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The Chivalry ChroniclesEpisode 042 (Chivalry After Hours) - "Stop Down Movies Re-Visited"Send us a textAsim and Leo join Jaime to discuss their own version of stop down movies.Relationship with moviesImpactful moviesHow they are tied to your childhoodIssue a verdict.Support the show
2025-12-231h 28
Environment VariablesBackstage: Green AI CommitteeIn this special backstage episode of Environment Variables, producer Chris Skipper spotlights the Green AI Committee, an initiative of the Green Software Foundation launched in 2024. Guests Thomas Lewis and Sanjay Podder share the committee’s mission to reduce AI's environmental impact through strategic focus on measurement, policy influence, and lifecycle optimization. The episode explores the committee’s approach to defining and implementing “green AI,” its contributions to public policy and ISO standards, and collaborative efforts to build tools, best practices, and educational resources that promote sustainable AI development.Learn more about our people:Chris Skipper: LinkedIn | WebsiteThomas Lewis: L...
2025-05-0118 min
The Reel RejectsBLACK MIRROR Season 7 "Plaything" Episode 4 Breakdown & Review | NetflixBANDERSNATCH SEQUEL?! Black Mirror Season 7 Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejectsSave & Invest In Your Future Today, visit: https://www.acorns.com/rejectsBlack Mirror Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, Spoiler Review, Breakdown, & Ending Explained!In Black Mirror Season 7 Episode 4, titled "Plaything," we delve into a mind-bending narrative that blurs the lines between reality and digital consciousness. The episode follows Cameron Walker, portrayed by Peter Capaldi (Doctor Who, The Thick of It), a former video game journalist whose obsession with a 1990s life simulation game called "Thronglets" leads...
2025-04-1428 min
Your BIPOC Writing CoachIgnore the Experts: You Can Write All the Things with Jabari AsimOn episode 46 of the podcast, I’m replaying my inspiring, 2023 conversation with award-winning author, journalist, professor, and poet, Jabari Asim.
Jabari Asim is the Distinguished Professor of Multi-Disciplinary Letters at Emerson College. He is the author of 23 books, including Yonder, the essay collection We Can’t Breathe, and Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis. His awards include a Guggenheim fellowship and a Pushcart Prize.
His work has been included in Best American Essays and Best American Poetry. The former editor-in-chief of the NAACP’s Crisis magazine, he has published journalism in The Was...
2024-12-2353 min
Opening Up: A Conflict Transformation PodcastEmbodiment and Improvisation: from Dance to Conflict TransformationToday, we bring you a conversation with Susan Sgorbati, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College. In conversation with Lida Winfield, the undergraduate pillar head of the CT Collaborative and dance professor, Susan shares insights from her journey as a dance artist and educator, and how the principles of dance improvisation inform her work in conflict mediation and social justice. They explore how embodied practices, active listening, and improvisational skills can foster collaboration and create transformative change in both artistic and social contexts. Sgorbati is the former Dean of Faculty and...
2024-11-2137 min
AWM Author TalksEpisode 196: Writing Literary FictionThis week, acclaimed writers Renée Watson and Jabari Asim talk about Watson’s novel, skin & bones, as well as writing Black history and moving from writing for children to adults. This conversation originally took place May 19, 2024 and was recorded live at the American Writers Festival.
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About skin & bones:
From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sisterhood, motherhood, faith, love, and ultimately what gets passed down from one generation to the next.
At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and s...
2024-10-2850 min
Bisexual BrunchBEATING BI-ERASURE: THE BISEXUAL BRUNCH GENERAL ELECTION CONVERSATIONS. Ashley Byrne and Lewis Oakley meet Charley Hasted from the Liberal DemocratsLet us know your views now - text us hereThe second in our series of Bisexual Brunch conversations with the political parties sees Ashley Byrne and Lewis Oakley chat to Charley Hasted of the Liberal Democrats We’re attempting to speak to all the main parties ahead of the General Election in our fight to end bi-erasure and get the parties taking the B in LGBT seriously.(Update: We won't be speaking to Labour who say they just 'don't have the capacity' to speak to us. Reform UK haven't offered anyone to spe...
2024-06-3050 min
Words of Hope Weekday DevotionsThursday, February 8, 2024WORDS OF HOPEOne of the moving elements of a memorial service is the video montage of the person who has joined the Great Cloud of Witnesses. As images emerge, one after another, you think, “There’s that smile, that casual slouch, that goofiness or that serious gaze, those hands of service.” And it tugs at your heart that this special person won’t be a part of your life anymore. Not in the same way. A group of us from Coat of Colours has been inspired while working to honor the life of Rep. J...
2024-02-0805 minAWM Author TalksEpisode 155: Jabari AsimThis week, author Jabari Asim discusses his novel Yonder with journalist Evan F. Moore. This conversation originally took place May 15, 2022 and was recorded live at the American Writers Festival.
About Yonder:
The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century.
They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world tha...
2023-08-1443 minYour BIPOC Writing CoachThe Secret to a Productive and Prolific Literary Life with Jabari AsimOn today’s episode of the podcast, award-winning author, journalist, professor, and poet, Jabari Asim, joins me on the show, to share his advice and experiences maintaining a productive, prolific, and eclectic literary career for more than thirty years.
Jabari Asim is the Distinguished Professor of Multi-Disciplinary Letters at Emerson College, where he also directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing. He is the author of 23 books, including Yonder, the essay collection We Can’t Breathe, and Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis. His awards include a Guggenheim fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. Jabari...
2023-04-0353 min
Environment VariablesHow can Open Source Help Reduce Software Emissions?In this episode Asim Hussain is joined by guest Chris Lloyd-Jones; Head of Open Technologies at Avanade and co-chair of the Open Source Working Group at the Green Software Foundation, and Dan Lewis-Toakley; Green Cloud Lead at ThoughtWorks and co-chair of the Open Source Working Group at the Green Software Foundation. They discuss the benefits of open source versus closed source, what tools are already out there and how open source can help reduce software emissions.Learn more about our guests:Dan Lewis-Toakley: LinkedIn / Twitter / GitHubChris Lloyd-Jones: LinkedIn / TwitterAsim Hussain: LinkedIn / Twitter Episode resources:
2022-05-3047 min
Nerdacity Podcast with DuEwa FrazierEp. 11 Jabari Asim Talks Mighty Justice & My Baby Loves Valentine's DayEp. 11 DuEwa interviews award winning writer Jabari Asim. Jabari discusses his newly released books Mighty Justice (middle grade) and My Baby Loves Valentine's Day (picture book). Jabari also discusses his writing life and other works including Stop and Frisk, Only the Strong, and A Child's Introduction to African American History. Visit Jabari's website at www.JabariAsim.org. Order Jabari's books at www.BookShop.org.
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2020-12-3043 min
Seattle Mennonite Church SermonsCitizen Discipleship"Disciples of Jesus should be desperate citizens. The desperate citizen will press their citizenship as far as possible for the sake of thwarting death and its agents." Pastor Amy explores the work of theologian Willie James Jennings and discusses the way our citizenship in nation should be engaged in relationship to our citizenship in the Reign of God. Now is not the time to opt out, when so many have had to fight desperately to be included.Sermon begins at 22:32Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One L...
2020-08-1748 min
Philadelphia Community PodcastInsight: Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis, Food insecurity, Mural Arts Emerge CampaignOur first segment is our monthly feature VLS Journeys hosted by Vanesse Lloyd Sgambati, founder The Literary and the African American Children’s Book Fair. In a timely interview Vanesse speaks to Jabari Asim, author of Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis and the illustrator of the book, world renowned artist E.B. Lewis.https://www.amazon.com/Preaching-Chickens-Story-Young-Lewis/dp/0399168567 Families who never in their wildest dreams thought they’d need to go to a food pantry to feed their kids are doing exactly that because of lost jobs because of the pandemic. Ther...
2020-07-3138 min