The Process with Alex Beightol

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The Other Black Girl May 19, 2024

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We watched Hulu’s take on The Other Black Girl. Today we dive into some of the themes in Zakiya Dalila Harris block buster story.

They Were Her Property: an Intro to (White) Girl Power May 12, 2024

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What power is vested to our White girlies? Where did it come from? We can understand this better by looking at the original, economic relationship between women deemed White and Black through the first three chapters of Professor Stephanie Jones Roger’s book “They Were Her Property”. In this episode we introduce our listeners to this thoughtful and award winning research.

They Cloned Tyrone: Processing Juel Taylor’s 2023 film May 05, 2024

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An introduction to the themes and ideas in the hilarious, sharp film They Cloned Tyrone from writer and director Juel Taylor and co writer Tony Rettenmaier,

Getting Out: How To Tackle “Reverse Racism” conversations Apr 29, 2024

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In this episode we’re attacking the Big Question: Reverse Racism by looking at the work of Dr. Beverly Tatum, Jordan Peele’s Get Out, and the 1975 film Stepford Wives. Change your conversations about race for good and don’t get trapped in endless cycles of nonsense.

Getting Out: Revisiting A Theme in Jordan Peele’s Nightmare Apr 22, 2024

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When I first watched Get Out, I assumed it was about a horror we couldn’t really run from. Looking back seven years later, there’s a warning and a message in it for today.

The Fight You Can Win Apr 15, 2024

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Introducing the mental shift that can change how you see the systemic challenges we all face and why sitting down and resting is critical.

Ease In This Economy? Nara Smith and the True Trad Wives Apr 05, 2024

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Why does Nara Smith baking in designer gowns irritate people? What’s with the need to police Black women’s time and energy? In this episode we introduce the context that helps us understand why women’s time and energy is a resource politically fought over.

When Love Is Racist Mar 18, 2024

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Love Is Blind, a popular Netflix TV show, is about relationships without the social pressure of stereotypes or assumptions. And yet, so many fascinating assumptions are made in small ways that speak to larger cultural ideas about who we are and what we owe each other. We break down two of the season’s most watched interactions between a Black woman and the rest of the cast.

What Can “White Rage” Teach Us? Mar 08, 2024

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A couple years back, as cities burned in protest, historian Carole Anderson wrote a viral opinion piece on the kind of social rage that has quietly undermined democracy and civil rights in the USA. That piece became a best selling book, which we break down in a short address to a community within the African American Episcopal Methodist tradition.