Inspired in part by Saidiya Hartman’s “Lose Your Mother,” Lose Your Sister centers on Black feminist thought, pop culture, and diaspora with a focus on how Black people find their way back to one another interpersonally, artistically, and politically.
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Podcast Overview
Inspired in part by Saidiya Hartman’s “Lose Your Mother,” Lose Your Sister centers on Black feminist thought, pop culture, and diaspora with a focus on how Black people find their way back to one another interpersonally, artistically, and politically.
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April 12, 2023
Bad Blood: Blackness, Ancestry, and Genealogies of Horror
(TW: R*pe, sexual assault) In this week’s episode, we discussed the Angela Davis episode of ‘Finding Your Roots’ alongside her 1972 essay “Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves,” to explore how slavery’s genealogical terror permeates our politics and art. Thinking critically about media reception and discourses of ancestral discovery, we tie Davis’s appearance on Finding Your Roots to other major works, such as Gayl Jones’s Corregidora and The Invitation (2022), for their reflections on (anti-)Blackness and the horror-drama of genealogy. In closing, we consider our own relationships to the “slave descendant” narrative and question what violence is made possible by the language of “descent.”
January 15, 2023
We Wuz Kweenz!
In this week’s episode, which was actually recorded back in November 2022, we discussed two films from last year, “The Woman King” (dir. Gina Prince- Blythewood) and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (dir. Ryan Coogler). Thinking critically about how Indigeneity and the African diaspora are imagined in these works, we considered how these creative projects grapple with the (im)possibility of solidarity and desires for a mythic past. Focusing on representations of Black women at war, we analyzed how gender, sexuality, violence, grief, and histories of slavery and anti-blackness play out in these blockbuster films which center on Black women warriors in fictionalized and fabulated early and/or pre-colonial African kingdoms.
February 20, 2022
The Velvet Discourse
On this week’s epsiode, we discussed Janet Jackson’s Lifetime documentary, “JANET JACKSON,” which follows the life and career of the one and only Miss Janet Damita Jo Jackson, the youngest of the famous and infamous Jackson family. Zeroing in on the documentary’s choices in representing Janet’s career and life, we explored the implications of Janet’s story within the broader music industry and make space to acknowledge her undeniable influence on contemporary pop and R&B music around the world. Lastly, we considered how race, class, gender, sexuality, and abuse factor into the way Janet’s story is told and we wrestle with the role that sorrow, disappointment, and indebtedness play in the complex history of Black women musicians of which Janet is a formidable and unforgettable pillar.
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