Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast

And what exactly do ya'll mean by "woke" when you say it in response to people resisting their own subjugation? Why would Van Jones applaud right wing views and also herald Kim K as the next coming of Malcolm in criminal justice reform? Why is the Mayor of Chicago so upset with one case, considering this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theroot.com/feds-confirm-that-the-chicago-police-dept-is-as-corrup-1791173264/amp Are you melting too? Also, what is the line between conservatism and racism? Well, there is no line so why does that word conservative exist? What could possibly be conserved? Join us as we parse out "bold, left leaning ideas", red, blue, progressive, liberal and all the ways that white supremacy is upheld by any other name. The rhetoric is deadly. Recommended Reading: The Sarah Lawrence Protests, please stand with them and demand the university to meet the students' demands https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/03/13/students-sarah-lawrence-want-review-tenure-conservative-professor-who-criticized What happened there in New Zealand isn’t isolated, it becomes inevitable when islamaphobia is fostered in our government at the federal and state level it’s connections to all of the aforementioned (There is in danger in not considering all forms of violence and how they lead to death—- Ilhan Omar vilification leads to this kind of islamaophibia that is fatal) Excellent article on the white terror attack in New Zealand by Sahar Ghumkhor https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/hypocrisy-zealand-claim-190319104526942.html?fbclid=IwAR1-8BMzamsE04e1Zz5s07an6MgV2PWDTs5jj_0aq7dQoL7U4oTapCpxdhM Ebony and Ivy by Craig Steven Wilder (black author) https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ebony-and-ivy-9781608193837/ Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's Comments on Reparations https://medium.com/@SIIPCampaigns/the-congressional-black-caucus-needs-to-pass-a-reparations-bill-before-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-c3ef3c6ee438 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bet.com/news/national/2019/03/19/_who-is-black-_--alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-erasure-of-blackness-.amp.html Willie McCoy https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theroot.com/bodycam-footage-shows-vallejo-police-shoot-willie-mccoy-1833688793/amp Theme Music: Apathy Happy by Benjamin Earl Turner https://open.spotify.com/album/56MVukuaZLRsSvMHErDNo0 This episode is dedicated to Victor McElhaney and Ashanti Carmon

Happy Black Everything At All Times and Happy Black Hixtory Month. Join us for our first lil episode of 2019 and I'm already not having it. Alternative Titles: Stop Playing and Let a Real Nigga Bring You Joy in 2020 What Might Bring You Joy in 2020 Might Bring You Hell in 2021 What Bring You Joy in 2020 Won't Bring Reparations, Liberation, Justice for Black People or anyone, really in 2020 Do Marie Kondo Owe Anita Baker Some Money? Bernie Sanders for State Comptroller Music: "Apathy Happy" by Benjamin Earl Turner- Go Listen!! Highly Recommended Reading: Ta-Nehisi Coates: Bernie Sanders and the White Liberal Imagination https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/bernie-sanders-liberal-imagination/425022/ The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison Bonnie Kristian for The Week: Bernie Sanders is not nearly as progressive as you think: https://theweek.com/articles/603044/bernie-sanders-not-nearly-progressive-think More on Bernie Sanders: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/30/bernie-sanders-campaign-harassment-1077014 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-bernie-sanders-changes-his-message-to-black-voters-racism-is-alive/2019/01/22/6c2b5466-1dbe-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8aec01ae20eb Zak Cheney Rice: Bernie Sanders and the Lies We Tell White Voters: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/bernie-sanders-and-the-lies-we-tell-white-voters.html Jared Beck Comments: https://www.inquisitr.com/5268724/bernie-sanders-supporter-kamala-harris-willie-brown-penis-twitter/ 400 Years of Inequality--Jamestown 1619: http://www.400yearsofinequality.org Mollena William's Haas: http://sunnymegatron.com/mollena-williams-sobriety-submission-hyena/ Episode Sponsored by The Pleasure Chest and You

FREE CYNTOIA FIRST AND FOREMOST: https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/free-cyntoia-brown Get this so we can all be on the same page in 2019: Gentrification is not a normal process whereby increased real estate development in a once systemically neglected area leads to greater economic change but rather it is the targeted displacement of "undesirable" groups in a given area to attract "desirable" (read: white) groups whose purpose can serve to reserve capital for the wealthy and significantly reduce availability of resources to poor residents from marginalized identities, many of them Black and Brown. This is a byproduct of white supremacist patriarchy, the transatlantic slave trade, colonization, widespread racial and social injustice compounded by white people's genteel urban planning policy and biased anthropological rhetoric in the academy that often overlooks institutional and governmental policies designed to support the disenfranchisement of black folk, indigenous and POC via early 20th Century discriminatory housing laws. Join us and our love/special guest Cynthia Malone (@ecofeminista) and bear with me and my cringeworthy amount of "likes" when I talk cus a nigga (Ebony) is tired at the end of the year. Two hours long pack a lunch to this clean up to this before New Years especially if your family is black and superstititous Highly Recommended Reading: On plantations, prisons and a black sense of place by Katherine McKittrick: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=2ahUKEwj6tqqbkrDfAhXSJt8KHWbSBhUQFjADegQIBRAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmyelms.umd.edu%2Ffiles%2F45965850%2Fdownload%3Fdownload_frd%3D1&usg=AOvVaw0VLa2VcqgXgW0XoGHP_nnq "Forces Driving Gentrification in Oakland": https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-forces-driving-gentrification-in-oakland/Content%3foid=20312733&media=AMP%2bHTML "Six figure low income salary in Oakland": https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/amp/low-income-families-sf-bay-area-hud-statistics-13024580.php "Summer hill fake bullet holes in crown heights": https://www.google.com/amp/s/ny.eater.com/platform/amp/2017/9/20/16339246/summerhill-bullet-hole-walls-crown-heights A dream deferred exhibit is an excellent resource on how gentrification, redlining and gentrification have historically disadvantaged Black and Asian American and Asian immigrant communities in Philadelphia: https://www.adreamdeferredphl.org/exhibition/ Episode Sponsored by YOU and The Pleasure Chest.

"I know there's voter suppression but... "I know it won't change anything but... "Stop complaining and vote but... "Don't you dare sit at home and do nothing" Voting simply isn't a sufficient means to end systems of oppression because our political system remains invested in keeping power concentrated in the hands of a small few whom we elect to represent our interests every two to four years, often to our disappointment when they uphold the law of the land via racist, xenophobic, anti-immigrant, transphobic and homophobic policies and modest liberal reforms. So cut the shit and cast down your bucket... I mean your ballot. Support Danye Jones's family as they mourn and petition the police for a thorough investigation into his death: https://www.gofundme.com/in-memory-of-danye-jones "Voting Does Not Make a Difference" by ancestor W.E.B. Du Bois: https://www.thenation.com/article/i-wont-vote-2/ Christy Degallerie IG and Twitter: iischristy "Why the 'Hate U Give' is Not a Black Lives Matter Movie" by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Melina Abdullah Voter Suppression in the US, implications on 11/6 midterm elections (I don't like title of article but it's comprehensive): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45986329 Referenced Reading: The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein LeanIn Initiative https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/latina-equal-pay-day-2018/ Lyft using big lobby dollars to stop initiative to house homeless in SF http://www.sfexaminer.com/lyft-drops-100k-sf-tax-fund-housing-homeless/ Notes: Set it Off screenplay co-written by Kate Lanier and Takashi Bufford Episode Sponsored by You and the Pleasure Chest

Is the World Cruel or is it just White? Will it ever change? How is changed defined? Who gets to decide? Greater good or creating change---are they real or some veiled gospel of prosperity that’s mostly self interested and leaves us, the “change makers” at the center of it? Examples Jeff bezos Anne Hathaway HRC Non profits—origin of non profits, where did they come from? Why do we need them? A way to pacify activists and neutralize grassroots movements and embed them into the same oppressive institutions they were formed to absolve? Are we a less radical generation than before us? Do we just have more words to describe fucked up shit? Maybe we just gotta call shit what it is, be clear and explicit by what we mean dismantle white supremacy Join us in our attempt to make sense of the swirl. Recommended and Referenced Reading: Winners Take All by Anand Giriharadas: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/anand-giridharadas-on-winners-take-all.html Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex: https://incite-national.org/beyond-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/ Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton's Thoughts on Reparations for Slavery: https://splinternews.com/bernie-sanders-and-hillary-clinton-both-supported-repar-1793854216 HRC Executive Resigns After Using N-Word https://www.advocate.com/politics/2018/8/24/hrc-executive-resigns-after-using-n-word Episode Sponsored by The Pleasure Chest: https://thepleasurechest.com/new-york-ues-location

AAVE=African American Vernacular English POC= People of Color This Episode could have had a couple of names: No one wins when veiled anti-blackness among non black POC is a proxy for solidarity no one wins when you use AAVE and you're not black: the anti blackness of non black POC no one wins when you're neither black nor really my family so don't call me sis: POC and anti blackness this episode is onfleeklitbrosishomie Everybody wanna be black til it's time to dismantle white supremacy Both vilified and stolen, black folks aren't the only ones benefitting from black linguistic and cultural production. Get into 20 minutes of outtakes at the end...this episode could have also gone on for hours. We're taking this baby on the road! New Orleans, we aren't like Drake, come fuck wit us at the Ace Hotel for a LIVE recording of Hoodrat to Headwrap for our Toxic Masculinity Episode on Sunday, September 2nd from 1pm-3pm as part of the CAKE series. For more info visit: https://www.acehotel.com/calendar/neworleans/blazelikefyre-presents-hoodrat-headwrap-live-erick-hart-ebony-donnley @AceNewOrleans on Twitter Facebook: facebook.com/threekeysnola facebook.com/acehotelneworleans; and Instagram: @ThreeKeysNola @BLAZELIKEFYRE @AceNewOrleans. Recommended Reading: That the Blood Stay Pure by Arica L. Coleman: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806959 More information on Pleasure Chest Sex Stores Workers' Struggle to Unionize: www.liberationnews.org/for-pride-thi…nt-on-strike/ Episode sponsored by you and the Pleasure Chest

Back like we left something, Ericka and I just been in Europe where global anti-blackness (and baguettes) abound. It was hella racist but was it worth it? Recommended Reading: Scathing read of Drake's wack ass new album: https://www.refinery29.com/2018/07/203408/drake-scorpion-album-review More information on Pleasure Chest Sex Stores Workers' Struggle to Unionize: https://www.liberationnews.org/for-pride-this-year-pleasure-chest-workers-went-on-strike/ https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/07/06/tight-knit-family-loses-mother-daughter-in-antioch-double-homicide/ ***This Episode is Dedicated to Milan Ardoin and Rose Scott***--mourn you til I join you, Love Eb

You want me to come out but get mad when I call you out. The name of this episode could have been "Congratulatory, Aggrandizing and Gross" but it's Pride month, so any talk about white folks being entirely interested in their internet outrage and disdain for the systems of oppression they benefit from most will be postponed til July 1st. Recommended, Referenced Reading: Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre in the Greenwood neighborhood erroneously considered a "race riot": https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/05/31/615546965/meet-the-last-surviving-witness-to-the-tulsa-race-riot-of-1921 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/31/roxana-hernandez-transgender-honduran-woman-dies-us-ice-box *Editor's Note: We intentionally referred to Roxana Hernandez's death at an ICE facility as murder. Here is an article detailing the substantially documented inhumane conditions inside of ICE facilities that may have contributed to her death at the hands of a racist, criminally negligent state. Do not donate to LGBTQ corporate non-profits. Donate here instead: National Bail Out Fund https://nomoremoneybail.org/ Free Black Mama's DMV: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dmvbailout Episode Sponsored by the Pleasure Chest

WHITE CIS MEN HAVE COMMITTED MORE MASS SHOOTINGS IN THE US THAN ANY OTHER GROUP...but I'm sleep. Black people are murdered and it’s an idea for a storyboard for a rap music video without a trigger warning. Black people are not paying attention, while the world continues to kill us. We only pay attention when black cis men tell us to. Listen to them. Black cis men know what we need. And we should listen. They are geniuses. They win Pulitzers for their music without having to reckon with the misogynoir conveniently overlooked to get them there. And slavery was a choice. But, just hear him out. And he’s the King so he doesn’t give head. But he is not really Black, so it’s different. We spend hours talking through our pain from being re-traumatized and he “just wanted to make good music”. He could care less that people actually died. But but they are just destroying a Black man’s legacy. He got his money And will continue to And we will sit by and watch him dance On the tv Never at a rally And keep giving him money for the value of his meta distraction We get tired of calling him in He doesn’t listen Why talk. He’s talking. Just let him speak! Just a body on his way to fame To the white girl across the room We are just a body To be used At the cookout on 4th of July At his leisure Our pain is a joke And a moment, Not happening all the time. Join us for another episode of Hoodrat to Headwrap as we distract you from black cis men centering whiteness again (are you entertained?). Recommended Reading: Barracoon, The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and ethnographic blerd. Read this article from 2018 to better understand DJ Khaled's tweets in 2015: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/world/canada/incel-reddit-meaning-rebellion.html Episode sponsored by The Pleasure Chest https://thepleasurechest.com/educator-picks

Typical day in America: people die at the hands of antiblack racism, people theorize about their deaths. An intellectual distancing from the deaths of black people doesn't stop it from happening. What are our options? Join us for a live episode of Hoodrat to Headwrap and if you feel some type of way, email us at **hoodratsandheadwraps@gmail.com** Recommended Reading: Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History Episode brought to you by our sponsor, The Pleasure Chest: www.thepleasurechest.com