‘Cause oftentimes these messages are circulated among the family. And so When w- uh, and again, like colorism, you know, relative to racism, colorism has a very… There is this intimate aspect because oftentimes how we understand our own value and our own self-worth has to do with the messages that are articulated in the family, right? So, uh, one of the interviews that I had conducted, uh, was this, with this woman who when I conducted the interview, this was in the Philippines, and she worked in the entertainment industry in the Philippines. And she, um She, uh, had talked about how her lola would address her and her cousins. So the woman I interviewed, very light skin, light eyes, light hair, and that's why she's an entertainer in the Philippines. [00:22:47] She's a model, and at the time she was hosting a television show. And she said that growing up, her lola always called her Miss Universe, right? And it was because of the way that she looked. Her lola would call her cousin, who was, um, like Spanish mestiza, sh- so, uh, this person who I called Tyler, Tyler was Miss Universe. Her cousin was Miss Philippines 'cause she was mestiza, and then Tyler's sister was Miss Cebu. So here, you know, like… And this is very blatant, and I'm not saying that all families are like this, but here you have this very explicit example of, a lola articulating the differences between these three young girls. Queen of the universe, queen of the Philippines, queen of the province. And in her interview, Tyler had said, “Yeah, it was very clear that Lola had her favorites, and it was in the way that she designated you in this spectrum of, like, these sort of beauty queen titles,” right? In another interview that I had, uh, conducted there, and this was an interview here in, um, the United States, uh, I- in the research I called her Milen. Milen talked about how whenever there was a dance or prom or something like that, there was this whole process of, you know, her and her brothers having to go to Lola's house so that Lola could see, you know, what everyone was wearing and that there could be pictures. But what was very clear was, um, Milen's youngest brother was clear… [00:24:29] You know, her words were, “He was clearly not a favorite,” and this was largely because he was darker. He was often omitted from the photos. Um, Lola didn't really care about what he was wearing and things like that. She always put attention to Milen, who was very light-skinned, uh, and her two brothers who are also very light-skinned. So there's a very central role in which the family plays in how we understand, um, colorism and how we understand personal value And so as I was, uh, exploring this, uh, in sociology there's a term called the beauty cue, and the beauty cue is a system of classification. It's a societal system of classification that classifies women from lightest to dark to, you know, from most valuable to least valuable. And so what I did using this theory that Margaret Hunter had wr- uh, she wrote about, I added to this conversation by talking about the intimate beauty cue, because the beauty cue itself is about a societal, uh, a societal structure, but the intimate beauty cue is how we understand our value, how our notions of beauty are created in the most intimate spaces. [00:25:47] And the reason why this is important to look at is because I think each and every one of us can, um, we can look at the TV and we can look at societal messages and say, “Yes, that's how society understands beauty, but that's not me because I'm my own person.” But in the intimate space among family and friends, when you're getting the messages that you're not beautiful or you're not valuable and it's coming from an unconditional love space such as the family, therein lies the problem and why colorism is such an intimate issue, because these are messages that are articulated by people, usually by people that you love or by people that you're closest to. [00:26:35] There is a gendered aspect to colorism. Women in families are often seen as being more responsible for, um, you know, for beauty or engaging in beauty practices over men. However, men do… You know, like, there is some pressure for men Uh, when we look at colorism in popular media, again, in the US sphere, the few chances we get to see Filipinos or Filipinx in popular media, they are oftentimes light-skinned, mixed-race people, such as, and again, the example of, um, The Cleaning Lady. We have the example of Jo Koy and his future projects. It's not until we get into the independent sphere that we can see more variation. But when major institutions such as, uh, a Fox network or Netflix is trying to introduce a public to the Filipinx community, they're gonna go with what they feel is safe, and it's usually someone who's light-skinned, someone who is white passing, someone who's white pleasing, right? You know, there is something about, uh, the way in which popular media uses the mixed-race person or the mixed-race body. When you look at skin-lightening advertisements, oftentimes it's a mixed-race person that is being used to model such products. Uh, this is over t- I think it's over 10 years ago now. Um, there is a company in the Philippines called Glutamax, and when they launched their line, they used a mixed-race, um, Black Filipina model named Jinkee Oda. [00:28:27] And what they did was they showed the sort of before and after, and one of the taglines in the advertisement in Tagalog, it said, “You could be white like me,” because it showed this progression of her being dark-skinned and then being light-skinned. And again, like, here for this particular, um, product, you're seeing the usage of, um, you know, that, that progression. It harks to very old, uh, beauty advertisements that, um, sold products specifically to Black women, um, you know, especially skin-lightening products to Black women. So there's, there's a way in which the mixed-race person is often used to sell beauty, to sell product, to sell, to sell us our notions of, um, lightness Having said that, I'm not trying to demonize the mixed race person. I, you know, I, I don't think it's fair to, um, I do not think it's fair to, for example, um, boycott Jo- Jo Koy because he's so fair, right? [00:29:35] Or, um, yes, I love that comment, how we lift up Olivia Rodrigo, but our love for her or Saweetie is very, is, it's fairly limited. Exactly. You know, um, you know, like, I, I don't want to attack the person, but if you're light, you cannot… You, you have to recognize the amount of privilege that you have, right? Um, and then when we're looking at skin lightening products, again, like this is a global, um, this is a, you know, a multi-billion dollar global industry. Um, in 2018 it was valued at 8.3 billion. 2022, those numbers have gone, have gone up. Um, and as of late there has been a lot of talk about, uh, skin lightening products for various reasons. Globally it's because that market is so high, but here in the United States this has become an issue because skin lightening products and the usage and sale of skin lightening products has actually reached our policies. [00:30:41] So for example, uh, the CARES Act. Um, because of the work of… Excuse me Because of the work of Ilhan Omar in the CARES Act, what, um, what was able to happen was the enforcement of the usage of a particular ingredient called hydroquinone. So this ingredient, uh, it's a derivative of mercury, which is very harmful to the skin. Um, this is a very popular ingredient that is used by a lot of, uh, skincare professionals. Now there's an enforcement about how you can buy or have access to this particular, uh, ingredient. So skin-lightening products and the, the conversation about skin-lightening products has been a huge issue as of late. Um, I wanna end with two thoughts, and it's this. I want you to, to reflect, and I know this was a lot of me talking. I want you to reflect on the way in which we articulate ideas of colorism on a daily basis. I want you to think about, you know, just, uh, a few weeks ago, for those of you who may have gathered with family, what are the ways in which you've heard these, you know, certain ideas about colorism articulated? It's often, “Oh, this, uh, this person is so beautiful.” Sometimes there's a comparison of children. Sometimes when you're greeted by the people you love, there's comments about, oh, how dark or light you've gotten. Um, included in the conversations about colorism is body size, how much weight you have or have not lost. You know, um, the, this is all part of the c- colorism conversation. There's a daily… There's a way in which we articulate ideas of colorism on a daily basis. I want you to reflect on, um, the beauty practices that we engage in, you know? If we… You know, like, if I dye my hair blonde or if I wear, you know, green contacts, what is my reason behind it? [00:32:50] Is it because I want to engage in a sense of play? Or is it because I'm trying to escape a part of my identity, right? These are, these are important questions for us to ask because these are the daily, everyday ways that we, um, sort of, we contribute to these ideas of colorism. Um, and that, um, I believe is connected to the everyday practice of anti-racism, right? Um, you know, it's important to understand that, like, there's no end because, you know, with respect to colorism, this is a systemic issue. And so what we have to do is tackle it piece by piece. Sometimes it's about the practices that we engage in, uh, individually, but it's also about the way in which we engage with the people around us. With respect to colorism, because it's so intimate, right, it's about having the hard conversations, um, with the people that we love the most, right? Our friends and family [00:33:55] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Dr. Randilia. You know, I actually have a, a question. I'm wondering, Jo-Ann, do you feel, especially with increasingly more, um, kind of mixed race, uh, especially kind of Black and Filipinx, um, figures, um, you know, uh, in popular culture, is your sense that there is a shifting around colorism, um, or not? [00:34:28] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: I think that there's small shifts, right? So I think of, uh, for… And I'm looking at the com- the comment, the Magandang Morenx, and then also, you know, we, we do have like, um, you know, the, the Black and Filipinx sort of mixed race entertainers like her and Saweetie. Um, also, uh, there's some no- notable athletes that are Black and, um, Filipinx. Like, I think of, I think of their popularity as moments as opposed to actual, like, movements, right? And the reason being is because white supremacy is so prevalent, it's going to take so much to dismantle that system, right? The magnitude of, of white supremacy is, is beyond anything that we can, you know, like, we can quantify, right? And so, um, I, you know, like, so I, I think of, uh, I, I think of something like the Magandang Morenx movement, I think that they're important. I, I think of them more as moments because… And it's not because, uh, they're not powerful. It's because white supremacy is just so prevalent, right? Um, and so, and I, I don't mean to be the pessimist in, in that, you know. [00:35:50] Um, I think the way that we, the way we move forward is to do the heart and soul work, right? To do the anti-racist work, to recognize the ways in which, um, we contribute to anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, but to make the conscious decision that this is gonna, like, I, I'm going to work towards eradicating it e- while knowing that eradication may not happen in your lifetime. And I'd hate to be the pessimist. It's not gonna happen in our lifetimes. But our jobs right now is to plant the seeds towards that vision, right? It's to plant the seeds to make these moments the actual movement, to make it so overwhelming to white supremist systems that white supremist systems have no choice but to go away. But it takes so much, um, so much seed planting. Um- [00:36:49] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: So Joanna, it looks like there's two questions that are sort of interrelated, and both, I think you probably saw them, um, kind of connect with concretely, you know, some ideas around or strategies around addressing, um, both colorism and anti-Blackness in the intimate space of the family or among friends, et cetera. [00:37:10] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: Okay. Think that is an excellent, uh, question and something that I have grappled with and, you know, is very close to my heart. The first thing I'll say is there's no easy way to bring this up with family and friends, right? Especially, you know, um, in our families, especially in our respective families. Um, how… I mean, you know your moms and dads, you know your lolas. You, you know them, and you know they're hella stubborn, right? Like… And so the advice that I have is this: It's impossible to change someone's mind. What you can do is model certain behavior, right? What you can do is model certain language, right? And that alone will speak volumes- Yeah because you are not gonna change, you know, maybe you're not gonna change, like, your lolo or lola's mind. But the people around you are listening. And so here, here's an example, right? Um- W- uh, for me, e- especially in, like, having these conversations with my mom, because she's very much the driving force, uh, for a lot of the research that I do, you know, um, I know my mom, and I know that if I make her feel like crap, like if I make her feel stupid or if I make her feel like, um, what she's saying is old and antiquated, I, I know that I'm not gonna get through to her. [00:38:36] So what I had to do with my mom was event- was create a love language of understanding, right? Because by creating a love language of understanding the ways in which, like, some of her comments have hurt me, when I started to actually honestly articulate my pain, it's not that my mom let go of some of these ideas, but she started to create an understanding of the impact of her words. And what that did was it changed the way she would… Like, she wouldn't say the things she would say. She wouldn't tell me how dark I was. She wouldn't make comments about, like, me being fat or whatever, right? Because she understood, she understood the impact of that. And as I started to, to realize, like, okay, we may not come to an agreement, but there's a love language that we can speak to, that's how I started seeing changes in, in the way that we interact, right? [00:39:33] Um, and so you can't change someone's ideas, but what you can do is plant seeds and sort of, and really stand your ground in terms of how you feel about certain ideas, right? But you have to do that in a love language 'cause Filipinos, the language we speak is love, right? So that, I, I think that's, that's what's important. It- You have to understand that you may not change someone's mind, but you're also making it so that the people around are listening. ‘Cause I see the way that, like, my niece, you know, my nieces and nephews, they had just… They have such a better way of dealing with my mom when she would say terrible racist things, right? They had a better way of communicating with her and articulating their, their frustration and their anger, and it would change. It may not have always changed my mother's ideas, but it definitely changed her behavior, and it changed her consciousness, and I think that that's all we can really do, um, is develop that love language. [00:40:39] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: And if I may, if, uh, if I can just also add, you know, I, I, I think what you said is absolutely spot on and really resonates, um, Joanne. And, and I would add also, I think that there's something, um, really important about how these broader social movements can also- [00:40:55] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: Mm-hmm … [00:40:56] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: become so important. I mean, so just in my own family, you know, my eldest was, uh, biracial, Black Filipino. And, um, of course, having a biracial, uh, grandson didn't necessarily mean that my mother could also grapple with her own deep anti-Blackness. Um, and it was always a struggle. And, and I agree with Joanne. Sometimes, you know, it is really understanding the particularities of the, of your own dynamic with, with specific intimates in your circle and understanding that certain kinds of lo-lov-love languages open up possibilities for conversation whi- whereas other approaches close off. But I do have to say, you know My mother, you know, is going to be 79. It really took, it took all the movements that happened- Mm-hmm … in response to the George Floyd murder, it took all of the movements around anti-Asian hate for my mother for the very first time, and this is some- You know, I'm her daughter. I've been teaching around race and talking about race. I, you know, I, I produced a biracial grandson for her, right? Um, and it– we could never have real frank conversations about white supremacy, could not really touch it, you know? There was a way that my mother didn't want to, to name white supremacy as something that actually shaped her life. And, you know, those are really com- there may be complicated reasons for that, but being able to name that was always really, really hard. Talking about anti-Blackness was hard. But all of those movements did something for her, and it shifted things in ways that I thought w-were going to be impossible at, by the time- Yeah you know, in her period of life. And not only did she– was she able to have some real kind of honest conversations, but she actually became a kind of advocate, and then used her own platforms to start conversations about white supremacy, um, and kind of race in our community. So I guess that's to say that it's not entirely hopeless, you know? [00:42:57] I think- Yeah … it is true change can be slow. It can be incremental. It comes in these gentle kinds of ways, um, over time that require a lot of love and patience. And couple that with, I think, also kind of these movements that are also equally invi- uh, important to grow, um, that together that you can see change is, is really absolutely possible. Um, so, you know, just to kind of share that. But it, it is. You know, it's so hard 'cause even within a family where there are biracial, uh, family members, right? It– that isn't itself even going to necessarily change even when they have, right, a loved one, um, that ought to be- Yeah … challenging that for them. [00:43:44] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: Yeah, absolutely. And I think, too, um, you know, another thing that helped me, especially, you know, like with my mom… So when I did the research, I did spend some time in the Philippines, and my mom came with me, right? So seeing my mom's very light-skinned, um, you know, uh, Filipina navigate the Philippines. And so I just wanna say for the record, I know I look really light, and it's because we're in COVID, and your girl has not had some sun, okay? Like just, just so that… ‘Cause I'm looking at them like, “God, yeah,” like I know I look light. I swear, you know, I'll show you pictures. But, you know, um, I, I didn't– At the time when my mom came with me to the Philippines, I did not realize how important it was for me to observe her in the Philippines because I was able to get these glimpses of my mom before she was a mom, right? And I was able to understand, like, okay, like… So one of the sort of things that I learned was, like, all these hurtful things that, like, my mom would say to me about the way that I look and what have you, I learned that part of the reason why she leaned in so hard to, with me is because when we would travel, you know, like go around to, like, malls or whatever in the Philippines, people would always tell her, “Oh my gosh,” like, “your daughter looks just like you.” [00:45:09] And, like, if my mom were sitting next to me, and you can see this in, like, uh, photos with the two of us, like she's very vanilla, and next to her I look like burnt caramel. And I think that there was something about the embodiment of my body size, 'cause I'm big, you know, and, and my, my darker skin tone. It's almost like I was the physical embodiment of everything that she had feared and everything that she was told you should not. And for her, it was confronting, like, I gave birth to this, to this person who's everything that I, you know, that I was told was wrong, right? And so I think I, I… You know, like just watching her navigate, I began to understand, like, the context in which she was raised. I, I started to understand the messaging that she, uh, was, was given. Because when I finished the dissertation, I, I felt like I finished the dissertation at a place where I could actually forgive my mother for all the things that she would say about me. I c- I could forgive her for, like, the comments that she would make because all those things that she imposed onto me was a product of her own pain, and I was able to have something that she did not have, which is a sense of healing. ‘Cause until her very last breath, she was so trapped by these notions of beauty. She was so trapped by needing to be beautiful because this was the constant messaging that she was given, right? And so What we can offer, you know, and the way that we, um, the way that we engage in our sense of healing, especially with the people that we love, really comes down to I know that when my mom left the world, I planted all the seeds that I needed to plant in her, right? I know… Sorry. I know that I have this healing, something that she could not have. I know that her grandchildren don't have to suffer the pain that she did. So I think understanding our family, right? Understanding, like, um, you know, uh, the people, our family and friends, understanding them in that respect, putting into context the reason why they do the painful things we do, choosing how w- choosing the way in which we heal from the things that they did to us, that's all we can really do, right? And all of this, I think, and I'd hate to sound so cheesy but all of this is encased in, like, this deep, profound sense of the love that we have for ourselves, the love that we have for each other. In the midst of confronting immense colonial legacies that time and time again tell us that we are not worth it, right? If we can find that light, and if we can find that value, and if we can share that value with the people around us, that's all we can really do. [00:48:20] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: Joanne. [00:48:25] Thank you. [00:48:26] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: Sorry about that. [00:48:27] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: You don't have to apologize. I think that's one thing about this space, Bulosan's space, the School for Liberating Education, is we all do this out of deep, deep, deep love, right? That that's the whole purpose- Yeah … of being able to host, um, share s- to create space like this, to share space like this. Um, we all know, um, people like you, me, uh, those of us who chose this path into academia, we didn't do this because we wanted to produce knowledge for an institution that wasn't built for and by us. [00:49:00] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: Mm-hmm. [00:49:00] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: But it was precisely to produce knowledge that could heal and liberate our people. Yeah. And so, you know, so appropriate for you to feel all of those feelings, and that's why it was so important to have you here, because this is such, uh, for so many of us, a deeply, deeply hurtful kind of… We s- we struggle with this, and I think what I- [00:49:25] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: Mm-hmm … [00:49:26] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: What's so valuable, what you bring to the table is it's so much more complicated than the colorism. There are all of the ways in which colorism intersects with class, intersects with body. I, I mean, you know, even the whole notion of, like, the magandang morenx. I mean, you know, that there are even these fine distinctions that exist in the Philippines about the morena mestiza. You know? Like, that was, like, the, the way that I would get, like, weirdly, like, sideways complimented. Like, “Oh, she's a morena mestiza, though,” you know? Mm-hmm. What does that mean? But, you know, our bodies, um, are subject to such scrutiny within at least that context, and even in this context, right? We're constantly dealing with… We're actually dealing with multiple contexts, right? Contexts, Filipinx folks in the diaspora, where our bodies are subject to examination and evaluation- Mm-hmm … every single day, and we subjected ourselves also, our bodies to- Yeah … these valuations all the time. And, you know, um, and we do this work because we're trying to find, you know, a way out, right? [00:50:29] A way, um, to heal all those, um, bits of hurt and brokenness and, you know- I mean, thank you so much, uh, Joanne, for not just sharing your amazing research, but also your heart with us. And I think I can m- I can feel that, um, people came away with, uh, from today with just that much more, um, just healing. And, you know, that's the point. That is why we do what we do here. Yeah. Um, uh, that's why we created, uh, the Balosan Center and, um, why I launched the School for Liberating Education. Um, this is the whole, this is the reason why we do this. And so I, with that, I do wanna thank everybody for joining us, um, and, you know, really invite everyone to continue to follow, uh, the work, um, that we're doing at the Balosan Center, what we're doing at the School for Liberating Education. [00:51:27] The next major thing actually is next week. So my next book is coming out, um, on Asian American activism. Uh, it's actually really cool to talk about coming full circle, Jo-Ann, because basically this is a collab between our professor, our old professor, um, when we were undergrads at UC Santa Barbara, Diane Fujino and I, um, ended up collaborating on a couple things, and this is the latest collab, which is a anthology on Asian American activism. And one of the things I'm doing is launching a mini course, um, on Asian American activism, uh, that's based on the book, but also stuff I've done, um, on activism. So next week, I guess on Thursday, we're officially launching, um, the, the new, uh, the registration for the new course. And so we're launching it with this conversation I have with, um, Art Nagin Concordia, who is the godfather of ethnic studies in the K through 12 system, basically the ninong of ethnic studies in K through 12. Uh, was one of the key authors for the ethnic studies model curriculum and does m- uh, ethnic studies work at Santa Barbara, actually, also with Diane. So anyway, um, that's coming up next week. But do keep following, um, you know, the, the work that we're doing. This is, uh, you know, such important work, um, supporting our scholars and our artists, our community historians. And again, thank you so much, Jo-Ann. Yeah, no. I really think we have our real, real conversation. ‘Cause one of the projects I always wanted to do is, uh – [00:53:09] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: Yes. [00:53:09] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: No, thank you … a podcast that gets real, real, like real, real. Yes. Like, let's really talk about- [00:53:13] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: Just so you know, you're- … those [00:53:14] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: real stories … [00:53:15] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: you're looking at, like, 25 years- of friendship, so I know lots of, uh, Robyn's secrets. I have lots of pictures 'cause I- Yeah. Oh, my God … was very good at documenting these things. [00:53:24] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: You, you did that photo shoot of my… I think you did a before and after of my ja- my, my, my eyebrows. [00:53:30] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: I have a photo of you, like, in a, in a, like, a face mask. [00:53:34] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: Yes. Yes, yes. You can- So- If, if, if I look this good coming on 50- … it's because Joanne taught me about makeup and skincare regimens. [00:53:46] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: Well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna launch a course on my skincare regimen. [00:53:51] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: Oh my God. [00:53:54] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: Skincare after your 30s, right? [00:53:57] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: No, seriously, I'm about to launch, I'm not, I'm not even joking. I'm totally launching a whole, uh, journey to 50, so y'all can come because I, I'm, I'm, I'm going. I'm getting there. As of next, or the week after next, it's T minus 365 days to 50. So join in the fun. Anyway, Joanne, it's so great to see you. I wish I could give you a big hug. Uh, [00:54:21] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: well, we'll see each other soon hopefully. [00:54:23] Dr. Robyn Rodriguez: I can't wait to, like, really break bread with you because- Yes … you know, I always know I eat well when I'm with you. Like, I r- I will still- I still dream about the ice cream, that homemade ice cream you make. Like, nothing compares ever again to the ice cream that I consumed that you make. So thanks again. Thanks everyone. [00:54:43] Dr. Joanne Rondilla: Thank you so much everybody. Hope to see you. Thank you. [00:54:58] Miko Lee: Please check out our website, kpfa.org/program/apexexpress to find out more about our show and our guests tonight. We thank all of you listeners out there. Keep resisting, keep organizing, keep creating, and sharing your visions with the world because your voices are important. Apex Express is produced by Ayame Keane-Lee, Anuj Vaidya, Cheryl Truong, Isabel Li, Jalena Keane-Lee, Miko Lee, Miata Tan, Preti Mangala-Shekar and Swati Rayasam. Tonight's show was produced by me Miko Lee, and edited by Ayame Keane-Lee. Have a great night. The post APEX Express – 8.27.26. Dr. Robynn's Spitting Fire on Colorism appeared first on KPFA.
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In this episode of the Sumud Podcast, we sit down with Eman Mabrouk for a powerful conversation about injustice, identity, humanitarian work, anti-Blackness, and the responsibility to speak up. Eman shares her experience fighting for hijab rights, witnessing the treatment of African migrant women, and confronting the racism, exploitation, and silence she encountered across the region. She also discusses how these experiences shaped her understanding of advocacy and solidarity. The conversation explores the kafala system, the treatment of migrant workers, the humanitarian crises affecting vulnerable communities, and the importance of looking beyond the issues most visible to the public. Eman also explains her work with the Rammun Foundation, how to responsibly vet humanitarian organizations, and why real change requires organizing, accountability, and solidarity across communities. Eman Mabrouk, formerly known as Eman B. Fendi has built her career around one instinct: taking care of people. First through fashion. Now through humanitarian relief. Mabrouk built her styling career, working shows, athletes, and influencers, while simultaneously pursuing her degrees in neuropsychology. The two ran in parallel: a passion for people and a background in the mind shaping how she worked with clients, on set and off. Her talent for styling the body was matched by an ethos for styling the mind. Today Mabrouk leads Rammun Foundation, a humanitarian nonprofit delivering relief across Gaza, Sudan, and Egypt. She also runs Amaanah & Co, a strategic creative consultancy, and Collective Souk, a community and product platform.Three ventures. One throughline: seeing people, and showing up for them. In this conversation, we explore → Eman's experience with arrest, discrimination, and the fight for hijab rights → How a painful experience at 19 became a case that helped protect other Muslim women → Eman's experiences witnessing the treatment of African migrant women and racial hierarchies → The kafala system, exploitation of migrant workers, and vulnerability during times of conflict → The culture of denial surrounding injustice and the need for humanitarian accountability → Eman's work with the Rammun Foundation, humanitarian relief, and responsible giving → Why meaningful solidarity requires organizing, building coalitions, and taking action Sponsored by The Karate Attorney (@karateattorney) fighting for justice inside and outside the courtroom. Visit KarateAttorney.com
Last week, we asked whether Black institutions and communities can establish standards without falling into respectability politics.Apparently… y'all had A LOT to say.After our discussion surrounding Tuskegee University, bonnets, durags, community accountability, and Black standards, the backlash came quickly—and this week, the TMC crew is addressing it head-on.When does encouraging higher standards become policing Blackness?Can we criticize behaviors within our own community without being labeled anti-Black?Does every conversation about professionalism automatically center the “white gaze,” or is there room for Black people to establish expectations for ourselves on our own terms?And maybe the biggest question:Have we reached a point where accountability itself is being treated as disrespect?The crew responds to the criticism, clarifies where we stand, and digs even deeper into the uncomfortable tension between community standards, cultural identity, respectability politics, and self-determination.Before things get heated, we kick off the episode with some classic TMC shenanigans, including predictions for Donell Jones vs. Joe, thoughts on Jonathan Majors' career trajectory, and more.Later, The Shenanigan Report leads us into another heartbreaking conversation surrounding Black safety, violence, and the lessons we continue being forced to learn.In this episode:
This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing!In part 1 we looked at the basics of the Look AHEAD Trial of weight loss to improve cardiovascular outcomes. The trial was cancelled 9.6 years into its intended 13.5 year follow up for “futility” when analysis found no statistically significant difference in cardiovascular outcomes between a group that engaged in “intensive” caloric restriction, exercise, and, in some cases, diet drugs, and a group that got three counseling sessions a year about diabetes management.One of the claims that I often see people make is that the group that maintained at least a 10% loss had better outcomes. We saw this recently in the write-up of the Foundayo trial, in which they claimed, without context that “patients who had a weight loss of 10% or more through a lifestyle intervention had a 21% reduction in cardiovascular events.” I mentioned in that piece that this was an analysis of a small subgroup. There are some real caveats around this and other claims about the 10% weight loss group so let's dig into it.For this we'll look at “Four-year weight losses in the Look AHEAD study: factors associated with long-term success” by Wadden et al.As always I'll indent the quotes so you can skip the weight stigma. In their writing ILI is the abbreviation for the weight loss group and DSE is the abbreviation for the control group.In general they discuss the weight loss:“At year 4, 35% of ILI and 18% of DSE participants achieved the study-wide goal of losing ≥7% of initial weight (P < 0.0001), and 23% and 10%, respectively, lost ≥10% (P < 0.0001).”Said another way, the study goal was to produce weight loss of just 7% or more of body weight and 65% of the people who were subjected to these “intensive” interventions including diet drugs didn't hit even that modest goal. Also, 23% of the ILI group lost 10% or more of body weight, but 10% of people in the control group that didn't do any of these interventions did so as well. This again raises questions about the necessity of such extreme restriction even for people who believe that weight loss creates health benefits (which, again, this study does not show, since there is no way to determine if any health differences are from weight loss or behaviors, and research that actually sought to answer that question found no relationship between small amounts of weight loss and health changes in correlational analysis, and posited that it was more likely that behaviors, social support, and engagement in the healthcare system were likely to be driving the health outcomes.)The authors of the Look AHEAD paper also point out that:“significantly more DSE than ILI participants (45% vs. 26%) had gained above their baseline weight at year 4 (all P values < 0.001)”What they aren't being clear about is that the DSE (control) group had modest weight gain from baseline while not participating in a weight loss intervention. Meanwhile, just four years in, more than a quarter the ILI (intervention) group weighed more than when they started. Now, there is nothing wrong with being higher-weight or gaining weight, but I would say that there is something seriously wrong with a so-called healthcare intervention that subjects people to “intensive” food restriction, physical activity, and diet drugs and then has the opposite of the intended effect for at least 26% of the participants. This particularly does not age well given that we now know that the intervention would be cancelled for futility for failing to impact the intended health outcomes.When it comes to the group who lost 10% the Look AHEAD authors write that:“[Figure] 3 shows 887 ILI participants who lost ≥10% of initial weight in the first year and shows the number of these participants who achieved a loss of this size at year 4 (N = 374) or, alternatively, maintained losses of 5.0–9.9% (N = 251), 0–4.9% (N = 174), or gained above their baseline weight (N = 88). As shown, fully 42% of this subsample achieved a loss ≥10% at year 4, and a total of 70.5% maintained a loss ≥5%. It should be made clear that “fully 42% of this subsample” refers to 42% of 35% of the original sample. So out of the 2570 original people in the intervention arm, 887 participants (about 35%) lost ≥ 10% at year 1. But at year four, only 374 (about 14.5% of the original group) were still at 10%.Percentage wise, that means fewer than half of the people who had lost 10% or more of their body weight in the first year were still at or over 10% by year four and that, overall, only about 15% of the total group managed 10% weight loss for even 4 years. But there is more to this story, let's look at their Figure 3A that shows the weight trajectory of this group:Image text: Figure 3 A. Weight loss trajectories over 4 years in the 887 participants in the Intensive Lifestyle Intervention (ILI) who, at year 1, lost ≥ 10% of initial weight. The figure shows the number of participants who, at year 4, maintained a loss of 10% or more of initial weight (N = 374), of 5.0–9.9% (N = 251), or of 0–4.9% (N = 174) or who gained above their baseline weight (N = 88).You'll note that everyone has regained from their low point, 9.9% (88 people) had already regained more weight than they lost and the majority are still on a trajectory to continue to gain weight after this follow up.If we go back to their quote, they claim that this figure shows percentages of people who “maintained losses of 5.0–9.9% (N = 251), 0–4.9% (N = 174).” I do not think that the word “maintained” reflects the reality that these people's weight trajectory is going straight up. Catching a group of people at 5% weight loss on their way up is not the same thing as “maintaining” a 5% weight loss.Content note: This next section talks about calories, exercise, disordered eating/eating disorders, if that may be harmful to you you can scroll down to “Discussion.”The researchers note that “Participants who maintained the [10%] loss, compared with those who did not, attended more treatment sessions and reported more favorable physical activity and food intake at year 4.”Again, this begs the question as to whether behavior or weight loss actually created any health difference. It also begs another, much more troubling question. Below is their Figure 4 which shows the characteristics of the subset of subjects who took self-reported surveys about their food and exercise behaviors. Note that those who maintained a 10% loss in general were consuming about 1565.5 calories a day (fewer than the 1,570 calories subjects in the Minnesota STARVATION study were given during the starvation stage) and burning about 2,000 calories weekly through exercise. Applying the Paffenburger Activity Questionnaire that these authors are using to the Minnesota STARVATION study participants, those participants were expending about 2200 calories per week. One thing the authors don't mention in this sub analysis, or the original analysis, is the possibility that they created disordered eating/eating disorders in part of their population and then celebrated it as “long-term success.”DiscussionThe first sentence of their discussion section states:“Participants in the Intensive Lifestyle Intervention achieved a 4.7% reduction in initial weight at year 4. This loss is among the largest reported at this length of follow-up for individuals in a randomized controlled trial who were treated by a lifestyle intervention”I do not think that this is the flex they think it is. Giving people less food and similar activity to a study on starvation over four years produces 4.7% weight loss - an amount of weight that some people fluctuate monthly through their menstrual cycle? The phrase “who cares?” comes to mind.To further demonstrate the issues with this study, in the discussion section these authors compare their “maintainers” to the National Weight Control Registry which I have discussed before as perhaps the worst example of the truly ridiculous methodology that passes for “science” when it comes to weight loss and health.In general, when people cite the Look AHEAD study as proof of efficacy of weight loss interventions, you can suggest that they look back at the actual findings of the study. Even these authors are honest that “Look AHEAD's study design prevents us from definitively determining the contribution to long-term weight loss of the lifestyle intervention's different treatment components.” What they aren't so clear about is that Look AHEAD's study design prevents them from knowing if weight loss had anything to do with any of the health benefits.Especially since, as we talked about in part 1, research finds that weight-neutral interventions can produce similar or greater benefits with less risk. In general, whenever someone claims that a study shows that weight loss creates health benefits, the first question you can ask is “what mechanism was used to determine whether weight loss or behavior change created the differences in outcomes?” If there isn't one, then they can't conclude that weight loss did anything at all.If you want to learn how to read between the lines of weight and health research, this month's online workshop is about exactly that. I'll teach you the basics of breaking down research and analyzing media article and social media to break through the BS and get to the truth of what the research finds (and what it doesn't). There is a pay-what-you-can option so money isn't a barrier and all registrants get a video. Details and Registration here!If you appreciate the work I do here, you can support my ability to do it by becoming a free or paid subscriber!Liked the piece? Share the piece!More researchThe Research PostMore resourcesThe Resource Post*Note on language: I use “fat” as a neutral descriptor as used by the fat activist community, I use “ob*se” and “overw*ight” to acknowledge that these are terms that were created to medicalize and pathologize fat bodies, with roots in racism and specifically anti-Blackness. Please read Sabrina Strings' Fearing the Black Body – the Racial Origins of Fat Phobia and Da'Shaun Harrison's Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness for more on this. 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During our Season 9 hiatus, we've been covering the Paul Gulacy era of Master of Kung Fu. Episodes 2-14 have free previews on our public feed. Become a Patron if you want to hear the full episodes, plus over 200 extended and exclusive bonus episodes! Stories Covered in this Episode: "Brass and Blackness (A Death Move!)" - Master of Kung Fu #51, written by Doug Moench, art by Jim Craig with Pablo Marcos, letters by Denise Wohl, colors by Don Warfield, edited by Archie Goodwin, ©1976 Marvel Comics "MASTER (of Kung Fu) by the Month" theme written and performed by Robb Milne. All incidental music by Robb Milne. Visit us on the internet (and buy some stuff) at marvelbythemonth.com, follow us on Bluesky at @marvelbythemonth.com and Instagram (for now) at @marvelbythemonth, and support us on Patreon at patreon.com/marvelbythemonth. Much of our historical context information comes from Wikipedia. Please join us in supporting them at wikimediafoundation.org. And many thanks to Mike's Amazing World of Comics, an invaluable resource for release dates and issue information. (RIP Mike.)
Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and actress Ann Nesby joins me for an inspiring conversation about her incredible journey in music and faith.From her church roots to becoming the powerful lead vocalist of Sounds of Blackness, to her successful solo career, Ann shares the story behind her remarkable musical journey, offers valuable advice for artists about life on the road, discusses her inspiring new inspirational single "Amen," and reflects on the experiences that have strengthened her faith along the way.Don't miss this uplifting conversation. It will encourage your soul.
This week we're getting into the conversations people love to avoid.We're talking about bad parenting and what children are actually owed, the difference between Christ and the institution of the church while unpacking the church's history with anti-Blackness, and why your friends might be giving you validation when what you really need is confirmation.If every opinion feels like a personal attack, this episode might challenge you—and that's kind of the point.
Dr. J. Drew Lanham is an academic, poet, creative writer, curator, ornithologist and, in his words, “trending feral.” He joins us to talk about poetry, particularly his own poetry that unravels themes of representation, power, and often, birds. Dr. Lanham and host Michelle Tyrene Johnson share their experiences of Blackness as artists, and as humans.Learn more about Dr. Lanham's work at jdrewlanham.com. This season of Race Unwrapped is supported by the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, and by our listeners. Click here to help make this work possible (and we'll send you a Race Unwrapped sticker)!
Today Lil' Lo and Big Shot Shae are joined by personalityLex Boogie! Join the class as they discuss show the 20 year old man who list his life because he was hiding under the bed of a 13 year old child and her mom caught him, morganatic freeman forming a bee sanctuary, Sammy Sosa's return to Blackness, and more! Follow Our Guest: IG - @polo_delta_divaFollow Our Hosts:@lilloworldwide @bigshotshae@letmestayfocused **DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A COMEDIC PODCAST** Scenarios and responses from this show should be taken with a grain of salt. In other words, this is all a joke. Unless otherwise noted, any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.The views and opinions expressed by guests / classmates are those of the guest / classmate and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Let Me Stay Focused: The Podcast. Any content provided by our guests / classmates are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual or anyone or anything.Timestamps:0:00 — Intros and Updates2:16 — Honorable Mention14:35 — Hotep of the Week23:13 — Lyrics and Lessons32:33 — Let Me Stay Focused58:08 — Advice from the Internet
Carla Hall is known for her quirky, energetic personality on TV. But in some ways she's very different today from the woman who first appeared as a contestant on Top Chef almost two decades ago. "I didn't want to show up as my Blackness if it wasn't going to be accepted," the former co-host of The Chew says of her first foray into food media. When Carla started her career, she turned her back on the food she grew up with. Her journey back included false starts, U-turns, and a mail truck full of sandwiches. Carla's one-woman show, Please Underestimate Me, is closing this weekend, but there are still a few tickets left! Every Friday, we reach into our deep freezer and reheat an episode to serve up to you. We're calling these our Reheats. If you have a show you want reheated, send us an email or voice memo at hello@sporkful.com, and include your name, your location, which episode, and why. This episode originally aired on November 26, 2018, and was produced by Dan Pashman, Anne Saini, Aviva DeKornfeld, Gianna Palmer, and Dan Dzula. The Sporkful team now includes Dan Pashman, Emma Morgenstern, Andres O'Hara, Kameel Stanley, and Jared O'Connell. This update was produced by Gianna Palmer. Right now, Sporkful listeners can get three months free of the SiriusXM app by going to siriusxm.com/sporkful. Get all your favorite podcasts, more than 200 ad-free music channels curated by genre and era, and live sports coverage with the SiriusXM app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Professor Renaldo McKenzie discusses the Caribbean Historical Timeline and explores the Caribbean Revolution and independence, starting with Haiti. Haiti's independence in 1804 did not merely free the western side of Hispaniola; it shook the entire colonial world. Yet the meaning of independence on the island became contested. Haiti's victory over France marked the first successful Black republic born of an anti-slavery revolution, but France and other colonial powers refused to recognize that freedom as legitimate. In 1825, France forced Haiti to pay a massive indemnity in exchange for recognition, turning liberation into debt and punishing Haiti for daring to defeat the empire. This history also complicates Dominican independence. The eastern side of Hispaniola experienced different claims of sovereignty: Spanish rule, a brief declaration of independence in 1821, Haitian unification of the island under Jean-Pierre Boyer in 1822, and then Dominican independence from Haiti in 1844. Later, Dominican elites framed Haitian rule as foreign occupation, while Haitian leaders saw island unification as necessary to protect abolition and prevent European recolonization. That conflict produced a bitter historical memory that still shapes relations between Haiti and the Dominican Republic today. European powers and local elites helped deepen that division. Anti-Haitian ideology did not emerge by accident; it was cultivated through race, class, language, religion, and political power. Dominican nationalism often defined itself against Haiti, and some leaders advanced whiteness or Hispanidad as a way to separate Dominican identity from Blackness and African heritage. This helped create policies and attitudes that treated Haitians as outsiders, even though both peoples share the same island and are bound by colonial history. Haiti's revolution has also been misread through European eyes. C.L.R. James elevated Toussaint Louverture as a central figure, and Louverture was indeed brilliant. But the Haitian Revolution was not the work of one French-trained military mind. It was also the work of Vodou, maroon resistance, enslaved Africans, field laborers, women, spiritual leaders, and local revolutionaries such as Dutty Boukman. To make Louverture the sole founder risks repeating a colonial habit: recognizing Black genius only when it resembles European education, discipline, and military order.The Lecture is part of a Course, Caribbean Thought at Jamaica Theological Seminary.Renaldo McKenzie is Creator and Host of The Neoliberal Round and President of The Neoliberal Corporation, Professor at Jamaica Theological Seminary. Visit us at https://theneoliberal.comVisit JTS at https://jts.edu.jm.
Are believers the only ones noticing the defilement in the world today? In today's episode, Rabbi Schneider teaches on the end times prophecies in the Old Testament as well as the Book of Revelation and how today is like the days of Lot and the days of Noah. **** BECOME A MONTHLY PARTNER - https://djj.show/YTAPartner **** DONATE - https://djj.show/YTADonate **** TEACHING NOTES - https://djj.show/d6t Visit our website at DiscoveringTheJewishJesus.com
What does Blackness look like? In Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World (Duke University Press, 2026), Cécile Bishop argues that this seemingly simple question has no straightforward answer. Instead of treating race as something immediately visible, she explores how Blackness emerges through the interplay of perception, language, and history. A central theme of the book is that visibility is never neutral. Through examples ranging from photographs of the Liberation of Paris to works of art such as Portrait of a Black Woman, Bishop shows that Blackness cannot be reduced to what is seen. Instead, she introduces the idea of Blackness as form, emphasizing the importance of representation, opacity, and aesthetic experience. Engaging with thinkers such as Édouard Glissant and Frantz Fanon, Bishop invites readers to rethink the assumption that seeing is the same as knowing. Forms of Blackness offers a thoughtful and original account of how race is shaped not simply by appearance, but by the ways we learn to see. Amisah Bakuri (PhD) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her work explores the intersections of religion, sexuality, gender, and migration, especially within African diasporic communities in the Netherlands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies
What does Blackness look like? In Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World (Duke University Press, 2026), Cécile Bishop argues that this seemingly simple question has no straightforward answer. Instead of treating race as something immediately visible, she explores how Blackness emerges through the interplay of perception, language, and history. A central theme of the book is that visibility is never neutral. Through examples ranging from photographs of the Liberation of Paris to works of art such as Portrait of a Black Woman, Bishop shows that Blackness cannot be reduced to what is seen. Instead, she introduces the idea of Blackness as form, emphasizing the importance of representation, opacity, and aesthetic experience. Engaging with thinkers such as Édouard Glissant and Frantz Fanon, Bishop invites readers to rethink the assumption that seeing is the same as knowing. Forms of Blackness offers a thoughtful and original account of how race is shaped not simply by appearance, but by the ways we learn to see. Amisah Bakuri (PhD) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her work explores the intersections of religion, sexuality, gender, and migration, especially within African diasporic communities in the Netherlands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
What does Blackness look like? In Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World (Duke University Press, 2026), Cécile Bishop argues that this seemingly simple question has no straightforward answer. Instead of treating race as something immediately visible, she explores how Blackness emerges through the interplay of perception, language, and history. A central theme of the book is that visibility is never neutral. Through examples ranging from photographs of the Liberation of Paris to works of art such as Portrait of a Black Woman, Bishop shows that Blackness cannot be reduced to what is seen. Instead, she introduces the idea of Blackness as form, emphasizing the importance of representation, opacity, and aesthetic experience. Engaging with thinkers such as Édouard Glissant and Frantz Fanon, Bishop invites readers to rethink the assumption that seeing is the same as knowing. Forms of Blackness offers a thoughtful and original account of how race is shaped not simply by appearance, but by the ways we learn to see. Amisah Bakuri (PhD) is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her work explores the intersections of religion, sexuality, gender, and migration, especially within African diasporic communities in the Netherlands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/caribbean-studies
Joy is not a crumb. It's cookouts with soul music, celebrating what Ossie Davis called the full sweetness of our Blackness. But what exactly does the phrase "joy is resistance," which has been flooding social media, mean? This Juneteenth, we're asking what joy actually is, when it can be a tool for social change, and why the slogan has become so popular -- even when joy itself feels more tenuous.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy
The sisters are ecstatic for this long overdue convo with Báyò Akómoláfé, Chief Curator of The Emergence Network, a speaker, author, fugitive neo-materialist com-post-activist public intellectual and Yoruba poet.Bayo's new book is Selah, about which adrienne writes, "Báyò Akómoláfé is a philosopher who is pushing us to think outside of every narrative we take for granted. In this text, he guides us to reconsider how we relate to the world—and to internalize the fact that earth and all of nature are alive, relating to us. Selah is an ancient Indigenous orientation, poured through Báyò's trickster poetry to make for a fresh agitation.”---TRANSCRIPT---SUPPORT OUR SHOWhttps://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow---HTS ESSENTIALSSUPPORT Our Show on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/EndoftheworldshowPEEP us on IGhttps://www.instagram.com/endoftheworldpc/
Parenting is one of the toughest jobs in the world. Between choosing a neighborhood to live in or whether to send your kid to public school, there are a lot of decisions that feel high stakes — and sticky, especially when it comes to race. We're here to help. This week we're digging into our archives to bring you some parenting advice around some of the parenting-and-race dilemmas our listeners have faced.This episode features advice from Cassandra Harewood, child and adolescent psychiatrist, Amy Stuart Wells, professor emeritus of sociology and education at Teachers College at Columbia University, Jenn Jackson, professor of political science at Syracuse University focusing on Blackness and gender, Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University, and Gigliana Melzi, associate professor of applied psychology at New York University.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy
Van and Rachel look back on the legacy of 'Love & Hip-Hop' before reacting to the pausing of Post Malone and Jelly Roll's stadium tour. Plus, Scott Jennings gets flustered on CNN and Fernando Mendoza skips the White House visit, before a conversation about colorism and Blackness. (0:00) Intro (17:37) The end of ‘Love & Hip-Hop' (32:37) Post Malone and Jelly Roll cancellations (44:51) Scott Jennings and CNN's ‘Newsnight' (1:06:27) Fernando Mendoza and the White House (1:23:19) Colorism and Blackness Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Jade Whaley Social Producer: Bernard Moore Video Supervision: Chris Thomas and Jacob Cornett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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