Kinswomen

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Ep. 30: A Girl Like Her, with Peppermint Oct 06, 2020

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Actress, activist, and star of RuPaul's Drag Race Peppermint joins the Kinswomen to talk about her life as a Black trans woman, transphobia in the drag community, and her new album, "A Girl Like Me: Letters To My Lovers."

Ep. 29: A Reclamation Story, with Audrey Bansil Sep 23, 2020

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Corporate VP and new mom Audrey chats with the Kinswomen about her immigrant story, the pressure of whiteness, the colonization of the Philippines, and reclaiming her Filipino identity.

Ep. 28: Black is Queen Aug 27, 2020

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Yseult and Hannah question the white team behind the new live-action Mulan film, and discuss Beyonce's "Black is King" film and its criticism.

Ep. 27: A Call to Cosmo // Race and Reality TV with Hannah BernerÂ Aug 20, 2020

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Hannah implores her former employer, Cosmo, to do better, and then she and Yseult are joined by Hannah Berner from Bravo's Summer House to talk about race in the world of reality TV.

Ep. 26: The New Blackface Aug 12, 2020

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Hannah and Yseult discuss the proliferation of digital blackface online, and its offline consequences.

Action Item! Read "We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs" by Lauren Michele Jackson https://www.teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-reaction-gifs

Ep. 25: The Color of Patriotism with Danielle Summerhill Engle Aug 04, 2020

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Hannah and Yseult welcome Hannah's sister-in-law and Army veteran Danielle to discuss her life as a Black woman in the military and church. They talk about the importance of people accepting, rather than repressing, anger about racial injustice.

Ep. 24: Be Like Becky with Becky Reiser Jul 28, 2020

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Yseult and Hannah talk with Haddon Township Equity Initiative co-founder Becky Reiser about the concrete actions she and her group of allies have started to fight racism in their community. She describes the racially fraught history of her new hometown and efforts to keep the momentum up in the surging Black Lives Matter movement.

Ep: 23 We're Not in This Together (Yet) Jul 16, 2020

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Yseult & Hannah dive into #FreeBritney, the myth of black-on-black crime, and how white people don't experience the burden of representing their race all the time.

Ep. 22: Let Us Breathe with Emerald Garner Jul 02, 2020

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Yseult and Hannah speak with civil rights leader Emerald Garner, daughter of Eric Garner. Emerald is the leading voice in the fight for justice for her father and has vowed to never stop fighting laws and policies that allow police to get away with murder. She describes being "bullied into activism," the new wave of interest in BLM, and how she manages to balance it all.

Ep. 21: Juneteenth is the New July 4th Jun 24, 2020

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Yseult and Hannah talk about the history of Juneteenth, modern slavery, and why white people are living in their own version of the Truman Show.

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