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Olivia and Raven are black, blind women, passionate about shedding light on issues regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. Get political and personal with them as they share their perspectives on living at the intersection of disabled, black, and women in the US.
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Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Olivia and Raven share their views on the belief that the black community wants white people to feel guilty, and talk about the fatigue experienced by Black-Americans in the US.
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Discussion Summary:
00:32: Topic introduction, views on white guilt, and origin of this phrase entering discourse.
07:14: Not understanding why so many white people think black people want them to feel guilty when talking about the black experience.
13:04: The white people who feel uncomfortable when black people speak up, and so-called minority privilege.
19:57: Explaining and experiencing symptoms of blackhaustion.
37:37: People consuming black media only to expose themselves to positive black culture.
42:42: Outro.
Learn more!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_guilt
BLACKHAUSTION: The Overwhelming Fatigue Of Being Black In America
https://randib.net/blackhaustion-the-overwhelming-fatigue-of-being-black-in-america/
https://texasmetronews.com/12255/quit-playin-blackhausted/
Music credits: Opening: Goestories - Noir Et Blanc Vie
Closing: First Class - DJ Williams
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Olivia educates us about the driven and entrepreneurial Maggie Lena Walker, who was a teacher, started her own newspaper, and the first woman to own a bank in the US. Until the early 2000s, Consolidated Bank and Trust Company was the oldest black-owned and black-run bank in the US.
Learn more!
MAGGIE LENA WALKER (1864-1934)
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/walker-maggie-lena-1867-1934/
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Friday Sep 03, 2021
Friday Sep 03, 2021
Olivia and Raven talk about misconceptions about what racism is and the power of implicit bias. They explain how critical race theory can help uncover implicit racial bias, and dive into the criticisms of crt.
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Discussion Summary:
00:33: Topic introduction.
02:38: Explicit racism as the one-dimensional view of racism, and some fallacies and fantasies of racism ending.
09:17: Implicit bias and what implicit racism is and is not.
16:20: The thought that talking about race is racist.
22:38: Is classism a larger problem than racism?
32:56: Why implicit racial bias is just as harmful as overt racism, and how to overcome implicit bias.
36:07: Critical race theory and criticisms.
45:15: How CRT is relevant to education, and concerns about legislating crt and curriculum.
51:08: Worrying over teaching children the US was founded on racism and preserving American history.
55:13: the narrative that white people are oppressors and black people are oppressed.
1:05:37: Outro.
Learn more!
What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack?
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why-is-it-under-attack/2021/05
Implicit bias means we're all probably at least a little bit racist
https://www.vox.com/2014/12/26/7443979/racism-implicit-racial-bias
Music credits: Opening: Goestories - Noir Et Blanc Vie
Closing: First Class - DJ Williams
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Raven celebrates Mary McLeod Bethune, known for dedicating her life to fighting for women’s and Black Americans’ rights, and founding Bethune-Cookman College.
Learn more!
https://www.cookman.edu/history/our-founder.html
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mary-mcleod-bethune
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-McLeod-Bethune
National Council of Negro Women
https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Council-of-Negro-Women#ref668035
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Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Thursday Aug 26, 2021
Olivia and Raven talk about the right and wrong ways to share and uplift the stories of marginalized communities.
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Discussion Summary:
00:32: Episode begins, and the increasing importance, in media, of sharing perspectives outside of the norms.
03:24: The right and wrong ways to share and support stories of communities you don’t belong to.
11:53: What’s problematic with films like “Girl,” discussed in Essay 8 of Morgan Jerkins’ book “This Will Be My Undoing.”
16:40: Black as a cultural identity, and the importance of confronting uncomfortable parts of black people’s stories.
20:05: The fallacy that social progress requires ignoring race.
26:13: The importance of having the space to be unapologetically black, and how much we have to diminish our black personhood in white majority spaces.
34:41: How soon children are racialized.
39:55: Issues with the way the documentary “Babies” displays children’s upbringing in different cultures.
44:01: Americans’ tendency not to connect with cultures from other nations.
46:04: Being considerate with your purpose behind sharing someone’s story.
49:49: Outro.
Music credits: Opening: Goestories - Noir Et Blanc Vie
Closing: First Class - DJ Williams
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Olivia switches things up and highlights Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest Black-American institution of higher education, founded in 1837 with funds from a Quaker philanthropist.
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/cheyney-university-pennsylvania-1837/
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Friday Aug 20, 2021
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Olivia and Raven respond to common criticisms of embracing labels and sensitivity toward people’s identities, and explain awareness exhaustion.
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Discussion Summary:
00:33: Episode begins, and background on Raven’s term “awareness exhaustion.”
01:50: Why we should care about people’s different identities, and the importance of having a word for an identity.
07:29: When labels can be divisive, and the flaw in deciding certain labels are problematic.
11:04: When labels unite us, and our need to have a community of people who understand us without explanation.
20:30: The privilege of being able to ask why labels matter.
21:39: The importance of increasing awareness to have compassion, and helping with advocacy for communities you don’t belong to.
25:52: Attempts to connect with marginalized communities’ experiences, and when it can be offensive.
30:36: Awareness exhaustion explained.
36:39: Raven shares why she doesn’t understand the view that there are too many labels, and Olivia shares a time when she experienced awareness exhaustion.
40:19: Being offended by something many people don’t find offensive.
45:31: Learning to be corrected without taking offense, and changing what you think of as normal.
50:04: The apathy aspect to awareness exhaustion, and remembering not to diminish the struggles people experience.
53:41: Outro.
Music credits: Opening: Goestories - Noir Et Blanc Vie
Closing: First Class - DJ Williams
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Raven talks about the accomplishments and research of Dr. Inez Beverly Prosser, the first Black-American woman to obtain a Ph.D. in psychology, who was passionate about the educational advancement and mental health of black children.
Learn more!
https://phillys7thward.org/2021/02/dr-inez-beverly-prosser-black-educator-hall-of-fame/
https://feministvoices.com/profiles/inez-beverly-prosser
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Sunday Aug 15, 2021
Sunday Aug 15, 2021
For the second conversation on this topic, Olivia and Raven discussed statistics and details about discrimination against disabled parents, legislation restricting and protecting disabled parents’ rights, and how the American eugenics movement popularized ableist attitudes and misconceptions.
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Discussion Summary
0:33: Episode begins. Brief recap of the previous episode. Reminder: check it out!
01:18: Responses to the prep work and research for the episode.
03:46: Statistics, facts, and anecdotes on discrimination against disabled parents.
11:56: Legislation regarding disabled parents’ rights.
17:06: Concern that laws aren’t protecting disabled people’s reproductive rights.
20:54: Some history of the US eugenics movement, and the Buck V. Bell Supreme Court case.
28:28: The US eugenics movement as inspiration for sterilization programs in Nazi Germany, and the harm done by not talking about the ways the US contributed.
37:01: Restricting disabled people’s right to marriage with eugenic criteria.
38:36: The issue with defining womanhood according to the ability to reproduce and mother, and how societal expectations de-gender disabled people.
44:07: The misconception that all disabled people are asexual.
52:21: Outro.
References:
https://disabledparents.org/know-your-rights-as-a-parent-with-disabilities/
Rocking the Cradle: Ensuring the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children
https://www.ncd.gov/publications/2012/Sep272012
Passing Legislation to Protect the Rights of Parents with Disabilities and Their Children
https://heller.brandeis.edu/parents-with-disabilities/pdfs/legislative-toolkit-advocates-english.pdf
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/culturalanthropology/chapter/eugenics-in-the-united-states/
Eugenics and Disability Discrimination
https://www.independentliving.org/docs1/pfeiffe1.html
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/buck-v-bell-1927/
Legislation works to keep Ohio families together
https://ohiohouse.gov/news/republican/bill-protects-blind-parents-from-discrimination-95616
Parents with Disabilities Have Rights
https://wapave.org/parents-with-disabilities-have-rights/
Music credits: Opening: Goestories - Noir Et Blanc Vie
Closing: First Class - DJ Williams
Friday Aug 13, 2021
Friday Aug 13, 2021
Raven Talks to LaKisha and Terrin from the Babies Down Bottles Up podcast about misconceptions surrounding disabled people’s reproductive and parental rights, and how disabled women are impacted by societal expectations regarding womanhood and motherhood.
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Discussion Summary
0:44: Episode begins, LaKisha and Terrin introduce themselves.
01:58: What inspired this conversation, and misconceptions about the capabilities of disabled women.
07:08: The difference in reactions to disabled women and nondisabled women announcing they’re pregnant, and the assumption that disabled women can’t independently care for their children.
09:44: The concern that children of disabled parents experience parentification.
15:03: How stereotypes and judgmental family members influence requests for assistance with ordinary tasks.
20:18: Britney Spears conservatorship, how there are many disabled people with similar stories, and the belief that disabled women shouldn’t reproduce and can’t parent.
25:13: The common occurrence of disabled parents being reported to Child Protective Services by medical professionals, how this creates a fear of medical professionals in disabled parents, and disabled parents aren’t afforded the same room for error granted to nondisabled parents.
36:05: Viewing self-advocacy from marginalized people as irrational or oppositional.
40:18: How the American eugenics movement popularized the legal and medical oppression of disabled people, and problems with decisions and laws being made about disabled people without input from the disabled community.
47:28: Motherhood isn’t easily granted to disabled women, and the thought that motherhood is the ideal form of womanhood and femininity.
51-56: Facing infantilization from medical professionals.
54:30: How to work against misconceptions about the abilities of disabled parents.
60:04: Thank you to LaKisha and Terrin from the Babies Down Bottles Up podcast.
60:14: Outro.
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