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Season 1
Episode 2 - Why I’m An Activist Part 1 #ActivateYourActivism
“‘The personal is political’ is a crucial perspective because it legitimizes people’s experiences by acknowledging that what people already feel to be important is important”
Episode 6 - A Seat at the Table
“Just because they welcome you, it does not mean they expect you to turn up.”
What does it mean, and what does it cost, to make a complaint? This question is at the heart of Sara Ahmed's research into institutional power and forms the ...
Episode 7 - Purple is to Lavender
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
The Womanist Idea by Layli Maparyan
This Bridge We Call Home by AnaLouise Keating & Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Episode 8 - Representation in the Beauty Industry
BLACK IMPACT: CONSUMER CATEGORIES WHERE AFRICAN AMERICANS MOVE MARKETS
Special Bonus Episode ft. Emmy Pérez
Find more information about Emmy and her community involvement on her website.
With the River on Our Face (Camino del Sol) by Emmy Pérez
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic edited by Mahoghany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds, & Jamila Woods
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me edited by Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo
The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext edited by Felicia Rose Chavez, José Olivarez, and Willie Perdomo
"The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action" in Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Episode 11 - Astrology: A Tool for Spiritual Activism ft. Christina Caudill
To learn more about Christina’s astrological counseling services find more information on her website.
Astrology for Yourself by Demetrius George & Douglas Bloch
You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance by Chani Nicholas
The Whole Astrology Workbook by Paul & Rovelli
An Introduction to Archetypal Astrology by Richard Tarnas
Episode 12 - Black Feminist Thought
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Video Talk by Dr. Tricia Rose “Black Feminism, Popular Culture, and Respectability Politics”
The Annual Elizabeth Munves Sherman'77, P'06, P'09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies "Black Feminism, Popular Culture and Respectability Politics," a l...
Kara Walker's giant sphinx transforms the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn in the artists first large-scale public work. An inside peek with Creative Time pr...
Episode 13 - “The Social Dictator” Race, Gender, & the Media ft. Dr. Tracy Everbach
Books
Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jaclyn Friedman & Jessica Valenti
Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment by Jacqueline Ryan Vickery & Tracy Everbach
Doing News Framing Analysis: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives by Paul D'Angelo & Jim A. Kuypers
Documentaries/Series
Unbelievable
Inspired by real events, a teen reports and eventually recants her reported rape, while two female detectives, states away, investigate evidence that could r...
Miss Representation
http://www.missrepresentation.org http://facebook.com/missrepresentationcampaign http://twitter.com/representpledge Miss Representation explores women's unde...
13th
official trailer for 13TH The title of Ava DuVernay's extraordinary and galvanizing documentary 13TH refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ...
The Mask You Live In
From the team behind "Miss Representation," "The Mask You Live In" explores America's narrow definition of masculinity and the harm it causes boys and men. B...
Bonus Episode - HERstory: Sally Hemings
The Life of Sally Hemings
Cable TV biography of Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's slave with whom he bore six children. Shared for historical purposes. I do not own the rights. ##### ...
Episode 14 - Talking Mental Health ft. Yasmin Irfani
For NAMI related questions, you can email Yasmin
Find Your Local NAMI
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
Crisis Text Line (Text HOME to 741-741)
Story of Kevin Hines
How to Help a Grieving Friend Video
(sharing this video? using it in a training! Great! Tag or email us and let us know, and be sure to give proper attribution.) It's so hard to know what to do...
Episode 15 - Yoga: A Practice for Spiritual Activism ft. Ayan Anderson
The Complete Book of Chakra Healing by Cyndi Dale
The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life by Drunvalo Melchizedek
Trust Your Vibes by Sonia Choquette
8 Limbs of Yoga by Patanjali
Kemetic Yoga
Episode 16 - LGBTQIA+ Activism: Drag Culture ft. Adrian Zamora a.k.a Kabrina D. Sierra
Denton Pride Festival
Drag Bingo - Crossroads
Vander Von Odd - “Wish That You Where Here”
Vander Von Odd performance at Sasha Velour's Nightgowns June 19th
Bonus Episode - Voting Literacy ft. We Are Butterfly Effect
Vote.org
Usa.gov
Vote Smart
Voting facts: Enter politician names or the location and will give facts about who’s running for what position.
Vote 411
Nonprofit league of women: compares candidates side by side, voter registration, and information on how issues affect the country and state, can search issues by state.
Ballotpedia
All things election: calendar of dates, parties, candidates, platforms, voter ID, polling station locations, ballots, and absentee voting information.
Rock The Vote
Non-partisan site geared to young adults and new voters: easy registration and a great tool to keep track of your democratic responsibilities as your personal voting reminder and information system.
Fact-Checking Websites:
Politifact
FactCheck.org
Episode 17 - White Privilege
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
How to Recognize Your White Privilege — and Use it to Fight Inequality
TedX Talk by Peggy McIntosh “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion”
Episode 19 - Colorism
The Doll Test for Racial Self-Hate: Did It Ever Make Sense?
Colorism in the Black Community
As part of our Shades of Black series, we invited eight women to talk about their experience of colorism in their relationships, careers and everyday life. C...
Bonus Episode - Presidential Elections Part 1 ft. We Are Butterfly Effect
Vote Smart
Texas Tribune Voting Guide
Enter your address to see your District Level races
Bonus Episode - Presidential Elections Part 2 ft. We Are Butterfly Effect
One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson (Book)
Fair Elections Project
Fair Vote
Bonus Episode - HERstory: Gloria Anzaldúa
Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro by Gloria Anzaldúa
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader edited by AnaLouise Keating
For more information on her writings and contributions to feminist and womanist theorizing check out “Un-book” Club #2 books:
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
This Bridge We Call Home: Radial Visions for Transformation edited by Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Analouise Keating
Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color edited by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Season 2
Episode 37 - HERstory: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
What 'Sabrina' Gets Wrong About Afro-Indigenous Magic — And How It Can Make It Right
Lilith, the Triple Goddess of Astrology
Episode 38 - HERstory: Kamala Harris
Let's Talk About Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris and the ‘Double Bind’ of Racism and Sexism
Kamala Harris’ Appointment is Historic but Don’t Ignore Her Problematic Past
Kamala Harris’s Controversial Record on Criminal Justice, Explained
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Episode 39 - HERstory & Media Talks: Bridgerton
Slavery During the Regency Period
Episode 40 - HERstory: Madam C.J. Walker
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker by A’Lelia Bundles
Madam C.J. Walker Biography
Madam C.J. Walker Philanthropy
Self Made: What Happened to Madam C.J. Walker’s Hair-Care Empire?
'Self Made' Changes Some Really Important Details About Madam C.J. Walker's Life
Who Was Madam C.J. Walker's Daughter A'Lelia And What Happened To Her?
Episode 42 - Ecofeminism & Food Justice
Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability by Alison H. Alkon and Julian Agyeman
Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience. by Enrique Salmón
Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth by Carol J. Adams and Lori Cruen
Ecowomansim: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths by Melanie L. Harris
How to Eat (Part of the Mindfulness Essentials Series) by Thich Nhat Hanh
Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World by Wangari Maathai
What is Ecofeminism
Episode 43 - Delving Into Veganism
Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society by A. Breeze Harper
Episode 44 - Spiritual Activism: Healing & Identity ft. Intuitive Wellness Podcast
Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women by Akasha Gloria Hull
The Womanist Idea by Layli Maparyan
Episode 45 - Intersectionality
Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality by Jennifer C. Nash
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, and Garry Peller
Intersectionality: An Intellectual History by Ange-Marie Hancock
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color by Kimberlé Crenshaw
On Intersectionality: Essential Writings by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities That the Twin Pandemics Lay Bare, edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw and Daniel Hosang
Words of Fire: Anthology of African American Feminist Thought, edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
The Words of Fire anthology includes chapter’s on Frances Beal “Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female” and Deborah K. King “Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology.”
Episode 47 - Un-Book Club #3
TedX Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “We Should All Be Feminists”
Episode 48 - Hair Politics
Everything You Need to Know About The Crown Act
The Crown Act
Braiding Freedom: A project of the Institute for Justice
‘Hair Love’ Receives a Lot of Love at the Oscars for Best Animated Short Film
When Black Hair Violates The Dress Code
Louisiana Girl Sent Home from School Over Braided Hair Extensions
A Wrestler was Forced to Cut His Dreadlocks Before a Match. His Town is Still Looking for Answers.
Episode 49 - Representation in the Art World
Exhibition: Shirin Neshat at the Modern in FTW
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
The Art World Can’t Exist in a Decolonized Future
Kehinde Wiley
Amy Sherald
Faith Ringgold
The Guerilla Girls
The Guerrilla Girls, After 3 Decades, Still Rattling Art World Cages
The White Pube
'Remove Racist Paintings' and 'Give Back Stolen Objects': The White Pube Takes its Manifesto to the Streets
The Price of Everything (HBO)
Black Art: In the Absence of Light (HBO)
Episode 50 - Police Reform: Revisiting Black Lives Matter
New Research Suggests That Black Lives Matter Protests Have Led to Up to a 20% Decrease in Police Homicides
Fact Sheet: Justice in Policing Act of 2020
H.R. 7100 (116th): George Floyd Law Enforcement Trust and Integrity Act of 2020
Pressley, Markey Reintroduce Legislation to Fully End Qualified Immunity
Ending Qualified Immunity Once and For All is the Next Step in Holding Police Accountable
Executive Order on Safe Policing for Safe Communities
Risk of Being Killed by Police Use of Force in the United States by Age, Race-Ethnicity, and Sex
Spurred by Black Lives Matter, Coverage of Police Violence is Changing
Why Hate Crime Data Can't Capture the True Scope of Anti-Asian Violence
Reforming Police and Ending Anti-Transgender Violence
Walking While Trans: Profiling of Transgender Women by Law Enforcement, and the Problem of Proof
America’s War on Black Trans Women
Fatal Violence Against the Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Community in 2020
Episode 51 - Care Economy
What Is Infrastructure? It's A Gender Issue, For Starters
Top White House Economist Defends 'Care Economy' as Infrastructure
A First-of-its-kind Investment in Home Care is in the Works. But Will it be Enough?
Biden’s Vision for ‘Care Infrastructure’ Needs More Socialism
Elizabeth Warren to Reintroduce $700 Billion Universal Child Care Proposal
The Pandemic Gave Parents the Chance to Work from Home. Now They Don’t Want to Give it up.
Could the Pandemic Prompt an ‘Epidemic of Loss’ of Women in the Sciences?
The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor’
8 Lessons That Show How Emotional Labor Defines Womens Lives
“Where’s My Cut?”: On Unpaid Emotional Labor
Collateral Damage: When It Comes to Caregiving, Women Are Already Toast
The Problem with “Mom Boss” Culture: Mommy Blogs and Influencers are Monetizing the Horrible Working Conditions of Motherhood.
A Modest Proposal for a Fair Trade Emotional Labor Economy
Fact Sheet: Care Economy Investments in Build Back Better
Episode 52 - Hold the Phone: We All Tired
Chronic Overworking: Cause Extremely Negative Impact on Health and Quality of Life
How Does Overworking Affect Physical and Mental Health?
The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies
Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working, and Parenting in the Digital Age by Christine M. Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee
Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less by Tiffany Dufu
Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time and Energy Management for Ambitious Women by Kate Northrup
Episode 53 - Language & Identity Politics
The Power of Social Theory: The Anti-Colonial Discursive Framework by George J. Sefa Dei and Alireza Asgharzadeh
Speaking in the Borrowed Language: Mental Health as an Agent of Cultural Oppression by David Walker
Living (with) Language by AnaLouise Keating
Amanda Nguyen on Anti-Asian Racism, the Model Minority Myth, and Visibility
Identity Politics: Friend or Foe?
Barbara Smith on Identity Politics
"It's Really Up To Us" Barbara Smith on Combahee, Coalitions and Dismantling White Supremacy
Feminist Scholar Barbara Smith on Identity Politics & Why She Supports Bernie Sanders for President
Episode 55 - Compromising Identity ft. Sarah Abualjazer
A Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution by Susan Stryker
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives by J. Jack Halberstam
Bonus Episode 57 - Hate Groups: The Proud Boys
Who Are the Proud Boys? Canada Names Far-Right Group a Terrorist Organization
Proud Boys
Conspiracy Charges Bring Proud Boys' History Of Violence Into Spotlight
US Election 2020: Who are the Proud Boys - and who are antifa?
Daryl Davis: the black musician who converts Ku Klux Klan members
Meet the Proud Boys, a group that says it speaks for a new minority: the disenfranchised young male
White Rage by Carol Anderson
White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement - And How I Got Out by Christian Picciolini
Episode 58 - Exploring Solidarity & Allyship ft. Adrian Zamora
Supreme Court Declares Same-Sex Marriage Legal In All 50 States
The Equality Act
House Passes The Equality Act: Here's What It Would Do
The Equality Act Is 46 Years In The Making. The US Senate Should Pass It Now
Dallas Pride
Episode 59 - Identity & De-Commodification ft. Roy Haidar of the Wake Up To Makeup Podcast
Stonewall Uprising
Stonewall Community Foundation
What Are Personal Pronouns and Why Do They Matter?
LGBTQ+ Resource Center: Gender Pronouns
Episode 62 - HERstory: Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousalzai
Malala Fund
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai
Yo Soy Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights by Malala Yousafzai
Malala, Mi Historia by Malala Yousafzai
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai
Episode 65 & 66 - Afrofuturism Part 1 & 2 ft. Dr. Lauren Cross & Dr. Kathy Brown
2044 Series: Anti-racist Praxis as Futurist Art and Design Pedagogy
2044 Series: Anti-racist Praxis in Design
Nasher Public: Lauren Cross at For Oak Cliff
Hulu Original Movie: Bad Hair
Episode 69 - Informed Counseling ft. Maddie Nutt
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Hermann
Inclusive Therapists
Whiteness on the Couch
White Supremacy and Counseling Psychology: A Critical–Conceptual Framework
Working Together Against Racism
White Supremacy Has No Place In Mental Health: Collective Response to “Vilifying Karens” Article on Psychology Today by Dr. Plante
Say Her Name: The Life & Death of Sandra Bland
Episode 70 - HERstory: Dolores Huerta
Sí, Ella Puede!: The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers by Stacey K. Sowards
Dolores Huerta Foundation
Episode 71 - Gray Spaces ft. Flora Roussel
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others by Sara Ahmed
The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed
Poetics of Relation by Edouard Glissant (Translated into English by Betsy Wing)
Philosophie de la relation : poésie en étendue by Edouard Glissant (French)
Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses by Oyeronke Oyewumi
Gender Epistemologies in Africa: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities by Oyeronke Oyewumi
“Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What Is ‘Strong Objectivity?’” in The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies Edited by Sandra Harding
Episode 73 - Body Politics & Body Hair
The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair by Karin Lesnik-Oberstein
Plucked: A History of Hair Removal by Rebecca M. Herzig
Season 3
Episode 75 - Welcome to Season 3
Episode 77 - Black History Month
Target Jolie Noir Black History Month Gender Inclusive Collection
Sephora Takes 15 Percent Pledge
The Fifteen Percent Pledge
Episode 80 - The Trojan Horse Scandal & Strategic White Feminism
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
The Trojan Horse Affair
Securing Afghan Women: Neocolonialism, Epistemic Violence, and the Rhetoric of the Veil by Kevin J. Ayotte and Mary E. Husain
Saving Brown Women by Miriam Cooke
On bell, Beyonce’, and Bullshit by the Crunk Feminist Collection
Episode 81 - Media Talks: Revisiting Bridgerton
Episode 83 - Why ‘Behind the Scenes’ Matters
The Racial Bias Built Into Photography
The Provocateur Behind Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Issa Rae
Episode 86 - Creative Writing
Bookshop.org Gray Matters Book Recommendations
Episode 89 - Ms. Marvel
Official trailer of Disney + television series, Ms. Marvel.