Podcasts about colorism

Danielle (00:02):Hey, Jenny, you and I usually hop on here and you're like, what's happening today? Is there a guest today? Isn't that what you told me at the beginning?And then I sent you this Instagram reel that was talking about, I feel like I've had this, my own therapeutic journey of landing with someone that was very unhelpful, going to someone that I thought was more helpful. And then coming out of that and doing some somatic work and different kind of therapeutic tools, but all in the effort for me at least, it's been like, I want to feel better. I want my body to have less pain. I want to have less PTSD. I want to have a richer life, stay present with my kids and my family. So those are the places pursuit of healing came from for me. What about you? Why did you enter therapy?Jenny (00:53):I entered therapy because of chronic state of dissociation and not feeling real, coupled with pretty incessant intrusive thoughts, kind of OCD tendencies and just fixating and paranoid about so many things that I knew even before I did therapy. I needed therapy. And I came from a world where therapy wasn't really considered very Christian. It was like, you should just pray and if you pray, God will take it away. So I actually remember I went to the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology, partly because I knew it was a requirement to get therapy. And so for the first three years I was like, yeah, yeah, my school requires me to go to therapy. And then even after I graduated, I was like, well, I'm just staying in therapy to talk about what's coming up for my clients. And then it was probably five years, six years into therapy when I was finally like, no, I've gone through some really tough things and I just actually need a space to talk about it and process it. And so trying to develop a healthier relationship with my own body and figuring out how I wanted to move with integrity through the world is a big part of my healing journey.Danielle (02:23):I remember when I went to therapy as a kid and well, it was a psychologist and him just kind of asking really direct questions and because they were so direct and pointed, just me just saying like, nah, never happened, never did that, never felt that way, et cetera, et cetera. So I feel like as I've progressed through life, I've had even a better understanding of what's healing for me, what is love life like my imagination for what things could be. But also I think I was very trusting and taught to trust authority figures, even though at the same time my own trauma kept me very distrusting, if that makes sense. So my first recommendations when I went, I was skeptical, but I was also very hopeful. This is going to help.Jenny (03:13):Yeah, totally. Yep. Yeah. And sometimes it's hard for me to know what is my homeschool brain and what is just my brain, because I always think everyone else knows more than me about pretty much everything. And so then I will do crazy amount of research about something and then Sean will be like, yeah, most people don't even know that much about that subject. And I'm like, dang it, I wasted so much effort again. But I think especially in the therapy world, when I first started therapy, and I've seen different therapists over the years, some better experiences than others, and I think I often had that same dissonance where I was like, I think more than me, but I don't want you to know more than me. And so I would feel like this wrestling of you don't know me actually. And so it created a lot of tension in my earlier days of therapy, I think.Danielle (04:16):Yeah, I didn't know too with my faith background how therapy and my faith or theological beliefs might impact therapy. So along the lines of stereotypes for race or stereotypes for gender or what do you do? I am a spiritual person, so what do I do with the thought of I do believe in angels and spiritual beings and evil and good in the world, and what do I do? How does that mix into therapy? And I grew up evangelical. And so there was always this story, I don't know if you watched Heaven's Gates, Hells Flames at your church Ever? No. But it was this play that they came and they did, and you were supposed to invite your friends. And the story was some people came and at the end of their life, they had this choice to choose Jesus or not. And the story of some people choosing Jesus and making it into heaven and some people not choosing Jesus and being sent to hell, and then there was these pictures of these demons and the devil and stuff. So I had a lot of fear around how evil spirits were even just interacting with us on a daily basis.Jenny (05:35):Yeah, I grew up evangelical, but not in a Pentecostal charismatic world at all. And so in my family, things like spiritual warfare or things like that were not often talked about in my faith tradition in my family. But I grew up in Colorado Springs, and so by the time I was in sixth, seventh grade, maybe seventh or eighth grade, I was spending a lot of time at Ted Haggard's New Life Church, which was this huge mega, very charismatic church. And every year they would do this play called The Thorn, and it would have these terrifying hell scenes. It was very common for people to throw up in the audience. They were so freaked out and they'd have demons repelling down from the ceiling. And so I had a lot of fear earlier than that. I always had a fear of hell. I remember on my probably 10th or 11th birthday, I was at Chuck E Cheese and my birthday Wish was that I could live to be a thousand because I thought then I would be good enough to not go to hell.(06:52):I was always so afraid that I would just make the simplest mistake and then I would end up in hell. And even when I went to bed at night, I would tell my parents goodnight and they'd say, see you tomorrow. And I wouldn't say it because I thought as a 9-year-old, what if I die and I don't see them tomorrow? Then the last thing I said was a lie, and then I'm going to go to hell. And so it was always policing everything I did or said to try to avoid this scary, like a fire that I thought awaited me.Yeah, yeah. I mean, I am currently in New York right now, and I remember seeing nine 11 happen on the news, and it was the same year I had watched Left Behind on that same TV with my family. So as I was watching it, my very first thought was, well, these planes ran into these buildings because the pilots were raptured and I was left behind.Danielle (08:09):And so I know we were like, we get to grad school, you're studying therapy. It's mixed with psychology. I remember some people saying to me, Hey, you're going to lose your faith. And I was like, what does that mean? I'm like 40, do you assume because I learned something about my brain that's going to alter my faith. So even then I felt the flavor of that, but at the time I was with seeing a Christian therapist, a therapist that was a Christian and engaging in therapy through that lens. And I think I was grateful for that at the time, but also there were things that just didn't feel right to me or fell off or racially motivated, and I didn't know what to say because when I brought them into the session, that became part of the work as my resistance or my UNC cooperation in therapy. So that was hard for me. I don't know if you noticed similar things in your own therapy journey.Jenny (09:06):I feel sick as you say, that I can feel my stomach clenching and yeah, I think for there to be a sense of this is how I think, and therefore if you as the client don't agree, that's your resistance(09:27):Is itself whiteness being enacted because it's this, I think about Tema, Koon's, white supremacy, cultural norms, and one of them is objectivity and the belief that there is this one capital T objective truth, and it just so happens that white bodies have it apparently. And so then if you differ with that than there is something you aren't seeing, rather than how do I stay in relation to you knowing that we might see this in a very different way and how do we practice being together or not being together because of how our experiences in our worldviews differ? But I can honor that and honor you as a sovereign being to choose your own journey and your self-actualization on that journey.Danielle(10:22):So what are you saying is that a lot of our therapeutic lens, even though maybe it's not Christian, has been developed in this, I think you used the word before we got on here like dominion or capital T. I do believe there is truth, but almost a truth that overrides any experience you might have. How would you describe that? Yeah. Well,Jenny (10:49):When I think about a specific type of saying that things are demonic or they're spiritual, a lot of that language comes from the very charismatic movement of dominion and it uses a lot of spiritual warfare language to justify dominion. And it's saying there's a stronghold of Buddhism in Thailand and that's why we have to go and bring Jesus. And what that means is bring white capitalistic Jesus. And so I think that that plays out on mass scales. And a big part of dominion is that the idea that there's seven spheres of society, it's like family culture, I don't remember all of them education, and the idea is that Christians should be leaders in each those seven spheres of society. And so a lot of the language in that is that there are demons or demonic strongholds. And a lot of that language I think is also racialized because a lot of it is colorism. We are going into this very dark place and the association with darkness always seems to coincide with melanin, You don't often hear that language as much when you're talking about white communities.Danielle (12:29):Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, it's interesting when you talk about nuts and bolts and you're in therapy, then it becomes almost to me, if a trauma happens to you and let's say then the theory is that alongside of that trauma and evil entity or a spirit comes in and places itself in that weak spot, then it feels like we're placing the victim as sharing the blame for what happened to them or how they're impacted by that trauma. I'm not sure if I'm saying it right, but I dunno, maybe you can say it better. (13:25):Well, I think that it's a way of making even the case of sexual assault, for instance, I've been in scenarios where or heard stories where someone shared a story of sexual assault or sexual violence and then their life has been impacted by that trauma in certain patterned ways and in the patterns of how that's been impacted. The lens that's additionally added to that is saying an evil entity or an evil spirit has taken a stronghold or a footing in their life, or it's related to a generational curse. This happened to your mother or your grandma too. And so therefore to even get free of the trauma that happened to you, you also have to take responsibility for your mom or your grandma or for exiting an evil entity out of your life then to get better. Does that make sense or what are you hearing me say?Jenny (14:27):Well, I think I am hearing it on a few different levels. One, there's not really any justification for that. Even if we were to talk about biblical counseling, there's not a sense of in the Bible, a demon came into you because this thing happened or darkness came into you or whatever problematic language you want to use. Those are actually pretty relatively new constructs and ideas. And it makes me think about how it also feels like whiteness because I think about whiteness as a system that disables agency. And so of course there may be symptoms of trauma that will always be with us. And I really like the framework of thinking of trauma more like diabetes where it's something you learn to moderate, it's something you learn to take care of, but it's probably never going to totally leave you. And I think, sorry, there's loud music playing, but even in that, it's like if I know I have diabetes, I know what I can do. If there's some other entity somewhere in me, whatever that means, that is so disempowering to my own agency and my own choice to be able to say, how do I make meaning out of these symptoms and how do I continue living a meaningful life even if I might have difficulties? It's a very victimizing and victim blaming language is what I'm hearing in that.Danielle (16:15):And it also is this idea that somehow, for instance, I hate the word Christian, but people that have faith in Jesus that somewhere wrapped up in his world and his work and his walk on earth, there's some implication that if you do the right things, your life will be pain-free or you can get to a place where you love your life and the life that you're loving no longer has that same struggle. I find that exactly opposite of what Jesus actually said, but in the moment, of course, when you're engaged in that kind of work, whether it's with a spiritual counselor or another kind of counselor, the idea that you could be pain-free is, I mean, who doesn't want to be? Not a lot of people I know that were just consciously bring it on. I love waking up every day and feeling slightly ungrounded, doesn't everyone, or I like having friends and feeling alone who wakes up and consciously says that, but somehow this idea has gotten mixed in that if we live or make enough money, whether it's inside of therapy or outside of healing, looks like the idea of absence of whether I'm not trying to glorify suffering, but I am saying that to have an ongoing struggle feels very normal and very in step with Jesus rather than out of step.Jenny  (17:53):It makes me think of this term I love, and I can't remember who coined it at the moment, but it's the word, and it's the idea that your health and that could kind of be encompassing a lot of different things, relational health, spiritual health, physical health is co-opted by this neoliberal capitalistic idea that you are just this lone island responsible for your health and that your health isn't impacted by colonialism and white supremacy and capitalism and all of these things that are going to be detrimental to the wellness and health of all the different parts of you. And so I think that that's it or hyper spiritualizing it. Not to say there's not a spiritual component, but to say, yes, I've reduced this down to know that this is a stronghold or a demon. I think it abdicates responsibility for the shared relational field and how am I currently contributing and benefiting from those systems that may be harming you or someone else that I'm in relationship with. And so I think about spiritual warfare. Language often is an abdication for holding the tension of that relational field.Danielle  (19:18):Yeah, that's really powerful. It reminds me of, I often think of this because I grew up in these wild, charismatic religion spaces, but people getting prayed for and then them miraculously being healed. I remember one person being healed from healed from marijuana and alcohol, and as a kid I was like, wow. So they just left the church and this person had gotten up in front of the entire church and confessed their struggle or their addiction that they said it was and confessed it out loud with their family standing by them and then left a stage. And sometime later I ran into one of their kids and they're like, yeah, dad didn't drink any alcohol again, but he still hit my mom. He still yelled at us, but at church it was this huge success. It was like you didn't have any other alcohol, but was such a narrow view of what healing actually is or capacity they missed. The bigger what I feel like is the important stuff, whatever thatBut that's how I think about it. I think I felt in that type of therapy as I've reflected that it was a problem to be fixed. Whatever I had going on was a problem to be fixed, and my lack of progress or maybe persistent pain sometimes became this symbol that I somehow wasn't engaging in the therapeutic process of showing up, or I somehow have bought in and wanted that pain longterm. And so I think as I've reflected on that viewpoint from therapy, I've had to back out even from my own way of working with clients, I think there are times when we do engage in things and we're choosing, but I do think there's a lot of times when we're not, it's just happening.Jenny (21:29):Yeah, I feel like for me, I was trained in a model that was very aggressive therapy. It was like, you got to go after the hardest part in the story. You have to go dig out the trauma. And it was like this very intense way of being with people. And unfortunately, I caused a lot of harm in that world and have had to do repair with folks will probably have to do more repair with folks in the future. And through somatic experiencing training and learning different nervous system modalities, I've come to believe that it's actually about being receptive and really believing that my client's body is the widest person in the room. And so how do I create a container to just be with and listen and observe and trust that whatever shifts need to happen will come from that and not from whatever I'm trying to project or put into the space.Danielle (22:45):I mean, it's such a wild area of work that it feels now in my job, it feels so profoundly dangerous to bring in spirituality in any sense that says there's an unseen stronghold on you that it takes secret knowledge to get rid of a secret prayer or a specific prayer written down in a certain order or a specific group of people to pray for you, or you have to know, I mean, a part of this frame, I heard there's contracts in heaven that have agreed with whatever spirit might be in you, and you have to break those contracts in order for your therapy to keep moving forward. Now, I think that's so wild. How could I ever bring that to a client in a vulnerable?And so it's just like, where are these ideas coming from? I'm going to take a wild hair of a guest to say some white guy, maybe a white lady. It's probably going to be one or the other. And how has their own psychology and theology formed how they think about that? And if they want to make meaning out of that and that is their thing, great. But I think the problem is whenever we create a dogma around something and then go, and then this is a universal truth that is going to apply to my clients, and if it doesn't apply to my clients, then my clients are doing it wrong. I think that's incredibly harmful.Yeah, I know. I think the audacity and the level of privilege it would be to even bring that up with a client and make that assumption that that could be it. I think it'd be another thing if a client comes and says, Hey, I think this is it, then that's something you can talk about. But to bring it up as a possible reason someone is stuck, that there's demonic in their life, I think, well, I have, I've read recently some studies that actually increases suicidality. It increases self-harming behaviors because it's not the evil spirit, but it's that feeling of I'm powerless. Yeah,Jenny (25:30):Yeah. And I ascribed to that in my early years of therapy and in my own experience I had, I had these very intensive prayer sessions when therapy wasn't cutting it, so I needed to somehow have something even more vigorously digging out whatever it was. And it's kind of this weird both, and some of those experiences were actually very healing for me. But I actually think what was more healing was having attuned kind faces and maybe even hands on me sometimes and these very visceral experiences that my body needed, but then it was ascribed to something ethereal rather than how much power is in ritual and coming together and doing something that we can still acknowledge we are creating this,That we get to put on the meaning that we're making. We don't have to. Yeah, I don't know. I think we can do that. And I think there are gentler ways to do that that still center a sense of agency and less of this kind of paternalistic thinking too, which I think is historical through the field of psychology from Freud onwards, it was this idea that I'm the professional and I know what's best for you. And I think that there's been much work and still as much work to do around decolonizing what healing professions look like. And I find myself honestly more and more skeptical of individual work is this not only, and again, it's of this both, and I think it can be very helpful. And if individual work is all that we're ever doing, how are we then disabling ourselves from stepping into more of those places of our own agency and ability?Danielle (27:48):Man, I feel so many conflicts as you talk. I feel that so much of what we need in therapy is what we don't get from community and friendships, and that if we had people, when we have people and if we have people that can just hold our story for bits at a time, I think often that can really be healing or just as healing is meaning with the therapist. I also feel like getting to talk one-on-one with someone is such a relief at times to just be able to spill everything. And as you know, Jenny, we both have partners that can talk a lot, so having someone else that we can just go to also feels good. And then I think the group setting, I love it when I'm in a trusted place like that, however it looks, and because of so many ethics violations like the ones we're talking about, especially in the spiritual realm, that's one reason I've hung onto my license. But at the same time, I also feel like the license is a hindrance at sometimes that it doesn't allow us to do everything that we could do just as how do you frame groups within that? It just gets more complicated. I'm not saying that's wrong, it's just thoughts I have.Jenny (29:12):Totally. Yeah, and I think it's intentionally complicated. I think that's part of the problem I'm thinking about. I just spent a week with a very, very dear 4-year-old in my life, and Amari, my dog was whining, and the 4-year-old asked Is Amari and Amari just wanted to eat whatever we were eating, and she was tied to the couch so she wouldn't eat a cat. And Sean goes, Amari doesn't think she's okay. And the four-year-old goes, well, if Amari doesn't think she's okay, she's not okay. And it was just like this most precious, empathetic response that was so simple. I was like, yeah, if you don't think you're okay, you're not okay. And just her concern was just being with Amari because she didn't feel okay. And I really think that that's what we need, and yet we live in a world that is so disconnected because we're all grinding just to try to get food and healthcare and water and all of the things that have been commodified. It's really hard to take that time to be in those hospitable environments where those more vulnerable parts of us get to show upDanielle (30:34):And it can't be rushed. Even with good friends sometimes you just can't sit down and just talk about the inner things. Sometimes you need all that warmup time of just having fun, remembering what it's like to be in a space with someone. So I think we underestimate how much contact we actually need with people.Yeah. What are your recommendations then for folks? Say someone's coming out of that therapeutic space or they're wondering about it. What do you tell people?Jenny (31:06):Go to dance class.I do. And I went to a dance class last night, last I cried multiple times. And one of the times the teacher was like, this is $25. This is the cheapest therapy you're ever going to have. And it's very true. And I think it is so therapeutic to be in a space where you can move your body in a way that feels safe and good. And I recognize that shared movement spaces may not feel safe for all bodies. And so that's what I would say from my embodied experience, but I also want to hold that dance spaces are not void of whiteness and all of these other things that we're talking about too. And so I would say find what can feel like a safe enough community for you, because I don't think any community is 100% safe,I think we can hopefully find places of shared interest where we get to bring the parts of us that are alive and passionate. And the more we get to share those, then I think like you're saying, we might have enough space that maybe one day in between classes we start talking about something meaningful or things like that. And so I'm a big fan of people trying to figure out what makes them excited to do what activity makes them excited to do, and is there a way you can invite, maybe it's one, maybe it's two, three people into that. It doesn't have to be this giant group, but how can we practice sharing space and moving through the world in a way that we would want to?Danielle (32:55):Yeah, that's good. I like that. I think for me, while I'm not living in a warm place, I mean, it's not as cold as New York probably, but it's not a warm place Washington state. But when I am in a warm place, I like to float in saltwater. I don't like to do cold plunges to cold for me, but I enjoy that when I feel like in warm salt water, I feel suddenly released and so happy. That's one thing for me, but it's not accessible here. So cooking with my kids, and honestly my regular contact with the same core people at my gym at a class most days of the week, I will go and I arrive 20 minutes early and I'll sit there and people are like, what are you doing? If they don't know me, I'm like, I'm warming up. And they're like, yeah.(33:48):And so now there's a couple other people that are arrive early and they just hang and sit there, and we're all just, I just need to warm up my energy to even be social in a different spot. But once I am, it's not deep convo. Sometimes it is. I showed up, I don't know, last week and cried at class or two weeks ago. So there's the possibility for that. No one judges you in the space that I'm in. So that, for me, that feels good. A little bit of movement and also just being able to sit or be somewhere where I'm with people, but I'm maybe not demanded to say anything. So yeah,Jenny (34:28):It makes me think about, and this may be offensive for some people, so I will give a caveat that this resonates with me. It's not dogma, but I love this podcast called Search for the Slavic Soul, and it is this Polish woman who talks about pre-Christian Slavic religion and tradition. And one of the things that she talks about is that there wasn't a lot of praying, and she's like, in Slavic tradition, you didn't want to bother the gods. The Gods would just tell you, get off your knees and go do something useful. And I'm not against prayer, but I do think in some ways it seems related to what we're talking about, about these hyper spiritualizing things, where it's like, at what point do we actually just get up and go live the life that we want? And it's not going to be void of these symptoms and the difficult things that we have with us, but what if we actually let our emphasis be more on joy and life and pleasure and fulfillment and trust that we will continue metabolizing these things as we do so rather than I have to always focus on the most negative, the most painful, the most traumatic thing ever.(35:47):I think that that's only going to put us more and more in that vortex to use somatic experiencing language rather than how do I grow my counter vortex of pleasure and joy and X, y, Z?Danielle (35:59):Oh yeah, you got all those awards and I know what they are now. Yeah. Yeah. We're wrapping up, but I just wanted to say, if you're listening in, we're not prescribing anything or saying that you can't have a spiritual experience, but we are describing and we are describing instances where it can be harmful or ways that it could be problematic for many, many people. So yeah. Any final thoughts, Jenny? IJenny (36:32):Embrace the mess. Life is messy and it's alright. 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Staci and host Y. M. Nelson wrap up discussion of this YA fantasy with a little politics, world building, and look ahead to what the movie version of this book may entail. We finish our review with a Goodreads rating.Topics we discuss:0:47 When magic means power - The politics of the story9:13 The politics of the book - The Author's Note15:23 The World of Children of Blood and Bone21:50 Musing on the movie version30:24 The audiobook experience33:49 GoodReads ratingShow us some love with a text!Support the show#booktube #movietube⚠ *Note: some links to book recommendations are affiliate links. This means I receive a small commission when you buy. This does not affect the price you pay.

Y. M. Nelson and guest Staci discuss the folklore, the appeal, and the plot of the best selling fantasy Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi.Topics we discuss:First impressions of the bookThe lack of African folklore in American cultureZelie and the heroine's journeyRacism and Colorism in Children of Blood and BoneGrowing into a leader - The reluctant hero tropeComing of Age for other main characters and their arcsHow the premise-getting magic back-fits in with the storyShow us some love with a text!Support the show#booktube #movietube⚠ *Note: some links to book recommendations are affiliate links. This means I receive a small commission when you buy. This does not affect the price you pay.

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Where were you when you first saw the most expensive NC-17 Film ever made? Have you seen it since? What is your relationship with this iconic box office disaster? In this Bite-Sized Episode we examine SHOWGIRLS and celebrate Elizabeth Berkley's strength despite it's devastating reception. Even The Academy has come around to acknowledge this film's place in our pop culture history. Enjoy this look back into the film that is a delicious disaster and let me know about your experience with SHOWGIRLS.0:00 Hi! 0:53 Hair, Makeup and Costumes of SHOWGIRLS 3:19 The push and pull of Showgirls 4:06 The Backlash 5:45 Gina Ravera and her negative personal experience on set 7:16 Tropes and Colorism in SHOWGIRLS 9:52 Justice for SHOWGIRLS- how the film found success through Camp and triumphed on Home VideoAlso: See below for a link to the documentary YOU DON'T NOMI for more!Watch SHOWGIRLSWatch the documentary YOU DON'T NOMI Get full access to Look Behind The Look at lookbehindthelook.substack.com/subscribe

Don't forget to subscribe to our newsletter, Hyphenly; it's our no-fluff love letter with hot takes, heartfelt stories, and all the feels of living in between cultures. Come for the nuance, stay for the vibes! Link below https://hyphenly.beehiiv.com What does it take to disrupt an industry built on exclusion? In this episode of Immigrantly, host Saadia Khan sits down with Priyanka Ganjoo, founder of Kulfi Beauty, to talk about reshaping the beauty narrative. From her journey at Estée Lauder and Ipsy to building a South Asian-centered brand that thrives at Sephora and beyond, Priyanka shares how she turned personal exclusion into a global mission for inclusivity and joy. The episode dives into: How Kulfi Beauty Reclaims Cultural Heritage with Products Like Nazar No More. The Challenges of Representation, Colorism, and Stereotypes in Beauty. Priyanka's immigrant journey from India to Singapore to Harvard Business School and New York. Why joy, identity, and storytelling are at the heart of her brand.  You've ever felt unseen in beauty aisles, or if you're inspired by immigrant entrepreneurs rewriting the rules, you won't want to miss this one. Join us as we create new intellectual engagement for our audience. You can find more information at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://immigrantlypod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please share the love and leave us a review on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to help more people find us!  You can connect with Saadia on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠IG @itssaadiak⁠⁠ Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠saadia@immigrantlypod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Host & Producer: Saadia Khan I Content Writer: Saadia Khan I Editorial review: Shei Yu I Sound Designer & Editor: Lou Raskin I Immigrantly Theme Music: Simon Hutchinson | Other Music: Epidemic Sound Immigrantly Podcast is an Immigrantly Media Production. For advertising inquiries, contact us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠info@immigrantlypod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Don't forget to subscribe to our Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠for insightful podcasts. Follow us on social media for updates and behind-the-scenes content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's world, conversations around identity, inclusion, and equality are more important than ever. Yet, despite social progress, three deeply rooted ideologies continue to shape how we see ourselves and each other: racism, colorism, and texturism. Often called “The Big 3,” these interlocking systems of bias affect everything from our workplaces and relationships to media representation and self-worth.Let's unpack how each one shows up—and why understanding their impact is essential for real change.

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In this radiant episode of Choosing Joy, host Deborah Joy Winans Williams sits down with the one and only Gabourey Sidibe—award-winning actress, director, and mother—to talk about choosing self-worth, navigating colorism, and embracing joy in a world that often tells you you’re not enough. From her unexpected journey into stardom with Precious to raising twins and reclaiming her own story, Gabby opens up with humor, honesty, and an unshakable spirit. She shares how her mother’s influence, her unconventional path into Hollywood, and her deeply grounded sense of self have kept her centered through fame, criticism, and cultural expectations. This conversation goes beyond celebrity—into what it means to love yourself loudly despite the noise. Expect laughter, real talk, a few tears, and a reminder that every person deserves good things. Whether you're an artist, a parent, or just someone trying to find peace in your own skin, this episode is for you. ✨ This is Choosing Joy at its most soulful and powerful. Chapter Markers 00:00 – We All Deserve Good Things 03:00 – Gabby’s Unexpected Journey into Hollywood 06:00 – Spirituality, Serendipity & Precious 09:00 – Gabby’s First Time on Set 12:00 – What Hollywood Really Is 1 5:00 – Colorism, Casting, and Identity 18:00 – Exhaustion, Projection & Protecting Joy 21:00 – Gabby on Self-Love and Her Mother 24:00 – Marriage, Kids & Redefining Want 27:00 – IVF, Motherhood & Living Fully 30:00 – The Power of Storytelling #GaboureySidibe #ChoosingJoyPodcast #DeborahJoyWinans #SelfLove #Colorism #HollywoodTruths #BlackMotherhood #BlackWomenInFilm #IVFStory #Precious #EmbraceJoy #ConfidenceJourney #BlackExcellence #WomenInHollywood #ActressInterviewSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Will an era of rap that's finally making room for its male elders make equitable space for women and MaGes too? For this conversation we use the Clipse epic rollout as grown ass rappers (Pusha T, 48 & Malice, 53) launching their highly rated album and successful tour - to explore the experiences and P.O.V of Black women in and around the industry. I promise you it's not a reach. Culture writer Starr Rocque & PR Strategist Uchechi Chinyere join me to discuss all things Clipse, hip-hop, Black women & femmes. You don't have to know shxt about the Clipse or their latest album Let God Sort Em' Out to enjoy this conversation, but also please email and let me know how you managed to avoid knowing shxt about the Clipse during this very Clipse 2025. I think it's important to note that Tyler the Creator who shows up in one of the best features of the album is queer. We mention his feature, but not his queerness, which IS relevant in THIS conversation. Watch the full video version of this episode on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-clipse-of-138611501?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Starr Rocque @starr_rocque Uchechi Chinyere @wordsbyuchechi Women rapper thread: https://www.threads.com/@janiciaf/post/DMDQXE7gI6j?xmt=AQF0WN0h7xzS2qlRGsOYMykXzUyAAPgE41MUyQlMM43TAQ 00:00 intro 1:52 Hyperbolic Bronx rappers 3:47 Growing up with The Clipse 8:19 Sometimes you just want n****s to rap 11:54 "Drake" "was" "a" "backpacker" 13:10 The Black Women problem 17:58 Women rappers & The Clipse 23:49 Doechii won't stop talking about her vxgina 24:42 Rapsody the obvious or problematic choice 28:20 Give us nothing Nas! 29:25 Ageism 40:09 André 3000 44:10 Misogyny in hip hop is systemic AND personal 48:46 Colorism 58:47 Christianity 1:09:51 Journalism 1:17:15 When women and girls love hip hop 1:35:46 Gatekeeping Black women out, ushering white people in 1:44:04 Asking for what we deserve 1:49:17 Attending Clipse NPR Tiny Desk 1:52:50 Honesty in hip hop and IRL 1:57:17 Big sibling energy 2:03:59 What happened with The Grapevine Email me teawithqueenandj@gmail.com Support Paypal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/teawithqj Patreon: www.patreon.com/teawithqj

LaMikia Castillo is a professor, activist, mom and a KBLA contributor. An Afro Latina born in Inglewood, CA her parents hail from Panama, Central America. https://www.instagram.com/lamikiacastillo/ https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

LaMikia Castillo is a professor, activist, mom and a KBLA contributor. An Afro Latina born in Inglewood, CA her parents hail from Panama, Central America.https://www.instagram.com/lamikiacastillo/ https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/

In this conversation, Dr. Ashley Carrigan shares her journey into the field of behavior analysis, highlighting her personal experiences and professional aspirations.  We explore Dr. Carrigan's dissertation research, evaluating the effectiveness of a telehealth parent training intervention melding Acceptance and Commitment Training, Behavior Parent Training and weekly coaching sessions to address selective eating in children.  Dr. Carrigan emphasized the challenges she faced during her research, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the lessons learned throughout her academic journey. She also discusses her current roles in education and community service, her passion for mentoring future behavior analysts, and her strategies for balancing work and family life.  Check out the Behavior is Biological Healing is Cultural CEU Series Starting this Saturday and get $10 off using the code: BLKMATERNALHEALTH https://www.cymblearning.com/event-details-registration/behavior-is-biological-healing-is-cultural-where-data-meets-humanity   Watch On YouTube here!: https://youtu.be/uvD_51Y2dpw Continuing Education Credits (https://www.cbiconsultants.com/shop) BACB: 1.5 Learning IBAO:  1.5  Learning QABA: 1.5 General Follow us! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/behaviourspeak/ LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/behaviourspeak/ Contact: Center for Young Minds Behavior & Learning https://www.cymblearning.com/ Achievements ABA Therapy https://achievementstherapy.com/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ashley-carrigan-b60a3547/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dr.ashleycarrigan/   Links: Broccoli Boot Camp   https://www.fhautism.com/shop/broccoli-boot-camp-basic-training-for-parents-of-selective-eaters/ Articles Referenced: Jeudy, D.S., Andrews, M., Mittelman, C., & Beck, C. (2025). Changing the Narrative: A Contextual Behavioral Science Approach to Colorism. Journal of Colorism Studies, 6 (1), 0_1-27. Related Behaviour Speak Podcast Episodes: Episode 97 Culturally Responsive Telehealth and Behavior Analysis with Kimberley Woolery https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-97-bridging-the-gap-culturally-responsive-telehealth-and-behavior-analysis-with-kimberly-woolery-ms-bcba/ Episode 85 Online ACT Matrix Parent Training for Japanese Mothers with distress with Dr. Yukie Kurumiya https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-85-online-act-matrix-parent-training-for-japanese-speaking-mothers-with-distress-applications-of-prevention-science-with-dryukie-kurumiya/ Dr. Carrigan live from the 2023 Black Applied Behavior Analysts Conference in  Road to Black Con  2024 Mini Episode #6 https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/the-road-to-black-con-2024-mini-episode-6-with-dr-jesca-apamo-gannon-ashley-carrigan-danni-reid-and-jadine-wilson/

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On this episode of the Be4Reel Podcast Kobe, Charlow the PYT, and Lolo talk about Ari Lennox's interpretation of colorism on the 90s sitcom, Martin. Tune in to hear The Be4Reel Gang share our thoughts on Martin and if Lennox's thoughts go against the grain or not. Is there a colorism issue on Martin?

"I do not shop with the Africans. Ain't no African ever braided my hair." A call to boycott African braiding shops, restaurants, and stores is gaining steam among some Black Americans, and the Aunties are here to shut down the diaspora wars.This week, we're diving deep into the painful and divisive rhetoric fueling this boycott and questioning where this misdirected anger is coming from.Join the unfiltered discussion as we get into:The Boycott: Unpacking the claims behind the boycott and why blaming one part of our community for bad service is a dangerous distraction.Beyoncé vs. Michael Jackson: A viral TikTok creator claims Beyoncé is now bigger than MJ. The Aunties break down why Michael's legacy is untouchable.Kemi Badenoch's Rebrand: The UK politician now says she no longer identifies as Nigerian. We discuss her desperate pandering and the betrayal felt by the community.Colorism & Pregnancy: Reacting to the pressure and intrusive questions a pregnant Jasmine Brown is facing about her unborn daughter's skin tone and hair texture.

In this conversation, Dr. Myles Durkee discusses his journey into psychology, focusing on the dynamics of race, culture, and identity. He shares insights from his dissertation on racial microaggressions and the concept of 'acting white,' exploring how these experiences affect young adults. He explores the concept of code switching, its implications in professional settings, and the unique challenges faced by Black professionals, particularly Black women. The discussion also touches on the impact of DEI policies on research, the intersectionality of identities, and the experiences of Black psychologists. Dr. Durkee emphasizes the need for open conversations about code switching, especially for younger generations, and highlights the potential for a future where code switching is a voluntary practice rather than a necessity. Watch on YouTube! https://youtu.be/yR6nHfr16Mo Continuing Education Credits (https://www.cbiconsultants.com/shop) BACB: 1.5 Ethics IBAO:  1.5  Cultural QABA: 1.5 Ethics Follow us! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/behaviourspeak/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/benreiman.bsky.social.bsky.social LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/behaviourspeak/ Contact: Myles Durkee https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/mdurkee.html Relevant Research Durkee, M.I., Perkins, T.R. and Smith, R.E., II (2022), Longitudinal Effects of the “Acting White” Accusation and Racial Identity Development Among Black College Students. J Res Adolesc, 32: 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12708   McCluney, C. L., Durkee, M. I., Smith II, R. E., Robotham, K. J., & Lee, S. S. L. (2021). To be, or not to be… Black: The effects of racial codeswitching on perceived professionalism in the workplace. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 97, 104199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104199   Related Behaviour Speak Podcast Episodes: Episode 224 Colorism in Context with Dr. Danielle Jeudy https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-224-colorism-in-context-with-dr-danielle-jeudy/ Episode 170 A smiling Racisn : Reflections on Racism in Canada with Danni Reid, Juliet Musonge, and Michelle Upshaw https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-170-a-smiling-racism-reflections-on-racism-in-canada/ Episode 115 Microaggressions:  A Primer with Dr. Brea Banks https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-115-microaggressions-a-primer-with-dr-brea-banks/ Episode 98 Black Liberation Psychology: A Conversation with Dr. Evan Auguste https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-98-black-liberation-psychology-a-conversation-with-dr-evan-auguste/        

A day after the Tuesday mayoral election, Detroit in Black and White hosts Adolph Mongo, Vanessa Moss, Allan Lengel and Jim Nardone talk about what's next and what voters will be looking for.Co-host Moss asks if sexism or "colorism" -- prejudice against a Black person based on their skin tone -- will play a role in the general election between Council President Mary Sheffield and Rev. Solomon Kinloch Jr.The group also talks with Mary Zatina, the general manager of WDET, and the challenges the station faces under the Trump administration.P.S. Those interested in donating to WDET should click here. 

Tonight we discuss colorism in black american culture!

on this episode of one of the dopest Indie podcasts on the planet. LoFi Kelvy talks about the comments that R&B singer Ari Lennox said about the TV show Martin. She talked about the relationship of Martin and Pam through The eyes of colorism. now some people agree and some people don't. this is Kelvy thoughts about the topic.

In this conversation, Dr. Danielle Jeudy discusses her journey into behaviour analysis and her research on colorism, exploring its impact on education, employment, and societal beauty standards. She shares personal experiences and insights into the implications of skin tone bias, the practice of skin bleaching, and the historical context of colorism. The discussion highlights the importance of understanding these dynamics in various cultural contexts and the need for broader conversations around privilege and identity  Watch on YouTube! https://youtu.be/3MmLL8T6_d8 Continuing Education Credits (https://www.cbiconsultants.com/shop) BACB: 1.5 Ethics IBAO:  1.5  Cultural QABA: 1.5 Ethics Follow us! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/behaviourspeak/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/benreiman.bsky.social.bsky.social LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/behaviourspeak/ Contact: Dr. Danielle Jeudy at Navigate Behavioral Health https://www.navigatebh.com/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-s-jeudy-phd-bcba-d-lba-14a69b3a/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/behaviordj/ Links: Upcoming Registered Behavior Technician Training https://continuinged.middlesexcc.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=4247616 Black Applied Behavior Analysts Conference 2025 https://babainfo.org/conference/ Articles Referenced: Jeudy, D.S., Andrews, M., Mittelman, C., & Beck, C. (2025). Changing the Narrative: A Contextual Behavioral Science Approach to Colorism. Journal of Colorism Studies, 6 (1), 0_1-27. Related Behaviour Speak Podcast Episodes: Episode 223 Building Community in Behavior Analysis with Dr. Jewel Parham https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-223-building-community-in-behavior-analysis-with-dr-jewel-parham/ Episode 214 Cultural Humilty in Behavior Analysis with Quintara Tucker https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-214-cultural-humility-in-behavior-analysis-with-quintara-tucker/ Episode 136 From Bias to Balance: Anti-racism in Behavior Analysis https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-136-from-bias-to-balance-antiracism-in-behavior-analysis-with-sonia-levy-phd-bcba/ Episode 68 Racism, Feminism. And Behavior Analysis in Brasil with Dr. Táhcita Medrado Mizael https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-68-racism-feminism-in-brazil-with-drs-tahcita-medrado-mizael/ Our first episode: A Behaviour Analyst's Experience with Racism in Canada with Danielle Reid https://www.behaviourspeak.com/e/episode-1-racism/

Dom and D are back with a another fantastic episode of Everyone Needs an Aquarius. Dom and D discuss: 10:13 Mary J. Blige's recent performances are iffy 18:14 How and Who Can Fix Essence Fest 44:46 Colorism in LA Nightclubs 1:06:10 Mountain Dew Conspiracy and the Austin Floods 1:16:51 Ben McLemore's guilty verdict is crazy 1:37:37 Tribute to Kevin Woodson   Subscribe to the Everyone Needs an Aquarius Patreon https://bit.ly/3tXnnCz  Go cop your candles from Dom at www.saint-angeles.com/candles and use the promo code: Aquarius Email the show at straightolc@gmail.com           Follow SOLC Network online Instagram: https://bit.ly/39VL542                                    Twitter: https://bit.ly/39aL395                                     Facebook: https://bit.ly/3sQn7je                            To Listen to the podcast Podbean https://bit.ly/3t7SDJH                                YouTube http://bit.ly/3ouZqJU                                Spotify http://spoti.fi/3pwZZnJ                                Apple http://apple.co/39rwjD1                                                         IHeartRadio http://ihr.fm/2L0A2y 

Order your copy of the "Before You Move In: A Guide for Living Together!" -  I have encountered the challenging realities of living with a romantic partner and quickly realizing I wasn't fully prepared for what living with someone truly involved—sharing space, responsibilities, and navigating different personalities. After the first year, I found myself thinking, “Why didn't we talk about this before moving in together?” I wished there had been a resource to help spark those crucial conversations about the details we often overlook. This ebook is a NECESSARY tool for couples looking to move in together, new couples or even if the topic has crossed your mind.  ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!!!FREE RED FLAG DATING DOWN AND BEFORE YOU MOVE IN PLAYBOOK:https://stan.store/MergeandthriveplaybookMake sure you drop a comment below and SUBSCRIBE TO THE YOUTUBE PAGE!! Support the podcast If you have a situation that you want to be discussed on the podcast send me a message on IG or email us at: thatsscarypodcast@gmail.com! Make sure and leave a podcast review. It helps the show out TREMENDOUSLY! Follow and engage with us on IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thatsscary_podcast Follow Me:That's Scary with Meloney P. - all podcast streaming platformsLinks:YouTube - https://youtube.com/@thatsscarywithmeloneyppodcast?si=XZRLGoK3EoQbtuoJInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thatsscary_podcast/Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thatsscary_podcastSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1PBikYYfJPC4iRBejIh7KW?uid=dc98469f245848b9aef4&uri=spotify%3Aepisode%3A2NBK5H8emQGeG0zkfNMPu1Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-scary-with-meloney-p/id1629360940NAMA - https://namacbd.therave.co/YKWTKSYVEQH6DC4O - $5 Dollars Off!!Opus link - https://www.opus.pro/?via=a00088

  In this powerful episode, Dr. Sofia B. Pertuz, a leading workplace culture strategist and expert in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), shares her insightful experiences as an Afro-Latina woman navigating complex professional landscapes. Dr. Pertuz delves into the nuances of her identity, discussing the impact of colorism, intersectionality, and the ongoing struggles for representation. We explore the challenges faced by women of color in toxic work environments, emphasizing the critical importance of mental health, boundary setting, and self-care. Dr. Pertuz provides actionable strategies for career development, fostering supportive networks, and recognizing personal achievements. This conversation is essential for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of DEI, navigate workplace challenges, and cultivate a culture of empowerment. Key topics covered: Afro-Latina identity: understanding the complexities of race, ethnicity, and representation. Workplace DEI: addressing pushback, systemic issues, and the ongoing need for organizational transformation. Colorism & intersectionality: examining the impact of these factors on personal and professional experiences. Toxic work environments: strategies for navigating disrespect, setting boundaries, and creating escape plans. Mental health & self-care: prioritizing well-being, managing burnout, and the importance of rest. Career development: empowering women of color, recognizing achievements, and building supportive networks. Connect with us: Connect with Dr. Sofia B. Pertuz at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sofiabautistapertuz/ and https://www.mainstreaminsight.com/.  Follow Samorn on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/samornselim/. Get a copy of Samorn's book, “Belonging: Self Love Lessons From A Workaholic Depressed Insomniac Lawyer” at https://tinyurl.com/2dk5hr2f.  Get weekly career tips by signing up for our advice column at www.careerunicorns.com.  Schedule a free 30-minute build your dream career consult by sending a message at www.careerunicorns.com.   

Black History Month deserves HIGH Black Cinema. This week it's A Soldier's Story. It's a movie every black military has seen at least once. A film that tackles Racism, Black Self-Hate, Colorism, the treatment of black soldiers in the Jim Crow South, and what it's like to see yourself in a position of power for the first time. This a Black All-Star movie and it isn't talked about enough. 

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We're all connected! People all over the world have been bamboolzed by the White Forefathers and those who continue their false narratives. They've hidden it for hundreds of years. It's not about the Black skin, if it were Whites of all people, wouldn't tan for the same colors they say they hate. I say colors, because Black people comes in all shades. Wake up people, there's far more to this thing, than you are willing to admit and/or accept. You've been conditioned to believe it's one thing, when they know it's another. Therefore, they choose to doctrinate the world to racism, rather than to let the secret out. However, it's already out and coming to the light and that's why we see the uptake in racism, especially in the U.S. They feel if they keep the lie going they'll remain on top. All other races are so blind about Black people they can't even see they are on the chopping blocks too! They'll never be excepted as White, but they don't care. The ones on top are still perpetuating the lies and false narratives and are master manipulators. Those racist Whites knows they are the inferiors one, but have brainwashed people to believe they're superior to every race on earth. ONLY a weaked minded person behaves that way! White Forefathers and those here today, are very fearful of the truth being found out! The truth can't be stopped, "what's done in the dark, SHALL come to the light."Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/relationships-and-relatable-life-chronicles--4126439/support.

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In this emergency podcast, Dr. Kay shares her unpopular position that we should all be rejecting any making or taking of sides between Ubah & Brynn, and rather look at what happened with a trauma-focused lens, which changes how we understand the events. We can understand the contexts of both Ubah & Brynn, while still holding Brynn, as well as the bystanders, accountable for what they could have improved in such a high-activation scenario. Mental Health Check-Ups are typically only available for our Patreon members, but given the importance of these topics, this episode is currently available to all listeners!Love yourselves & one another--it takes all of us working together to subvert the societal oppression we face every day

We'll make a man out of you! In which we unpack gender, seeing ourselves in popular media, and Mulan (1998) with Livia Tsang and Eve Lindley. There is an EXTENDED CUT of this episode over on Patreon and Apple Podcast Subscriptions! This chat was a delight. I can't wait to hear your thoughts!You can find Livia online here:https://www.liviatsang.com/We talk about all sorts of things in this episode (gender, gender, gender and more gender), and we note how the Chinese government received the movie. Colorism and the portrayal of the Huns occurs in passing in the conversation, so here are some accompanying texts to read up on that if it is a conversation of interest:https://heatherjay.wordpress.com/ml-4-dissecting-stereotypes-disneys-mulan/https://www.uloop.com/news/view.php/149597/The-Dark-Side-Of-Disney-Racism-And-Sexism-In-Your-Favorite-Disney-Filmshttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/sep/09/mulan-disney-reel-historyAlso! If you're looking for ways to help folks in Los Angeles, here is a list of GoFundMe campaigns for displaced families of color:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pK5omSsD4KGhjEHCVgcVw-rd4FZP9haoijEx1mSAm5c/htmlview?fbclid=IwY2xjawHztoRleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZC7VGktsyOxoYcYNI7STee71NWbrYA9iV_KMB55qN52DFlPvA4o3TXNxA_aem_31x2W3U0OUoc_Ty59aXuvQThis episode was made possible by your support! Thanks to everybody who supports us on Patreon and Apple Plus.https://www.patreon.com/youaregoodTickets for A Massive Seance can be found here:https://linktr.ee/amassiveseanceAlex's zine!https://www.patreon.com/HighOccultureWe LOVE Magpie Cinema Club! You can find their songs / Bandcamp HERE!https://magpiecinemaclub.bandcamp.com/Carolyn's record!https://linktr.ee/carolynkendrickYou can buy a You Are Good logo shirt DESIGNED BY THE GREAT LIZ CLIMO here. (Liz Climo designed our logo!)https://www.bonfire.com/you-are-good-shirts160/You Are Good is a feelings podcast about movies.You can make a contribution to Palestine Children's Relief Fund here:https://www.pcrf.net/You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Patreon and Apple Plus.Miranda Zickler produced and edited this episode:https://linktr.ee/mirandatheswampmonsterFresh Lesh produces the beats for our episodes.

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In this episode of Womanology "Ria's Notebook", Ria discusses pretty privilege and colorism along with  two guest. These ladies talked about beauty standards and rather or not they fit the traditional mode of beauty. We also discussed ways to pour into yourself and building your in er beauty. Last Womanolgy spoke on the importance of recognizing pretty privilege in all aspects of daily living and ways you can incorporate your pretty privilege in your daily living. Follow Womanology on Instagram (@womanology_Podcast) Email the show at straightolc@gmail.com                  Hit the Voicemail at 641-715-3900 Ext. 769558 Follow SOLC Network online Instagram: https://bit.ly/39VL542    Twitter: https://bit.ly/39aL395    Facebook: https://bit.ly/3sQn7je    To Listen to the Podcast Podbean https://bit.ly/3t7SDJH                     YouTube http://bit.ly/3ouZqJU                     Spotify http://spoti.fi/3pwZZnJ                    Apple http://apple.co/39rwjD1                     Stitcher http://bit.ly/3puGQ5P                  IHeartRadio http://ihr.fm/2L0A2y1 

J Noa shares on her humble upbringing in RD, spitting BARS, scoring two Grammy nominations and a 'Tiny Desk' by 19 + how colorism en La Republica has no effect on her self-esteem.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vrai, Cy, and Chiaki gather to talk self-actualization and automobiles for the final episode of their Revolutionary Girl Utena watchalong covering the Adolescence of Utena film! 0:00:00 Intro 0:04:04 Content warnings 0:04:29 Colorism and Anthy 0:10:08 Standalone or sequel? 0:12:36 Chiho Saito manga 0:13:42 First touch 0:14:33 Akio 0:21:11 Sexual assault 0:23:17 General horniness 0:26:29 Toga 0:30:10 Shiori 0:33:52 Kissing 0:39:35 The car 0:48:44 Epilogue 0:54:15 Where's Nanami? 0:56:03 Reflections 1:02:15 Empty Movement 1:04:15 Girls Revolution Utena 1:07:27 Revolutionary Girl Ursula 1:10:44 Outro Vrai: bsky.app/profile/writervrai.bsky.social Cy: bsky.app/profile/pixelatedlenses.bsky.social Chiaki: bsky.app/profile/terrible.moe AniFem Linktree: https://linktr.ee/animefeminist AniFem Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/animefeminist AniFem Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/animefeminist Recorded Wednesday 20th October 2024 Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Continue the convo by joining our community: https://www.youtube.com/c/WavingtheRedFlag/join https://www.patreon.com/wavingtheredflag https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wavingtheredflag/subscribe Ep 244 | the boys talk about Aaron Pierre being cast as Jon Stewart 0:00 Preview 1:25 tommy lee jones is a piece of shit 5:42 GREEN LANTERN CASTING: colorism or capitalism? 22:24 human shaped robots is lowkey some slave shit? 28:21 AI Societal Catastrophe talk 54:14 If you and your SO switched bodies for 24 hours, would you have sex with them to see what it's like? Grab a thang of our card game at https://shop.wavingtheredflag.com/products/its-a-red-flag-card-game (now shipping to the US & UK)

Join us as we unpack the layers of colorism. This form of discrimination goes beyond racism, affecting individuals based on their skin tone even within their own ethnic or racial groups.Audio Onemichistory.comFollow me on Instagram: @onemic_historyFollow me on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@onemic_historyFollow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Onemichistory Please support our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/user?u=25697914 Buy me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Countryboi2mSources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_based_on_skin_tone https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/fall-2015/whats-colorism https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/deib-explorer/files/the_persistent_problem_of_colorism.pdf https://time.com/4512430/colorism-in-america/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/one-mic-black-history--4557850/support.

In this episode, I'm diving into colorism and its impact around the world, especially on the African diaspora. We'll chat about how slavery shaped attitudes toward skin color and how that affects identity and community today. I'll share some personal stories and insights that highlight these ongoing issues. Anyone who argues about Colorism being real is an idiot. Check out all my socials: https://linktr.ee/madiswan09 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this month's episode, host Antonio Tijerino sits down with Jonathan Jayes-Green (they/them), a trailblazing LGBTQ+ non-binary Afro-Latinx activist and advocate for justice. Jonathan shares their deeply personal journey of returning to Panama after nearly 20 years in the U.S., reflecting on the healing, reconnection, and self-discovery that accompanied this transformative experience. Jonathan also opens up about the challenges of navigating multiple intersecting identities—Black, Latinx, queer—and the societal pressures that come with them. They offer powerful insights into the realities of racism and classism, both in the U.S. and Latin America, and discuss the ongoing struggles faced by marginalized communities.Throughout the conversation, Jonathan highlights the importance of creativity, self-care, and the boldness required to push for meaningful change. Their story is one of resilience, identity, and the power of community—an inspiring reminder that our struggles are interconnected, and together, we can create a more just and inclusive world.ABOUT JONATHAN JAYES-GREEN: Jonathan is committed to the practical and innovative deployment of capital for the public good. Jonathan brings over a decade of nonprofit, philanthropy, and political experience in senior leadership roles. Jonathan earned a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. Jonathan is currently a Democracy Visting Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Previously, Jonathan served as a Gleitsman Fellow at the Harvard Center for Public Leadership and as a Rappaport Institute Public Finance Fellow at the Federal Funds and Infrastructure Office within the Massachusetts Executive Office of Administration and Finance.Jonathan serves on the boards of eBay Foundation, Funders of LGBTQ Issues, and Hispanics in Philanthropy. Jonathan's profile and contributions to social justice movements are featured at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.WATCH: Click here to watch this and other episodes on YouTube. FOLLOW: Follow us on Insta @FritangaPodcastCONNECT: For questions or guest recommendations, email us at Fritanga@HispanicHeritage.orgTEAM:Host: Antonio TijerinoExecutive Producer: Antonio Caro Senior Producer:  Connor Coleman Producer: Ambrose Davis  

This week your BFF's talk the anniversary of #FadeintheWater (Montgomery Riverfront Brawl 2024), Colorism and why ANYTHING is better than Panda Express.  Watch the live recording on our Youtube channel here! Make the haters mad and rate us 5 stars.  Send us an email with your thoughts/comments about the show: BlackFatFemmePod@gmail.com Follow the show on social: Twitter | Instagram Follow DoctorJonPaul: Twitter | Instagram | Website  Follow Jordan: Twitter | Instagram | Website See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a recent address at a Black journalist convention, Donald Trump launched a controversial attack on Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris by questioning her mixed-race heritage. He claimed ignorance about whether Harris, who has an Indian mother and a Black father, identifies as Black or Indian. This attack echoes his previous racial jabs, notably when he dubbed Senator Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas," mocking her self-proclaimed Native American ancestry during the 2020 race. While Warren's response to Trump's provocation resulted in an embarrassing revelation of minimal Native ancestry, Harris's situation is distinct. Her heritage is well-documented; she has proudly embraced both aspects of her identity, from her involvement in one of the oldest Black sororities to her education at the historically Black Howard University.   Many within the GOP express unease with Trump's race-based attacks, fearing electoral repercussions not just in the presidential race but also in down-ballot contests. However, it is worth noting that Trump's racially charged tactics have proven effective in the past. Yet, attacking Harris as a "racial imposter" is unlikely to yield the same results as with Warren.   Trump's rhetoric on Harris resonates with certain factions, such as the ADOS (American Descendants of Slavery) movement, and even touches upon themes from Afro-pessimism. This academic perspective posits that the world's cultures are fundamentally anti-Black and that the prejudice one experiences correlates with one's skin tone. Under this framework, lighter-skinned, mixed-race individuals like Harris purportedly face fewer challenges than their darker-skinned counterparts, such as Congresswoman Cori Bush. But is this view valid? Historical figures like Thurgood Marshall, a light-skinned man who was the first Black Supreme Court Justice, undoubtedly faced immense challenges, arguably more so than Clarence Thomas, who is darker-skinned.   Afro-pessimism, with its focus on race as an ontological condition, often obscures the crucial role of class. The notion that light-skinned Black people enjoy privileges akin to those of white people due to their proximity to "whiteness" simplifies a complex reality. My good friend Bert Cooper, himself of mixed race and lighter skin, would likely contend that this narrow understanding of race, devoid of class analysis, fails to capture the nuanced "Black experience."   This discourse invites us to delve into the intersections of race, identity, and class, urging us to examine how these dynamics play out in the political arena and broader societal contexts.   Thank you guys again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and everyone of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH!   Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents?   Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!)   THANKS Y'ALL   YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland   Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles   Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/   Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Pascal%20Robert

in this episode i'm talking about From Inclusivity to Exclusivity: How Pricey Sections, Colorism and Social Media Hurt Nightclubs

In this episode, Kanika interviews former Miss America Nina Davuluri on her documentary film, COMPLEXion, where she takes on colorism in South Asia and more broadly all communities of color. The fairness industry is worth $4 billion and continues to make the youth (typically girls as young as four) feel self-conscious about their looks and color of their skin. Kanika shares her own story as a pageant winner (Miss India East Coast) and all that is flawed in the beauty industry. She goes on to share how her kindergarten children became aware of their skin tone and how they dealt with it with their peers. Listen in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Town Hall: A Black Queer Podcast is back from hiatus, diving into the complexities of colorism. Join Peppermint and Bob the Drag Queen as they explore this crucial topic. This episode features interviews with Lashawn (@love.lashaaawn), a drag queen, comedian, epic fantasy writer, and community builder proudly belonging to the Afro-Caribbean, queer, and gaming communities; Amryn (@peppermintpattytypegalpal), a visual artist, creative, and musician from New Mexico, who shares their journey of overcoming harmful colorist beliefs and embracing blackness in all shades; and Alexia (@alexia.is.that.gurl), an Afro-Latina singer, actor, dancer, and director from Jersey City, who discusses her unique experiences as a light-skinned, mixed-race person of Latin descent. Tune in for an insightful discussion on colorism's impact and the journey to self-acceptance. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: https://bit.ly/TownHallABlackQueerPodcast If you like the show, tell your friends! You can text, email, tweet, or send this link to a friend: https://bit.ly/TownHallABlackQueerPodcast Follow us on Instagram: @TheTownHallPod Learn more about Black Queer Town Hall: https://www.blackqueertownhall.org Special thanks to our Production Team: Executive Producer, Tracy Marquez. Senior Producer, Charlene Westbrook. Producer, Cory Nixon, and Post Producer, Amelia Ritthaler. Music by Lafemmebear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Are dark n*ggas having a moment? Langston and David talk to Reggie Conquest (Abbott Elementary) about the dark kings who are shining bright. This can be traced back to everyone wanting to be Wesley Snipes in the 90s as well as J.Cole apologizing to Kendrick Lamar two weeks ago. We also address the craziness of Meek Mill and Draymond Green. Plus, the latest from Terrence Howard. Fire alarms are constantly being pulled during this episode. This is the rampant colorism we promise to deliver each week.  MY MOMMA TOLD ME WILL BE A PART OF NETFLIX IS A JOKE FESTIVAL! SUN 5/5 AT 7pm AT THE COMEDY STORE IN LOS ANGELES! GET YOUR TIX HERE. FOLLOW + SUBSCRIBE ON ALL PLATFORMS FOR ALL HILARIOUS AND PROBLEMATIC TALKS: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mymommatoldmepod/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm1wMf8iYG-imuTwqje2PNg TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@mymommatoldmepod?lang=en MY MOMMA TOLD ME MERCH IS NOW AVAILABLE! Visit https://mymommatoldme.merchtable.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.