Ayana Explains It All

By Ayana R. Fakhir

A sharp, insightful podcast where host Ayana tackles life’s complexities with humor, honesty, and intelligence. From societal norms and politics to relationships and mental health, Ayana breaks down b... more

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The podcast currently has 102 episodes available.

Ayana Explains It All episodes:

September 30, 2023 The Government Sh*t Down
A Bonus Episode! The one where I read Congress and the US down to the ashy white paint on The Lincoln's Memorial's knuckles.
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49min
September 24, 2023The EPA Doesn't Clean Up Spills of Toxic Masculinity
You'll have to do it yourselves, misters. Take responsibility, take stock, take a chance, take a drive to your dad's house and slap him in the face for not raising you right.

Works used in the making of this episode:
https://loneconservative.com/2023/08/05/the-barbie-movies-lesson-on-masculinity/

https://www.happiness.com/magazine/health-body/male-loneliness-time-bomb-killing-men/

https://www.thecollector.com/idealized-man-male-beauty-standards-through-history/

https://medium.com/illumination/jordan-peterson-king-of-incels-quite-the-opposite-371a6bc965eb

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919794/#:~:text=The%20term%20folie%20%C3%A0%20deux,share%20the%20same%20delusional%20ideas.

https://www.orri-uk.com/archetypes-and-toxic-masculinity/

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-avoid-apophenia-bias

https://medium.com/illumination/toxic-masculinity-d14ffafb5d30

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id%C3%A9e_fixe_(psychology)
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1h 13min
August 14, 2023 Ayana Explains The Other F Word
We are all gravitationally blessed, unfortunately, the floor wants to know why it can't catch a break from us walking to the kitchen for snacks.

*I'm not a doctor, I'm a lawyer, that's not close enough to substitute anything in this episode for genuine medical advice. Consult a doctor for any and all things health-related.
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1h 10min
July 31, 2023On Issue 1 and The Ohio Republican Party
Vote NO on Issue 1, Ohioans. That's it.

Sources used in the making of this episode:
https://www.commoncause.org/ohio/democracy-wire/background-on-issue-1/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-megadonor-pours-millions-into-effort-to-hinder-ohio-abortion-amendment/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-abortion-republican-ballot-measure-amend-state-constitution/

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/07/ohio-state-representative-says-she-would-consider-banning-birth-control-following-abortion-outlaw.html

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-redistricting-ohio-gerrymandering-d387206765a522da89515de812d6aada

https://www.commoncause.org/ohio/democracy-wire/the-battle-over-how-to-amend-ohios-constitution-issue-1-on-the-ballot-in-august/#

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/issue-1-is-100-about-blocking-abortion-measure-frank-larose-says/

https://ballotpedia.org/Article_XVI,_Ohio_Constitution#Section_1

https://ballotpedia.org/Article_II,_Ohio_Constitution#Section_1e

https://ballotpedia.org/Article_II,_Ohio_Constitution#Section_1b

https://odh.ohio.gov/know-our-programs/vital-statistics/resources/vs-abortionreport2021

https://odh.ohio.gov/wps/wcm/connect/gov/22f585e9-1090-473e-8fde-a0f8af08a224/Induced+Abortions+in+Ohio+2021.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CONVERT_TO=url&CACHEID=ROOTWORKSPACE.Z18_M1HGGIK0N0JO00QO9DDDDM3000-22f585e9-1090-473e-8fde-a0f8af08a224-oefXxla

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/25/politics/ohio-abortion-rights-amendment/index.html

https://journalrecord.com/2023/07/03/ex-house-speaker-sentenced-to-20-years-in-firstenergy-scandal/
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53min
July 16, 2023On Respectability Politics
Is that time again! That time of year when children are out of school, beaches are full and Black Women have to defend our choices.

Works used in the making of this episode:
"Beyoncé and the End of Respectability Politics." By Myles E. Johnson. The New York Times. April 16, 2018. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/opinion/beyonce-coachella-blackness.html.

"Respectability Politics Won't Save Black Americans." By Zach Stafford. The Guardian. October 12, 2015. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/12/respectability-politics-wont-save-black-americans.

"Keke Palmer Is The Internet's Sweetheart, but the Multi-Hyphenate is More Than Just the Queen of Meme." By Danya Issawi. The Cut. July 10, 2023. Available at: https://www.thecut.com/2023/07/cut-cover-keke-palmer-internet-meme-discourse.html.
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1h 9min
July 02, 2023 On Protecting Black Women
This one is heavy, like the weight of all the Black Women society subjugates.
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1h 7min
June 20, 2023Tori Bowie and The Epidemic of US Black Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
US Olympic Gold Medalist Tori Bowie died during childbirth but what is not talked about is the epidemic that consumed her and her fetus--the epidemic of Black maternal mortality and morbidity in the United States. What killed her is killing more Black pregnant women than any other women in this country. It is a complex problem that requires all hands on deck to solve.

Sources used in the making of this episode:
"Olympian Tori Bowie's Death Reflects The Black Maternal Mortality Crisis." Sareen Habeshian, Axios.com. June 15, 2023. Available at: https://www.axios.com/2023/06/15/black-maternal-mortality-death-tori-bowie.

Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2021. Available at:
Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2021 (cdc.gov)

"Allyson Felix: Tori Bowie Can't Die in Vain." By Allyson Felix, for Time Magazine. June 15, 2023. Available at: https://time.com/6287392/tori-bowie-allyson-felix-black-maternal-health/.

"Health Equity Among Black Women in the United States." By Juanita J. Chinn, PhD, Iman K. Martin, PhD, MPH, MSc, and Nicole Redmond, MD, PhD, MPH, FACP. Published at J Womens Health (Larchmt). February 2021; 30(2): 212–219. Published online 2021 Feb 2. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8020496/.

"Closing The Coverage Gap Would Improve Black Maternal Health." By Judith Solomon, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. July 26, 2021. Available at: https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/closing-the-coverage-gap-would-improve-black-maternal-health.

"Booker, Underwood, Adams Reintroduce the Bicameral Momnibus Act to End America’s Maternal Health Crisis." May 15, 2023. Available at: https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-underwood-adams-reintroduce-the-bicameral-momnibus-act-to-end-americas-maternal-health-crisis#:~:text=The%20Momnibus%20is%20made%20up,housing%2C%20transportation%2C%20and%20nutrition.
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45min
June 11, 2023 Freshman Diaries
On this very special episode of Ayana Explains It All, we hear from my favorite former high school freshman, my daughter. She regales us with stories of life in the 9th grade spot, feeling sometimes confident, and other times freshie. The transformative years of high school are not wasted on this one.
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54min
May 29, 2023Ayana Explains Florida's Race Problem
Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-sum of the time you should skip traveling to places where your race is an indignity to the state. I'm talking about Florida, a usual suspect in the denial of basic human rights, but the entire United States is guilty of denying that there's a "race problem" in the country of Washington and Lincoln, and then with a stubborn attitude, refusing to ameliorate the societal ills created by our "race problem." If there's one thing we're gonna do, it's get in our own way.

The sources used in this episode:
"NAACP Issues Travel Advisory for Florida." May 20, 2023. Available at: https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-issues-travel-advisory-florida.

Wikipedia entries on Sundown Towns, The Green Book, Rosewood Massacre, and Ocoee Massacre.

"Driving Scared: Is your town a Sundown Town?" By Sheila Lettsome, The Center for Community Solutions. July 25, 2022. Available at: https://www.communitysolutions.com/driving-scared-is-your-town-a-sundown-town/.

Historical Database of Sundown Towns by James W. Loewen available at https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/using-the-sundown-towns-database/state-map/.

"Southern Pinellas 'Sundown Towns.'" By James Schnur, The Gabber. March 23, 2023. Available at: https://thegabber.com/southern-pinellas-sundown-towns/.

Soul of Athens. "Sundown Towns: East Jackson." Nate Smallwood, story producer. Available at: https://2016.soulofathens.com/sundowntowns.html.

"They Look White but Say They're Black: A Tiny Town in Ohio Wrestles with Race." By Khushbuh Shah, The Guardian.com. July 25, 2019. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/25/race-east-jackson-ohio-appalachia-white-black.

"Were There Sundown Towns in Central Ohio?" By Michael De Bonis, WOSU, NPR News. April 3, 2023. Available at: https://news.wosu.org/2023-04-03/were-there-sundown-towns-in-central-ohio.

"Sundown Towns: A Look at South Florida's Legacy of Segregation." By Phil Prazan, NBCMiami.com. February 18, 2021. Available at: https://www.nbcmiami.com/investigations/sundown-towns-a-look-at-south-floridas-legacy-of-segregation/2386799/.

"Racial Tensions in America's Sundown Towns." By Tim Sullivan and Noreen Nasir, Associated Press. October 14, 2020. Available at: https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/news/state/2020/10/14/racial-tensions-americas-sundown-towns/3656681001/.

"Sundown Town." By Adam Poulisse, et. al., WFTV.com. Available at: https://www.wftv.com/ocoee/sundown-town/.
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55min
May 16, 2023Ayana Explains Asylum in the Post-Title 42 Era
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers sang "everybody's had to fight to be free, you see. You don't have to live like a refugee," that is, unless, you landed at the Southern US border and you had to use an smartphone/computer app to apply for asylum, and unless you schedule an appointment provided you found some free WiFi, then you don't even get to be a refugee.

Sources used in this episode:
"US unveils rule that rights groups say stifles access to asylum." Al Jazeera. May 10, 2023. Available at: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/10/us-unveils-rule-rights-groups-say-stifles-right-to-seek-asylum.

"Asylum Seekers Told to Use a Mobile App to Enter US as Title 42 Expires. Here's How the CBP App Works." Gerardo Pons, NBCMiami.com. May 10, 2023. Available at: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/national-international/asylum-seekers-told-to-use-a-mobile-app-to-enter-us-as-title-42-expires-heres-how-the-cbp-app-works/3032118/#:~:text=What%20is%20CBP%20One%20App,available%20in%20English%20and%20Spanish.

"Migrant Crossing Surges Aren’t New. Why Is the Border Overwhelmed?" Eileen Sullivan, The New York Times. May 10, 2023. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/10/us/politics/title-42-border-history-immigration.html.

"Hoover on Immigration." Spencer Howard. August 14, 2016. Available at: https://hoover.blogs.archives.gov/2016/08/04/hoover-on-immigration/.

"Covid-Era Border Policy Expires." Miriam Jordan, Eileen Sullivan, Michael D. Shear and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, The New York Times. May 11, 2023. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/11/us/title-42-immigration.
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1h 5min

FAQs about Ayana Explains It All:

How many episodes does Ayana Explains It All have?

The podcast currently has 102 episodes available.