How to Survive and Thrive with Family During the Holidays
Thinking about the complexities of family love and family gatherings, and what it feels like to choose to "pass" as straight.
8 Oct 2021
What’s it like being LGBTQ at an HBCU?
Episode 8 finds us 34 years after the premiere of the iconic HBCU-based television show, A Different World AND at the beginning of LGBTQ History Month. I'm joined by three of the University of the District of Columbia's finest, Trinice McNally, Taylor Bryant, and Shabre West, to discuss this unique intersection of identities.
10 Sept 2021
Here’s the thing about true crime…
As a storytelling genre, true crime succeeds in exposing biases and weaknesses in law enforcement and humankind.
12 Aug 2021
Episode 6: The Price of Black Queer Visibility
On the heels of Da Baby's comments, Lil Nas X's success, what it means - what it costs - to be out and visible and unapologetic about it.
22 Jul 2021
Episode 5: DC’s Renaissance in the U Street Corridor
With folks like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and countless teachers, doctors, and business people living and commiserating in DC’s famed U Street Corridor, the DC Renaissance was born. And it was DC that paved the way for Harlem.
20 Apr 2021
Episode 4: Election 2020 - Now What?
My colleague, Dr. Shiela Harmon-Martin, and two of my students join me in conversation about the 2020 presidential election and beyond.
1 Apr 2021
Episode 3: Lovecraft Country and a little Black Feminism
Inspired by episode five of Lovecraft Country, my Black Feminism class discusses the notion of Black women's liberation, the currency of white womanhood, and what it means to live uninterrupted.
1 Mar 2021
Episode 2: People Power with Ria Thompson-Washington
Ria Thompson-Washington is the National Democracy Manager with Center for Popular Democracy/CPD Action Network Black-Led Affiliates Voting Rights and Democracy program. She works with affiliates to create their voting and election strategies to protect the vote at the polls. Ria lives in the Washington, DC metro area with her wife and two pups. In November, she packed up her family and moved to Georgia to serve as Chief of Staff for the New Georgia Project, in preparation for the hugely consequential Senate Runoff elections coming up in January. Ria joins me to talk about organizing and how to turn a red state blue.
26 Feb 2021
Episode 1: Dolores Kendrick, DC’s First Black Woman Poet Laureate
This episode is for a podcast collaboration with the Institute for Politics Policy and History (IPPH) - the Taking Up Space Podcast. The show highlights some of Washington DC's lesser-known Black women leaders. In this first episode, I interviewed Dr. Joanne Gabbin, Professor of English at James Madison University, about DC's “first lady of poetry,” Dolores Kendrick.
16 Feb 2021
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This show is about the fusion of politics and pop culture from music, television, and film. I started this podcast with Black Feminist principles at its center. That means the Pop Politics Pod is about reclaiming power by amplifying diverse and inclusive voices and stories.
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