Do The Kids Know?

Transcript available here.

This week we're releasing a short episode we recorded based on topic suggestions from y’all, the kids, who wanted to hear us talk more about how we came to live in and get set up in a new city and all that fun stuff about how do you make friends as adults… spoiler, its another Prakash-heavy episode. 

Do The Kids Know? is a series of conversations between friends, Prakash and Kristen, where we challenge our understanding of contemporary media, popular culture, and what it means to live as racialized millennials in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) 

Our goal for this series is to have frank discussions about the stories and nuances missed by sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours. 

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow

Email us: [email protected]

Support us: https://patreon.com/dothekidsknow

Artwork by Daniela Silva (https://instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)

Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

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Do The Kids Know? is a monthly series of discussions between community workers and educators, Prakash and Kristen, that unpack race, media, popular culture, and politics in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) from an anti-colonial perspective.

Our goal is to bring nuance to sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours.

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok)
Email us: [email protected]
Tip us: patreon.com/dothekidsknow
Newsletter: tinyletter.com/dothekidsknow
Artwork by Daniela Silva (instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)
Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

DTKK is recorded on the traditional and unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka and Algonquin Nations. We are committed to working with Indigenous communities and leaders locally and across Turtle Island to fight for Indigenous rights, resurgence, and sovereignty.

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

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We talk about the importance of having diversity within the science fiction genre and then offer some recommendations of things to read, watch, and listen to that we cosign as bringing the much desired representation we crave. 

Recommendations: 

To Read

Black Girl Unlimited - Echo Brown

Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor

Lilith's Brood - Octavia Butler

Queen of the Conquered - Kacen Callender

How Long 'Till Black Future Month - N.K. Jemisin

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor

The Passage - Justin Cronin

Horns - Joe Hill

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Turbulence - Samit Basu

The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline

To Watch

The 100 (Netflix)

Sense8 (Netflix)

3% (Netflix)

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Do The Kids Know? is a monthly series of discussions between community workers and educators, Prakash and Kristen, that unpack race, media, popular culture, and politics in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) from an anti-colonial perspective.

Our goal is to bring nuance to sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours.

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok)
Email us: [email protected]
Tip us: patreon.com/dothekidsknow
Newsletter: tinyletter.com/dothekidsknow
Artwork by Daniela Silva (instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)
Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

DTKK is recorded on the traditional and unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka and Algonquin Nations. We are committed to working with Indigenous communities and leaders locally and across Turtle Island to fight for Indigenous rights, resurgence, and sovereignty.

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

Transcript available here.

In our first interview episode of the season, we chat with our friend Bhan about our experiences as Third Culture Kids - people who grew up in a culture both different than our parents and simultaneously different from our white Canadian peers. A longer (and funnier) version of this episode is available on https://patreon.com/dothekidsknow

Resources:
Daughter Podcast
Decolonization is not a metaphor
Bhan's Twitter: @bhangatk

Do The Kids Know? is a series of conversations between friends, Prakash and Kristen, where we challenge our understanding of contemporary media, popular culture, and what it means to live as racialized millennials in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) 

Our goal for this series is to have frank discussions about the stories and nuances missed by sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours. 

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow

Email us: [email protected]

Support us: https://patreon.com/dothekidsknow

Artwork by Daniela Silva (https://instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)

Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

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Do The Kids Know? is a monthly series of discussions between community workers and educators, Prakash and Kristen, that unpack race, media, popular culture, and politics in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) from an anti-colonial perspective.

Our goal is to bring nuance to sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours.

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok)
Email us: [email protected]
Tip us: patreon.com/dothekidsknow
Newsletter: tinyletter.com/dothekidsknow
Artwork by Daniela Silva (instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)
Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

DTKK is recorded on the traditional and unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka and Algonquin Nations. We are committed to working with Indigenous communities and leaders locally and across Turtle Island to fight for Indigenous rights, resurgence, and sovereignty.

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

Transcript available here.

We take you through the prison system in Canada by highlighting a couple institutions and how copaganda has successfully altered the perceptions of many in relation to crime, justice, and prison. Episode makes mention to sexual violence.

Resources: 

CBC Article about Okimaw Ochi Healing Lodge

More Information on Healing Lodges

Everything you were never taught about Canada's prison system

1995 Commission on Systemic Racism Report

Office of the Correctional Investigator re Indigenous inmates

World Prison Brief re Canada

Do The Kids Know? is a series of conversations between friends, Prakash and Kristen, where we challenge our understanding of contemporary media, popular culture, and what it means to live as racialized millennials in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) 

Our goal for this series is to have frank discussions about the stories and nuances missed by sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours. 

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow

Email us: [email protected]

Support us: https://patreon.com/dothekidsknow

Artwork by Daniela Silva (https://instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)

Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

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Do The Kids Know? is a monthly series of discussions between community workers and educators, Prakash and Kristen, that unpack race, media, popular culture, and politics in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) from an anti-colonial perspective.

Our goal is to bring nuance to sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours.

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok)
Email us: [email protected]
Tip us: patreon.com/dothekidsknow
Newsletter: tinyletter.com/dothekidsknow
Artwork by Daniela Silva (instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)
Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

DTKK is recorded on the traditional and unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka and Algonquin Nations. We are committed to working with Indigenous communities and leaders locally and across Turtle Island to fight for Indigenous rights, resurgence, and sovereignty.

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

Transcript available here.

We discuss the situation involving the exploitation and striking of Seasonal Agricultural Workers and other temporary foreign workers in Canada and how COVID-19 has made already deplorable conditions even worse for these precarious workers. 

Resources and calls to action: 

Canadian Council for Refugees - https://ccrweb.ca/en/migrant-workers

Migrant Workers Alliance for Change - https://migrantworkersalliance.org/

Unheeded Warnings Report - https://migrantworkersalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Unheeded-Warnings-COVID19-and-Migrant-Workers.pdf

Letter from Luis Gabriel Flores - https://migrantworkersalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Letter-to-Immigration-Minister-English.pdf

Made in Canada: How the Law Constructs Migrant Workers’ Insecurity (2012) - https://metcalffoundation.com/publication/made-in-canada-how-the-law-constructs-migrant-workers-insecurity/

Exploitation, abuse, health hazards rise for migrant workers during COVID-19, group says - https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/migrant-workers-farm-deaths-report-1.5602596

Hotline became lifeline for migrant workers secretly reporting poor conditions on Canadian farms - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/migrant-farm-workers-covid-19-1.5650437

Migrants on Hunger Strike at the Laval Immigration Detention Centre: Act Now in Solidarity- https://www.solidarityacrossborders.org/en/migrants-on-hunger-strike-at-the-laval-immigration-deten

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Do The Kids Know? is a monthly series of discussions between community workers and educators, Prakash and Kristen, that unpack race, media, popular culture, and politics in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) from an anti-colonial perspective.

Our goal is to bring nuance to sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours.

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok)
Email us: [email protected]
Tip us: patreon.com/dothekidsknow
Newsletter: tinyletter.com/dothekidsknow
Artwork by Daniela Silva (instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)
Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

DTKK is recorded on the traditional and unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka and Algonquin Nations. We are committed to working with Indigenous communities and leaders locally and across Turtle Island to fight for Indigenous rights, resurgence, and sovereignty.

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

Transcript available here.

We review the events of #OscarsSoWhite and talk about how/if the entertainment and journalistic media landscape has adapted and how pervasive whiteness seeps into our own personal and professional lives. 

Resources we mentioned:

Oscars so White | Variety Article

4 years after Oscars so White (video)

Desmond Cole | Black Canadian writer and journalist

Do The Kids Know? is a series of conversations between friends, Prakash and Kristen, where we challenge our understanding of contemporary media, popular culture, and what it means to live as racialized millennials in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) 

Our goal for this series is to have frank discussions about the stories and nuances missed by sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours. 

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow

Email us: [email protected]

Support us: https://patreon.com/dothekidsknow

Artwork by Daniela Silva (https://instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)

Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

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Do The Kids Know? is a monthly series of discussions between community workers and educators, Prakash and Kristen, that unpack race, media, popular culture, and politics in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) from an anti-colonial perspective.

Our goal is to bring nuance to sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours.

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok)
Email us: [email protected]
Tip us: patreon.com/dothekidsknow
Newsletter: tinyletter.com/dothekidsknow
Artwork by Daniela Silva (instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)
Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

DTKK is recorded on the traditional and unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka and Algonquin Nations. We are committed to working with Indigenous communities and leaders locally and across Turtle Island to fight for Indigenous rights, resurgence, and sovereignty.

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

Transcript available here.

In part 2 of 2, we break down some of the vocab we've been using to talk about different experiences of gender including cis and trans, womxn, femme, Two Spirit and others. Visit dothekidsknow.ca for an easily sharable and referenceable summarized glossary of terms which we will be updating periodically.

Do The Kids Know? is a series of conversations between friends, Prakash and Kristen, where we challenge our understanding of contemporary media, popular culture, and what it means to live as racialized millennials in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) 

Our goal for this series is to have frank discussions about the stories and nuances missed by sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours. 

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow

Email us: [email protected]

Support us: https://patreon.com/dothekidsknow

Artwork by Daniela Silva (https://instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)

Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

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Do The Kids Know? is a monthly series of discussions between community workers and educators, Prakash and Kristen, that unpack race, media, popular culture, and politics in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) from an anti-colonial perspective.

Our goal is to bring nuance to sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours.

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok)
Email us: [email protected]
Tip us: patreon.com/dothekidsknow
Newsletter: tinyletter.com/dothekidsknow
Artwork by Daniela Silva (instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)
Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

DTKK is recorded on the traditional and unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka and Algonquin Nations. We are committed to working with Indigenous communities and leaders locally and across Turtle Island to fight for Indigenous rights, resurgence, and sovereignty.

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

Transcript available here.

In part 1 of 2, we break down some of the vocab we've been using to talk about different experiences of race including BIPOC, QTBIPOC, racialized, marginalized, and KKKanada/AmeriKKKa. Visit dothekidsknow.ca for an easily sharable and referenceable summarized glossary of terms which we will be updating periodically. 

Do The Kids Know? is a series of conversations between friends, Prakash and Kristen, where we challenge our understanding of contemporary media, popular culture, and what it means to live as racialized millennials in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) 

Our goal for this series is to have frank discussions about the stories and nuances missed by sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours. 

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow

Email us: [email protected]

Support us: https://patreon.com/dothekidsknow

Artwork by Daniela Silva (https://instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)

Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

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Do The Kids Know? is a monthly series of discussions between community workers and educators, Prakash and Kristen, that unpack race, media, popular culture, and politics in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) from an anti-colonial perspective.

Our goal is to bring nuance to sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours.

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok)
Email us: [email protected]
Tip us: patreon.com/dothekidsknow
Newsletter: tinyletter.com/dothekidsknow
Artwork by Daniela Silva (instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)
Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

DTKK is recorded on the traditional and unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka and Algonquin Nations. We are committed to working with Indigenous communities and leaders locally and across Turtle Island to fight for Indigenous rights, resurgence, and sovereignty.

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

Transcript available here.

This week, Prakash and Kristen offer some media recommendations of things created by BIPOC artists to read, watch, and listen. 

Books to read:

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
• The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi
• The Rise of IO and The Fall of IO, Wesley Chu
• Fever Dream, Samantha Schweblin 
• The Subtweet, Vivek Shraya
• Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice

TV to watch:

• Next In Fashion, Netflix
• Canada’s Drag Race, Crave
• Insecure, HBO
• Black Lady Sketch Show, HBO

Music to listen:

• Ungodly Hour, Chloe x Halle
• Cuz I Love You, Lizzo
• Various singles, Cupcakke
• Nipiy, nêhiyawak.

Do The Kids Know? is a series of conversations between friends, Prakash and Kristen, where we challenge our understanding of contemporary media, popular culture, and what it means to live as racialized millennials in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) 

Our goal for this series is to have frank discussions about the stories and nuances missed by sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours. 

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow

Email us: [email protected]

Support us: https://patreon.com/dothekidsknow

Artwork by Daniela Silva (https://instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)

Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

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Do The Kids Know? is a monthly series of discussions between community workers and educators, Prakash and Kristen, that unpack race, media, popular culture, and politics in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) from an anti-colonial perspective.

Our goal is to bring nuance to sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours.

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok)
Email us: [email protected]
Tip us: patreon.com/dothekidsknow
Newsletter: tinyletter.com/dothekidsknow
Artwork by Daniela Silva (instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)
Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

DTKK is recorded on the traditional and unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka and Algonquin Nations. We are committed to working with Indigenous communities and leaders locally and across Turtle Island to fight for Indigenous rights, resurgence, and sovereignty.

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show

Transcript available here.

Have y'all heard of the body positivity movement? There's a lot of (racialized) history behind the movement and we break it down in this episode.

Resource List:

What is Body Positivity, Essence - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xMvkdBcnPg

Stephanie Yeboah’s work - https://www.nerdabouttown.com/abou

Wear Your Voice Mag #BodyPositivityinColour - https://wearyourvoicemag.com/category/body-politics/bopoincolor/

Liris Crosse’s work - http://www.lirisc.com/

A list of Black women in the Body Positivity movement you can give your dollars to - https://thebodypositive.org/these-black-be-body-positive-leaders-are-changing-the-game/

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil (podcast) with Roxane Gay - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/roxane-gay/id1498855031?i=1000473940165 

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil (podcast) with ALOK  -  https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/alok/id1498855031?i=1000477661706 

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil (podcast) with Nicole Byer - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/nicole-byer/id1498855031?i=1000478636386 

Sonalee “The Fat Sex Therapist” - https://www.instagram.com/thefatsextherapist/ 

Book (French) “On ne naît pas grosse” by Gabrielle Deydier - https://www.renaud-bray.com/Livres_Produit.aspx?id=2295900&def=On+ne+na%c3%aet+pas+grosse%2cDEYDIER%2c+GABRIELLE%2c9791096906031

Do The Kids Know? is a series of conversations between friends, Prakash and Kristen, wher

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Do The Kids Know? is a monthly series of discussions between community workers and educators, Prakash and Kristen, that unpack race, media, popular culture, and politics in KKKanada (That’s Canada spelled with three K’s) from an anti-colonial perspective.

Our goal is to bring nuance to sensationalist media as well as to uncover the ways in which white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is shaping our movements and behaviours.

Keep tuning in to be a part of the conversation… don’t be a kid who doesn’t know!

Find us: @dothekidsknow (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok)
Email us: [email protected]
Tip us: patreon.com/dothekidsknow
Newsletter: tinyletter.com/dothekidsknow
Artwork by Daniela Silva (instagram.com/danielasilvatrujillo)
Music by Steve Travale (https://stevetravale.com)

DTKK is recorded on the traditional and unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka and Algonquin Nations. We are committed to working with Indigenous communities and leaders locally and across Turtle Island to fight for Indigenous rights, resurgence, and sovereignty.

Until next time. Stay in the know~!

Support the show