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Welcome back aboard M Train – a podcast where we look at ways Muslims are still being surveilled and talk to people who are fighting to abolish it. In this episode we talk with Dr. Kameelah Mu'Min Rashad – the Founder and President of Muslim Wellness Foundation (MWF) – on the mental health impacts of surveillance on the community. Follow Dr. Rashad on Instagram and Twitter @KameelahRashad and learn more about the Muslim Wellness Foundation here https://www.muslimwellness.com/• M Train is produced by Shirin Barghi @Shebe86, hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar @radbrowndads, edited by Karim Douaidy @coffee_and_karim_ and executive produced by Charlie Hoxie @choxie & Kuye Youngblood. This episode featured music composed by Karim Douaidy and from Freesound. You can check out his website here http://karimdouaidy.com/•This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges. •M Train is a six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio, in which we take you to different New York City neighborhoods to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICTV.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Welcome back aboard M Train – a podcast where we look at ways Muslims are still being surveilled and talk to people who are still fighting to abolish it. In this episode we talk with Moustafa Bayoumi – author and professor at Brooklyn College – on the long life of profiling some twenty years after 9/11.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Welcome back aboard M Train – a podcast where we look at ways Muslims are still being surveilled and talk to people who are fighting to abolish it. In this episode we talk with Nour Ballout, an interdisciplinary artist and curator, and the founder of Habibi House, a neighborhood-based community art space and social engagement residency.Follow Nour Balloutd on Instagram and Twitter @nouraballout and learn more about their work here https://www.nourballout.com/• M Train is produced by Shirin Barghi @Shebe86, hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar @radbrowndads, edited by Karim Douaidy @coffee_and_karim_ and executive produced by Charlie Hoxie @choxie & Kuye Youngblood. This episode featured music composed by Karim Douaidy and from Freesound. You can check out his website here http://karimdouaidy.com/•This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges. •M Train is a six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio, in which we take you to different New York City neighborhoods to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICTV.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Welcome back to TELL – a podcast where queer people tell queer stories. In this very special episode, you'll hear some of the shortest and sweetest stories ever to grace the TELL stage. Join host Drae Campbell and storytellers Kiera Nagle, Chewy May, Olaiya Olayemi, Joey Kipp, Nonye Brown-West, and Anthony D. Oakes for TELL's first-ever SHORTS episode.The TELL Podcast is produced by Emily Boghossian, edited by Lauren Klein, and recorded by Zak Sherzad, Eric Haugesag, and Onel Mulet. The show is executive produced by Charlie Hoxie and Kuye Youngblood. Our theme song is by Peter Lettre & Drae Campbell.Follow TELL @tellqueerz and BGSQD @bgsqd on Instagram.Read the episode transcript here.For more information on all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit bricartsmedia.org/radio and get out there and #TELLqueerstories (dang it.)

Welcome back to TELL – a podcast where queer people tell queer stories. Each episode has a theme, and this week's theme is GAY-OSS. Join host Drae Campbell, as media maker Shane Shane, costume designer Dusty Childers, and punk singer Shomi Noise talk New Orleans nightlife, bathroom sex, and Jesus.The TELL Podcast is produced by Emily Boghossian, edited by Lauren Klein, and recorded by Zak Sherzad, Eric Haugesag, and Onel Mulet. The show is executive produced by Charlie Hoxie and Kuye Youngblood. Our theme song is by Peter Lettre & Drae Campbell.Follow TELL @tellqueerz and BGSQD @bgsqd on Instagram.Read the episode transcript here.For more information on all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit bricartsmedia.org/radio and get out there and #TELLqueerstories (dang it.)

Welcome back to TELL – a podcast where queer people tell queer stories. Each episode has a theme, and this week's theme is GETTING IT IN. Join host Drae Campbell, as writers Dima Matta, Calvin Cato, and Letta Neely flirt in the middle of a revolution, hallucinate in the middle of the night, and party in the midwest.The TELL Podcast is produced by Emily Boghossian, edited by Lauren Klein, and recorded by Zak Sherzad, Eric Haugesag, and Onel Mulet. The show is executive produced by Charlie Hoxie and Kuye Youngblood. Our theme song is by Peter Lettre & Drae Campbell. Lea Robinson hosted TELL 74: Juneteenth.Follow TELL @tellqueerz and BGSQD @bgsqd on Instagram.Read the episode transcript here.For more information on all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit bricartsmedia.org/radio and get out there and #TELLqueerstories (dang it.)

Welcome back aboard M Train – a podcast where we look at ways Muslims are still being surveilled and talk to people who are still fighting to abolish it. In this episode, we talk to journalist Vanessa Taylor and her work focusing on the intersections of tech and Black Muslims.Follow Vanessa on Instagram and Twitter @BaconTribe and subscribe to her newsletter https://nazar.substack.com/ • M Train is produced by Shirin Barghi @Shebe86, hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar @radbrowndads, edited by Karim Douaidy @coffee_and_karim_ and executive produced by Charlie Hoxie @choxie & Kuye Youngblood. This episode featured music composed by Karim Douaidy and from Freesound. You can check out his website here http://karimdouaidy.com/•This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges. •M Train is a six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio, in which we take you to different New York City neighborhoods to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICTV.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Welcome back aboard M Train – a podcast where we look at ways Muslims are still being surveilled and talk to people who are still fighting to abolish it. In this episode we talk with Albert Fox Cahn – a lawyer and the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P) on the ways local surveillance threatens public safety, equity, and democracy.Follow Albert on Instagram and Twitter @FoxCahn and check out the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P) https://www.stopspying.org • M Train is produced by Shirin Barghi @Shebe86, hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar @radbrowndads, edited by Karim Douaidy @coffee_and_karim_ and executive produced by Charlie Hoxie @choxie & Kuye Youngblood. This episode featured music composed by Karim Douaidy and from Freesound. You can check out his website here http://karimdouaidy.com/•This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges. •M Train is a six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio, in which we take you to different New York City neighborhoods to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICTV.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Welcome back aboard the M Train – a six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio! Our second season focuses on the way big tech is changing the face of surveillance on Muslim New Yorkers. In our very first episode, we talk to Asad Dandia – one of the plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit that successfully sued the New York City Police Department for its prejudicial surveillance of Muslim communities.Follow Asad on Instagram and Twitter @DandiaAsad and lean more about his case here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88njj3/i-was-being-spied-on-911s-painful-legacy-for-muslim-americans• M Train is produced by Shirin Barghi @Shebe86, hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar @radbrowndads, edited by Karim Douaidy @coffee_and_karim_ and executive produced by Charlie Hoxie @choxie & Kuye Youngblood. This episode featured music composed by Karim Douaidy and from Freesound. You can check out his website here http://karimdouaidy.com/•This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges. •M Train is a six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio, in which we take you to different New York City neighborhoods to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICTV.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Welcome back to TELL – a podcast where queer people tell queer stories. Each episode has a theme, and this week's theme is ACTUALLY, LOVE. Join host Drae Campbell, as artist Yunique and performers Nessa Norich and Glo Butler talk love, loss, and tetanus.The TELL Podcast is produced by Emily Boghossian, edited by Lauren Klein, and recorded by Zak Sherzad, Eric Haugesag, and Onel Mulet. The show is executive produced by Charlie Hoxie and Kuye Youngblood. Our theme song is by Peter Lettre & Drae Campbell. Mariel Reyes co-curated and co-produced TELL 70: Rose-Colored Glasses.Follow TELL @tellqueerz and BGSQD @bgsqd on Instagram.Read the episode transcript here.For more information on all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit bricartsmedia.org/radio and get out there and #TELLqueerstories (dang it.)

Welcome back to TELL – a podcast where queer people tell queer stories. Each episode has a theme, and this week's theme is MONEY. Join host Drae Campbell, actor TL Thompson, and playwright Nina Ki as they flaunt, splurge, and stack their cash.The TELL Podcast is produced by Emily Boghossian, edited by Lauren Klein, and recorded by Zak Sherzad, Eric Haugesag, and Onel Mulet. The show is executive produced by Charlie Hoxie and Kuye Youngblood. Our theme song is by Peter Lettre & Drae Campbell.Follow TELL @tellqueerz and BGSQD @bgsqd on Instagram.Read the episode transcript here.For more information on all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit bricartsmedia.org/radio and get out there and #TELLqueerstories (dang it.)

Welcome back to TELL – a podcast where queer people tell queer stories. Each episode has a theme, and this week's theme is MY BODY. Join host Drae Campbell, as healing artist Carla Gaskins-Nathan, writer/performer Becca Blackwell, and visual artist Scotty Salame get embodied.The TELL Podcast is produced by Emily Boghossian, edited by Lauren Klein, and recorded by Zak Sherzad, Eric Haugesag, and Onel Mulet. The show is executive produced by Charlie Hoxie and Kuye Youngblood. Our theme song is by Peter Lettre & Drae Campbell.Follow TELL @tellqueerz and BGSQD @bgsqd on Instagram.Read the episode transcript here.For more information on all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit bricartsmedia.org/radio and get out there and #TELLqueerstories (dang it.)

Welcome back to TELL – a podcast where queer people tell queer stories. Each episode has a theme, and this week's theme is GLAMOUR. Join host Drae Campbell, as performers Zo Tipp and Fernando Vieira, and author Brian Belovitch talk re-transitioning, sequin packers, and going blond.The TELL Podcast is produced by Emily Boghossian, edited by Lauren Klein, and recorded by Zak Sherzad, Eric Haugesag, and Onel Mulet. The show is executive produced by Charlie Hoxie and Kuye Youngblood. Our theme song is by Peter Lettre & Drae Campbell. Follow TELL @tellqueerz and BGSQD @bgsqd on Instagram.Read the episode transcript here.For more information on all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit bricartsmedia.org/radio and get out there and #TELLqueerstories (dang it.)

Celebrate Brooklyn is back, baby! After moving to an exclusively online format last year, Celebrate Brooklyn! is back and the Bandshell in Prospect Park with a full line up of artists ready to blow the roof off of the thing. One of these artists is KAMAUU. KAMAUU's music is packed with electrifying and rambunctious melodies, while at the same time filling his lyrics with versatility and substance. Find out why he and MacKenzie go to talking about Muhammad Ali and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.You can RSVP for KAMAUU's performance on July 31st, plus check out the rest of the Celebrate Brooklyn line up at:bricartsmedia.org See you there!

Meet Damon Davis, a post-disciplinary artist from St. Louis. A prolific creator, Davis has a solo show open at Detroit MOCA right now titled Filling in the Cracks. Textured and profound, Cracks is an exploration of grief where Davis has cast concrete busts of himself, broken them open and filled the vacant space with beauty.Mackenzie and Davis talk about grief, masculinity and the role we play in the structures that bind us. Also quartz watches.Check out his work here:heartacheandpaint.com

Hi there! Glitter & Doom is off this week, so while we fish MacKenzie out from the bottom of the Grand Canyon, please enjoy one of our favorite episodes from Season 1.  Movement based performance artist, mayfield brooks spoke to us on Jan. 2020 about their love of Marsha P Johnson, their 2020 project Viewing Hours, and "improvising while Black." Today in 2021, mayfield premiered a new piece commissioned by the Abrons Art Center called Whale Fall. As an extension of that piece, an immersive installation will be up from June 12 to June 19th here in Brooklyn at the Center for Performance Research in Williamsburg.You can find more details about how to see it at cprnyc.org

It’s not often you hear the expression, “quilting world flash bang” but that’s exactly how we would describe Michael C Thorpe. An outlier in the quilting world, Thorpe has made a splash in the medium by weaving in his identity as a black man, his dreams about his family and his own manner of painting with fabric and thread. He and MacKenzie talk about the Gees Bend quilters, and how quilting makes beauty out of discarded items. Stick around for an insight into the AIDS quilt with organizer, Ted Kerr. And finally, a very special guest.

Emily Spivack, producer of Worn Stories (a Netflix series based on her book of the same name) has spent years collecting the stories people attach to their clothes. Whether it's the onesie you came home in, to the crushed velvet Mary Janes you wore to your 8th grade graduation – the clothes you put on your back soak up something about you and the moment you wore them. Emily and MacKenzie dive into their favorite stories from the series, their own pre-teen fashion journeys and, somehow, we end up at a prison in Northern Ireland.

Welcome to Glitter & Doom, a show that believes that the hardest times yield the greatest art. Join your host, MacKenzie Fegan, every other Wednesday to explore a new featured artist.

Meet new media artist, Mina Cheon and her North Korean alter ego, Kim Il Soon. While Mina Cheon is busy being a professor at Baltimore's MICA, and laying out 100,000 Chocopies to promote a unified Korea, Kim Il Soon is teaching art history to North Koreans via smuggled USB sticks and SD cards. Wait, you don't know about Chocopie? Christina Chaey from Bon Appetite is also here to tell you all about them. 즐겨!

Torrey Peters is the author of Detransition, Baby, a whipsmart novel about three women – trans and cis – trying to have a baby. One of the first novels written by a transwoman published by a Big Five publisher, Detransition, Baby imparts a textured, multi-demensional, and at times incredibly funny exploration of gender, parenthood and sex. Torrey Peters has decided to answer the questions that are tied to the stigma of detransitioning, and she does with nuance, compassion, sensitivity and grace. But what does this all have to do with the cultural implications of owning a dishwasher?

A "talking circle" is, historically, a way for a community to come together to hash out difficult issues in a respectful fashion. But in Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby's Talking Circles – a work in progress at the New York Theatre Workshop – it also speaks to the spiral of history where 102 years after a global pandemic and protests over the murders of Black people, who are in the grip of a global pandemic and are protesting the murder of Black people. Have we learned anything? Or are we just talking in circles?"

What is theatre? Is it a group of people watching actors on a stage? Is it a magical transportive experience that can only be experienced live? Does it need a crowd? Lines? Snarky will-call folks who can't spell your name? MacKenzie talks to Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone, the duo that make up 600 Highwaymen – a theatre company "at the intersection of theater, dance, contemporary performance, and civic encounter" to try and answer some of these questions. Their newest piece A Phone Call (a guided phone call between you [yes you!] and a total stranger) is available for attendance at the Public Theatre as part of the Under The Radar Festival 2021.

CW: Police ViolenceAbolitionists protests are sweeping the nation as the COVID19 pandemic continues to ravage Black communities. Black Muslims in all fields are at the forefront during this historical moment. We spoke to Black Muslim Covid Coalition member Professor Donna Auston and frontline nurse “Lady” to discuss social movements, Black Muslim activism on police and prison and abolition, and the disproportionate effect the pandemic is having on black folks. Plus: our sister podcast, Brooklyn, USA, sent us a voice note from a protestor who was arrested during the George Floyd protests in june.This is the final episode of the M Train miniseries. See Something Say Something will return after a break. Thank you all for listening.Follow Ahmed on Twitter @radbrowndads. Follow Professor Donna Auston: @tinymuslimahFollow the Black Muslim COVID Coalition: @bmcoalitionFollow Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative: @MuslimARCDonate to bail funds: https://brooklynbailfund.org/Listen to Teshale's BK USA episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/9333fceaFollow our producer Shirin @Shebe86. Follow our editor Myra @MBasilRahim, and follow our Executive Producer Sachar Mathias @sacharmathias. Follow SSSS on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething.Follow BRIC on Twitter @BRICTVFollow Professor Donna Auston: @tinymuslimahFollow the Black Muslim COVID Coalition: @bmcoalitionFollow Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative: @MuslimARCDonate to bail funds: https://brooklynbailfund.org/Listen to Teshale's BK USA episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/9333fceaFollow our producer Shirin @Shebe86. Follow our editor Myra @MBasilRahim, and follow our Executive Producer Sachar Mathias @sacharmathias. Follow SSSS on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething.Follow BRIC on Twitter @BRICTV★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

CW: Police Violence Abolitionists protests are sweeping the nation as the COVID19 pandemic continues to ravage Black communities. Black Muslims in all fields are at the forefront during this historical moment. We spoke to Black Muslim Covid Coalition member Professor Donna Auston and frontline nurse “Lady” to discuss social movements, Black Muslim activism on police and prison and abolition, and the disproportionate effect the pandemic is having on black folks. Plus: our sister podcast, Brooklyn, USA, sent us a voice note from a protestor who was arrested during the George Floyd protests in june. This is the final episode of the M Train miniseries. See Something Say Something will return after a break. Thank you all for listening. Follow Ahmed on Twitter @radbrowndads.  Follow Professor Donna Auston: @tinymuslimah Follow the Black Muslim COVID Coalition: @bmcoalition Follow Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative: @MuslimARC Donate to bail funds: https://brooklynbailfund.org/ Listen to Teshale's BK USA episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/9333fcea Follow our producer Shirin @Shebe86.  Follow our editor Myra @MBasilRahim, and follow our Executive Producer Sachar Mathias @sacharmathias.  Follow SSSS on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething. Follow BRIC on Twitter @BRICTV Watch BRIC’s videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/brictv   This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges/ This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound.  For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio. SSSS is on Patreon. Find us at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show.

Burying a loved one is never easy. But for Muslims New Yorkers, the price of land, gentrification, and ritual practices complicates an already difficult process. As a result, most Muslims in the 5 boroughs tend to be buried hours away from their homes, at cemeteries in Long Island or New Jersey. With the death rate in NYC soaring due to COVID-19, Muslim funeral homes have borne the burden of a crisis that developed long before quarantine. How does one grapple with saying goodbye to our loved ones when burial is less than ideal?To answer these questions, we speak to housing policy expert Lena Afridi about losing and burying her father over a year ago. Then, Imam Khalid Latif of ICNYU shares some of the pressures that funeral homes in New York are facing during the COVID-19 crisis.M Train releases bi-weekly and each episode focuses on New York City metro area and the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway.Donate to ICNYU's Coronavirus Financial Hardship Grants: https://www.launchgood.com/project/coronavirus_emergency_response_financial_hardship_grants#!/Read Lena's Article: “Death and Life in Great American Cities”: https://thenewinquiry.com/death-and-life-in-great-american-cities/Find ICNYU's Virtual Ramadan Programming here: https://icnyu.org/Please consider signing up with the National Bone Marrow Registry, especially if you are from an underrepresented group. Sign up here: https://bethematch.org/Follow Ahmed @radbrowndads. Follow Imam Khalid Latif @KLatif Follow Lena @lpafridiFollow our producer Shirin @Shebe86. Follow our producer Shirin @Shebe86. Follow our editor Myra @MBasilRahim, and follow our Executive Producer Sachar Mathias @sacharmathias. Follow SSSS on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething.Follow BRIC on Twitter @BRICTVWatch BRIC's videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/brictvoundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges/This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio.SSSS is on Patreon. Find us at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Burying a loved one is never easy. But for Muslims New Yorkers, the price of land, gentrification, and ritual practices complicates an already difficult process. As a result, most Muslims in the 5 boroughs tend to be buried hours away from their homes, at cemeteries in Long Island or New Jersey. With the death rate in NYC soaring due to COVID-19, Muslim funeral homes have borne the burden of a crisis that developed long before quarantine. How does one grapple with saying goodbye to our loved ones when burial is less than ideal? To answer these questions, we speak to housing policy expert Lena Afridi about losing and burying her father over a year ago. Then, Imam Khalid Latif of ICNYU shares some of the pressures that funeral homes in New York are facing during the COVID-19 crisis. M Train releases bi-weekly and each episode focuses on New York City metro area and the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway.  Donate to ICNYU’s Coronavirus Financial Hardship Grants: https://www.launchgood.com/project/coronavirus_emergency_response_financial_hardship_grants#!/ Read Lena’s Article: “Death and Life in Great American Cities”: https://thenewinquiry.com/death-and-life-in-great-american-cities/ Find ICNYU’s Virtual Ramadan Programming here: https://icnyu.org/ Please consider signing up with the National Bone Marrow Registry, especially if you are from an underrepresented group. Sign up here: https://bethematch.org/ Follow Ahmed @radbrowndads.  Follow Imam Khalid Latif @KLatif  Follow Lena @lpafridi Follow our producer Shirin @Shebe86.  Follow our editor Myra @MBasilRahim, and follow our Executive Producer Sachar Mathias @sacharmathias.  Follow SSSS on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething. Follow BRIC on Twitter @BRICTV Watch BRIC’s videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/brictv   This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges/ This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound.  For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio. SSSS is on Patreon. Find us at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show.  

We’re back! Welcome to the second season of Glitter & Doom, where we’ll be exploring artists in isolation. If you’re on Twitter, you might remember a meme-storm in early March after Roseanne Cash tweeted: “Just a reminder that when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he wrote King Lear.” With the help of Andrew Dickson, author of The Globe Guide to Shakespeare, we try and figure out if Shakespeare actually *did* write King Lear while under quarantine, and which one of Lear’s daughters was the actual, literal worst.

Hey there! What's everyone been up to? Anything new? Glitter & Doom has been taking a short break but it's back for its second season and cooking up some new episodes for you to listen to while you switch from your night pajamas to your day pajamas.

This month, we’re surviving a plague. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Sachar Mathias, Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Khyriel Palmer, Mayumi Sato, and Charlie Hoxie • “Jason Charles, Doomsday Prepper” was produced by Charlie Hoxie • “Ahmed Hozain, Surgical Resident” was produced by Ahmed Ali Akbar and Shirin Barghi for BRIC Radio x See Something Say Something miniseries M Train • “Yin Q, BDSM Practitioner” and “Skin Hunger” were produced by Emily Boghossian • “Mert Erogul, ER Doctor” was produced by Ross Tuttle • “Junior Meteorologist Griff City” was produced by Emily Boghossian, Lauren Germain, and Taylor Cook • “Pandemic Brooklyn Soundwalk” was produced by Sachar Mathias • Thank you to Suzie Kim and Man Meat for providing the soundtrack for this week’s episode • bricartsmedia.org/radiobricartsmedia.org/radio If you have something to say and want us to share it, call (917) 719-0021, tell us your name, where you’re calling from, email (we’ll edit this out, we just want to know how to reach you) and any and all of the things that you need or want to say. You can also record yourself using your phone and email the audio file to brooklynusapodcast@gmail.com. We’re here when you need us, and we can’t wait to hear from you.

Corona has thrown M Train (and all of society) for a bit of a loop. So we threw the script out for this episode and called up Dr. Ahmed Hozain, a surgical resident and researcher currently working in NYC, to talk about COVID-19, convincing your boomer parents to stay home, and virtual jum'ahs. Then, we returned to a simpler time before pre-isolation, when we interviewed North African dance teacher Esraa Wardah about her work decolonizing dance classes and building spaces that decenter whiteness. Because of Corona, M Train may experience some delays. Please be patient. M Train releases bi-weekly and each episode focuses on New York City metro area and the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway. Follow Ahmed Hozain on twitter @AhmedHozain Follow Esraa Warda on Instagram @wardadance Follow Ahmed on twitter @radbrowndads. Follow our producer Shirin @Shebe86. Follow our editor Myra @MBasilRahim, and follow our Executive Producer Sachar Mathias @sacharmathias. Follow SSSS on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething. Follow BRIC on Twitter @BRICTV Watch BRIC's videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/brictv This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges/ This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio. SSSS is on Patreon. Find us at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show.

Corona has thrown M Train (and all of society) for a bit of a loop. So we threw the script out for this episode and called up Dr. Ahmed Hozain, a surgical resident and researcher currently working in NYC, to talk about COVID-19, convincing your boomer parents to stay home, and virtual jum’ahs. Then, we returned to a simpler time before pre-isolation, when we interviewed North African dance teacher Esraa Wardah about her work decolonizing dance classes and building spaces that decenter whiteness.   Because of Corona, M Train may experience some delays. Please be patient.   M Train releases bi-weekly and each episode focuses on New York City metro area and the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway.   Follow Ahmed Hozain on twitter @AhmedHozain Follow Esraa Warda on Instagram @wardadance   Follow Ahmed on twitter @radbrowndads.  Follow our producer Shirin @Shebe86.  Follow our editor Myra @MBasilRahim, and follow our Executive Producer Sachar Mathias @sacharmathias.  Follow SSSS on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething. Follow BRIC on Twitter @BRICTV Watch BRIC’s videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/brictv   This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges/ This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound.  For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio. SSSS is on Patreon. Find us at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show.

On our third stop, host Ahmed Ali Akbar and producer Shirin Barghi take the M Train to Flatbush, Brooklyn to dine on dhalpuri, buss-up-shot and doubles, before washing it all down with some sorrel. Along the way, they talk to Johnny Ali and Kerrie Bissoon of the famed Ali's Roti and fashion designer Nzinga Knight of Brooklyn Brewed Sorrel about the dialogue Trinidadian cuisine creates between Indian and African cultures and why the roti shop is as much an icon of NYC Muslim culture as is the halal cart. Tune in to find out how Black, Desi, Carribbean, and Muslim cultures co-exist and break bread within their homes and their diaspora. For more information on Nzinga's Brooklyn Brewed Sorrel, visit https://nzingaknight.com/products/brooklyn-brewed-sorrel. And follow Ali's Roti Shop here: https://www.instagram.com/alisrotishop/?hl=en. •M Train is hosted and produced by @radbrowndads, produced by @Shebe86, edited by @MBasilRahim, and executive produced by @sacharmathias. This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound. •SSSS is on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething, and on Patreon at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show. •This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges. •M Train is a new six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio, in which we take you to different New York City neighborhoods to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICTV.

This episode, we head to Brooklyn to eat some Trinidadian food and talk about the dialogue between Black, Desi, Carribbean, and Muslim cultures within the island and its diaspora. We pick up some dhalpuri, buss-up-shot, and doubles and then wash it all down with sorrel, a tart, hibiscus flower drink. Throughout the episode, we talk about the way Trinidadian cuisine is a dialogue between Indian and African cultures and why the roti shop is as much an icon of NYC Muslim culture as the halal cart. Featuring: Johnny Ali and Kerrie Bissoon of the Utica Avenue Ali’s Roti and fashion designer Nzinga Knight of Brooklyn Brewed Sorrel.  Follow Nzinga on Instagram @nzingaknight and @brooklynbrewedsorrel. Head to www.nzingaknight.com to learn about her fashion work and head to www.brooklynbrewedsorrel.com to order Brooklyn Brewed Sorrel.  Follow Ali’s Roti Shop on Instagram: @alisrotishop or give them a visit at 337 Utica Avenue in Brooklyn. M-Train releases bi-weekly and each episode focuses on New York City metro area and the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway.   Follow Ahmed on twitter @radbrowndads.  Follow our producer Shirin @Shebe86.  Follow our editor Myra @MBasilRahim, and follow our Executive Producer Sachar Mathias @sacharmathias.  Follow SSSS on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething. Follow BRIC on Twitter @BRICTV Watch BRIC’s videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/brictv   This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges/ This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound.  For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio. SSSS is on Patreon. Find us at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show.

On our second stop, host Ahmed Ali Akbar and producer Shirin Barghi take the M Train to BRIC House in Downtown Brooklyn for a panel discussion centered on Muslims in politics. Our guests for the night were Shahana Hanif, New York City Council Candidate, Sadaf Jaffer, Mayor of Montgomery County in New Jersey (and first Muslim woman elected mayor in America), and Mohammad Missouri, Executive Director of JetPAC. We talked about the Muslim bloc swinging leftwards, confronting Islamophobic trolls who live in your communities, and the challenges of representing a group as diverse as American Muslims. For more from New York City Council Candidate Shahana Hanif, visit https://shahanafrombk.com. For more on Mayor Sadaf Jaffer, visit https://www.sadafjaffer.com. For more on Jet-PAC and Muhammad's work, visit https://www.jet-pac.com/about-us. •M Train is hosted and produced by @radbrowndads, produced by @Shebe86, edited by @MBasilRahim, and executive produced by @sacharmathias. This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound. •SSSS is on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething, and on Patreon at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show. •This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges. •M Train is a new six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio, in which we take you to different New York City neighborhoods to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICTV.

We’re coming to you live! For the second episode of M-Train —the new six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio — we hosted a panel discussion at the BRIC Ballroom centered on Muslims in politics. Our guests for the night were Shahana Hanif, New York City Council Candidate, Sadaf Jaffer, Mayor of Montgomery County in New Jersey (and first Muslim woman elected mayor in America), and Mohammad Missouri, Executive Director of JetPAC.  We talked about the Muslim bloc swinging leftwards, confronting Islamophobic trolls who live in your communities, and the challenges of representing a group as diverse as American Muslims.   M Train is released bi-weekly and each episode focuses on the New York City metro area and the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway.   Learn more about New York City Council Candidate Shahana Hanif here: https://shahanafrombk.com/ Learn more about Mayor Sadaf Jaffer here: https://www.sadafjaffer.com/ Learn more about Jet-PAC and Muhammad’s work here: https://www.jet-pac.com/about-us/   Follow Ahmed on twitter @radbrowndads.  Follow our Producer Shirin @Shebe86.  Follow our editor Myra @MBasilRahim, and follow our Executive Producer Sachar Mathias @sacharmathias.  Follow SSSS on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething. Follow BRIC Radio on Twitter @BRICRadio and BRIC TV @BRICTV   This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges/ This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound.  For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio. SSSS is on Patreon. Find us at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show.

What do Trump rallies, German interior décor and the Village People have to do with author, Dave Eggers? Does satire still have a role to play when reality reads like an Onion article? Dave Eggers says yes. His new book, The Captain and the Glory, follows the grim misadventures of a narcissistic, incompetent sea captain steering a cruise ship called The Glory. Before long, he and his supporters are throwing dark-skinned passengers overboard to chants of “Drown the brown!” The metaphor isn’t subtle, but then again, these aren’t subtle times.

Welcome aboard the M Train – a new six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio. In each episode, host Ahmed Ali Akbar and producer Shirin Barghi will take you to a different New York City neighborhood to uncover the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway line. Our debut episode focuses on the work of two sex educators redefining the place of sex and intimacy in Islam. For our first stop, we head to Brooklyn to speak to Sid Azmi about her journey from radiation therapy to business woman and sex educator, running a “educated pleasure shop” in Park Slope. Then, we speak to sex-ed teacher and co-creator of the storytelling performance "Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of Love," Wazina Zondon, about navigating queerness, sex, and Islam. For more from Sid Azmi, visit: https://www.pleasenyc.com. For more Wazina Zondon visit https://comingoutmuslim.com, http://www.muslimalliance.org and follow her @wazinazondon. •M Train is hosted and produced by @radbrowndads, produced by @Shebe86, edited by @MBasilRahim, and executive produced by @sacharmathias. This episode featured music composed by Myra Al-Rahim and from Freesound. •SSSS is on Twitter and Facebook @seesomething, and on Patreon at patreon.com/ahmedaliakbar. Thanks to our patrons for supporting the show. •This miniseries was made with the generous help of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Arts Building Bridges Program. You can learn about their mission here: https://www.ddcf.org/what-we-fund/building-bridges. •For more information on this and all BRIC Radio podcasts, visit www.bricartsmedia.org/radio and follow us on twitter @BRICradio and @BRICTV.

Welcome aboard the M Train! A new six-part miniseries from See Something, Say Something and BRIC Radio– a Brooklyn-based audio network that amplifies community with podcasts ranging from LGBTQ stories and radio plays to a monthly audiovisual magazine celebrating our beloved #Brooklyn. Each of the six episodes of M-Train focuses on New York City metro area and the stories of American Muslims that can be found on and off the subway. Our debut focuses on the work of two sex educators redefining the place of sex and intimacy in Islam.  For our first stop, we head to Brooklyn to speak to Sid Azmi about her journey from radiation therapy to business woman and sex educator, running a “educated pleasure shop” in Park Slope.. Here’s where to find it, in case you want to visit: https://www.pleasenyc.com/ Then, we speak to Wazina Zondon about navigating queerness, sex, and Islam. Wazina is a sex-ed teacher and co-creator of the storytelling performance Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of love. Check it out here https://comingoutmuslim.com and follow her @wazinazondon. If you have any questions, going through a hard time, and just want to talk to someone, get in touch with http://www.muslimalliance.org/ and remember these wise words from Wazina: “You're fine. You're great. You’re normal. No version of your Islam is wrong, nor is any version of your sexual identity. You don't have to apologize or fix or adapt to somebody else's version. Just be patient with the people around you.”

What do microaggressions, sea captains and spam email have to do with artist, Liana Finck? As a shy person who struggled with social interactions, illustrator and cartoonist, Liana Finck made notes and drawings as a way to figure out how to fit in. “Passing for Human” is the title of one of her three books. But at a certain point, she started wondering, what if this isn’t just me? Liana would find herself in awkward situations because she was behaving in a way she wasn’t supposed to. But who decides how women are supposed to behave?

What do killer robots, psychedelics and a woman named Susan Bennett have to do with artist, Stephanie Dinkins? When we talk about robots, the conversation is likely to be negative, if not downright dystopian. If you type “robots are” into google, the predictive text—which is itself a form of artificial intelligence—suggests “robots are taking over,” “robots are coming,” and “robots are stealing our jobs.” It also suggests, “robots are people too.” Artist Stephanie Dinkins found herself engaged in this very conversation with a robot by the name of Bina48, and it changed the trajectory of her artistic practice. Dinkins now finds herself presenting on artificial intelligence, race, and equity, often the lone artist in a room full of technologists.

What do peanut recipes, mysterious photographs and compost have to do with artist mayfield brooks?    In their upcoming performance, “Viewing Hours,” mayfield brooks embraces the tradition of artists putting their bodies on the line for the sake of their practice. Upon entry, audiences are met with the sight of mayfield lying naked and prone under 40 pounds of compost, in simulation of a wake. In this piece, brooks uses their training as a dancer, performer and urban farmer to examine the commodification, death and decay of black bodies, and to investigate the act of witnessing and profiting off of black grief. mayfield brooks recently joined MacKenzie in the studio to discuss George Washington Carver, Marsha P Johnson and improvising while black. “Viewing Hours” will be performed on January 20th at the 8th Floor in Manhattan. For more tickets and information, visit: https://bit.ly/2u6nFHX

What do Janelle Monae, Yelp reviews of plantations and Russian Dixies have to do with artist, Dread Scott? Dread Scott wants us to remember that history is not so far from our present. His work often looks to the past in order to imagine a more just future, and perhaps no project embodies that more as his recent "Slave Rebellion Reenactment." In this piece, Scott brought the Slave Rebellion of 1811 back to life in New Orleans over the course of two days back in November, and he joined MacKenzie in the studio to talk about the project, his influences and punching Nazis.

What do the Zodiac and a spiritual entity named Seth have to do with filmmaker, Caveh Zahedi? Zahedi has been making documentaries for almost three decades, and before we booked him on the show, the only things MacKenzie knew about him were gleaned through season one of his autobiographical “The Show about the Show” and a New York Times Magazine profile that came out this fall, coinciding with the launch of season two. The title of that article: “A Filmmaker Bared His Soul. It Ruined His Life.”

It's a virtual certainty that you've seen Edel Rodiguez's illustrations. A prolific artist and political cartoonist, he's gained recent notoriety for his depiction of Donald Trump's face. Always the same, featureless, except for a screaming mouth melting into a puddle; Trump painting himself into an orange corner; Trump with arms aloft holding a bloody knife in one hand, and the severed head of Lady Liberty in the other. Rodriguez’s images pull no punches, and they remind us that these are extraordinary times that call for extraordinary artistic responses. MacKenzie sat down with Edel Rodriguez to talk about everything from fascism, to Communism, to the Irish mafia.

Jami Attenberg has written seven novels, and has not wasted a single one of them on a male antihero. Her latest book, a humorous and empathetic family drama, does feature a Tony Soprano-like character as the patriarch of the family, but Attenberg puts him in a coma on the very first page. MacKenzie sat down with Attenberg on the release date of "All This Could Be Yours" to talk about toxic masculinity, #MeToo, and gender-neutral storage units.

Humans have been extracting copper from rocks since at least 5000 BCE. It's in your computer, your home and most notably, inside a lot of uteruses. Artist Marisa Morán Jahn's interest in copper began when she discovered that she had agreed to have a piece of the metal inserted in her body. That launched her into a wormhole of copper-related research, culminating in her latest interdisciplinary project, Snatchural History of Copper, which she is presenting at the upcoming Creative Time Summit here in New York. MacKenzie talks to Marisa about the nature of extraction, the #ElectroWinning properties of copper and we take you on a deep dive to find the origin of Venus of Aphrodite.

For almost 40 years, Pope.L has challenged his audience both, to look deep into the eyes of American society, and question the very nature of art. Best known for enacting provocative performances in public spaces, Pope.L addresses issues from language to gender, to race to the struggles we face in this late capitalism. His work ranges from performance to painting, video, sculpture, and theater. MacKenzie sat down with Pope.L and went in deep on his latest work at the Whitney (Choir), maneuvering a shlong-like device, and what it takes to crawl through the streets of New York.

The Anthropocene is posited to be the geological era that we are presently inhabiting, an age where the indelible mark of humanity cannot be extracted from the fossil record. In Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, filmmakers Nicholas de Pencier, Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky set out to travel the globe to document the impact humans have made on the planet. Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky join MacKenzie in the studio and talk about how humans have fundamentally changed the face of the Earth, while we dive in head first on the Nazca lines of Peru, and an ode to all the elephants we've lost to poaching.

We're back with episode #2 and this week we are talking about borders. Filmmakers Emelie Mahdavian and Su Kim join MacKenzie in the studio to talk about their latest film, Midnight Traveler. Midnight Traveler is a documentary where Afghan director Hassan Fazili is forced to flee the country when the Taliban puts a bounty on his head. We go in deep about the difference between an asylum seeker and a refugee, check out how easy it is to move data over government lines, and check in with our friend, the cinereous vulture.