Do You Get It?

Do You Get It?

By Taya & JordsSociety & Culture
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Do You Get It? episodes

  • S2EP5- "Black Businesses"

    On this weeks episode we discuss Black businesses and services. Topics discussed include Smade's Afronation & Yam Carnival, overcrowded Black uni raves, why don't elite/boujee Caribbean/African restaurants exist? Salt Bae's £600 steak, Black hair shops being run by Asian people and Black nail techs.

    53 min
  • S2EP4- "Everything Education"
    On this weeks episode we discuss our journeys through school. Topics discussed include our high school memories, the fun in going to a failing school, surviving 3 head teachers & one unqualified one, going to 6th form in a white area, feeling stupid for the first time and playground microaggressions. 
    Disclaimer: Ignore Taya's lisp, she recently got Invisalign X
    50 min
  • S2EP3- "Carnival & Culture Clashes"
    On this weeks episode we discuss Carnival and British Caribbean identities. Topics discussed include Carnival feeling like a general "Black" event & not a Caribbean one, Caribbean culture & Black British culture being intertwined, "you're African anyway" comments, the fetishisation of Caribbean women and the Caribbean attainment gap.
    43 min
  • S2EP2- "Incel Culture"
    On this weeks episode we discuss involuntary celibates and their ideology. Topics discussed include the Plymouth massacre, the normalisation of incel culture, aLpHa MaLeS, the power balance in relationships, paying on the first date, men being hoes & homie-sexuals.
    50 min
  • S2EP1- “Everything Love Island”
    We’re back for season 2 & on this weeks episode we discuss all things Love Island. Topics discussed include a recap of the seasons events, colourism controversy, the Molly Mae effect, frivolous spending & GiRlFrIeNd reassurance.
    46 min
  • EP12- “Influencer culture”
    On the season finale we discuss influencer culture. Issues discussed include what the word influencer means, the lucrative side of influencing, the Molly-Mae effect, cancel culture, fast BBL fashion, the promotion of surgery, BBL grandmas & mummy makeovers, and the male gaze.
    TW: References to violence against women
    54 min
  • EP11- "How can you be a capitalist without the capital?"
    On this weeks episode we discuss capitalism. Issues raised include exploitation, working class "capitalists", static innovation, capitalism in underdeveloped countries, the billionaire space race, the ruling elite, elitism and working class people doing "working class" apprenticeships.
    59 min
  • EP10- "Should we gatekeep our Blackness?"
    On this weeks episode we discuss whether or not we should gatekeep our Blackness. Issues raised in this episode include the identification of mixed race people, inviting "everyone to the cookout", Black culture & UK culture being intertwined, race being a social construct, non-Black box braid bandits, cultural appropriation vs appreciation and the unity of Black culture.
    46 min
  • EP09- "Pretty Privilege"

    On this weeks episode we discuss pretty privilege. Topics discussed include friendships based off aesthetics, male pretty privilege, pretty privilege in the music industry, the Black beauty standard & BBLs, the non-inclusiveness of the body positive movement and pretty privilege in the workplace.


    46 min
  • EP08- "Sexism, misogyny and the audacity of men"
    TW: REFERENCES TO SEXUAL ASSAULT/HARASSMENT THROUGHOUT
    On this weeks episode we discuss the sexual harassment that women experience daily. Issues raised in this episode include Sarah Everard's case (RIP), policing women instead of holding men accountable, men taking away the spotlight from women, no meaning no, carnival creeps, "not all men", should we as Black women support Black men or just women in general? and period taboos.
    47 min

About Do You Get It?

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A podcast by 2 unseriously serious babes who go by the names of Taya and Jords. We discuss a range of topics/societal issues weekly, with a sprinkle of unserious chat here and there. Think of this as a lil cathartic release.