Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast

https://www.patreon.com/seren_sensei "The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us."---Audre Lorde To preamble the episode: We didn't talk about how Twitter and companies like it-Google, Facebook, etc. have whole diversity departments, committees and initiatives and make marketing videos featuring a whole bunch of black folks but employee less than 3% of us. How the conversation about representation allows the system to continue to work--as long as we are used for aesthetic, put on display, "visible", the world is completely content with whiteness remaining dominant. Join us on a furiously tender conversation. Recommended Reading A New Nielsen Report Puts Black Buying Power at $1.2 Trillion: http://fortune.com/2018/02/28/raceahead-nielsen-report-black-buying-power/ Check out Luminance Skin Care's fundraiser: https://luminanceskincare.com/products/special-edition-ginger-peach-bar-soap?variant=14256321735

Imagine that: a vision of Africa that puts the onus of "what it could have been" on an imaginative restructuring of a whole 53 country continent while failing to hold the European countries and institutions responsible for its perceived degradation accountable inside of a fictional universe created by a white person in the 60s, adapted to a film, produced by Disney. And it's only February. Join us as our faces melt off. if you feel some type of way, email us at **hoodratsandheadwraps@gmail.com** Recommended Reading: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/ethiopias-state-emergency-20-180219112158956.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/opinion/france-racism-rokhaya-diallo.html

Lots of memes declaring snarky platitudes and generalizing quips about astrological signs (e.g., what each sign would do in a horror movie, lots of other ones we can Pinterest lol)circulating round the net. Needless to say, the younger generation is getting witchy, but it wasn't cool to be witchy back in the day outside of 90s pop culture references, movies like The Craft w/ the tartan skirts, white shirts and suspenders (only one black girl in the craft now that I think of it!). So join us in parsing that out on Hoodrat to Headwrap's first episode of our Gamesgiving Series with... ***Chani Nicholas*** Don't miss this generous game give out on what the hell is happening in the heavens, and what it has to do with Mesopotamia, hippies in the sixties, white supremacy and most importantly, you. www.chaninicholas.com Recommended, Referenced Reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/arts/how-astrology-took-over-the-internet.html Bonus: Techgnosis by Erik Davis (thank me later)

H & m and how companies stocks go up when they stoke black peoples' anger in order to get a rise out of the market and oh, yeah, the Golden Globes. This is your bonus episode of Hoodrat to Headwrap Recommended Reading: Excerpt from Nicole Ashcoff's book, The New Prophets of Capital: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/may/09/oprah-winfrey-neoliberal-capitalist-thinkers At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle McGuire, who wrote at length about Recy Taylor's story in 2011 and was largely responsible for the public apology the Alabama House of Representatives gave to Recy on behalf of the state: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/111678/at-the-dark-end-of-the-street-by-danielle-l-mcguire/9780307389244/ Unrecommended, poorly written but referenced: https://www.thenation.com/article/the-lefty-critique-of-timesup-is-tired-and-self-defeating/ For backstory on Golden Globes Time's Up Movement and insanely rich and powerful people just "doing what they can", visit ihartericka on Instagram and watch the highlighted stories.

Our last episode of the best and blackest year yet, we leaving 2017 with a pillar of salt in its wake. Recommended Reading on Obama Admin's mixed, nuanced immigration legacy: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not

A special winter is coming edition of HRHW where we reveal the ultimate gag about instagram activism, GOP tax cuts and how to be sad, mad and possibly okay. References: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/08/bill-gates-jeff-bezos-warren-buffett-wealthier-than-poorest-half-of-us http://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/38006/1/in-the-trump-era-money-is-black-peoples-greatest-weapon

Strange happenings that have nothing to do with Halloween, roaches at the W, one #metoo too many, and a live troll on this latest catch-up episode of HRHW

We're just being hella vulnerable with each other about relationships, including friendships, how and why they end and the traumas and triumphs that inform them.

Said lil b***h (anxiety) you can't f**k w/ me (you could) if you wanted to: Fenty, Football, Fanfare and Puerto Rican-U.S. diplomacy for dummies Tips to help folks help folks in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria: 1. Call Congress 202-224-3120 and tell them to release disaster aid now 2. Donate to mariafund.org, NOT the red cross *Correction of acronym: LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) Update: Jones Act rescinded as of 9/28

Refusing to acknowledge how gender works isn't doing you any favors, so gather round for this long awaited, very special teach-in episode w/ Resident Headwrap Sexuality Educator Ericka Hart as she helps you help us destroy white supremacist cis het patriarchy. Referenced Reading: http://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/straight-black-men-are-the-white-people-of-black-people-1814157214