Hags: Feminism For Everyone

For this week’s Feed Drop Friday, we are thrilled to bring you an episode of AfroQueer. You can listen to more episodes and learn more about the show by visiting afroqueerpodcast.com and be sure to follow them on Twitter @afroqueerpod and on Instagram @afroqueerpodcast. 

AfroQueer is a first-person narrative-driven podcast that tells sensitive, first-person narrative driven stories that illuminate the realities of being Queer and African, while also revealing the nuanced insights into how we survive and often thrive living and loving our lives. 

The host of our show is Selly Thiam, a Senegalese-American living in Kenya with a background in radio journalism and keen ear for great stories. A variety of reporters from around the continent lead listeners through stories reported over time and told with compelling structures, nuanced understanding of the stakes in our stories, and sensitivity. 

This episode is entitled, Sex Test: What happens when our own truths are subjected to constant medical tests and public scrutiny? Female athletes singled out for sex testing and the unnecessary testosterone therapy stay defiant. (This episode was  recorded before the September ruling by the Swiss Court.)

The life and legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, mass hysterectomies at ICE detention centers, why you must MUST vote, and our reaction to the film Cuties (and all its surrounding controversy).

How to adjust our black and white thinking, what happens when we confront someone’s incorrect expectations, understanding how you’ve changed over time, and no, a debate does not necessarily mean you’re fighting!

Protecting the environment, protecting your child’s gender identity, cancelling gender reveal parties, growing up as latchkey kids, and a love letter to Gen Z.

All our thoughts and reactions to this week’s Feed Drop Friday of Gender Reveal with Tuck Woodstock and special guest Alyssa Pariah, plus we talk Jacob Blake, Chadwick Boseman and how our conversations around tragedy so often fall into ableism, how to use your talents for good, the nightmare-scape that is American healthcare, and how privilege affects our ability to exist visibly.

It's a feed drop Friday! Before we get started, we do have a content warning for today’s episode: this episode includes frequent discussion of murder, police brutality and death as well as brief explicit descriptions of sex, so please take care of yourself. And now, Tuck Woodstock, gender educator and journalist reporting on the Portland protests, hosts Gender Reveal, an award-winning podcast where they talk to trans people about what the heck gender is. Learn more at https://www.genderpodcast.com/ and support their work at https://www.patreon.com/gender

Barbara Taylor, immigration legal services lawyer (and Riley’s mom!) joins us to discuss what it means to be a good daughter (and is that even a thing?), how one mean comment from a 12-year old can ruin everything, gender expectations of your fetus, when success overshadows a parent’s experience, and the two-way street that is a mother/child relationship.

Nicole’s catering job in a COVID den, self-defense as an essential worker, conservative idealism and fear of change, and having patience with your self-talk, especially as you maintain boundaries.

Today we discuss America’s downfall, doing your research before you post, rejecting American Individualism, and how billionaires have ruined it for everyone.

This week, we discuss America’s obsession with law and order (not the TV show), relearning ableist language, the damage we do on the sidelines, and Colbert, Sasha Baron Cohen, and the failure of satire in America.