Our Dirty Laundry

By Mandy Griffin & Katy SwalwellNews Education Self-Improvement Politics History

Our Dirty Laundry episodes

January 07, 2023 White Feminism: Author Interview - Ruby Hamad
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Chat with Ruby Hamad about her best selling book, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color.
Ruby Hamad
White Tears/Brown Scars
1 hr 11 min
December 10, 2022 White Tears/Brown Scars Part 2
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Whew....last time we said we were back, but now we're really back. For sure. Probably. :)Join us for Part 2 of our discussion of Ruby Hamad's amazing book, White Tears/Brown Scars.
56 min
September 02, 2022 White Tears/Brown Scars Part 1
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Season 3 Book Club: White Tears/Brown Scars - How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color, by Ruby Hamad.

Part one of Hamad's book covers "The Setup" of the white/brown binary and the creation of the "damsel in distress" from the colonial era to current times. Listen in and follow the links below to buy a copy of the book. Hamad's in depth research and inspiring writing is not to be missed!

Links:
The Guardian Article
Independent Book Store Link to buy
Amazon Link to buy
Barnes & Noble Link to buy

All The White Friends I Couldn't Keep
The Impossible Will Take a Little While

56 min
July 17, 2022 White Feminism: Girl Boss
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The rise and fall of the Girl Boss
50 min
July 03, 2022 Spice Girls and the Dumbing Down of "Girl Power"
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Katy tells us what we really want, what we really, really want...about girl power and what we can take away from pop culture activism.
35 min
June 26, 2022 Roe Rage
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Mini-rage session and lessons to hold on to.
10 min
May 28, 2022 White Feminism: Riot Grrls
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Katy takes us through the history of the early 90s white feminist punk rockers known as the Riot Grrl Movement.

Manifesto
1 hr
May 09, 2022 The Supreme Court and Ginni Thomas
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It was going to be a minisode, but honestly there is just too much!

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-ginni-thomas-meeting.html
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/groundswell-rightwing-group-ginni-thomas/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/ginni-thomas-attended-stop-the-steal-rally
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/virginia-thomas-mark-meadows-texts/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/24/ginni-thomas-donald-trump-mark-meadows-texts-election
1 hr 15 min
April 23, 2022 White Feminism: Equal Pay
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This history of the fight for equal pay & the gender pay gap - what it encompasses and what it leaves out.
1 hr 5 min
April 08, 2022 Minisode: White Lady Frauds
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These women don't deserve much of our time, but the lesson that it always helps to be a white lady is reinforced in a hard core way with the stories of Anna Delvey and Elizabeth Holmes. Yet, somehow, it's seldom mentioned that their whiteness was integral to their fraud.
15 min