This episode is part 1 of what is turning into our first mini series. During this episode we introduce the guest of the series: India, Jermaca and Travelle. Our guest are BRAVE AF! These women honor us with their time to tell us about their experiences! This episode will be uncomfortable for some, and that’s GOOD because as we get uncomfortable with social norms and the harmful experiences associated - we can begin to reassess and CHANGE.
Guests:
India - @msindiarose
Jermaca - @jermacabrown
Travelle - @travelinz
Key Terms & Resources Referenced in this Episode:
*Tokenism: “The practice of doing something (such as hiring a person who belongs to a minority group) only to prevent criticism and give the appearance that people are being treated fairly.” -Merriam Webster
*Code Switching: “Alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation.” -Oxford Languages
*Intersectionality: Kimberle’ Crenshaw coined the term and defines it as “a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects. It’s not simply that there’s a race problem here, a gender problem here, and a class or LBGTQ problem there. Many times that framework erases what happens to people who are subject to all of these things.”
*Double Consciousness: “A concept in social philosophy referring, originally, to a source of inward ‘twoness’ putatively experienced by African-Americans because of their racialized oppression and disvaluation in a white-dominated society. The concept is often associated with William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, who introduced the term into social and political thought, famously, in his groundbreaking The Souls of Black Folk (1903).” -Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
*Uplift Suasion: “This strategy of what can be termed uplift suasion was based on the idea that White people could be persuaded away from their racist ideas if they saw Black people improving their behavior, uplifting themselves from their low station in American society. The burden of race relations was placed squarely on the shoulders of Black Americans. Positive Black behavior, abolitionist strategists held, undermined racist ideas, and negative Black behavior confirmed them.”
-Excerpt from Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
*A Promised Land by Barack Obama
*Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
*Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans
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Cover Photo by: @violette_media
Edited by: Erica Snow (@esnowbird)
Intro/Outro Music: Pick Up - Moods, Yasper
Ad Music: Ocean Voices - Jean Theil (@unjust_justin edit)
