Podcast appearances and mentions of isabel flower

Episode 43 is with editor, writer, and researcher Isabel Flower!Isabel's work across editorial and advertising is (usually) about art, style, and consumer culture. Her writing has appeared in places such as Kaleidoscope, Cultured, The Wall Street Journal, Garage, Double, Artforum, and Bookforum, and these days she's executive editor of Deem Journal. With her best friend and longtime collaborator Marcel Rosa-Salas, she is co-author of the “The Nameplate: Jewelry, Culture, and Identity” which was published by Penguin Random House this past summer and began as the open-call archiving project Documenting the Nameplate. The two of them also cohost the Top Rank Podcast.We discuss culture journalism in the digital age, life as a new (working) mom, running podcasts, nepotism, etc etc etc !

References: Sabeerah Najee@sabeerahnajeeCoachella's Accessible+ (A+) ProgramAccess Intimacy by Mia MingusTen Fifty EntertainmentCredits:Dreaming Different is brought to you by Deem Audio.Produced by Alexis Aceves Garcia, Jorge Vallecillos, Amy Mae Garrett.Editorial by Alice Grandoit-Šutka, Alexis Aceves Garcia, Isabel Flower.Creative direction by Nu Goteh.Design by Jun Lin.Sound mixing and editing by Hasan Insane.Theme music by Nu Goteh.

References: Jamila Reddy@jamilareddySomewhere GoodCredits:Dreaming Different is brought to you by Deem Audio.Produced by Alexis Aceves Garcia, Jorge Vallecillos, Amy Mae Garrett.Editorial by Alice Grandoit-Šutka, Alexis Aceves Garcia, Isabel Flower.Creative direction by Nu Goteh.Design by Jun Lin.Sound mixing and editing by Hasan Insane.Theme music by Nu Goteh.

References: Kimberly Drew@museummammyThis Is What I Know About Art by Kimberly DrewBlack Futures edited by Jenna Wortham and Kimberly DrewCrip Camp: A Disability Revolution (Documentary on Netflix)5 neurodivergent love languagesCredits:Dreaming Different is brought to you by Deem Audio.Produced by Alexis Aceves Garcia, Jorge Vallecillos, Amy Mae Garrett.Editorial by Alice Grandoit-Šutka, Alexis Aceves Garcia, Isabel Flower.Creative direction by Nu Goteh.Design by Jun Lin.Sound mixing and editing by Hasan Insane.Theme music by Nu Goteh.

References:Kevin Gotkin @who____girl An artist Kevin mentionsSocial vs. medical model of disabilityNick Walker's 8-point introductory practices of “neuroqueer”Constance Hawkaday's Artists-in-PresidentsRemote Access party collective, a disability-centric nightlife seriesCredits:Dreaming Different is brought to you by Deem Audio.Produced by Alexis Aceves Garcia, Jorge Vallecillos, Amy Mae Garrett.Editorial by Alice Grandoit-Šutka, Alexis Aceves Garcia, Isabel Flower.Creative direction by Nu Goteh.Design by Jun Lin.Sound mixing and editing by Hasan Insane.Theme music by Nu Goteh.Theme music by Nu Goteh.

References: Jen White-Johnson@jtknoxroxDr. Yewande Pearse@nyewroLydia BrownAutistic Women and Nonbinary NetworkAlice Wong and the Disability Visibility ProjectCare Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaExtra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers10 Principles of Disability JusticeShannon FinneganPivot Diversity Haley MossSociety of Disabled OraclesLois CurtisCredits:Dreaming Different is brought to you by Deem Audio.Produced by Alexis Aceves Garcia, Jorge Vallecillos, Amy Mae Garrett.Editorial by Alice Grandoit-Šutka, Alexis Aceves Garcia, Isabel Flower.Creative direction by Nu Goteh.Design by Jun Lin.Sound mixing and editing by Hasan Insane.Theme music by Nu Goteh.

References: Jezz Chung  @jezzchungNeurodiversity terms and definitions What is neurodiversity? 5 Neurodivergent Love LanguagesNeurodivergent umbrella by Sonny Jane WiseCredits:Dreaming Different is brought to you by Deem Audio.Produced by Alexis Aceves Garcia, Jorge Vallecillos, Amy Mae Garrett.Editorial by Alice Grandoit-Šutka, Alexis Aceves Garcia, Isabel Flower.Creative direction by Nu Goteh.Design by Jun Lin.Sound mixing and editing by Hasan Insane.Theme music by Nu Goteh. 

Bouncing off of NYLP’s appearance on the Top Rank podcast on Red Bull Radio, Dan and Mia are continuing the conversation with the whip-smart and incredibly creative authors of Documenting the Nameplate, Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Flower. We asked the team what they learned about weed since our last convo, and the results were very inspiring. 

In this conversation, we spoke with Dr. Margaret Rose Vendryes, Ruth Gebreyesus, Marcel Rosasalas and Isabel Flower on the importance of archiving, the work and/or experiences that inform archiving, their journeys, and the ways in which the practice contributes to sustaining and preserving the narratives and histories of womxn of color. @mrvendreyes @root_g @marcelrosasalas @isabelflower

On episode 15 of the Top Rank Podcast, “Resource Generation” co-hosts Isabel Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas spoke with Holly Fetter and Dominique Tan, representatives from the nonprofit organization Resource Generation. For two decades, Resource Generation has been advising and enabling young people with wealth and class privilege in the United States to work towards the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power. In the U.S. today, the top one percent of households own more wealth than the bottom ninety percent combined. On this episode, we spoke with Holly and Dominique about scrutinizing the idea of meritocracy, constructing comprehensible and productive definitions of wealth and class (and how these categories intersect and overlap with varying identity categories), as well as RG’s strategies for action.

On episode 14 of the Top Rank Podcast, “The New Racial Science” co-hosts Isabel Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas spoke with Professor Dorothy Roberts about the politics of genetic ancestry tests. In 2017, over 12 million Americans had their DNA analyzed by genetic ancestry testing companies. This recent boom in popularity has turned “knowing your roots” into one of the biggest consumer products of the past decade. However, it is critical to the question how genetic ancestry tests are shaping societal understandings of race and ethnicity. Professor Dorothy Roberts is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Departments of Africana Studies, Sociology and the Law School. She is also founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies. Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century ; Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare, and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty.

On episode 13 of the Top Rank Podcast, “Thick/er Black Lines,” co-hosts Isabel Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas spoke with Rianna Jade Parker, Hudda Khaireh, and Aurella Yussuf founding members of the London based curatorial collective Thick/er Black Lines. Thick/er Black Lines is an interdisciplinary collective that brings together art criticism and, cultural studies, as well as archival, and activist practices to shed light on the creative production of the Black European diaspora. Their ongoing efforts to canonize Black British women and femme artistsun cluding their most recent residency at the Tate Modern— -- emerge from an urgency to highlight the multiplicities and convergences of Black identities across the globe.

What happens when four badass intersectional feminists come together to discuss Selena's cultural impact, spirituality and social good? You get exploratory conversations that range in perspective and hopefully inspire you Brujas to join the movement. Meet Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Flower from Top Rank podcast, two intellectuals who base their content around social and cultural topics that is exploratory rather than prescriptive or conclusive. For more information, check out their website TopRankMag.com or their Instagram @TopRankMagazine.

On episode 12 of the Top Rank Podcast, co-hosts Isabel Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas speak with Cecilia Palmeiro and Verónica Gago, founding members of Argentinian feminist movement and collective Ni Una Menos. Ni Una Menos (which translates to Not One Less) combats femicide—the intentional killing of women because they are female—as well as all gender based-violence. They are committed to changing a culture that castes women as objects to control, to consume, and to discard. To do so, Ni Una Menos examines the multiple forms of violence (economic, political, financial, state, social) that limit the autonomy of women and therefore generate the conditions that allow for physical violence, shedding light on the relationship between the most dramatic manifestations of violence against women and their structural roots. The movement’s affiliates now span numerous Latin American countries and even continents, and their work includes organizing marches, protests, strikes, and discussions to putting forward formal government demands. Cecilia and Verónica spoke with us about how to define machista violence, the relationship between neoliberalism, capitalism, and gender-based abuse, and making community activism intersectional, collaborative, and transnational.

Marcel Rosa-Salas & Isabel Flower are co-host of the The Top Rank Podcast. They sat down with Taj Alexander on The Open Canvas to share their story and passions. Video: https://www.theopencanvas.com/toprank/ Top Rank Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/toprankmagazine Hat Line: https://www.instagram.com/hat_line/?hl=en --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/taj-alexander/support

Marcel Rosa-Salas & Isabel Flower are co-host of the The Top Rank Podcast. They sat down with Taj Alexander on The Open Canvas to share their story and passions. Video: https://www.theopencanvas.com/toprank/ Top Rank Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/toprankmagazine Hat Line: https://www.instagram.com/hat_line/?hl=en

On episode 11 of the Top Rank Podcast, “High Performance Hijabs,” co-hosts Isabel Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas speak with Arshiya Kherani, founder and CEO Sukoon Active. Sukoon is a New York-based apparel company that designs inclusive activewear for women. Kherani, an active runner, launched Sukoon in 2016 after years of going without high-quality workout clothing that aligned with her Muslim faith. Sukoon offers fuller coverage and looser-fitting exercise apparel and high performance hijabs for women across backgrounds, who desire athletic wear that is not tight or revealing. From Nike to Dolce & Gabbana, global fashion brands have begun targeting the Islamic fashion consumer as their latest marketing opportunity, and some brands have started to offer modest clothing, head coverings, and special occasion wear for Muslim women. Yet, in a social climate that is rife with negative associations surrounding Islamic traditions, the recognition of Muslims as part of the American marketplace is as politically charged as it is practically necessary. Marcel and Isabel speak with Arshiya about her pursuit of inclusive marketing, the ups and downs of start-up entrepreneurship, and her experiences going toe-to-toe with Nike. You can find the Top Rank Podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes and Know Wave. A special thank you to Red Bull Arts New York. This episode was produced by Sienna Fekete

This summer, an exhibition opened at the Museum of Sex in New York City titled NSFW: Female Gaze . Organized in collaboration with Vice’s Creators platform, and on view through April 2018, this show includes the work of 25 young and/or emerging female artists. The show’s two part title invokes Laura Mulvey’s canonical 1975 feminist film theory about the masculine cinematic perspective, as well as the everyday politics of internet censorship and sexual respectability. However, this exhibition’s title presents an important and timely question: What is the “female gaze” and what about it is “unsafe”? A “female gaze”—or any gaze for that matter—is cultural and learned, not innate, not universal, but intensely subjective and situated by race, class, and history. On Episode 10, co-hosts Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Flower speak with the show’s curators, Marina Garcia-Vasquez (Editor-in-Chief @ Creators) and Lissa Rivera (Associate Curator @ the Museum of Sex), about the complexities of imagining a universal female subject and audience, and the ways in which notions of beauty can be both limiting and perversely powerful. A special thank you to Red Bull Arts New York. This episode was produced by Sienna Fekete.

Few would dispute the immense social, cultural, and political significance of creative production in realizing our potential as human beings and in fostering both inventive and nurturing communities. Creative labor is a critical part of our social ecosystem. Yet, artists—especially in the US—are often unable to make a living wage from their physical and/or intellectual labor or its products. The trope of the “starving artist” still pervades pop cultural notions about the sacrosanct status—and corresponding fiscal value—of artistic labor. This romanticized image of an individual whose isolation, specifically from the market economy, is the very wellspring of their creative genius continues to have vital material implications for those who desire to be professional arts workers. In a culture of unpaid internships and “paying dues” via free work in exchange for prestige and exposure, carving out a career in the creative industries is immensely precarious. On Episode 9, co-hosts Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Flower speak with curator Ali Rosa-Salas about arts labor in New York, selection and subjectivity, and kindness as a curatorial strategy. A special thank you to Red Bull Arts New York and to Ali Rosa-Salas. This episode was produced by Sienna Fekete Follow us @toprankmagazine

Over the past decade, abuse of prescription opioids such as Oxycontin and Percocet has come to affect over two million Americans, precipitating a quadrupling in overdose fatalities. The spike in opioid related deaths within White communities in particular has visibly shocked and alarmed the media, the public, and policy makers. The so-called “new epidemic” has been widely and consistently framed as affecting "blameless victims” and "good people"—ostensibly those individuals who, within American public consciousness, are not associated with drug abuse. Drug epidemics in this country have historically been addressed by using harshly putative legal measures, most notably exemplified by the War on Drugs in low income communities of color. The wake of the opioid spike leads us again to the question: Whose lives matter? And, how are the media narratives and concurrent policy efforts about this issue informed by intersecting race and class biases? For Episode 8, co-hosts Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Flower invited Dr. Helena Hansen, professor of medical anthropology and psychiatry at New York University, to speak about her research on the cultural and clinical intersections of addiction and its treatment, pertaining specifically to illicit and pharmaceutical grade opiates. A social scientist, clinical practitioner, and documentary filmmaker, Professor Hansen has published widely about the politics of opioid addiction treatment. A special thank you to Red Bull Arts New York and to Helena Hansen. This episode was produced by Sienna Fekete.

For Episode 7, co-hosts Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Flower spoke with three guests—Khalila Douze (Social Media Editor at The Outline), Kimberly Drew (Social Media Manager at the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Rawiya Kameir (Culture Editor at The Outline)—about the intersections of social media and identity politics in their professional and personal lives. Within the last 30 or so years, the phrase identity politics has become a critical mechanism for self-realization and expression, as well as for political and cultural alliance building. The internet, and social media in particular, has provided a public but also highly personal platform for anyone with access to a computer and a network to distill and perform their identity, and to have an audience. We have come to see that the implications of said access and exposure hold the potential of unravelling and restructuring the way information is disseminated, the way money is made, and the way power itself is manifested. Here, we reflect on how our generation has adapted to, struggled with, and harnessed these seismic shifts. A special thank you to Red Bull Studios New York, and to each of our brilliant participants. This episode was produced by Sienna Fekete.

On episode 6 co-hosts Isabel Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas speak with New York-based activists Elaine Paredes and Lori Adelman about Planned Parenthood’s essential work, the current state of women’s health-related legislation (domestic and overseas), and how we might prepare for what’s to come. Paredes and Adelman lay out the implications of defunding Planned Parenthood and the repercussions of and relationship between such legislation as the Mexico City policy and the Helms Amendment. They discuss the significance—as well as the critical fault lines—of the Women’s Marches, and, perhaps most importantly, express why it is essential that our strategies for the days and years to come be intersectional at their core.

On Episode 5, co-hosts Isabel Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas speak with members of BRUJAS, a New York City-based feminist organization who use skateboarding and community activism to foster radical social change. Brujas members ARIANNA GIL, ANTONIA PÉREZ, and REBECCA STURCKEN discuss the group’s representation in mainstream media, the labor involved in producing and sustaining their program, and the challenges of using social media to incite political resistance while considering the threat of surveillance. Sharing their influences and aspirations, the Brujas members talk though the possibilities of youth-led activism in the digital age. You can find Top Rank online @toprankmagazine. You can learn more about Brujas on their website https://brujas.nyc/ and @BRUJAS A special thank you to Red Bull Studios New York, and to each of our wonderfully generous participants. This episode was produced by Sienna Fekete. Isabel and Marcel welcome input for future content. You can reach us at isabel@toprankmagazine.com and marcel@toprankmagazine.com.

On the occasion of Knockdown Center's MAMI exhibition and market, Top Rank Podcast co-hosts Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Flower talk intersectional identity with journalists Jenna Wortham (NYT Magazine) and Doreen St. Félix (MTV News), Brujas skate crew leader Arianna Gil, and Bklyn Boihood founder Ryann Holmes. Available here as the Top Rank Podcast’s 4th episode, their conversation addresses the promises and pitfalls of digital media as a tool for social change, the importance of fostering self-affirming environments that prioritize self-care, and, more generally, how Mami Wata’s hybrid identity serves as a framework within which we can question conventional binaries and locate strength in paradox, contradiction, and multiplicity. You can find us online at toprankmagazine.com and on Instagram @toprankmagazine. A special thank you to Red Bull Studios New York, and to each of our wonderfully generous participants. Isabel and Marcel welcome input for future content. You can reach us at marcel@toprankmagazine.com and isabel@toprankmagazine.com.

In Episode 3, co-hosts Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Flower reflect on their enduring affection for Selena Quintanilla Perez, the beloved Tejana singer, and assess what it means to memorialize and perform her identity.

Our second episode, “Elements of Style,” is a post-Fashion Week reflection consisting of conversations about the politics of fashion imagery, beauty, modeling, and self-styling. Co-hosts Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Flower ask what fashion can teach us about configurations of power in contemporary society, and discuss the industry as an institution that produces culture through collective knowledge. In conversations with each other, fashion industry professionals, and scholars, Isabel and Marcel seek some insight into this mammoth question. On this episode you'll hear from: Brandi Thompson Summers, Assistant professor of African American Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University Christelle de Castro, photographer, filmmaker, art director, and creative director for Top Rank Stephanie Sadre-Orafai, assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Cincinnati Nafisa Kaptownwala, founder of modeling agency Lorde Inc. Paloma Elsesser, model, writer, and student Eric Darnell Pritchard, Assistant Professor of English at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Mimi Thi Nguyen, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign You can find us online at toprankmagazine.com and on Instagram @toprankmagazine. A special thank you to Red Bull Studios New York, and to each of our wonderfully generous participants. Isabel and Marcel welcome your feedback and pitches. You can reach us at marcel@toprankmagazine.com and isabel@toprankmagazine.com. Be sure to follow Top Rank on Instagram and Facebook for the latest podcast and magazine news.

Hosts Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Flower nerd out about nameplate jewelry, discussing the style's formal qualities, its material and social history, and its relevance in American culture today. Music Credit: "Uptown Top Ranking" by Althea & Donna Original interlude by @dyani_douze