this week's episode is a collaboration with the wonderful Lori (connect on Twitter @doingthemost__ !), who is here to talk about the role of whitewashing in celebrity and pop culture, with particular consideration to the infamous Kardashian family as the new faces of modern white feminism. from discussions of appropriation, aesthetics, racial ambiguities, and accountability, Lori guides us in a conversation that allows us to question our position in the idolization of celebrities.

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References

"How Mothering Black Children Changed the Kardashians", Boylorn & Frank (2021). https://slate.com/culture/2021/06/kardashians-relationship-to-blackness.html

"Keeping up with the Kardashians is Ending. But Their Exploitation of Black Women's Aesthetics Continues", Lang (2021). https://time.com/6072750/kardashians-blackfishing-appropriation/

"The Kardashians' Multiracial White Supremacy", Neyra (2020).  https://www.publicbooks.org/the-kardashians-multiracial-white-supremacy/

"The Problematic Reason Kim Kardashian Became a Beauty Icon", Barkho (2016). https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kim-kardashian-beauty-icon-problem

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