Kinswomen

Actress, activist, and star of RuPaul's Drag Race Peppermint joins the Kinswomen to talk about her life as a Black trans woman, transphobia in the drag community, and her new album, "A Girl Like Me: Letters To My Lovers."

Corporate VP and new mom Audrey chats with the Kinswomen about her immigrant story, the pressure of whiteness, the colonization of the Philippines, and reclaiming her Filipino identity.

Yseult and Hannah question the white team behind the new live-action Mulan film, and discuss Beyonce's "Black is King" film and its criticism.

Hannah and Yseult discuss the proliferation of digital blackface online, and its offline consequences.

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Hannah and Yseult welcome Hannah's sister-in-law and Army veteran Danielle to discuss her life as a Black woman in the military and church. They talk about the importance of people accepting, rather than repressing, anger about racial injustice.

Yseult and Hannah talk with Haddon Township Equity Initiative co-founder Becky Reiser about the concrete actions she and her group of allies have started to fight racism in their community. She describes the racially fraught history of her new hometown and efforts to keep the momentum up in the surging Black Lives Matter movement.

Yseult & Hannah dive into #FreeBritney, the myth of black-on-black crime, and how white people don't experience the burden of representing their race all the time.

Yseult and Hannah speak with civil rights leader Emerald Garner, daughter of Eric Garner. Emerald is the leading voice in the fight for justice for her father and has vowed to never stop fighting laws and policies that allow police to get away with murder. She describes being "bullied into activism," the new wave of interest in BLM, and how she manages to balance it all.

Yseult and Hannah talk about the history of Juneteenth, modern slavery, and why white people are living in their own version of the Truman Show.