Ep 58: Wellness & Wack Democrats
Money & Nikeeta are back from break and kicking off 20FINEteen talking wellness, wack democrats, and curved chronicles!
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00:06:33 QueerPOC of the Week
(Some tech. difficulties in this segment so the audio's a bit off.)
T.L. Lewis @talilaLewis
Profile of T.
L.Lewis that also highlights the case of John Wilson Jr.
https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-30-top-thinkers-under-30-the-law-clerk-working-to-promote-justice-for-the-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing
H.E.A.R.D. (Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities)
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Lewis’ Syllabus “Disability in the Age of Mass Incarceration Syllabus
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J1QaOHV4wNb2zM0VqOufyex1z4piJ9edPQPaI3Rk9Og/edit
00:12:32 Community Contributors
Soliana, Shawnon, Amira, Shantise, Dey
Link to Mignon Moore’s article “Lipsticks and Timbs” about Black lesbians gender presentation, and coming out.
http://papers.ccpr.ucla.edu/index.php/pwp/article/download/1011/393/
Check out Shawnon Corprew’s wonderful book of poetry, “Where the Color Purple Grows: The Intersection of Loving and Fearing Black Queer Bodies”:
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Color-Purple-Grows-Intersection/dp/1717081061
Congrats, and love to Dey, @lovelydey, who will be appearing on Canada’s “The Launch”
Check out Dey’s smooth and dreamy vocals on her bop, “Sandman”
Link to Sandman here:
https://soundcloud.com/itsthatns/dey-sandman
00:24:37 Mental Moment with Money
7 Dimensions of Wellness
Physical - Moving, eating well, sexual health screenings, sleep
Social - Having a strong social network that provides support and guidance, social connectedness
Environmental - Relationship with the Earth and your personal surroundings, declutter, recycle, you are a part of the ecosystem
Financial - Planning financially, creating a budget, paying attention to your means
Spiritual - Understanding and reevaluating the beliefs, valuels, and ethics that guide your life
Emotional - Managing your emotions and feeling in control of them, Therapy, managing stress, managing anger, managing depression...
Intellectual - Staying engaged in learning new things, new hobby, reading, puzzles, stay aware of sciopolitical issues
00:44:01 Word - Kamala tho? Delve into record of prosecutin’ & mass incarceratin’ Kamala Harris.
Links from segment:
Michelle Alexander’s New Jim Crow:
http://newjimcrow.com/
Hannah Giorgis’ review of Kamala’s book “The Truths We Hold” (‘progressive prosecutor’ comes from here)
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/kamala-harris-truths-we-hold-review/579430/
Adam Gopnik’s Review of John Pfaff’s book, “Locked In”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/10/how-we-misunderstand-mass-incarceration
“Better Off Red” podcast interview with Kevin Cooper, the Black man on death row framed by San Bernadino Country Sherriff’s Department* (I accidentally said Sacremento)
https://soundcloud.com/betteroffredpod/22-kevin-cooper-live-from-death-row
Branko Marcetic’s Jacobin article “The Two Faces of Kamala Harris”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/08/kamala-harris-trump-obama-california-attorney-general
1:23:50 No Topic this week
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01:24:27 Curved Chronicles
Money and Nikeeta talk about a little friendship tiff, Money has adventure w/ Boston Baddie Brigade, and Nikeeta & book took a jaunt to New Orleans.
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