This week we talk about the ongoing internment of the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang and the human rights abuses that China continues to deny. What are the 10 stages of genocide? What’s the problem with the UN? What can we do as individuals in response to these atrocities?

This week we give a brief overview of what is happening in Ukraine and discuss how the international community and individual people are responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. We ask ourselves why we respond so differently to certain refugee crises and why it is easier to ignore to the plight of people who are not “similar” to us.

This week we discuss the importance of language education policy when it comes to tensions between Arab and Jewish Israelis. We also compare the alienation of marginalized students in Israel and the U.S. through language and curriculum in schools. Lastly, we spiral into a tangent about the dangers of “woke culture” and being “PC”…stay tuned for more on that last topic next week!

This week we talk about differentiating between appropriating and appreciating culture. If we change the approach to this conversation from gatekeeping to creating greater cross-cultural understanding we can empower and unify diverse groups of people.

This week Beatrice Karp - a Science, Technology, and Society major at UPenn - joins us to talk about the impact of file storage and our digital activity on the environment. The world’s resources are finite and we are taking up valuable space without even realizing it. Living a more conscious life starts with getting uncomfortable and unlearning!

Implicit vs. explicit racism, institutional and systemic racism, and the social construct of race. This week we connect the invention of race to the ways racism shows up in our world today and give our favorite resources for continuing to unlearn!

Listen to this fiery episode to learn about Brown v. Board of Education and the history of Affirmative Action. We also counter 10 common myths about Affirmative Action and discuss why it’s just the tip of the racial equity iceberg.

We’re back for more on Israel and Palestine! This episode is all about the peace process and grassroots movements for peace. We talk about the importance of education and human rights and how efforts must be driven by the Israelis and Palestinians themselves in order to create sustainable change.

We love history! This week we give a concise overview of the history of Palestine and the development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from WWI to today. Stay tuned for more about the peace process next episode!

This week we talk about the infinite perspectives of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict focusing on two best friends - one Israeli and one Palestinian - as written about in the novel Apeirogon: a “daring and symphonic novel” that “tells an epic story rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss”. We look through a human lens this week and will look through a political/historical one next week.