“If we’re going to play the game, how much of ourselves are we losing in the process?”

Jackie and Leigh are back and as always, they have a lot to say! During this episode, Jackie and Leigh discuss academia and who has access to educational spaces when certain knowledge is valued over other kinds of knowledge. They provide life updates and discuss how proximity to whiteness—and shifts in this proximity—impact their behavior and expectations. They end with a discussion around the analogy that can be made between intimate partner violence and systems of oppression in academia.

CONTENT WARNINGS:* DV/IPV (Domestic Violence & Intimate Partner Violence)* Anti-blackness (by white people & nbpoc aligning themselves with whiteness)* White people’s fear of black students within public school systems* Deeply racist hate crimes on college campuses