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Skills for Building Resilience w/ Andre Henry! 💥 Apr 12, 2024

CW ⚠️: this episode contains references to suicide and diets. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis in the US or Canada you can dial 988 to get support.

Fan fave Andre Henry is back to talk about the practice of building resilience in the context of supremacist culture. Honestly, this conversation had me tearing up in places, and yet left me completely inspired and grounded. As you probably already know, I'm so grateful for Andre's work.

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Resilient by Rick Hanson

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Evangelical Racism Keeps Repeating 🔂 w/ Corey Leak Apr 05, 2024

Why is it that the same arguments used to defend slavery are being used to dehumanize trans people? Why is it that there's no way for most white evangelicals to separate their faith and their nationalism? Why is the Constitution conflated with the Bible? Corey and Tori try to disentangle Christianity from Americanism

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Debunking That One Prager Meme w/ Benjamin Faye Mar 29, 2024

Today we are taking a crack at ye olde Prager "University" meme about the first Black US representatives, which correctly points out that they were all Republicans and incorrectly implies that their party affiliation mattered for much, then or now. Turns out, they were woke too! Don't tell Dennis!

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https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/bowser-mary-richards-fl-1846-1867/

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Mary Richards Bowser w/ Janice Lagata Mar 22, 2024

I've been wanting to try a new format for the show for a while so I took a stab at it this week with Janice Lagata of God Has Not Given. We talk about the fascinating true story of Mary Richards Bowser, a Union spy who was also enslaved. I would LOVE to know what you think about this format, mainly because if you all hate it, I don't want to keep trying to make it happen! 😆

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https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/mary-jane-richards

https://time.com/5609045/misremembering-mary-bowser/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/elizabeth-van-lew-an-unlikely-union-spy-158755584/

Resilience Isn't An Unlimited Resource with Benjamin Faye Mar 15, 2024

Benjamin Faye joins the show to talk about how grit and resilience mean different things depending on your position in society. Resilience isn't an unlimited resource. The science and experience tell us that is an impossible demand to make on people, doubly so for those who do not have their basic needs met.

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Black & Homeschooled with Jessica Dulaney Apr 18, 2022

This episode I'm talking to Jessica Dulaney who is the communications director for the Coalition for Responsible Home Education.

Being Black and homeschooled felt incredibly isolating to me. Growing up, I never once met another Black child who was being homeschooled that I wasn't biologically related to, so being able to connect with Jessica online has been amazing. Protecting kids is something I'm deeply passionate about. Given the huge rise in homeschooling during the pandemic, and the fact that children in this country do not have a right to an education, I wanted to discuss the (mostly racist) history of homeschooling, and the ways Black and queer families are taking up more space in 2022. You can check out the thread I wrote about that history HERE.

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Who Gets To Define Violence? Apr 11, 2022

Personal and political violence are nothing new but examining who is allowed to engage in violence and who isn't is essential to understanding the power dynamics we've built the world on. "They do it so we should to" is colonizer logic and I think we can do better than that when it comes to race, racism, and understanding why people feel threatened by the prospect of losing power.

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Whiteness Also Hurts White People Apr 04, 2022

We spend a lot of time talking about the effects of whiteness on people of color but it's important to talk about the impact whiteness has on white people. As a construct, whiteness can only benefit some white people. And even the people who benefit materially are harmed in terms of connection, sympathy, and the demand that you reject your own culture for the monoculture of whiteness.

Dr. Jonathan Metzl lays out the material ways white people are harmed by their commitment to an ideology that shortens their lives and shrinks their wallets. An association that doesn't serve them yet is somehow worth dying for.

This book gets into data and psychology and evolutionary biology and behavioral neuroscience and trying to figure out precisely what it is that drives people toward a construct that ends in harm.

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Give Reverse Racism A Chance Mar 28, 2022

What does it look like when we start dismantling systems of oppression that benefit a small number of people at the expense of everyone else? Black and Indigenous folks are regularly accused of reverse racism for things that are merely offenses, not systematic harm. But to your nervous system, the opposite of systemic racism is probably going to feel bad. In fact, it's probably going to feel like reverse racism. A lot of it. The opposite of white supremacy is going to feel like oppression when you choose to not account for what was taken.

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In Defense of Running from the Cops Mar 21, 2022

If you've ever wondered what to say to someone whose response to another cop committing murder is "shoulda complied", I got you covered. Turns out our bodies are programmed to protect us from danger. Weird, right? And even more shocking: that self-protection programming your nervous system is running? Yeah that's not under voluntary control.

In this episode we'll explore the actual reasons people run from the cops or otherwise fail to follow commands, why evolution contributed to this nervous system response, and what we can do about it. (Hint: it has to do with not murdering people for things that are literally not under voluntary control.)

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Protests Are Good, Actually Mar 14, 2022

Why do people protest things that are objectively good for themselves and their neighbors? Let's look at protests through the lens of evolutionary biology, nervous system responses, politics, nd power dynamics. History has shown us that protests are a predictable result of burning through all the official channels to create change and getting nowhere. When people don't have any meaningful mechanism to change their material circumstances, they tend to get loud and burn things. (And yes, we're talking about the mothertruckers too.)

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Study finds connection between race and sleep, WaPo

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Self-Regulation, Racism, and Rest Mar 07, 2022

Today we're talking about rest, sleep, and play, and how they are all integral to self-regulation. Humans don't come fully loaded with equal amounts of self-regulation that some people just choose to use and others don't. Making good decisions isn't the default that some nonwhite people just happened to miss out on. The environment you were raised in has a huge impact on how difficult or easy it is for you to delay gratification, plan for the future, employ critical thinking skills when they are most necessary.

Most people are doing the best they can with the brain chemistry they have. If [redacted] people actually wanted crime to go down, they'd work toward these very attainable goals. And yet.

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The Racial Inequality of Sleep, The Atlantic (might be paywalled)

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Self-Medication and Degrees of Harm Feb 28, 2022

Welcome back to White Homework! I want to break down some of the common racist myths that exist in western culture. This week: DRUGS!

Let's use address one of the most common racist tropes in US culture: conflating problematic drug use with Black people. Data shows racial groups largely use recreational drugs at the same levels but you certainly wouldn't know that by turning on the news or watching a movie that's come out, well, basically ever.

But there's something we need to unpack when we talk about self-medicating. While Black people don't use drugs more than anyone else, and aren't predisposed to drug use because of our culture (or whatever nonsense they blame on us these days), people who have experienced trauma are predisposed to not wanting to feel trauma. That's a biological norm.

Humans have been self-medicating for as long as we know humans have been around. My argument isn't that self-medicating doesn't cause harm. The argument is that harm reduction isn't even the goal. And that's a problem.

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Some sources on the data discussed in this episode.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202501/

https://www.aclu.org/other/against-drug-prohibition

https://evolvetreatment.com/blog/history-drug-use/

029: Let's Talk About Palestine w/Khaled Beydoun May 26, 2021

If you've listened to the last two episodes with Andre, you know I've been wrestling with what it looks like to respect all people while also acknowledging that power disparities have an impact on how we engage with harm. I say it all the time, but I want safety and security for all people, even if they disagree with my politics.

Like most of you, I've had Palestine and Israel on my mind for the last few weeks. Like a lots of you, I grew up with a theology around the state of Israel that made it - not unlike the US - incapable of wrongdoing.

While I was processing this, I put up a few threads on twitter but I wanted to have a conversation with someone who actually knows what they're talking about. So I reached out to Khaled Beydoun to chat about history, justice, and colonization. Thankfully he will gracious enough to discuss this with me! I'm grateful to be able to connect with people who see respect for all people as a non-negotiable even as we reckon with the legacy of colonization.

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Part 2! The Morality of Resistance with Andre Henry May 19, 2021

When we see injustice in the world and want to fix it, how do you keep from becoming the thing you hate? I can't stop thinking about this so I invited Andre Henry back to discuss how we create a better world without, as Audre Lord puts it, the master's tools.

I can't stop thinking about the issue of moral responses to violence. Where, to ask the correctly panned question, is the line? How far can the people go in their resistance before we circle right back to where our oppressors began? Who do we want to be on the other side of this?

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027: The Morality of Resistance with Andre Henry May 12, 2021

There are a lot of ways to protest and trying to figure out what the appropriate violence is feels overwhelmingly difficult. When the state is inherently violent, how are people committed to non-violence supposed to respond? Capitalism, the law, personal property are all values in American culture all have more value than nonwhite Americans. As Dr. King said, we have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. So how do we do this? I spoke to Andre Henry about how we move forward in this inherently violent culture. We discuss the different moral frameworks we can try on, and the different applications of non-violent resistance.

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026: Leaving Whiteness w/ Corey Evan Leak May 10, 2021

Thanks all for your generosity and patience as I'm getting stuff situated over here!!

I had a conversation with Corey Leak about how we left white Jesus and moved into a space that is committed to material equity. We need creative imagination to create a world where no one is a commodity, no one is a product, no one is just the labor they produce. Oppressive systems need to be completely reimagined and rebuilt from the ground up.

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025: A Brief History of White Evangelicals w/ Dr. Brad Onishi May 10, 2021

This week, I had a conversation with Dr. Bradley Onishi. Brad is a professor of religious studies at Skidmore College, and the host of the podcast Straight White American Jesus. I think it would be safe to say - and I've told Brad this several times - that I am a little bit of a fangirl. As someone who grew up in white evangelical spaces, I'm kind of obsessed with their origin story and their devotion to empire. (You know, the thing that Jesus preached against constantly?) It's a story that feels thoroughly American.

Please check out Brad's work. I'm a patron of his and his work is truly incredible. You can check out Straight White American Jesus podcast. I learn SO much from it.

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024: White Christian Nationalism with Blake Chastain Mar 18, 2021

Hey y'all! Had a great conversation with Blake Chastain several months ago about the slow merging of evangelicalism and nationalism. We're currently watching evangelicalism in the US move from being a religious or spiritual identifier to a political identifier. For those of us who grew up in white evangelical spaces this isn't surprising.

After the election of Barack Obama, white evangelical churches began closing ranks much faster than they had been before. In the 90s and 00s, there was a more room for liberal believers in white evangelical spaces but as the culture wars began to heat up with the election of the first Black (and, according to 25% of Republicans, secret Muslim) president, political "purity tests" became much more frequent.

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023: Liberation is for Everybody w/ Jo Luehmann Feb 24, 2021

Taking a little break from our "racism doesn't exist" series to talk to Jo Luehmann about justice, joy, liberation, and accountability. I reached out to her originally because I am obsessed with her work around decolonizing theology. As a nonbeliever, we have nothing (to my knowledge) on the matters of joy and liberation for all people. But these are some of our shared values so I knew I had to chat with her. We had an amazing discussion and Jo blew my mind on several occasions, as she does. :)

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022: What Racism? Part 3: Hiring Discrimination Feb 17, 2021

Alice joins me to talk about the abundance data proving the rampant discrimination in hiring and employment. "There are way too many Black men named Steve." I yell out into the universe while lecturing people about... name shaming? Apologies I'm still working on this.

Workplace Discrimination Is Illegal (But Still Happening)

Black people get fewer callbacks for job interviews

White women are the primary beneficiaries

Black, Latino Two Parent Families Have Less Wealth Than White Single Parents - NPR

GI Bill Was Racist In Its Implementation

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History of Black Portland

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021: What Racism? Part 2: Housing Discrimination Feb 10, 2021

OMG WE HAVE A NEW FORMAT!! I'm really excited. I mean, it's possible that we COMPLETELY bombed it but at some point we'll get it under control and it'll be a good thing.

Get ready to talk about housing discrimination (and javalinas and Black pioneers in Oregon and a million swears) with Alice and me.

My notes are from the following sources.

Smithsonian Magazine report on the destruction of Vanport

Undercover Investigation in Racial Discrimination in New York

Black and Latinx families charged higher interest for mortgages

College admissions favor rich white kids

Small Update! I am going to try to link all the book suggestions I share to Black and Indigenous owned bookstores! This week's is Loyalty Bookstore in Washington, DC.

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

When Affirmative Action was White by Ira Katznelson

White Homework for the week: if you live in a US city, what's the history of segregation in your city? Extra credit for including a link!

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Disparities in maternal mortality
Doctors spend less time with Black cancer patients
Half of medical students hold false beliefs about Black people
Black patients receive less pain medication
Johns Hopkins gross "tribute" to Henrietta Lacks

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020: Medical Racism Feb 03, 2021

Happy Black History Month! This week we're starting a new series! We're calling this one "Racism Doesn't Exist" since so many white Americans believe that racism ended with MLK. So we're diving into the data and examining the disparities that exist between white people and Black people in every area of society. This week we're talking about the treatment of nonwhite patients in the medical field.

Additional reading

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019: Black Conservatism Jan 27, 2021

Contrary to popular belief, Black Americans are more socially conservative on average, than their white peers. We are more likely to believe in God, attend church regularly, and most of us believe that hard work is it takes to succeed. Shocker, huh? Alice Hamilton joins Tori to discuss the difference between Black conservatism and Black conservatives. Find more at www.whitehomework.com and www.toriglass.com

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018: Sex Work Is Real Work Jan 21, 2021

Alice and Tori talk about how we are learning how respect sex workers and protect them from both dangerous people and dangerous policies.

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"Warrior Mindset" police training.

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017: Well That Was Easy (The Coup) Jan 13, 2021

Alice Hamilton and I sat down to discuss the attempted takeover of the Capitol in DC.

A note of caution: language is terribly important. Alice and I use the term "coup" as a catchall throughout this episode to refer to the events that occurred in Washington DC on January 6th, 2021. With that said, I don't know how precise it is to refer to this event as a coup. For starters most (operative word!!) of the duck dynasty delegation had absolutely no plan other than to get inside the building. They didn't have a list of demands. They just wanted to break stuff and take selfies. Crimes for sure but that hardly qualifies as an attempted coup.

Obviously there were plenty of malicious actors with boatloads of ammunition, and about a dozen bombs (though only two were placed).

All this to say I have no idea what to call what transpired. I have taken to calling it the Saltine Siege because I saw that somewhere, it's funny, and it kinda fits. On a more serious note, I'm still reading, listening, researching and I'm sure our language will evolve as more of the pieces fall into place.

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016: Let's Talk About Defunding The Police Nov 25, 2020

Alice and I decided to tackle something that's become a huge part of the national narrative: why have cops at all? We have pretty clear data that policing does not work. Policing is a net negative for communities, but it's also bad for the officers themselves.

"Slavery didn't work either. It costs money. It costs lives. We have all this information and all this data, and we don't use it."

Police unions in the US.

Police Clearance Rates.

SCOTUS ruling that cops have no obligation to protect or serve.

Prisons syphon blue voters into red counties

Policing isn't the most dangerous job

Police mistreatment of assault victims

Sexual assault complaints again police officers

Police officers are rarely charge with murder.

For context: healthcare workers get assaulted A LOT. They manage to not shoot anyone though.

015: Black People & White Supremacy Nov 18, 2020

Tori is joined by Alice Hamilton to discuss the reclamation of Black humanity in a country founded on white supremacist values. They discuss the ways that whiteness collides with Black bodies through assumptions, dehumanization, infantilization, lionizing, othering, and more.

014: Purity Culture & White Supremacy Oct 28, 2020

Tori is joined by Alice Hamilton and Hailee Evelyn Greene to discuss the ways that purity culture plays out for Black girls in predominantly white spaces.

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013: Trump Vs Black Women Oct 22, 2020

Tori and Alice discuss Trump's executive orders targeting Black women's work.

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012: America is NOT a Democracy Sep 24, 2020

Tori and Alice dig into American history and the fact that the United States was never intended to be a democracy and can't operate as a functional democracy because of that.

The article discussed in the episode

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010: Pro-Life Racism Sep 02, 2020

Alice joins Tori to talk about the ways the pro-life movement has been fueled by racism. Last week at the RNC, Abby Johnson spoke. She released a video a few months ago where she claimed that police would justified racially profiling her son because, she claimed, Black people commit more violent crimes. This made me realize all the ways in which the pro-life movement have used their single issue as cover for their racism. Content warnings apply.

Abby Johnson's comments on her son

Racist anti-choice ad

Most effective ways to reduce abortion rates

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009: Is White Privilege Even A Thing? Jul 23, 2020

Tori is joined by Alice Hamilton to talk about what the heck white privilege really means and how privilege interacts with cancel culture.

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008: Shared Humanity with Propaganda Jul 15, 2020

Tori is joined by hip hop artist Propaganda to talk about power dynamics, rejecting force and violence, and choosing collaborative problem solving within a white supremacist framework.

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