Population of Interest: Student Athletes

Covid 19 Impact (+ and -) on population of student-athletes: showed the need for more mental health resources which led to more initiatives.

Advocacy & Policy Strategies: more mental health aid is needed (Dam Worth It).

In this episode, I breakdown some of my family history to help connect my ideas surrounding masculinity and being vulnerable for black men. Also, the socialized definition of masculinity* is not to be feminine. -book reference: “Dude, You're a Fag Masculinity and Sexuality in High School” by Cj Pascoe (because I feel like black men are the most homophobic) -When Frantz Fanon claimed that “the black is not a man,” he conducted a critique of humanism that showed that the human in its contemporary articulation is so fully racialized that no black man could qualify as human. In his usage, the formulation was also a critique of masculinity, implying that the black man is feminine by nature. And the implication of that formulation would be that no one who is not a “man” in the masculine sense is a human, suggesting that both masculinity and racial privilege shore up the notion of the human.

There is power in perspective. There's also profanity in this podcast. I apologize in advance for the irregular audio at points. I don't apolgize for my existence anymore but these are a few reaaons why I did. I hope you hearing about the few times that I've been treated differently because I'm black gives a glimpse of what it is to be a black male in the U.S. And I failed to mention the other countless daily discriminatory reminders.

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In today's episode, I discuss my senior year of college and my response to a series of tragedies. I also introduce the nonprofit that I am developing which will be entitled The Thinkers' Program.

In this podcast episode, KiShawn and Caleb discuss the sexualization of the black male artist within rap industry in relation to Douglas Kearney's Black Automaton.