It's good to be back with you all. It's been a minute since we've had an episode. But no matter what you listen to us for, we've got a feeling that this episode is for you! Because today, we've got with us multi-hyphenate, Hanif Fazal—an activi

Black Planetary Ecology: Diamonds in the Cave

Apr 19th, 2022 1h 8m

Today, we were lucky enough to have a conversation with a scholar, public intellectual, and activist who happens to be one of our favorite human beings on the planet – Dr. Claudia Ford. We began by asking Claudia to explain the relation betwee

Rage & Social Justice: a new beginning

Mar 16th, 2022 1h 5m

Welcome back for our second episode of season 2 which, as we said last time, is going to forefront things like the role of emotion in racial justice and social justice work more broadly, concepts of transformation and revolution, and uplifting

Returning to a “Larger, Freer, More Loving” Life

Feb 16th, 2022 1h 7m

Alright, welcome folks. We are back at it again with SEASON 2. We are extremely excited about this season and what we have in store for you all. In this episode, we talk about transitions we’ve both been going through since Season 1, what’s be

First Thoughts on Trump's Executive Order Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping

Oct 20th, 2020 33m 53s

In this episode, we began thinking through Trump's Executive Order Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping. It is a little raw.... which we took to be a good thing. We hope that this raises awareness!

A Counter Narrative using Non-western, Anti-western, and Other-western Philosophers and Philosophies

Sep 24th, 2020 1h 28m

Today, we had three scholars that do fantastic research on counter narratives and counter histories in philosophy, John Harfouch, Meena Krishnamurthy, and Peter K.J. Park. We begin by defining counter narratives or histories in philosophy; then

The @talkingwings Collective on “The North Country Art, Land, and Environment Summit”

Sep 21st, 2020 36m 48s

Today, we’re following up with our second quickcast—this time with artists and activists of the Talking Wings Collective, Blake Lavia and Tzimu Aguilar-Izzo, who are hosting the North Country Art, Land, and Environment Summit throughout the mon

Christina Van Dyke: A Lesson in Communal Love

Sep 16th, 2020 39m 39s

Today, we did something new for the show—a quickcast—an in-depth account of some one individual issue that grabs our attention off of the planned episodes. This brings us to our guest, Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Calvin College, Christin

Black Masculinities: the super predator-not

Sep 10th, 2020 1h 29m

Today, we’re talking with Tommy Curry and John Youngblood about Black masculinities. We begin by talking about the Black male experience, particularly in academia, as a means of defining Tommy’s man-not and the multiplicitousness of Black mascu

Don’t Wait: Just Freaking DO IT

Aug 1st, 2020 52m 53s

We’re continuing a line of thought we’ve been working on for the past few episodes. Last time, we mentioned that we’d been talking about current racial dynamics and crises of structural, environmental racism like COVID-19 within too narrow of a

Open the Books

Jul 16th, 2020 1h 6m

Today, we’re talking with Stephanie Rivera Berruz and Taina Figueroa about race and racism in the university and their particularly cities (i.e. Milwaukee and Atlanta). We focus on LatinX identities and their relation to the Black/White Binary

The Question of Inclusion in Philosophy

Jul 9th, 2020 1h 17m

Today, we’re talking with Charles Mills, Linda Alcoff, and Shelley Tremain about a more specific issue than we have in our previous episodes. That said, it’s an issue that we believe connects up with racism and ableism not only in the discipli

Baldwin as Juneteenth & Pride

Jun 25th, 2020 1h 1m

In this episode, we talk about how James Baldwin influenced our podcast, and his connection to Juneteenth and Pride. Following that, we talk about whiteness, Trump, and the importance and history of Juneteenth and Pride, especially the way that

Committed White Allies

Jun 11th, 2020 1h 17m

In this episode, we focused our conversation on what it takes to live-out being a committed anti-racist ally, particularly one needs to critically engage democracy, education, and one's community. Towards the end of this episode, we dialogue ab

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