Interspectional

Critical Race Theory has been the hot topic in the news, on the web and has been the lightning rod phrase used to ban #antiracism , #antioppression and #multicultural books and curriculum in states throughout the United States. These bans have also been model used to limit discussions about gender and LGBTQIA+ concern in academic settings.

You can follow Dr. Lynn on Twitter at @DrMarvinLynn or on instagram at @marvinlynn

On May 8, 2021, #BlackFaeDay was the second highest trending topic on Twitter. What is Black Fae Day? It was a day where Black folks from all walks of life and all over the world dressed up in their most joyful and whimsical costumes and shared it with the world. Some without wings and glitter where inspired to take nature hikes, draw Black fairies, write poems, plays or anything to get them in the spirit of feeling like magical beings of power, beauty and grace. In The first episode of my second season, I talk to Jasmine La Fleur, the founder of Black Fae Day, and we discuss what inspired her to create this day, what was the reaction and what is next for her organization. It was an fun and inspiring conversation. I hope you enjoy it!!

You can find out all about the events of Black Fae Day here: https://www.blackfaeday.com/

You can find Black Fairies: All Ages Coloring Book by A. C. Washington, Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales by Virginia Hamilton and other magical books here: https://bookshop.org/lists/s2e1-black-fae-day

In July 2021, I did a panel about my podcast at BlerDCon called "Interspectional: A Black woman-led, sci-fi podcast". This presentation was a great opportunity to share all that I had learned from doing my podcast over the past year as well as delve into the inspiration behind my podcast. I was also able to share the philosophy of Interspectional with a live audience as well as share clips from some of my favorite episodes. As 2021 draws to close, I hope that we can learn more about each other's experiences, value each other's differences and support each other as we face various personal, relationship and systemic difficulties. That hope is what is truly behind the podcast and you'll learn more about that in this episode. 

Show notes:

You can find the Audre Lorde clip here

And the episodes that I reference in this presentation are The Legacy of Sleepy Hollow, POC and Period Drama, Vampires, Class and the Presentation of Privilege and TV Writers Advocating for Authentic Stories. 

While Star Trek takes place in the future, so many episodes either take place in the past or have a time-period-specific aspect to them. These "bottle episodes" have a tendency to pose complex questions around sociology, psychology and ethics. Focusing on episodes from Star Trek: TOS, TNG, Voyager and DS9, we'll look at these period dramas in space, the themes that can be examined from these episodes and how science fiction makes these stories unique. This is a recording from Women At Warp's IDIC Podcast Festival. For this panel, my returning guests were Bianca Hernandez  (@bookhoarding) for the season 1 finale: Building Communities in Fandom and Dr. Luz Rosines (@LuzXRayMD) from the S1:E3 - Latinx Representation in Space. 

Part 2 of the season finale, "Building Communities in Fandom" gets real. Jaycee Dubyuh of Gaymer Allied People of Color, Neisha Mulchan of Diversely Geek and Bianca Hernandez-Knight of The Jane Austen Universe and Virtual Jane Con and I get into the nitty-grity about problems in the fandom space, when it's time to fight and the struggles that can occur when you go from being fan to be a community leader.  We also celebrate the successes that we have seen in the fandom communities and share our hope stories about the things that keep us going. 

You can follow Jaycee on Facebook at Gaymer Allied People of Color

You can follow Neisha on Twitter at Diversely Geek

You can follow Bianca on Twitter at @bookhoarding

In this episode, I talked to Jaycee Dubyuh of Gaymer Allied People of Color, Neisha Mulchan of Diversely Geek and Bianca Hernandez-Knight of The Jane Austen Universe and Virtual Jane Con about the importance of building community in fandom spaces. Delving into our own fandom histories, we discuss the online and off-line activities, adventures, friendships and relationships that we built through our fandom experiences. Jaycee, Neisha and Bianca then discuss their inspiration and motivation for building their own fan communities that have had a global reach and tangible impact in their respective communities. This episode was filled with so many thoughtful takeaways and deep feels that I actually made it a two-parter. So remember to check out the next episode to hear the rest of the conversation. 

You can follow Jaycee on Facebook at Gaymer Allied People of Color

You can follow Neisha on Twitter at Diversely Geek

You can follow Bianca on Twitter at @bookhoarding

Whenever we see something problematic or insensitive on our TV screens or streaming shows, we often ask, "Who wrote this? Who was in the room??" In this episode, I talk to three TV writers who are not only in the room, but are apart of a growing movement to improve the working conditions for underrepresented writers as well as improving the quality and authenticity of the stories that make it to our screens. Co-executive producer of NBC's New Amsterdam and Peacock's Vampire Academy, Y. Shireen Razack,  co-executive producer of CW's Life After First Failure, Tawal Panyacosit Jr. and researcher on Grey's Anatomy and story editor on Station 19, Barbara Friend talk about their experiences in Hollywood as well as their organization, Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity (TTIE pronounced "tie"), an "intersectional consortium of TV writers committed to increasing inclusion & equity and improving work conditions for all TV writers."

You can learn more about Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity here and follow them on Twitter at @writeinclusion. 

You can follow Y. Shireen Razack on Twitter at @YShireenWhyNot

You can follow Tawal Panyacosit Jr. on Twitter at @Tawal

You can follow Barbara Friend on Twitter at @babsamiga

In this episode, best-selling author of the book, "Spoiler Alert", Olivia Dade and host of the fanfiction podcast, "Into The Archives", Talia Franks stop by to discuss all things fanfiction. We talk about our fanfiction origin stories, the value that fanfiction has brought into our lives and the importance of a communities built around common interests. I had planned for this to be a light episode, but it got surprisingly deep, as these conversation often do. I hope you enjoy it.

Listen Into the Archives Podcast and follow @ArchivesPod

And for your Doctor Who fans out there, you can listen to The Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey Podcast and follow @WibblyPod

You can allow find book Spoiler Alert and all over her fantastic novels here

Also be on the lookout for her book All The Feels due out in October. 

Queen of the Damned, True Blood, Blade, Vampire Diaries, Buffy. In this episode, Afrofuturism researcher and soon-to-be published doctoral student, D'arcee Charington Neal, Associate Editor of the inclusive geek space, Quirktastic, and practicing mental health counselor, Anjé McLish and I discuss all things vampire. We talk about the politics of these fictional vampire societies and how vampires as a proxy for beauty, wealth and temptation as well as answering that greatest of all questions: Are all vampires project partners? This is a fun, slight meandering, but ultimately insightful episode about that different ways this "monster" is used to talk about ourselves and our society's norms. By framing vampire stories in the terms of privilege, we get to examine wealth, access and power through this fun sci-fi/horror lens. Check it out.

You can find Anjé at @RecklessPoetess

You can purchase her book here

In this episode of Interspectional, my guests and I discuss Asian Representation in media. Looking at the impact of favorites like "Always Be My Maybe" as well as problematic films like the live-action production of "Ghost in the Shell", we discuss tropes, stereotypes, issues within the media industry itself as well as ways to connect and show solidarity in supporting each other's artform. It's an episode with laughter, analysis and more than it's fair share of heart. I'm so excited to share with this you. My guests are CEO of We Are Heroes Production and the hit actual-play comedy/horror podcast, Tabletop For the End of the World, Jemarc Axinto, actress and producer, Jonah Azurin and finally make-up artist and gamer Jezzelyn Torres.

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