Shows
Hot Girl TheoryOctavia Butler: The Role of Sci-Fi and Speculative FictionRead Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. With Raya Ward.2022-02-141h 09
Hot Girl TheoryThe Racial Origins of FatPhobia with Reina CoulibalyCW: eating disorders, fatphobia
This week we bring guest Reina Coulibaly to talk about the racist history of medicine, nutrition, and beauty in the west.
Readings:
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture by Amy Erdman Farrell
Eating Disorders episode on Maintenance Phase (http://maintenancephase.com/)2021-07-271h 06Hot Girl TheoryVaccines, Surveillance, BordersJust being sad about the state of the world, and reading some explanations (it's racial capitalism).
This week's readings:
Rich Nations Hoard Enough Extra Vaccines for All African Adults as Continent's Crisis Intensifies (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/16/rich-nations-hoard-enough-extra-vaccines-all-african-adults-continents-crisis)
Incentivising wealthy nations to participate in the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX): a game theory perspective (https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/11/e003627.full)
Pulling Down the World’s Walls: A Conversation With Harsha Walia (https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/pulling-down-the-worlds-walls-a-conversation-with-harsha-walia/)
Harsha Walia's Border & Rule on Racial Capitalism, Bo...2021-07-271h 16Hot Girl TheoryWas the legalization of gay marriage bad for gays? with Ismene VedderWe talk about marriage
Obergefell v. Hodges
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf
Lawrence v. Texas
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-102.ZO.html
"Untying the Knot: Toward a Liberal Theory of Marriage and the State" by Tamara Metz
https://humanumreview.com/articles/untying-the-knot
2021-07-201h 22Hot Girl TheoryRadio Radio Radio with David ExumeRadio from a perspective of world building and race, with radio producer, artist, and writer David Exume. Check out his SoundCloud @Umamifunk here: https://soundcloud.com/umami_funk/tracks
This week's readings include:
"When the “Blank Slate” is a White One: White Institutional Isomorphism in the Birth of National Public Radio" by Laura Garbes
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/tj5cs/
"Broadcasting Empire: The BBC and the British World, 1922-1970" by Simon J. Potter
https://oxford-universitypressscholarship-com.ezproxy.princeton.edu/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199568963.001.0001/acprof-9780199568963-cha...2021-06-251h 26
Hot Girl TheoryLiterary Criticism with Rasheeda SakaFollow Rasheeda's work at @RasheedaSaka on Twitter
`Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination` by Toni Morrison:
https://engl104aucsb.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/playing_in_the_dark_morrison.pdf
Magic Actions: Looking back on the George Floyd rebellion by Tobi Haslett: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/magic-actions/
`Marxist Literary Criticism` Today by Barbara Foley: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338835/marxist-literary-criticism-today/
‘Workshops of Empire,’ by Eric Bennett: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/books/review/workshops-of-empire-by-eric-bennett.html
How the CIA Helped Shape the Creative Writing Scene in America: http...2021-06-071h 33Hot Girl TheorySkin Bleaching, Cosmetic Surgery, ImperialismThis episode, we discuss the politics of beauty, the "Anglicization" of beauty standards, and the cosmetics corporations role in enforcing these ideals. We're also in WPRB's Spring Drive, where we're raising funds to keep the radio we call home going! It's been a long pandemic, and every bit helps. For the drive, we also included some snippets from Noam Chomsky's and Edward Herman's "Manufacturing Consent" to discuss the importance of independent media.
Reading List:
"Skin Bleaching and Global White Supremacy: By Way of Introduction" by Yaba Amgborale Blay
"Buying Racial Capital: Skin-Bleaching and...2021-04-131h 10Hot Girl TheoryCJ Kim, Edward Said, and Cyberpunk: Orientalism and Yellow Peril"Slavery, the “robot,” and Orientalism in science fiction" by Ibrahim Al Marashi: https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/slavery-the-robot-and-orientalism-in-science-fiction-37635
The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans by CJ Kim: http://www.lawrenceblum.net/uploads/2/7/5/8/27583233/clairekim.pdf
Orientalism by Edward Said: https://www.eaford.org/site/assets/files/1631/said_edward1977_orientalism.pdf
"Orientalism, Cyberpunk 2077, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction" by George Yang: https://www.wired.com/story/orientalism-cyberpunk-2077-yellow-peril-science-fiction/?code=JK0PPXs1XV7p6ZKxC1p54qyLJR19FNbeCR1KurB337b&state=%7B%22redirectURL%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Forientalism-cyberpunk-2077-yellow-peril-science-fiction%2F%3Futm...2021-03-261h 15Hot Girl TheoryKropotkin's The Conquest of BreadMahishan joins us for a reading on anarcho-communism.
Reading List:
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread
What is Property? by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot: https://www.ginatxsboe1.com/uploads/1/2/5/5/12552697/the_immortal_life_of_henrietta_lacks___pdfdrive.com__.pdf
WEBINAR: How do we use restorative justice to transform a culture of sexual harm? https://zehr-institute.org/webinars/rj-and-sexual-harm/
Building ‘A World Where Many Worlds Fit’: Indigenous Autonomy, Mutual Aid, and an (Anti-Capitalist) Moral Economy of the (Rebel) Peasant by Levi...2021-03-131h 05
Podcast Berita Harian Singapura"Doktor kata peluang dia hidup hanya 20 peratus..."Nur Zaiya Naziha dilahirkan sekecil tapak tangan dan seberat 345 gram. Beliau hanya berada dalam kandungan sekitar 23 minggu, berbanding tempoh kehamilan biasa sekitar 40 minggu. Malah, sebelum dilahirkan ibu bapanya dimaklumkan bahawa bayi mereka hanya mempunyai peluang 20 peratus untuk hidup. Apa perasaan mereka bila diberitahu perkara itu? Ikuti temuramah hos #NoTapis Ust Fadhly Rosli dan Shahida Sarhid bersama ibu bapa bayi itu, Cik Rohani Mustani dan Encik Muhammad Saufi. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2020-12-281h 36Hot Girl Theory[SPANISH] Evo Morales, Día Del Estado Plurinacional De Bolívia, 01/2020Evo Morales, desde Argentina, discursa en el Día del Estado Plurinacional De Bolívia (22/01/2020)
2020-10-2559 minHot Girl TheoryAssata Shakur's Autobiography p. 3MC & Sharon delve into education, career, the legal system, colorism and more in part 3/3 of our reading of selections from Assata Shakur's Assata: An Autobiography, published in 1987
Further readings:
Hella Black Podcast - EP 62: The Myth of Black Buying Power (feat Dr. Jared Ball)
https://soundcloud.com/hellablackpodcast/ep-62-the-myth-of-black-buying-power-feat-dr-jared-ball2020-06-2642 minHot Girl TheoryAssata Shakur's Autobiography p. 2MC & Sharon delve into education, career, the legal system, colorism and more in part 2/3 of our reading of selections from Assata Shakur's Assata: An Autobiography, published in 19872020-06-2638 minHot Girl TheoryAssata Shakur's Autobiography p. 1MC & Sharon delve into education, career, the legal system, colorism and more in part 1/3 of our reading of selections from Assata Shakur's Assata: An Autobiography, published in 1987
Further readings:
Hella Black Podcast - EP 62: The Myth of Black Buying Power (feat Dr. Jared Ball)
https://soundcloud.com/hellablackpodcast/ep-62-the-myth-of-black-buying-power-feat-dr-jared-ball2020-06-2625 minHot Girl TheoryExcerpts from Fanon's Wretched of the EarthWe sit down to read and discuss the decolonial struggle, as described in Fanon's Wretched of the Earth. Links:
Economic Lessons for 2020 with Michael Hudson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nluLNA30e8k
Fanon on Violence and the Person: https://criticallegalthinking.com/2016/01/20/fanon-on-violence-and-the-person/
Free PDF for Wretched of the Earth: http://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Frantz-Fanon-The-Wretched-of-the-Earth-1965.pdf2020-06-0843 min