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Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastWhat's Love Got to Do With It: The World Hates Blacks but......we are not allowed to hate back. Does whiteness make room for love? Does it have the capacity to do so?
I think Aileen Wuornos may have been onto something...
This episode is dedicated to the legacies of Jamil Al-Amin and Alice Wong. Rest in Power
**Editors Note before some of yall start: yes, I know that Valerie is a cover by a white British group before Amy did it and they was appropriating too so my point still stands
-UN Resolution 3379: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/un-resolution-denounces-zionism
(Spoiler: it was revoked)
Apply to join Sex Ed as Resistance...
2025-11-251h 34Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastDesirability Part 2: Disobeying white Eurocentric Beauty Standards...And the beauty of not falling in line.
Ya'll asked, we complied: the desirability episode part 2!
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The Episode:
Conventionally Attractive: What else does the convention govern beside attraction?
Conventionally attractive is just a euphemism for white eurocentric beauty...
2025-09-181h 38
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastOn Desirability: Karl Marx, Beyonce, and You feat Deme & IsaiahThis episode is dedicated to the life of Selamawit D. Terrefe, George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson. Rest in Power. Free Em All
Join us for a very special Black August episode with our Black Loves, the only two light skin friends we have left: the illustrious Deme Brown (she/her), Brooklyn community advocate, screenwriter and director (@Demegawd_) and Dr. Isaiah Blake (he/him), Phd, East New York BK all-day, geography student at UC Berkeley and writer (IG: @isaiah.iman.blake)
Questions to consider:
If desire is a matter of life and death, if how you look determines if you live...
2025-08-221h 36
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastPride of Mass Destruction: Do You Want The Aesthetic of Freedom or to Actually Be Free?This episode is dedicated to the life and memory of Adriana Smith
Donate to the Celebration of Black Transwomen Cookout in NYC: https://www.gofundme.com/f/gia-love-x-angelito-black-trans-love-cookout-fundraiser
The episode (note, there is a 6 second breather in the beginning, don't worry, just breathe, we still here lol)
"Happy" Pride** with a major asterisks
No pride with genocide
Everything you are being told about Iran in the mainstream media is a lie derived from the same binaries that harm trans/tgnc and queer communities particularly us Blacks and whatever imminent fear you have of "WWIII" done already happened and/or is...
2025-06-271h 25
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastThe Merrells to Misogyny Pipeline: What Mr. Charlie/Sanders/Schulz Taught You About Being a Man-Said another way, all the lies white cis men have told Black cis men about manhood (p1)--Happy Pride!
- They thought they found "aMerIKA" and the nigga they say "founded" it never made it to North America but fast forward centuries later and ya'll still believe it
- They said they descended from Aryans because the word had a ring to it, used to create the myth of a superior race but now they hate the actual Aryans (in and near Iran) and want to bomb them
-They named themselves Caucasian after mountains that they have no relationship to
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2025-06-131h 53Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastPut Some Lulu on My Butt While Whitey's on the Moon: What's a Life Worth......under global racial capitalism and whose lives are seen as valuable in the first place? What makes a life worth living to those who decide whether we live or die? Valuable and worthy enough to suffer, to fight and resist said suffering without validation from those causing it. The racial capitalism episode part 1.
Recommended Reading:
https://antipodeonline.org/geographies-of-racial-capitalism/
https://ia801806.us.archive.org/20/items/AgainstInnocenceRaceGenderAndThePoliticsOfSafety/against-innocence-READ.pdf
This is a listener supported, currently pay-wall free podcast. To support the continuation of this independent listener sponsored podcast and keep this g-thang ad free, consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com...
2025-04-281h 44Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastRestoring American Values: Buying Skims in a Lonely Sundown TownEpisode dedicated to the memory of Sam Nordquist (Rest in Power)
Free Melissa Atwell-Holder, Rumeysa Ozturk, Mahmoud Khalil NOW
Free Em All
Justice for Momodou Taal Now
Alt Episode Titles:
There were no executive orders to ban sundown towns but there is one in West Virginia named Eleanor--wonder why?
What Happened to Black People Predates the Creation of Fascism and is Far Worse
Who Said the US was a Democracy?
When Will White People Segregate Themselves from Black Culture
Aint no skims at Walmart however...follow us
Recommended Resources:
PREA law: https://theappeal.org/trump-executive-order-trans-prisoners/
Carol B Anderson talking about...
2025-03-251h 42
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastNew DEI, Same Ol' Ethnostate: Desperation, Extermination, ImitationIf you'd like to join the Spring 2025 Cohort for Sex Ed as Resistance, apply here!: https://ihartericka.com/sex-ed-as-resistance/
"Racism and racially structured discrimination have not been deviations from the norm; they have been the norm"---Charles W. Mills
"White supremacy forced white americans into rationalizations so fantastical that they approached the pathological."--James Baldwin
Alt episode titles:
Hegemony, Iniquity, Occlusion
Dehumanization, Erasure, Indoctrination
We've been here before, we've never left. The place where a z*on*st and a n*zi can exist inside the same washed up, recycled shock jock racist tech magnate bureaucrat, use thee quintessential anti-semitic...
2025-02-131h 46Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastBipartisan Genocide: Don't Blame the Colonized for the Colony's Design...What we finna do come tomorrow?
...especially if the overseer of your choice doesn't win
...will you fear power or contest with it?
A hallmark feature of any presidential election in a racist country is the continued psychological warfare against the colonized, especially Black people, who, along with Arab Muslims, will be inevitably blamed, scapegoated or strategically pitted against one another in service of the powers that be, for no other reason than if we were to coalesce our efforts toward our own interests and liberation, that could signal the end of empire and all the symbolism, pomp and circumstance...
2024-11-051h 36Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastThere's No Democracy to Save and No One is Telling Ya'll Not to Vote: Hammer, Sickles & StickersIntro: Fannie Lou Hamer's Credentials Committee Testimony (1964) for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party which she co-founded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRCUUzpfV7k
Alt episode titles: Vote and/or Die
The Revolution Will Not Be TikTok'd at the DNC
Voting in this country was created as a means of giving those least empowered the veneer of control over a democratic system that was designed to be autocratic really and only with the interests of a small few white people in mind. And by those—I mean those constitutionally considered human.
The constitution and declaration of independence could have been wr...
2024-08-301h 32Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastPainting the Rainbow Green: The White Cisgaytriarchy’s Oeuvre of the Almighty DollarAlt episode titles: Somewhere Over the Chase Bank, There is Community and Solidarity
They Just Want Our Money, Not Our Pride: The Rainbow Capitalism Episode
Intro Audio Excerpt: Sylvia Rivera (Rest in Power) interview from NYC Pride 2001
https://x.com/ben_0207/status/1800675695661842651
Who does rainbow capitalism benefit most? Who does it protect?
What it is and what it is not
Who gets seen in rainbow capitalism and who gets left out?
What do we do without white cis het corporate crumbs? Will we be forced to rely and lean on each other, community, village and return pride to its roots...
2024-06-201h 31Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastUntil Black Trans Women are Free, Ya'll Will Have Macklemore Ol' Bleach Blonde Ass ft Elle MoxleyNo Pride without Black Trans Liberation and Reparations--Not Rations, Pooh.
Black trans liberation, much like Black liberation and the liberation of all oppressed peoples across the globe, requires a complete redistribution and reorganization of the current power structure/status quo--is GLAAD ready? Is GLSEN ready? Are you ready?
Alt episode titles:
How do we respond to white violence? (aka what's the proper procedure?)
Coddling of the dominant narratives and who gets permission to be tardy to the party?
The faux care economy and celebrity machine--who actually cares and do we, as marginalized peoples, need them to?
Hoodrat to Headwrap to...
2024-06-061h 37Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastBe a Revolution or Get *Swallooowed* Up feat Ijeoma OluoAlternate episode titles:
-Be a Revolution or Keep it Moving, either way don't step on a n*gga toes
-Just Circling Back to Next Steps from 2020
-Ijeoma is about to go chill and write mysteries cus a lot of yall dont want to be a revolution nor talk about race
Join us for a very special episode with Ijeoma Oluo talking about her new book, "Be a Revolution", out now, the racism in the publishing world as a Black writer and a path forward.
https://www.ijeomaoluo.com/
Ijeoma Oluo is a writer, speaker and internet yeller. She is the...
2024-02-2833 minHoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastResting My Eyes (with a pistol in my apron): Tricia Hersey's Ministry is About More Than Naps...and can save your life. Join us for a very special episode of Black People Tell Black History with the one and only Tricia Hersey (IG @thenapministry) as she gives you a quick 30 minutes of necessary game on this Monday afternoon made for wage theft and dream death on how imagination was a requisite for our ancestors' freedoms, the blueprint they laid out for revolution and how to take back your body from the State from can't see in the morning to can't see at night.
Support for Tricia and more resources:
www.thenapministry.com
If you don't do nothing...
2024-02-2631 minHoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastWhile White People Didn't Create Country Music, They Did Manage to Invent Colorism feat. Mayowa...it is now a multiracial collaboration, an amerikkkan "folk" tradition, if you will.
From its pseudoscientific, colonial roots to nick cannon, join us for another episode of Black People Tell Black History and a deep deep conversation with one of the leading voices drawing attention to and upending colorism as it iterates itself in all facets of life, across the globe, @mayowasworld. We cover what it is, what it's not and how to stop it.
Mayowa is a writer, stand-up comedian, and discourse girlie who has spent the past decade between London, Berlin, Lagos & and now back in Atl. Their...
2024-02-2351 minHoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastSaifa is Not About the Silos: What Black Intersex Justice Got to do With It? Everything.“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
― Audre Lorde
Join us in discussing the Black intersex revolution, imagination beyond violence visited upon our bodies and community as home with our dear love Saifa Wall.
Sean Saifa Wall (he/him/his) is a Black queer intersex activist and rising scholar. Born and raised in the Bronx, Saifa attended Williams College and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Huddersfield in England examining the erasure of intersex people from social policy in Ireland and England. Saifa is the former Board President of int...
2024-02-1647 minHoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastTwin, Where Have You Been?: A Tender Conversation with Dr. Joy JamesAlternate episode titles:
-Dr. Joy James Might Break the Internet If You Would Let Her Upgrade You
-This is a wonderful, Establishment, Trump and Swiftie friendly episode, absolutely nothing to shadow ban here, nope not at all (devil emoji)
If you couldn't tell, we are super juiced to invite you all to a very special, mind reconfiguring politic shaking and shaping episode of Black People Telling Black History with the Icon herself, Dr. Joy James. Join us in chopping it up with Dr. James in what was a rich discourse spurned from her new book, In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love...
2024-02-131h 04
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastBlack Midwives Existed Before Doctors and are Still Delivering Us Today ft. RachaTraditional Midwives were criminalized, exploited and erased, their 1000 year old practices mined to create the field of obstetrics and this marginalization of Black and Indigenous midwives continues today. Learn more about the origins of the Black maternal health crisis in this country and movements to resist it--one birth at a time.
Alternate episode titles:
-We gone be known as the niggas that be crying on here podcast
-A Black Queer Midwife Saved Our Life
-Racha owns the only Black owned and operated birthing center in the entire state of Virginia--why is that?
Join us for another episode of Black People...
2024-02-091h 28Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastFrom the river to the sea (who gon check me boo?): Someday We'll All Be FreeIt's me again...and we're back...
Alternate episode titles:
-One genocide minds
-Destabilize, Disrupt and Destroy: US Foreign Policy in Palestine, Syria, Yemen and the entire Middle East
-AFRICOM: Obama's Scramble for Africa Still Scraping By Under the Doppler in 2024
-Freedom ain't free: On a politics of indifference to Black death
From Congo to Tigray to Darfur, there are multiple genocides happening on the continent of Africa and the United States' government is complicit in ALL of them just as they aid and abet Israel's genocide against the Palestinian People to shore up its political and economic power in the...
2024-02-011h 43Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastGettin' Free: A Juneteenth CollaborationGettin’ Free! : A Juneteenth Collaboration brought to you by Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast. We know that history is told from the side of the colonizers but that leaves room for misinformation and false narratives.
We are on a mission to change that.
11 Black podcasts have come together to reclaim our history and tell it our way - flavor and all. Welcome to a chronological journey to get free. Learn where we’ve come, what we’ve overcome, and how much further we need to go. Let this be the soundtrack to your Juneteenth afternoon and evening, gather around...
2023-06-192h 37
Welcome to the (AfAm) HouseDecolonizing HealthcareEricka Hart
Instagram: @ihartericka
Website: http://ihartericka.com/
Wear Your Voice - They need to hit their patreon goal by Nov 30!
Twitter: @WearYourVoice
Patreon: @wearyourvoice patreon.com/wearyourvoice
Baldwin 2nd Generation - Instagram
Link to My Gender is Black article mentioned in the podcast
2021-11-1055 min
Nursing UncensoredWhite Allyship Action with Jaime Fregeau of First Do No Harm PodcastIn this episode, Adrianne welcomes returning guest Jamie Fregeau, creator and host of the nursing podcast First Do No Harm. Jamie and Adrianne recorded this conversation on Election Day 2020, marking the day with an important, yet uncomfortable topic. They're going to talk about the work to be continuously better allies to the Black community and all communities of color through words and actions.They discuss topics like:-Calling out disparities/bias and why this matters-Why we, as white women, need to share this info among fellow white women-Performative activism versus moving the...
2020-12-1156 min
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastOur Election System is Based on 5 Black Ppl Being Worth 3 white but the US is definitely a DemocracyI know because my fascist government that sends its CIA to destabilize other countries it criticizes for not being democracies in bloody coups that kill millions of innocents all over the world while waging genocide against Black people for over 3 centuries while begging me to send $3 to a white cis man in order to save the country from another white cis man told me so...even though we don't have a direct election method and I actually vote for another random person in my state to vote for me--not the president.
See you November 4th (InshAllah).
Crystal Mason--A Black femme...
2020-11-032h 05
Fufu & DadelsS2 #2. DorstigLet’s talk pleasure baby! Wat was de laatste keer dat je iets ‘thirsty’ deed voor jezelf? En hoe kom je eigenlijk toe aan genot in quarantainetijd? Also: quarantaine-texting is een vorm van drunk-texting. Stuur niks terug zus!Team FUFU spreekt over genot in de breedste zin van het woord. We hebben het over onze ervaringen met sex ed, praten over sex met BPOC ouders en geïnternaliseerde gedachtes die we hebben over seks en genot. We willen weten van elkaar waar het gevoel van schaamte vandaan komt als we het hebben over seksueel genot, maar komen erachter...
2020-10-181h 15
Real Ones: A Project FILO PodcastBrittney Carter is on the Cusp of StardomBen goes through his Spotify On Repeat playlist, highlights people doing great work, and interviews Chicago rapper Brittney Carter in the months leading up to her first project.5 SONGS:“Chicago Bae” by Ric Wilson, Terrace Martin, BJ the Chicago Kid“Sincerity” by Knox Fortune, Pomo“Grey October” by Boldy James, Evidence“Valentina” by Serena Isioma“Jamz” by SALESERICKA HART // Podcast: Hoodrat to Headwrap with Ebony Donnley. Venmo: @Ericka-Hart⁃ IG: @IHartEricka KIM APONI // Website, IG: @kimaponi BRITTNEY CARTER // IG: @_brittney...
2020-08-1738 min
JawbreakersGlee!Suzy talks to Sterling Cruze about Glee. Follow him on instagram @m.sterlingcruze for more hot takes. Please also visit Ericka Hart's Instagram @ihartericka.Update for 2021 on Breonna Taylor
2020-08-0833 min
JawbreakersGlee!Suzy talks to Sterling Cruze about Glee. Follow him on instagram @m.sterlingcruze for more hot takes. Please also visit Ericka Hart's Instagram @ihartericka.Update for 2021 on Breonna Taylor
2020-08-0833 min
The Only Black Girl On MarsEp. 4 Lauryn Nwankpa | Powering Social Impact Across IndustriesLauryn Nwankpa is the Head of Social Impact at Dave. With a Masters degree in Social Entrepreneurship from USC Marshall and over a decade of experience, she marries Dave’s financial goals with social impact strategies that span public policy, strategic partnerships and industry best practices.
Lauryn embeds sustainable, scalable impact practices across Dave that drive stakeholder value while empowering marginalized communities by increasing their access to key resources. She is also on the board of the Santa Monica Tech Council, an early stage start-up advisor through the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, and a mentor for th...
2020-08-0600 minJawbreakersChristian Rock Icons Kesha and MacklemoreSuzy, Alexis, and Nikki learn more about Kesha and we also try to catch up on what Macklemore is up to these days.Here is a link for information about Megan Thee Stallion as well as Ericka Hart's Instagram @ihartericka. The phone number for Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is (502) 696-5300. Please call and leave a voicemail about the murder of Breonna Taylor. They have a special inbox set up specifically for the case and they are “collecting feedback”. Update for 2021 on Breonna Taylor
2020-07-3138 minJawbreakersChristian Rock Icons Kesha and MacklemoreSuzy, Alexis, and Nikki learn more about Kesha and we also try to catch up on what Macklemore is up to these days.Here is a link for information about Megan Thee Stallion as well as Ericka Hart's Instagram @ihartericka. The phone number for Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is (502) 696-5300. Please call and leave a voicemail about the murder of Breonna Taylor. They have a special inbox set up specifically for the case and they are “collecting feedback”. Update for 2021 on Breonna Taylor
2020-07-3138 min
She's All Fat: A Fat Positive PodcastTraveling, Too with fatgirlstraveltooIn this episode, we’re re-visiting a tried and true topic of discussion: fat travels! We’re joined today by Natalie Robinson and Ashley Wall of fatgirlstraveltoo.CALL TO ACTION: Center Black and Indigenous voices in your life. We can’t pick your friend group, but we can pick your new social follows. Here are 10 activists, artists, and writers to follow. + SEND US your fave BIPOC x fat x queer follows so we can share them with the fatmily — and if that’s you, DM us so we can hype you up! Follow: Jung...
2020-07-2345 min
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastWhite Ppl Can't Get Cancelled: The Bezos You Know; The Hankinsons, Cosgroves and Mattinglys You DontAnd the Epsteins, the Michael Wolls, the Roger Stones, the Alexander Hamiltons, the David Starkeys, the Stephen Millers, the William Barrs, the Joe Biden's, the Tucker Carlsons, the Reed Hastings, Benjamin Netanyahus, Winston Churchills, FDRs, your non-profit executive director, maybe your partner, maybe you. There are so many names of white cis men who commit murder, spew anti-Black racism with impunity, collude with a white supremacist state to leverage the anti blackness inherent in our institutions--keeping Black people from access to capital that belongs to us in a country that we built, but also rendering the violence that happens to...
2020-07-162h 01
The Self-Aware MillennialEp. 19 | "Entanglements" with Attraction Vs. FetishizationQUICK PSA: If you're only here to hear the "Entanglements" portion of our conversation, please consider reminding your friends and followers that the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor have YET to be arrested... and then... you have our consent to scroll to 56:00. --In continuation with "Self-Accountability Month" J.Mix sits down remotely with roommates Julie Dietz and Megan Whittle to explore their histories with racial fetishization and how it compares and contrasts to their innate attraction to other races. On the contrary, all three compare their own encounters with folks non-consensually fetishizing their...
2020-07-131h 21
Live, Learn & ThriveLearn How Oppression Works within the USIn this podcast, I’ll cover the last 7 features of Oppression and I’ll also share examples, as I did in the last episode with the first two, of the 9 total features of oppression. Learn how they work together, interwoven, to strengthen and reinforce oppression. I continue to share in my learning journey, pulling together key takeaways from the experts, along with provide Social Justice terms and definitions. The goal is to help you continue your own learning journey about Social Justice in the US. As with every epsiode, I'm sharing resources available to you. These are activists and anti...
2020-07-0815 min
Night Light Radio from BFF.fmSOUNDSCAPES | Porangui, Desert Dwellers, Miguel Campbell, Pink FloydEpisode 105 is a soundscape journey of layered audio and songs to give you space to relax and reflect. Mixed in with the music you'll hear ocean waves, rain, birds, jungle sounds, fire crackling, winds blowing, and more. Artists include Porangui, Desert Dwellers, Miguel Campbell, Pink Floyd, Thievery Corporation, Alice Coltrane, Monster Rally, Odesza, and other favorites. This experimental theme for Night Light Radio is a new adventure, enjoy! (Spotify playlist) 🖤🌈🤍🎶 Mz PrizmActivism Opportunity -- ReflectionIf you like me are a white person, working to learn and be more anti-racist, you can check ou...
2020-07-0700 minJawbreakersDetails: Anti-Racist Reading List by Dr. Ibram X. KendiPeople to support & learn from: Rachel Cargle @rachel.cargleEricka Hart @ihartericka Rachel Ricketts list of resources Anti-Racist Reading List in NYT List of books:Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts West Indian Immigrants by Suzanne Model The Condemnation of Blackness by Kahlil Gibran Muhammed Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The Negro Artist and The Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Hal...
2020-07-0609 minJawbreakersDetails: Anti-Racist Reading List by Dr. Ibram X. KendiPeople to support & learn from: Rachel Cargle @rachel.cargleEricka Hart @ihartericka Rachel Ricketts list of resources Anti-Racist Reading List in NYT List of books:Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts West Indian Immigrants by Suzanne Model The Condemnation of Blackness by Kahlil Gibran Muhammed Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston The Negro Artist and The Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Hal...
2020-07-0609 min
Rich Queer Aunties8: Q&A : Coming out, skin care, organized religion, and more.Q&A : Coming out, skin care, organized religion, and more.In my first Q&A, I tackle questions asked on IG about how I came out, what my skin care routine is, what I think of organized religion after being an active participant in one for two decades.I loved all the questions that came through! I do think I missed a couple that we’re sent in my DMs because I couldn’t find it but there’ll be other opportunities to do this again in the future.Resource: @ihartericka on IG for antiracist education for younger adults
2020-07-0248 min
Running Wild with ChristineEp 101: Here Comes Season 3!Welcome back my lovers. How are y'all holding up? Firstly, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. It has been amazing to host the last two seasons and I am beyond ecstatic that we are back for another one. To kick things off, Julia from @soihadanabortion takes the reins in a flipping of the script. I got to experience what it's like relinquishing control and being in the hot seat. Julia has me blabbing about the origins of the podcast, as well as its current process. She asks me poignant questions about the lessons I've learned, in this spac...
2020-06-261h 13
Lunatics Radio HourEpisode 28 - The Jersey DevilLunatics merch, available here! Anti-Racism Resources:Nicole Cardoza is wonderful! She is graciously putting out a daily anti-racism newsletter. Not sure where to start? Subscribe and support her on Patreon if you can. The instagram educators I mentioned are: @ihartericka and @rachel.cargle - Follow and support them! Click this link to be taken to a thread on Instagram, which will give you the venmo/paypall/cash app info for Black queer and trans folks that you can donate to directly. Click here to...
2020-06-2225 min
We Are Our Own LoversEpisode 6: where Kelsey talks about knowing whiteness in themself so they can interrupt its bullsh*tIn this episode of We Are Our Own Lovers, Kelsey explores some foundational beliefs of whiteness inside them and the ways their whiteness has impacted relationships throughout their life, both with BIPOC folx and white people as well. By identifying the fucked up strategies of whiteness in ourselves (specifically in white ppl), we can continue to make room for active long term commitment to the work of antiracism and Black liberation.
This is a list of folks on instragram who regularly blown Kelsey’s mind and call them deeper into thieir own antiracism/anti-ws work:
@ihartericka
@sonyareneetaylor
@brandonkgood
@ijeomaoluo
@amandaseales
@pi...
2020-06-1642 min
Process the Journey#11: Racism, Mental Health, & Allyship -- w/Gabbi Davis, MPHIn this episode I am joined by an almost licensed counselor and member of the Black community, Gabbi Davis. We discuss:
Current events in Bachelor Nation that pertain to racism
Hannah Brown's efforts to become more anti-racist
The news that Matt James is the new Bachelor
How racism impacts mental health
The importance of confronting racist remarks, especially in groups
Why white privilege is not inherently a bad thing
What is “red lining” and how it’s hurt Black and white people
A few examples of what it’s like to be Black in a mostly white state
Gabbi's...
2020-06-151h 03
Intellectual ErectionDo More Photographers Polyamory TalkThis episode is a Facebook Live recording of a webinar I did on polyamory for Do More Photographers. I discuss my own experiences and lessons as well as those of the guests I have interviewed on my podcast on navigating polyamory.
The title of this talk is “Polyamory: Or, how to love a lot of fucking humans” and it covers some polyam 101 information, such as definitions and types of polyamory, before engaging work on critical polyamory, misconceptions, challenges and rewards, communications, and most of all—Ethics! I discuss particular topics like decolonial polyamory, toxicity in polyamory, bullshit rules, radical honesty, and cr...
2020-06-151h 00
From the Heart with Rachel BrathenHow Do You Feel When Everything is Still?With the current climate of the world, many of us may be noticing little things that we have never realized before. Little things that are actually big things, from the voices we elevate in the media to the color of bandaids. In this episode, Rachel starts by touching on the Black Lives Matter movement from the place of a learner, an observer, and a listener - as all white people should be doing right now. We have a responsibly to do daily reality checks with ourselves to uncover our hidden biases and prejudices. Eventually, our thoughts and actions will...
2020-06-121h 02
What The Fuck Is Happening?Hey White People, Be Better (Allyship + Anti-Racism) with Rachel ValentinoRachel Valentino joins us to speak to white people on what it means to be an ally, steps to take in being more anti-racist, information on defunding the police, why “All Lives Matter” isn’t a valid movement, how to call people out respectfully. She also gives her perspective on the discomfort we may be feeling right now, her own struggles and missteps, and how to truly begin or continue the lifelong journey of dismantling systematic racism.Rachel Valentino: Follow @tino_tino_and_tino on Instagram for space to talk about your white privilegeResour...
2020-06-101h 09
The Single Greatest Choice: For Single Women Exploring Solo Motherhood by Choice (SMBC), Fertility, and Having a Baby on Their Own Through Donor Conception or Adoptionlistening & learningInstagram accounts to follow:Alishia McCullough @blackandembodiedEricka Hart @iharterickaGloria Atanmo @glographicsLisa Hendrickson-Jack, FAE @fertilityfridayMyisha T. Hill @ckyourprivilegeRachel Cargle @rachel.cargleRachel Ricketts @iamrachelricketts Organizations that support Black women, mothers, and birth workers:Birth Workers of Color ScholarshipBlack Mamas Matter AllianceThe Loveland FoundationNational Association to Advance Black Birth Resources for Anti-Racist Parenting:Books for explaining racism to your children from th...
2020-06-1007 min
AlternaTiveStop Stifling Passion and People PowerIn an unorganized manor, I analyze systems of dominance and oppression across the narratives with parents to their passionate children, the state and "political party" to the people that support Black Lives Matter movement, global leaders and nations to the countries they colonized and currently force into sweat shops via Neoliberalism. A lot of parents are telling their children right now that their passion does not matter, that "it is the way it is," and "we've come so far." The state and state sympathizers are telling protesters and supporters of BLM, "stop overreacting," and here, take some symbolic/performative...
2020-06-0929 min
Souls Undressed Podcast004 | Comfort in discomfort: The white dutyToday's episode dives into the topics that are important for each of us living in America right now. As a white woman, I can only offer a white perspective, but since 2013, I've been diving into a deeper understanding of the blindspots that've been created by the comfort + privilege of my skin, + it's time to share these thoughts with you! Below I've curated an intentional list of resources + links to ensure that you're able to continue learning more long after the episode ends. //
START HERE: https://chinookfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Supplemental-Information-for-Funding-Guidelines.pdf;
For supporting kids to a clearer understanding | Instagram https://w...
2020-06-0735 min
TBTV: Throwback TelevisionBlack Lives Matter.MASTER RESOURCE LIST (Orgs to donate to, templates for contacting reps, black-owned businesses to patron, artists to follow, books to read, etc., compiled by Courtney Seyl): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P3KlDOmDgxUCImJtOtnQ6EADTvOuhvJXKX2ROOapSzM/edit?usp=sharing
YOUTUBE VIDEO BY ZOE AMIRA - How to financially help BLM with no money/leaving the house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCgLa25fDHM
Black beauty brands (from @nyjats on Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/p/CA52pgjndwh/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
2020-06-0409 min
Queer LongingBlack Lives MatterDONATE:
Official George Lloyd Memorial Fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet
Minnesota Freedom Fund:https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate
Black Lives Matter:https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019
ACTBlue - Split a donation between US wide bail funds:https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floydAhmaud Arbery:https://www.gofundme.com/f/i-run-with-maudRegis Korchinski:https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-regisJamee Johnson:https://www.gofundme.com/f/eumzn-justice-for-jamee?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund:https://or...
2020-06-0305 min
AstrologyNow - Vedic Astrology GuideJune 1 - 7: Astrology is Great But it's Time to Support Black VoicesHello everyone! Thank you so much for reaching out and asking where my forecast is! It's in alignment for me to step back from podcasting and posting at this time. Please support black voices.
If you are a listener who is black - I hope you're well, safe, getting rest, feeling supported, and doing what you're called to do.
If you are a white listener - Please join me in doing our best to be allies and work to unpack privilege, colonization, systemic racism, and internalized whiteness. Please see my resources below.
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2020-06-0201 minHoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastWhen the Chickens Come Home to Roost They Will Be SeasonedThere is a genocide against Black people in the United States happening now and white people are intentionally killing us while other white people, incentivized by our deaths, write FB statuses. Black skin in white masks beg for forgiveness on white ppl's behalf, rationalize their terror as some fault of our own and do the bidding of the police state and the mainstream white corporate celebrities that support them. Black trans women and femmes still comprise some of the highest deaths in this country but their deaths at the hands of the state and its agents go unnoticed--erasure as a...
2020-05-291h 47
Wildly AlignedMeshing Spirituality with Activism | Instilling Anti-racist + anti-oppressive models within our businesses + livesWithin this episode, Natalie is joined with guest speaker Maren Miller in a conversation that discusses how we can begin blending spirituality with social activism. As spiritual entrepreneurs and light leaders, now more than ever we are being called in to do our own inner work so to intentionally share our medicine from a space of unity, equality, and inclusivity. This episode discusses ways we can begin to instill anti-racist and anti-oppressive business and life models and provides a ton of resources that you can dive into to get started in integrating an inclusive model yourself!...
2020-05-201h 01
Coaches Don't PlayMaking Him Last Longer Feat. KamanThis week we’re joined by Kaman, a SEX EDUCATOR to drop some facts and wisdom answering your questions! We talk about all things sex and bodies! She also drops a FIRE tip (no pun intended) on how to make your man last longer in the bedroom!!! Follow the official podcast Instagram account @coachppodcast Almari Roses ---> Use code COACHES30 for 30% off www.almariroses.com Follow Kaman @kaman.mph (instagram) and The Brown Girl Project (podcast) Resources people can use for sexual health/mental health: YYC Based Resources (but anyone is welcome to use them) The Centre for Sexuality: www.cent...
2020-05-071h 11Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast30 Days A Slav--Essential: Disposable Tomorrow.It's business as usual in AmeriKKKa...a state of emergency has been declared in New York State yet rent is still due all the same. Black people still comprise the highest number of deaths from COVID 19 across the nation and our enemies couldn't be more visible. Dr. Armen Henderson, a black doctor in Miami was handcuffed by police for no reason while administering COVID 19 tests for the unhoused. Essential workers are making less money than ppl receiving unemployment. The rich get richer and the senators still sell stocks before impending market crashes and buy stock in teleconferencing companies, too. Being...
2020-04-181h 46
Intimate InteractionsAre We Proud of Pride (Jazz Goldman)Jazz Goldman and I just went to Pride. Jazz is a friend of mine, an ocassional sex partner of mine, a professional cuddler for cuddlist, all about the performing arts, and all about community building.
Jazz and I have in common being some flavor of gender non-confirming and also being mixed race humans. In Jazz’ case, they are a Black Jew, and in my case I’m a British Indian. Very, very different backgrounds, and yet the experience of being a quote “third culture” end quote child has its similarities. Jazz is most importantly a sexuality intellectual. We somet...
2020-04-041h 07Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastWashing Our Hands of White Supremacy: Coronavirus and all the Other Pandemics #Suspend Rent Now!Suspend Rent Now. Tweet, call your state and local elected officials, send them letters, sign existing petitions like this one or create your own: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/reclaim-our-homes-rent-suspension-now?source=facebook&&fbclid=IwAR0k822tpVxcZCieQlNpvMYuyV2ZDHYYsXAuolABqMjKT5SceD6VTBuTj5w.
I know we are all asking ourselves, "how long do we have to live like this?" in regard to shelter in place or social distancing guidelines but when it comes to racial violence and white supremacist rhetoric, we also must ask ourselves--how long do we have to live like this? The promise of a new world, of "coming together" starts with...
2020-03-211h 40Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastHell in a Handbasket: Which Old White Person You Voting For? #NotmeyallAlternative episode names:
-Bandaid over a Gunshot Wound: #Notmeus2020
-I don’t care who you vote for just get your hand outta my pocket
-Bush, Bernie and Biden Don’t Care About Black People (no Kanye)
It’s a whole lot of democratic socialism goin on round here, boy. You know the kind where people weaponize their so-called “leftist” or radical sensibilities to gas light others into voting for the candidate of their choice oftentimes against their own interests in a system that is supposedly “by the people” (e.g. democracy).
We all know Biden aint worth a damn but there's not mu...
2020-03-111h 17
What's Up: Wellness from the 3rd FloorBody PositivityIn this episode of the WHAT's Up Podcast, the WHAT'sters interview Emily Nollette (she/her/hers), the Group X Program Operations Student Coordinator at Campus Rec. We're talking all about body positivity and self-love.
View the transcription of this episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JgbTUzy_uvkJgE8yUKDUV-QlLEeCRiInlUpWab4k2d8/edit
If you want to learn more about body positivity, here’s a list of some activists to follow:
Dr. Jean Aguilar-Valdez (at PSU)
Dr. Lindo Bacon - body positivity activist, author, speaker
Jessamyn Stanley (@mynameisjessamyn)
Meg...
2020-02-2630 min
Treat Yo HealthRelational Health Guest pt 1 - Claire GouldI have my friend Claire Gould @getclairified.com on the show this month to talk about partnership and marriage. Claire and her partner AJ have navigated multiple cross-country moves, periods of having a long-distance relationship, and many other challenges in their 10+ year relationship.
This is a great show if you're partnered and are interested in learning tips on different ways to think about your relationship or if you're single and looking for a view from the inside, so to speak. We talk about how Claire navigated the change, how they facilitate communication in their relationship, tools they've...
2020-02-2146 min
Having A MomentHaving A Moment S1 E2: 2019 FavouritesIn which we look back on our favourite (and not so favourite) things of 2019, including books, bars and bangers!
Show notes:
Tals:
Books I Loved:
The 'Winternight Trilogy' - Katherine Arden
'Homegoing' - Yaa Gyasi
'East of Croydon' - Sue Perkins
A Book I Hated:
'The Secret River' - Kate Grenville
What I'm Currently Reading:
'Girl, Woman, Other' - Bernadine Evaristo
Songs:
'God Help the Outcasts' - Heidi Mollenhauer
'Water Me' - Lizzo
'All the Pretty Girls' - Kaleo
2020-01-1257 min
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastLove is Love...Or is it Tho? The Interracial Dating EpisodeDoes black love include white people (or anyone who isn't black)? We all know the answer to that. Pack a lunch---this is a long one with an extended review of Queen and Slim *SPOILER ALERT* at some point but not spoiley in beginning. Skip review if you haven't seen it yet.
Highly Recommended Reading
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (available for purchase online, fuck Amazon).
Register for Ericka's first live webinar-Gender 101!! December 12, 11am PST/2pm EST: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN___4Vk0cST6SS18NoWa7paA
References
Bechdel Test for Trans Actors
https://www.google...
2019-12-032h 30
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastToxic Masculinity: How to be a White Cis Man 101From Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly of America's early industrialization period to the "only Christopher we acknowledge", the drive to forgive the transgresses of abusive cis men celebrated the world over for the exploitative power of their influence and the allure of toxic masculinity across the gender spectrum has gone seldom challenged for millennia. Yet it's not the love of cis men that excites or attracts us to white supremacist patriarchy, but the hatred of black femmes. Join us in the first of two installments as we make the case that toxic masculinity aint nothing but an attempt to be like...
2019-11-221h 33
The Secret Lives of Black Women14. Knowing Who You Are with Ericka HartWhat does it mean to be a woman? It’s a question that Charla and Lauren hadn’t thought too much about until their conversation with Ericka Hart. As a a sex educator, activist, writer, model, and plant mom Ericka Hart has spent her career working to dismantle anti-black and beauty standards that persist in our culture. Ericka shares exactly what led her to this work and some of the internal battles she had to overcome in order to flourish.
You can find more about The SLBW at https://www.instagram.com/theslbw/
Foll...
2019-11-2148 min
Responding To...Episode 14 - Sex PositivityEpisode 14 of Responding To... the podcast where I respond to projected questions old white dudes might have about gender and sexuality. In this episode I discuss what sex positivity means, what it can look like, and what the stakes of it are.
This episode's recommendation is to check out sex educator Ericka Hart. Their website is http://ihartericka.com/ you can also find them on instagram: @ihartericka
twitter: @iHartEricka
and listen to their podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/hoodrat-to-headwrap-a-decolonized-podcast/id1279429651
Want to make a sustaining monthly donation to the podcast? Here's the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/respondingto
...
2019-11-1114 min
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastEverything's #Epic, Everyone's #Iconic, Everybody's #Dead: The InternetThis internet shit is fake as fuck and it's hard to navigate--join us as we attempt to.
Highly Recommended Reading:
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg---for Consent: The Political Economy of the Non Profit Industrial Complex by Cory Morningstar
http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/17/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/
In Defense of Cory Morningstar's Manufacturing for Consent Series by Hiroyuki Hamada
http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/09/20/in-defense-of-cory-morningstars-manufacturing-for-consent-series/
Music: Apathy Happy By Benjamin Earl Turner, get into my brother tho
Episode Sponsored by You, to monetarily support Hoodrat to Headwrap Venmo @Ericka-Hart or PayPal: ericka@ihartericka...
2019-09-301h 38
Two Quick ThingsWords Mean ThingsWords Mean Things. Thanks to @crissle for dropping this gem a few years ago on @thisistheread.
Recommendations
-Follow @ihartericka because it just makes sense.
-Listen to Go Off, Sis (a Refinery 29 sub-brand called Unbothered) for real black girl magic 👸🏾
#twoquickthings #podsincolor #soundcloud #applepodcasts #blackcreatives
2019-08-2620 min
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastThe Light Skin Elephant in the Room---ColorismJoin us for one of an ongoing conversation on colorism--the light skin elephant in the room; seldom talked about but no less visible when we walk down there street, turn on the television, roll over next to your partner in bed, scroll IG, go to the racial justice workshop or slide to the function.
Highly Recommended Reading:
My Face is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Frances Berry
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/12958/my-face-is-black-is-true-by-mary-frances-berry/9780307277053/
Highly Recommended Viewing:
Eight Black Women Discuss the Politics of Skin Tone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3...
2019-07-121h 39
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastTwo Geminis and a Sag Walk into C.O.G.I.C. on Mothers Day feat. Elle Hearns (@soulfreedreams)Ramadan Mubarak!
Join us for an intimate conversation with our special guest veteran organizer, renown writer and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Network and Executive Director of the Marsha P. Johnson Institute (www.marshap.org), Elle Hearns aka our pookie bear baby butt. It's hella raw, it's mother's day coming up on Sunday, we thinking about clear nail polish and stockings and talking about Gods that don't serve white supremacy.
Recommended Reading:
Redoshi--the last living survivor of the transatlantic slave
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/transatlantic-slave-trade-last-survivor.html
Donate to Support the Launch of the Marsha P. Johnson Foundation Here...
2019-05-101h 31
Trauma QueenTrauma Queen: S4- Ep7 "Decolonizing Sex Ed with Ericka HartDo you have any questions, any comments about the episode? Jimanekia would love to hear from you!Trauma Queen and Ericka Hart (@ihartericka) sit down to talk about all kinds of REAL conversations. From decolonizing sex ed to gate keepers and soo much more.www.traumaqueen.love Online Therapy - www.betterhelp.com/queen ACCESSIBILITY - Link to Transcription: --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/traumaqueen/supportThank you all for listening. Set a boundary with your...
2019-04-3051 min
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastWhat is Black? Happy April Fools Year & the Words They Say to Make us Think They Aren't Bigots.And what exactly do ya'll mean by "woke" when you say it in response to people resisting their own subjugation? Why would Van Jones applaud right wing views and also herald Kim K as the next coming of Malcolm in criminal justice reform? Why is the Mayor of Chicago so upset with one case, considering this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theroot.com/feds-confirm-that-the-chicago-police-dept-is-as-corrup-1791173264/amp
Are you melting too?
Also, what is the line between conservatism and racism? Well, there is no line so why does that word conservative exist? What could possibly be conserved?
Join us as...
2019-04-021h 36
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastStop KonMari'ing Ya'll racism: Bernie, Kamala & What Won't Bring You Joy (reparations) in 2020Happy Black Everything At All Times and Happy Black Hixtory Month. Join us for our first lil episode of 2019 and I'm already not having it.
Alternative Titles:
Stop Playing and Let a Real Nigga Bring You Joy in 2020
What Might Bring You Joy in 2020 Might Bring You Hell in 2021
What Bring You Joy in 2020 Won't Bring Reparations, Liberation, Justice for Black People or anyone, really in 2020
Do Marie Kondo Owe Anita Baker Some Money?
Bernie Sanders for State Comptroller
Music: "Apathy Happy" by Benjamin Earl Turner- Go Listen!!
Highly Recommended Reading:
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Bernie Sanders and the White Liberal Imagination
...
2019-02-011h 35
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastSo We All on the Same Page in 2019: Gentrification is not Normal, it's Intentional ft. @EcofeministaFREE CYNTOIA FIRST AND FOREMOST:
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/free-cyntoia-brown
Get this so we can all be on the same page in 2019: Gentrification is not a normal process whereby increased real estate development in a once systemically neglected area leads to greater economic change but rather it is the targeted displacement of "undesirable" groups in a given area to attract "desirable" (read: white) groups whose purpose can serve to reserve capital for the wealthy and significantly reduce availability of resources to poor residents from marginalized identities, many of them Black and Brown. This is a byproduct of white supremacist...
2018-12-212h 06
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastGone til November: You Want Voting to End Oppression So You Won't Have To Featuring @iischristy"I know there's voter suppression but...
"I know it won't change anything but...
"Stop complaining and vote but...
"Don't you dare sit at home and do nothing"
Voting simply isn't a sufficient means to end systems of oppression because our political system remains invested in keeping power concentrated in the hands of a small few whom we elect to represent our interests every two to four years, often to our disappointment when they uphold the law of the land via racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, transphobic and homophobic policies and modest liberal reforms. So cut the shit and cast down your bucket...
2018-11-061h 19
Queer Sex Ed PodcastQSE Listener Questions 2Jay and Sara are answering your questions this week! Thank you to everyone who was vulnerable and asked us to help you move through difficult things. Discussed in this episode: dysphoria and eating disorder history, family rejection, telling a partner you are no longer attracted to them, fatphobia in dating preferences, what queer porn do we enjoy, supporting ethical porn production, and the pitfalls of focusing on inclusive language without inclusive action for allies. You can send your questions to queersexed@gmail.com for us to answer them on future shows. More information about our mis...
2018-10-191h 39
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastWill the World Ever Change or it Will it Continue to White?Is the World Cruel or is it just White?
Will it ever change?
How is changed defined?
Who gets to decide?
Greater good or creating change---are they real or some veiled gospel of prosperity that’s mostly self interested and leaves us, the “change makers” at the center of it?
Examples
Jeff bezos
Anne Hathaway
HRC
Non profits—origin of non profits, where did they come from? Why do we need them? A way to pacify activists and neutralize grassroots movements and embed them into the same oppressive institutions they were formed to absolve?
Are we a less radical generation than bef...
2018-10-041h 28
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastEverybody wanna be black til it's time to be white: Non-Black POC & AAVE in service of AntiblacknessAAVE=African American Vernacular English
POC= People of Color
This Episode could have had a couple of names:
No one wins when veiled anti-blackness among non black POC is a proxy for solidarity
no one wins when you use AAVE and you're not black: the anti blackness of non black POC
no one wins when you're neither black nor really my family so don't call me sis: POC and anti blackness
this episode is onfleeklitbrosishomie
Everybody wanna be black til it's time to dismantle white supremacy
Both vilified and stolen, black folks aren't the only ones benefitting from black linguistic...
2018-08-211h 42
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastWhathahappened Was: Niggas in Andalucia & also Paris & London (Ep. Dedicated to Milan & Mama Rose)Back like we left something, Ericka and I just been in Europe where global anti-blackness (and baguettes) abound. It was hella racist but was it worth it?
Recommended Reading:
Scathing read of Drake's wack ass new album: https://www.refinery29.com/2018/07/203408/drake-scorpion-album-review
More information on Pleasure Chest Sex Stores Workers' Struggle to Unionize: https://www.liberationnews.org/for-pride-this-year-pleasure-chest-workers-went-on-strike/
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/07/06/tight-knit-family-loses-mother-daughter-in-antioch-double-homicide/
***This Episode is Dedicated to Milan Ardoin and Rose Scott***--mourn you til I join you,
Love Eb
2018-07-241h 05
Radically SelfishEpisode 14: Ericka Hart - Privilege, Sexuality, & SurvivalToday’s episode is all about championing marginalized people, in whatever way you can. Here to inspire and enlighten us is the incredible Ericka Hart, self-described black queer femme, Sagittarius, popcorn connoisseur, breast cancer survivor, and sexuality educator. After a double mastectomy, Ericka went viral a few years ago when she decided to go topless at Afropunk. The decision was rooted in a desire to show her scars, and to give a voice to the black, brown, queer, and trans people who are all too often left out of entire conversations — including breast cancer.
2018-06-2900 min
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastHappy Pride: We are Coming OUT!You want me to come out but get mad when I call you out.
The name of this episode could have been "Congratulatory, Aggrandizing and Gross" but it's Pride month, so any talk about white folks being entirely interested in their internet outrage and disdain for the systems of oppression they benefit from most will be postponed til July 1st.
Recommended, Referenced Reading:
Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre in the Greenwood neighborhood erroneously considered a "race riot":
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/05/31/615546965/meet-the-last-surviving-witness-to-the-tulsa-race-riot-of-1921
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/31/roxana-hernandez-transgender-honduran-woman-dies-us-ice-box
*Editor's Note: We intentionally referred to Roxana Hernandez's death at an...
2018-06-051h 22
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastThis is America: Black Cis Men Never Held Accountable for Selling Out Black Pain for White PleasureWHITE CIS MEN HAVE COMMITTED MORE MASS SHOOTINGS IN THE US THAN ANY OTHER GROUP...but I'm sleep.
Black people are murdered and it’s an idea for a storyboard for a rap music video without a trigger warning. Black people are not paying attention, while the world continues to kill us. We only pay attention when black cis men tell us to. Listen to them. Black cis men know what we need. And we should listen. They are geniuses. They win Pulitzers for their music without having to reckon with the misogynoir conveniently overlooked to get them there. And sl...
2018-05-091h 31
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastBlack People Die and People Theorize about their Deaths: Typical Day in AmericaTypical day in America: people die at the hands of antiblack racism, people theorize about their deaths. An intellectual distancing from the deaths of black people doesn't stop it from happening. What are our options?
Join us for a live episode of Hoodrat to Headwrap and if you feel some type of way, email us at **hoodratsandheadwraps@gmail.com**
Recommended Reading: Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Episode brought to you by our sponsor, The Pleasure Chest: www.thepleasurechest.com
2018-04-121h 30
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastDiversity and Inclusion is for White People: Beyond Bruno Mars, and the Love of Light Skinhttps://www.patreon.com/seren_sensei
"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us."---Audre Lorde
To preamble the episode: We didn't talk about how Twitter and companies like it-Google, Facebook, etc. have whole diversity departments, committees and initiatives and make marketing videos featuring a whole bunch of black folks but employee less than 3% of us. How the conversation about representation allows the system to continue to work--as long as we are used for aesthetic, put on...
2018-03-141h 21
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastA Revolution Televised and Paid for by Disney: Black Superheroes for the White ImaginationImagine that: a vision of Africa that puts the onus of "what it could have been" on an imaginative restructuring of a whole 53 country continent while failing to hold the European countries and institutions responsible for its perceived degradation accountable inside of a fictional universe created by a white person in the 60s, adapted to a film, produced by Disney.
And it's only February.
Join us as our faces melt off.
if you feel some type of way, email us at **hoodratsandheadwraps@gmail.com**
Recommended Reading:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/ethiopias-state-emergency-20-180219112158956.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/opinion...
2018-02-211h 13
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastAstrology Takin' Over for the 99 and the Two Thou: A Chani Nicholas GamesgivingLots of memes declaring snarky platitudes and generalizing quips about astrological signs (e.g., what each sign would do in a horror movie, lots of other ones we can Pinterest lol)circulating round the net. Needless to say, the younger generation is getting witchy, but it wasn't cool to be witchy back in the day outside of 90s pop culture references, movies like The Craft w/ the tartan skirts, white shirts and suspenders (only one black girl in the craft now that I think of it!). So join us in parsing that out on Hoodrat to Headwrap's first episode of...
2018-01-311h 01
A versus AGlobos de Oro 2018: Solidaridad invisibleFrente a una premiación marcada por las acusaciones sobre violencia sexual en la industria del cine y la televisión, se suponía que sería una noche para celebrar la solidaridad hacia las víctimas. Entonces ¿dónde quedó todo eso?
Sígueme en FB https://www.facebook.com/podcastaversusa/
En TW @andreacarolina
Y en Tumblr http://aversusa.tumblr.com/
AUDIOS
Verborrea 2: Oscars 2017 http://pe.ivoox.com/es/17289773
Predadores en Hollywood: Harvey Weinstein http://pe.ivoox.com/es/21449794
Después de Weinstein: #Metoo y la viralización de la violencia de género http://pe.ivoox.com/es/21569268
FUENTES
Eric...
2018-01-1238 min
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast#TimesUp on Defending Rich White People and Oprah: A Defense of Those Who Don'tH & m and how companies stocks go up when they stoke black peoples' anger in order to get a rise out of the market and oh, yeah, the Golden Globes. This is your bonus episode of Hoodrat to Headwrap
Recommended Reading: Excerpt from Nicole Ashcoff's book, The New Prophets of Capital: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/may/09/oprah-winfrey-neoliberal-capitalist-thinkers
At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle McGuire, who wrote at length about Recy Taylor's story in 2011 and was largely responsible for the public apology the Alabama House of Representatives gave to Recy on behalf of the state:
https://www...
2018-01-111h 32
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastWhen Black Scholars Fonk, a Cismas Miracle, a Look Ahead on the Late Night TipOur last episode of the best and blackest year yet, we leaving 2017 with a pillar of salt in its wake.
Recommended Reading on Obama Admin's mixed, nuanced immigration legacy: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not
2017-12-2956 min
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastCuffing Sagittarius Seasonal Affective Disorder: Winter with the shitA special winter is coming edition of HRHW where we reveal the ultimate gag about instagram activism, GOP tax cuts and how to be sad, mad and possibly okay.
References:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/08/bill-gates-jeff-bezos-warren-buffett-wealthier-than-poorest-half-of-us
http://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/38006/1/in-the-trump-era-money-is-black-peoples-greatest-weapon
2017-11-2759 min
Cheers & QueersCheers & Queers Episode 2: Hood-Based EpistemologyOn this episode, we chat about queers and non-monogamy, spoons, our homies on the left coast, relationships, and a different kind of love with Ericka Hart and Ebony Donnely over some fancy rosé!
Show Notes
Drinking
Pinot de Sud Côtes-de-thongue rosé
Music
Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
Additional Music
Restore by Abel Shiffera
Hands by Boomscat
Conga House by Abel Shiffera
Satisfied from Hamilton
Outro: Hey by Boomscat
The Team
Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
Produced by Isake Smith, Kirya Traber, Lance John, and Jassel Hernndez
Edited by Jassel Hernandez
Links to:
The Spoon Theory. (http://bit.ly...
2017-10-211h 08
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastOctober is WeirdStrange happenings that have nothing to do with Halloween, roaches at the W, one #metoo too many, and a live troll on this latest catch-up episode of HRHW
2017-10-201h 00
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastHow We Love and Why Even Bother: The Black/Queer WayWe're just being hella vulnerable with each other about relationships, including friendships, how and why they end and the traumas and triumphs that inform them.
2017-10-061h 17
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastCan Distraction be Decolonizing?Said lil b***h (anxiety) you can't f**k w/ me (you could) if you wanted to:
Fenty, Football, Fanfare and Puerto Rican-U.S. diplomacy for dummies
Tips to help folks help folks in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria:
1. Call Congress 202-224-3120 and tell them to release disaster aid now
2. Donate to mariafund.org, NOT the red cross
*Correction of acronym: LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy)
Update: Jones Act rescinded as of 9/28
2017-09-291h 06
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastGender 101: The Binary Won't Save YouRefusing to acknowledge how gender works isn't doing you any favors, so gather round for this long awaited, very special teach-in episode w/ Resident Headwrap Sexuality Educator Ericka Hart as she helps you help us destroy white supremacist cis het patriarchy.
Referenced Reading: http://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/straight-black-men-are-the-white-people-of-black-people-1814157214
2017-09-2052 min
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastDACA is Racist and Anti-PoorWhile DACA certainly isn't the enemy, patently xenophobic and anti-poor US Immigration Policy is certainly not a friend to those seeking refuge and opportunity in the land of the broke and home of the slave. Talking DACA, West Indian Day Parade, and a lil' bit of gender.
2017-09-081h 01
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastAFTERPunk: We Reminisce Over You, My GodYa'll remember that song by J. Cole featuring Drake, "In the Morning", where Drake's voice is hella scratchy as if the song was recorded in the morning and you couldn't tell if that was intentional or if the nigga throat was sore? Well, that's how we sound after this past weekend at Afropunk---the good, the bad, the binary. Find out if this shit was for us.
2017-08-301h 02
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastEclipsing WhitenessWhen even saying, "I hate white people" is a privilege.
2017-08-2350 min
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized PodcastMelanated Alt-RightSelf-care, shit talk and real shit for Black and POC in Perpetual Charlottesville.
Music by Nappy Nina
https://soundcloud.com/nappy_nina
2017-08-151h 00
Sex Ed A Go GoSEAGG 029: The Black Girl Magic Show – Sex Ed A. Go-GoCelebrated activist and internet phenomenon, Ericka Hart and the spectacular spectacle, Foxy Squire, joined Lola on stage at Otto’s Shrunken Head on February 25th for another installment of Sex Ed A Go-Go.
We kicked off the fourth season of Sex Ed A Go-Go with two amazing women. It was a night filled with black girl magic and so many giggles!
On this episode of Sex Ed A Go-Go, Lola and the crew chat about art and activism, peeing on men dressed up like the orange menace in Las Vegas hotel rooms...
2017-04-2100 minSex Ed A Go GoSEAGG 016: Our 2nd Anniversary Show! – Sex Ed A. Go-GoForce of nature, sex educator, and Whitney Houston enthusiast, Ericka Hart, and the bubbling brown sugar of burlesque, Essence Revealed, joined Lola on stage this month!
We almost let it slip by, but Lola and the Double P managed to put on a worthy anniversary show at Otto’s Shrunken Head on November 5th. Fabulous ladies and penis balloons, how could we go wrong?
Lola and the crew chat and sing about the awesomeness of lube (bring it Ronda Rousey!), negotiating threesomes and being a good third wheel, the virtues of the new rechargeable Magic Wa...
2015-11-2600 min