Cuts & Biases

By Cuts & Biases

Researched stories about implicit racial biases and its affects on creativity. Hosted by a brown Canadian woman. Racialized people get information to apply to their own life. White allies get a better... more

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How many episodes does Cuts & Biases have?

The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.

Cuts & Biases episodes:

March 15, 2024 Part 3: Breaking the White Gaze of To Kill a Mockingbird
A brown Canadian is unlearning how the book was taught to generations of people in high school.
Topics: The racist Atticus in Go Set a Watchman. The novel’s position in the zeitgeist of the 1950s and 60s civil rights era. Playground memories of a Black Canadian girl in 1950’s Montreal.
Show notes: https://heyshai.com/podcast-show-notes/
Time Stamps
(00:00) introduction
(00:45) Interview Alisha
(5:00) Recap of Part 2, mob scene
(7:00) Alisha again
(7:50) book - Go Set a Watchman
(11:15) Interview Rachel
(16:15) New Yorker article
(20:03) book - White Fragility
(24:30) book -Deep South
(26:31) Alisha again
(28:41) Alisha again
(30:38) book - The Hate U Give
(32:55) Interview Gilbert
(39:20) book, Maya Angelou
(40:00) book, A Lesson Before Dying
(40:55) Interview Jessica
(48:15) Alisha again
(50:18) Interview Jessica
(59:00) Interview Jessica
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1h 4min
February 24, 2024 Part 3: Breaking the White Gaze of To Kill a Mockingbird
Part 3
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25min
August 17, 2023Part 2: Breaking the white gaze of To Kill a Mockingbird
• A brown Canadian is unlearning how the book was taught in high school to generations of people.
Montreal's Black community in the depression era and Canadian racism in the 1930s-1950s.
Interview: The daughter of a Black Canadian artist who in 1933 was about the same age as Jem in the book.
 Show notes: https://heyshai.com/podcast-show-notes/
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38min
July 04, 2023Part 2 Trailer: Breaking the White Gaze of To Kill a Mockingbird
Part 2 is about the novel To Kill a Mockingbird's position in the zeitgeist of the 1950s and 60s civil rights era. And about a Black Canadian girl’s experience growing up in 1960s Montreal
Show notes: https://heyshai.com/rain-out-bias-podcast-to-kill-a-mockingbird

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cuts.and.biases/
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6min
May 04, 2023Part 1: Breaking the white gaze of To Kill a Mockingbird
This series is about:
how Shai, a brown woman, broke through being taught it from the white perspective and sought out a Black one.

the novel’s position in the zeitgeist of the 1950s and 60s civil rights era.

a Black Canadian girl’s experience growing up in 1960s Montreal
Show notes: https://heyshai.com/podcast-show-notes/
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22min
May 03, 2023 Part 1. Breaking the white gaze of To Kill a Mockingbird
Re-reading to Kill a Mockingbird and its white perspective.
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20min
December 25, 2022 Part 5. Nice! It's a Complicated Word
The N-word at school. Weaponizing niceness. "Respectable racism" in Canada in the post 9/11 era. The confidence to have race conversations. A anti-racism workshop for creative people.
Timestamps
(:20) Nice and ignorant
(4:14) Stereotyping
(5:15) High school social justice class
(14:30) N-word advice
(15:00) James Baldwin
(16:00) San Francisco Karen
(19:45) Xenophobia
(21:15) Post 9/11 era
(25:45) Book, See No Stranger
(29:30) Antiracism workshop
(31:30) Curly hair microaggression
(32:20) The nicest guys
(36:30) Retro rock haircuts
(39:10) Antiracism workshop
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42min
November 24, 2022 Part 4. Nice! It's a Complicated Word
"Canadians are nice" & Minnesota Nice. The N-word. Get comfortable speaking up.
Timestamps
(1:45) Interview about N-word
(14:30) Minnesota Nice
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26min
November 24, 2022Part 5. Nice! It's a Complicated Word
Minnesota Nice and Canadian Nice

An interview with a girl who was called the N-word.

Encouragement to get comfortable speaking up.
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26min
October 28, 2022 Part 3. Nice! It's a Complicated Word
Are you nice or not nice? Nice & kind explained by a guest (Rachel). This show is a mini class to prep for part 4 —and what to do when someone quotes the N-word. The show that was supposed to be part 3 will be part 4.
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21min

FAQs about Cuts & Biases:

How many episodes does Cuts & Biases have?

The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.