AAVE=African American Vernacular English

POC= People of Color

This Episode could have had a couple of names:

No one wins when veiled anti-blackness among non black POC is a proxy for solidarity

no one wins when you use AAVE and you're not black: the anti blackness of non black POC

no one wins when you're neither black nor really my family so don't call me sis: POC and anti blackness

this episode is onfleeklitbrosishomie

Everybody wanna be black til it's time to dismantle white supremacy

Both vilified and stolen, black folks aren't the only ones benefitting from black linguistic and cultural production.

Get into 20 minutes of outtakes at the end...this episode could have also gone on for hours.

We're taking this baby on the road! New Orleans, we aren't like Drake, come fuck wit us at the Ace Hotel for a LIVE recording of Hoodrat to Headwrap for our Toxic Masculinity Episode on Sunday, September 2nd from 1pm-3pm as part of the CAKE series.

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Recommended Reading:

That the Blood Stay Pure by Arica L. Coleman: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806959

More information on Pleasure Chest Sex Stores Workers' Struggle to Unionize: www.liberationnews.org/for-pride-thi…nt-on-strike/

Episode sponsored by you and the Pleasure Chest

Back like we left something, Ericka and I just been in Europe where global anti-blackness (and baguettes) abound. It was hella racist but was it worth it?

Recommended Reading:

Scathing read of Drake's wack ass new album: https://www.refinery29.com/2018/07/203408/drake-scorpion-album-review

More information on Pleasure Chest Sex Stores Workers' Struggle to Unionize: https://www.liberationnews.org/for-pride-this-year-pleasure-chest-workers-went-on-strike/

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/07/06/tight-knit-family-loses-mother-daughter-in-antioch-double-homicide/

***This Episode is Dedicated to Milan Ardoin and Rose Scott***--mourn you til I join you,

Love Eb

You want me to come out but get mad when I call you out.

The name of this episode could have been "Congratulatory, Aggrandizing and Gross" but it's Pride month, so any talk about white folks being entirely interested in their internet outrage and disdain for the systems of oppression they benefit from most will be postponed til July 1st.

Recommended, Referenced Reading:

Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre in the Greenwood neighborhood erroneously considered a "race riot":

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/05/31/615546965/meet-the-last-surviving-witness-to-the-tulsa-race-riot-of-1921

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/31/roxana-hernandez-transgender-honduran-woman-dies-us-ice-box

*Editor's Note: We intentionally referred to Roxana Hernandez's death at an ICE facility as murder. Here is an article detailing the substantially documented inhumane conditions inside of ICE facilities that may have contributed to her death at the hands of a racist, criminally negligent state.

Do not donate to LGBTQ corporate non-profits. Donate here instead:

National Bail Out Fund

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Free Black Mama's DMV:

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WHITE CIS MEN HAVE COMMITTED MORE MASS SHOOTINGS IN THE US THAN ANY OTHER GROUP...but I'm sleep.

Black people are murdered and it’s an idea for a storyboard for a rap music video without a trigger warning. Black people are not paying attention, while the world continues to kill us. We only pay attention when black cis men tell us to. Listen to them. Black cis men know what we need. And we should listen. They are geniuses. They win Pulitzers for their music without having to reckon with the misogynoir conveniently overlooked to get them there. And slavery was a choice. But, just hear him out. And he’s the King so he doesn’t give head. But he is not really Black, so it’s different. We spend hours talking through our pain from being re-traumatized and he “just wanted to make good music”.

He could care less that people actually died. But but they are just destroying a Black man’s legacy.

He got his money

And will continue to

And we will sit by and watch him dance

On the tv

Never at a rally

And keep giving him money for the value of his meta distraction

We get tired of calling him in

He doesn’t listen

Why talk. He’s talking. Just let him speak!

Just a body on his way to fame

To the white girl across the room

We are just a body

To be used

At the cookout on 4th of July

At his leisure

Our pain is a joke

And a moment,

Not happening all the time.

Join us for another episode of Hoodrat to Headwrap as we distract you from black cis men centering whiteness again (are you entertained?).

Recommended Reading: Barracoon, The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and ethnographic blerd.

Read this article from 2018 to better understand DJ Khaled's tweets in 2015: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/world/canada/incel-reddit-meaning-rebellion.html

Episode sponsored by The Pleasure Chest

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Typical day in America: people die at the hands of antiblack racism, people theorize about their deaths. An intellectual distancing from the deaths of black people doesn't stop it from happening. What are our options?

Join us for a live episode of Hoodrat to Headwrap and if you feel some type of way, email us at **[email protected]**

Recommended Reading: Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

Episode brought to you by our sponsor, The Pleasure Chest: www.thepleasurechest.com

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"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us."---Audre Lorde

To preamble the episode: We didn't talk about how Twitter and companies like it-Google, Facebook, etc. have whole diversity departments, committees and initiatives and make marketing videos featuring a whole bunch of black folks but employee less than 3% of us. How the conversation about representation allows the system to continue to work--as long as we are used for aesthetic, put on display, "visible", the world is completely content with whiteness remaining dominant.

Join us on a furiously tender conversation.

Recommended Reading

A New Nielsen Report Puts Black Buying Power at $1.2 Trillion: http://fortune.com/2018/02/28/raceahead-nielsen-report-black-buying-power/

Check out Luminance Skin Care's fundraiser: https://luminanceskincare.com/products/special-edition-ginger-peach-bar-soap?variant=14256321735

Imagine that: a vision of Africa that puts the onus of "what it could have been" on an imaginative restructuring of a whole 53 country continent while failing to hold the European countries and institutions responsible for its perceived degradation accountable inside of a fictional universe created by a white person in the 60s, adapted to a film, produced by Disney.

And it's only February.

Join us as our faces melt off.

if you feel some type of way, email us at **[email protected]**

Recommended Reading:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/ethiopias-state-emergency-20-180219112158956.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/opinion/france-racism-rokhaya-diallo.html

Lots of memes declaring snarky platitudes and generalizing quips about astrological signs (e.g., what each sign would do in a horror movie, lots of other ones we can Pinterest lol)circulating round the net. Needless to say, the younger generation is getting witchy, but it wasn't cool to be witchy back in the day outside of 90s pop culture references, movies like The Craft w/ the tartan skirts, white shirts and suspenders (only one black girl in the craft now that I think of it!). So join us in parsing that out on Hoodrat to Headwrap's first episode of our Gamesgiving Series with...

***Chani Nicholas***

Don't miss this generous game give out on what the hell is happening in the heavens, and what it has to do with Mesopotamia, hippies in the sixties, white supremacy and most importantly, you.

www.chaninicholas.com

Recommended, Referenced Reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/arts/how-astrology-took-over-the-internet.html

Bonus: Techgnosis by Erik Davis (thank me later)

H & m and how companies stocks go up when they stoke black peoples' anger in order to get a rise out of the market and oh, yeah, the Golden Globes. This is your bonus episode of Hoodrat to Headwrap

Recommended Reading: Excerpt from Nicole Ashcoff's book, The New Prophets of Capital: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/may/09/oprah-winfrey-neoliberal-capitalist-thinkers

At the Dark End of the Street by Danielle McGuire, who wrote at length about Recy Taylor's story in 2011 and was largely responsible for the public apology the Alabama House of Representatives gave to Recy on behalf of the state:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/111678/at-the-dark-end-of-the-street-by-danielle-l-mcguire/9780307389244/

Unrecommended, poorly written but referenced: https://www.thenation.com/article/the-lefty-critique-of-timesup-is-tired-and-self-defeating/

For backstory on Golden Globes Time's Up Movement and insanely rich and powerful people just "doing what they can", visit ihartericka on Instagram and watch the highlighted stories.

Our last episode of the best and blackest year yet, we leaving 2017 with a pillar of salt in its wake.

Recommended Reading on Obama Admin's mixed, nuanced immigration legacy: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not