For Colored Nerds

For Colored Nerds

By Brittany Luse, Eric Eddings, and StitcherSociety & Culture
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For Colored Nerds episodes

  • Price of Black Ambition

    The Price of Black Ambition: Spurred by Roxane Gay's essay in the Virginia Quarterly Review, FCN examines aspiration, satisfaction, the Talented Tenth and Jaden Smith.

    The text: www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/…e-black-ambition

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    52 min
  • Gentrification

    On Being Black Gentrifiers: Both Brooklyn transplants, Brittany and Eric parse their roles as black gentrifiers in their borough's rapidly changing landscape.

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    1 hr 11 min
  • Marriage as a Performance

    Marriage as Performance: Despite Bey and Jay's best efforts to sell us on the institution, new research from Pew shows that walking down the aisle isn't what it used to be. Also: Amber and Wiz are getting divorced! FCN tells you how to feel about all of this (and Brittany describes her ideal mate).

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    48 min

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Each week, BFFs and cultural critics Brittany and Eric deconstruct the nerdier side of pop culture. Joined by a rotating cast of artists, thinkers, and innovators, For Colored Nerds peels back the…