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J. and Torraine Walker (http://twitter.com/TorraineWalker) join me as we talk for the last time about Slave Play, this time to discuss my impressions after actually seeing the play for myself, and whether my mind was changed about anything.

Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA ([email protected])

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Today we're joined by Yasmin Nair (https://twitter.com/NairYasmin). Today we're joined by Yasmin Nair (https://twitter.com/NairYasmin). Dr. Yasmin Nair is a freelance writer, activist, academic, and commentator. The bastard child of queer theory and deconstruction, Nair has numerous critical essays, book reviews, investigative journalism, op-eds, and photography to her credit. She has appeared in publications like Current Affairs, where she is also an editor at large, The Baffler, Evergreen Review, In These Times, and Maximum Rock’n’Roll. Yasmin’s website can be found at http://www.yasminnair.net .

Discussed in this episode:

* Yasmin Nair's articles "Your Sex is Not Radical" http://yasminnair.net/content/your-sex-not-radicaland "Your Trauma Is Your Passport" http://www.yasminnair.net/content/your-trauma-your-passport-hannah-gadsby-nanette-and-global-citizenship

* "Critic's Notebook: 'If Beale Street Could Talk' Is an Important Invitation to Feel Black Pain" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/beale-street-could-talk-is-an-invitation-feel-black-pain-1167310

* Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case edited by Toni Morrison https://amzn.to/2VMmjv8

Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA ([email protected]). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu, Closing theme produced by Dust Fingaz https://soundcloud.com/dustfingaz/

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Today we're joined by Yasmin Nair (https://twitter.com/NairYasmin). Dr. Yasmin Nair is a freelance writer, activist, academic, and commentator. The bastard child of queer theory and deconstruction, Nair has numerous critical essays, book reviews, investigative journalism, op-eds, and photography to her credit. She has appeared in publications like Current Affairs, where she is also an editor at large, The Baffler, Evergreen Review, In These Times, and Maximum Rock’n’Roll. Yasmin’s website can be found at http://www.yasminnair.net .

Discussed in this episode:

* Yasmin Nair's articles "Your Sex is Not Radical" http://yasminnair.net/content/your-sex-not-radicaland "Your Trauma Is Your Passport" http://www.yasminnair.net/content/your-trauma-your-passport-hannah-gadsby-nanette-and-global-citizenship

* "Meet The Dominatrix Who Requires The Men Who Hire Her To Read Black Feminist Theory" by Amanda Duberman https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mistress-velvet_us_5a822b50e4b00ecc923d4eba

* "#BREAKING: Journal Documents How Wealthy Democratic Donor Hooked Young Black Gay Man on Meth Before His Death" by Jasmyne Cannick http://www.jasmyneacannick.com/breaking-journal-documents-how-wealthy-democratic-donor-hooked-young-black-gay-man-on-meth-before-his-death/

Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA ([email protected]). Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu, Closing theme produced by Dust Fingaz https://soundcloud.com/dustfingaz/

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This is a double episode that we are counting as two episodes, and it's a little bit different than usual. Today we have Teen Sheng (http://twitter.com/Mont_Jiang) joining me from the podcast Escape from Plan A (https://planamag.com/podcast/home) to discuss a new Korean movie we recently saw, Lee Chang-dong's Burning. After the movie, we had a pretty intense conversation about it and tied it into Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Fight Club, Star Wars, Karen Horney, and Jordan Peterson. It's quite a departure, but we hope you like it.

Discussed in this episode:

The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 7: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology by Carl Jung https://amzn.to/2GGhNL5 

Haruki Murakami's original "Barn Burning" short story https://www.mrflamm.com/uploads/2/2/0/0/2200902/barnburningbyharukimurakami.pdf

The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 18) by Carl Jung https://amzn.to/2BJ0N17 

"Carl Jung discussing Anima Projection" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIYvz4LuEYA 

"How Burning Captures the Toll of Extreme Inequality in South Korea" https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/11/burning-movie-imagines-working-class-anxiety-south-korea-lee-chang-dong/575773/ 

A Closer Look at Carl Jung’s Individuation Process: A Map for Psychic Wholeness https://scottjeffrey.com/individuation-process-jungian-psychology/ 

"The 4 Major Jungian Archetypes" https://www.verywellmind.com/what-are-jungs-4-major-archetypes-2795439 

Analytical Psychology on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_psychology 

Karen Horney Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Horney 

"Karen Horney's Vision of the Self"

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This is the start of a new feature we are going to have called Champagne Sharks Throwbacks where we put up clips from old shows that we think are worth revisiting for different reasons. The recent controversy and episodes regarding Slave Play reminded us of an earlier episode we had, "CS 026: Plantation Sex"  

Today we discuss the new upcoming play "Slave Play" and try to place it into the larger context of white liberals and the black creators they enlist to provide them with trauma porn.DIscussed in this episode:

* “Decolonizing My Desire How I came to grips with my attraction to white men.“ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8qgm9g/decolonizing-my-desire* “Meet Jeremy O. Harris: The Queer Black Savior the Theater World Needs” https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2018/11/08/meet-jeremy-oharris-queer-black-savior-theater-world-needs* “Introducing Jeremy O. Harris: The Theater World’s Vital New Voice” https://www.gq.com/story* Soraya McDonald's positive review: https://theundefeated.com/features/slave-play-theater-off-broadway-racism-peels-back-veneer-of-racial-innocence-in-northern-whites/* Soraya McDonald writing about Black men, comparing them to potential Elliot Rodger and painting them as the next major mass terror threat to look out for: "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Hoteps?" https://theundefeated.com/whhw/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-hoteps/ My thread characterizing her article and the harm it attempted to do to a specific Black man and Black men in general: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/991428444545306624 * Soraya McDonald tweeting about therapy: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=from%3Asorayamcdonald%20theraoy&src=typd ; Soraya McDonald's article about how she had to learn to love being a Black woman and discovered her blackness in college: "How I learned to love myself as a black woman" https://theundefeated.com/features/learned-to-love-myself-as-a-black-woman/ * "I Have Feared White Men and I Have Loved Him" by Roxane Gay https://www.newstatesman.com/2014/10/roxane-gay-i-have-feared-white-men-and-i-have-loved-them; Roxane Gay history of tweeting about therapy: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=from%3Argay%20therapy&src=typd* Description of "Slave Play" on New York Theater Workshop’s webpage: https://www.nytw.org/show/slave-play/* THR Review: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/slave-play-theater-1167768?utm_source=twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral* “What Makes Jeremy O. Harris’ ‘Slave Play’ Such a Powerful Play About Racism https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-makes-jeremy-o-harris-slave-play-such-a-powerful-play-about-racism* Asian Blue Check Writer's tweet about Slave Play https://twitter.com/diepthought/status/1068556290975240193

Intro song: "Deep End" by BenjiFlow.

Today we discuss the new upcoming play "Slave Play" and try to place it into the larger context of white liberals and the black creators they enlist to provide them with trauma porn.

DIscussed in this episode:

* Our previous premium episode that we refer to often in this episode and gives more context, "CS 137: Race Play, Racialized BDSM (Prologue to Slave Play discussion) (12/13/2018)" https://www.patreon.com/posts/cs-137-race-play-23451541 * Interview with Jeremy O. Harris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJoWH736PnE&t=1077s * NYTW describes the art that inspired "Slave Play." Note how often Kara Walker pops up. Part 1: Art that inspired Slave Play: http://briefnytw.tumblr.com/post/179554655972/beyond-the-page-art-that-inspired-slave-play; Part 2: http://briefnytw.tumblr.com/post/179554718812/beyond-the-page-art-that-inspired-slave-play * The black woman who attended "Slave Play" and struck back against people trying to lecture her about why she should enjoy it: https://twitter.com/smashley_iona/status/1074540015730991110?s=21 * Blavity Blacks and their obsession with slavery porn, from Insecure to Scandal to Dear White People https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1074714024519053312 * UN's report on the terrible state of Black people in the US South including hookworm, "UN shocked by level of poverty in Alabama: 'We haven't seen this in the first world'" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alabama-black-belt-un-poverty-expert-extreme-developed-country-sewage-crisis-roy-moore-philip-alston-a8105886.html * A Twitter thread showing my research into Kara Walker https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1075163687621668866 * Articles about Kara Walker, (1) http://karawalkerexposed.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-recently-posted-some-quotes-by-other.html; (2) https://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/kara-walker/; (3) "Hype and Hypersexuality: Kara Walker, Her Work and Controversy" https://fac.umass.edu/ArticleMedia/Files/HypeandHypersexuality.pdf * Reviews of "Slave Play" and profiles of Jeremy O. Harris (1) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/09/theater/slave-play-review-jeremy-o-harris.html; (2) https://www.nytimes.

This free episode debuted first to Patreon subscribers for 24-48 hours before being unlocked and made free to everyone on the main podcast feed. This will be the norm for all free episodes going forward. To become a Patreon subscriber for $5/month and get early access to this episode and over 50 archived past subscriber-only episodes, go to http://patreon.com/champagnesharks.

Today we discuss various topics from beefing with Talib Kweli on Twitter to Marc Lamont Hill getting fired from CNN. Unfortunately we have to end the episode on a somber note as well.

Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA ([email protected])

Today is a D. Mills solo episode discussing homeless epidemic in LA.

Patient Dumping: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights chose to focus on Enforcement of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act for its annual 2014 Statutory Enforcement Report. This report examined compliance with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), a federal law that requires Medicare-participating hospitals to treat emergency medical conditions of any person regardless of capacity to pay, and makes unlawful the discharge of patients prior to stabilizing any medical condition. The purpose of EMTALA is to prevent hospitals, states and/or localities from prematurely discharging indigent people in need of emergency care and transporting them to other entities, a practice colloquially called “patient dumping.” Specifically, the Commission’s report focused on disabled individuals with a psychiatric medical condition. The examination resulted in five observations:

• Hospitals are not keeping adequate data on such patients

• There is insufficient regulatory oversight

• There should be non-punitive methods of obtaining accurate treatment reports on patients

• Hospitals do not have sufficient funds to comply with EMTALA in treatment of patients

• Hospitals and their staffs need more training and education in this area

Mentioned this episode:

* "Are LA area Hospitals really dumping homeless on the streets?" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/04/los-angeles-hospitals-homeless-patients-skid-row

* Patient dumping settlement in LA Silver lake area https://www.latimes.com/business/la-me-patient-dumping-20180702-story.html

* San Francisco and Nevada reach a settlement in homeless dumping dispute https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-Nevada-reach-tentative-settlement-in-6552026.php

* Orange County is making the same hapless mistakes on homelessness that L.A. did a decade ago https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-oc-homeless-housing-20180410-story.html

* San Jose “Hope city” homeless camp https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Sweep-of-Homeless-Encampment-Near-San-Jose-Airport-Delayed-493170281.html

* Link to United States Commission on civil rights statement regarding “Patient Dumping” http://www.eusccr.com/2014PATDUMPOSD%209282014-2.pdf

Today Kenny (http://twitter.com/BlackSportsNW) joins us to talk about Portland and one of the weirdest Twitter takes we've seen in a while.

Mentioned in this episode:

A thread summarizing the slave privilege conversation: https://twitter.com/RickyRawls/status/1062845621000921089

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Co-produced & edited by Aaron C. Schroeder / Pierced Ears Recording Co, Seattle WA ([email protected])Opening theme composed by T. Beaulieu. Closing theme composed by Dustfingaz (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRazhu_)