What Is Black? Podcast

Join us for the last episode of the winter season as I talk with Page Thomas. Page and I go into how a neighborhood becomes a "Black neighborhood", how to develop real estate equity, and the anti-masturbatory effects of Corn Flakes. Basically, you don't want to skip this!

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Join me and award winning writer Brian Broome (IG=@bbromb, FB=brian.broome.5) as we wax and wane about getting older, avoiding people for our mental health (and the inevitable post-social exhaustion when we can’t), and overcoming trauma.

Brian’s book “Punch Me Up to The Gods” is available digitally, in print, and audio on multiple platforms. If you can’t get your hands on a copy, you’re lying. In this debut memoir Brian navigates growing up Black and gay in a world that is hostile to both. Visit brianbroome.com for more details.

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For full episodes and extras visit whatisblackpodcast.com. Feel free to share and rate us 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts, it helps us feed the algorithm gods.

The What Is Black? Mixcast is brought to you in part by the Pittsburgh Office of Public Art. For more info visit opapgh.org.

📸= Andy Johanson (IG=@andyjohanson)

What a better way to close out 2021 than with verbal violence. Join Terry and I as he slanders catfish, and we talk about how The South is "different..." We also talk about how the common motivating factor in xenophobia, racism, anti-Blackness, anti-LGBTQ, anti-women, and anti-critical thinking is fear, and how you can organize against that fear to activate your communities.

"What are you afraid of, fam?" Start listening to these holiday gifts we'e giving you.

Also note that we will continue to distribute zine issues on January 10, 2022. 

This mixcast is brought to you in part by the Pittsburgh Office of Public Art. For more info visit opapgh.org.

Be sure to grab a copy of the What Is Black Mixcast zine at participating businesses and organizations for more in depth content with all of our guests. Visit whatisblackpodcast.com for a list of distribution points on the regular as we are always updating. If you’d like to sponsor a distro point, or get your hands on a copy, email [email protected]. Thanks for listening!

Join me and Aaron as we talk about pivoting from law enforcement to crime stories. Also how Marvel's Blade movie proved it pays to always bet on the Black(ness of Wesley Snipes). Aaron's book Under Color of Law is now available as paperback and Kindle on Amazon, and audiobook on Audible. For more info, visit AaronPhilipClark.com.

This mixcast is brought to you in part by the Pittsburgh Office of Public Art. For more info visit opapgh.org.

Be sure to grab a copy of the What Is Black Mixcast zine at participating businesses and organizations for more in depth content with all of our guests. Visit whatisblackpodcast.com for a list of distribution points on the regular as we are always updating. If you’d like to sponsor a distro point, or get your hands on a copy, email [email protected]. Thanks for listening!

Welcome back for another season of the What Is Black? Podcast. Join me and Jessica as we talk protecting Black autonomous spaces and Archie comics. Jessica also has a dope exhibit at the August Wilson Cultural Center in Downtown Pittsburgh called The Black Box Test that everyone should be checking out starting November 17 (the same day this ep drops).

This mixcast is brought to you in part by the Pittsburgh Office of Public Art. For more info visit opapgh.org.

Be sure to grab a copy of the What Is Black Mixcast zine at participating businesses and organizations for more in depth content with all of our guests. Visit whatisblackpodcast.com for a list of distribution points on the regular as we are always updating. If you’d like to sponsor a distro point, or get your hands on a copy, email [email protected]. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to the AKAC: All Kinks Allowed Crowd! for the season finale.

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Ray Smiling and I open things up talking about Tilda Swinton (if you don’t know, educate yourself) and how she is literally everything. So much so that she brings unlikely pairs together in the short “Tilda”, part of the series Khaki Is Not Leather. We then touch on getting film projects done during a whole panini press, and the processes they went through to get the job done being daunting but ultimately doable when you break things down into little passionate pieces. All this to sum up how absurd the world is, and the best art comes from being true to the absurdity of the human condition.

Real heady sh*t made simple.

For more info on Ray and his film and commercial projects, check out @raythedestroyer on Instagram and creator-destroyer.com.

*CW: Sh*t talking*

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For this episode, inventor, entrepreneur, yoga instructor, sculptor, mother, and friend Alecia Dawn and I start out talking sh*t (literally), continue talking sh*t about slave yoga for kids, and end up talking about how Marvel’s Inhumans comics are the sh*t (the TV show was trash though!). In between we talk a lot about motherhood and what it’s like raising children whilst trying to achieve greatness. It ain’t easy!

For more info on Alecia and her inventiveness, check out @yogamotif and @thealeciadawn on Instagram.

*NOTE: This episode was recorded during the winter storm that rocked The South in February 2021*

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There is so much that can be said about photographer, chair sculptor, burgeoning musician... You know what, you'll have to listen to the episode to hear the myriad things Cary can do, or is learning how to do.

In this episode, we talk about how a fascination with chairs lead to the Dadaist adjacent, stacking sculpture project chairs are people. We then segue into what happens when it all falls down and learning the best lessons from failing forward, and picking up the pieces for his fine art jigsaw puzzle project timeless.goods. Finally we dive head-first into our shared love of Japan and the ease at which it was to exist while being Black there. SPOILER ALERT: Police actually know how to do their jobs there.

For more info on Cary and his work, check out all these social media profiles: @cary.fagan / @chairsarepeople / @timeless.goods / @cf.filmstudios. You can also visit https://cary-fagan.com/ for his collected portfolio.

For more on Jason, visit https://solo.to/mckoycreative

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*CW: brief talk about suicide*

Building things from your brain: that's what guest Kristen McIntosh does. We talk about how her visual arts journey lead to architecture, a field with approximately 2% Black representation. Then we transition into the really heady territory of cosplay subculture and the many varied genres. And of course I got her to drop her favorite anime, because how could we not talk about anime.

For more on Kristen, visit find her on Instagram at @krissycosplay.

For more on Jason, visit https://solo.to/mckoycreative

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Wrasslin’, ‘Rona, and Relationships: the three pillars of modern society.

Poet and author Linsay Phillipe-Auguste and I continue the convo we started on her podcast waxing poetic about what makes an alpha female an Alpha Female, showing all the ugly bits, and sidepiece life. Also covered: Canada's 'rona response, because everything up there isn't just poutine and Trudeau's dreamy eyes.

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For more on Linsay and to listen to the Alpha Female Chronices, visit https://alphafemalechronicles.ca/ and to purchase her book of poetry visit https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000125122899. Find her on Instagram at @linsay_4.

For more on Jason, visit https://solo.to/mckoycreative