Woke Points

If you've had enough Marnsplaining, then this episode is for you! Ted and Marni welcome Kelly Hodgins to add her brilliantly informed perspective around equity in our food system.

Born and raised on farms in Canada and New Zealand, Kelly brought her interest in farming into her academic career where she focused her research on food and agriculture systems, and did a lot of public engagement on different food system issues, such as food waste and inequality in food access.

She's conducted significant research  exploring the classed dynamics of the “ethical” or “alternative” food system. You can read about her work here and here.

Episode resources and notes:

• Correction: Ted stated that organic farming requires more water; this is not necessarily true, often it requires LESS water!
•  1940’s United Fruit Company video of the banana supply chain Ted referenced featuring “the Great White Fleet,” a great watch 
• Netherlands protests around climate & farming regulations 
• Is it possible to make 'ethical' food available to all, not just the rich?
• Access to ‘ethical’ food often available only to the wealthy

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Season three is here, and if we say so ourselves it's a Snack! Join Ted and Marni for a conversation about how progressives sometimes focus more on elitist dietary practices over increased food access for all.

Here are some of the items we mention during the episode:

• One of our favorite TikToks about City life - thank you Jane Jacobs!
• The book that inspired that TikTok and that Marni is currently (slowly) reading.
• Donate to MAG, a great organization helping save lives and open land to farming and tourism in Laos by getting rid of all those bombs America dropped in Laos during the “Secret War"
• If you’d rather fund some amazing cute rats helping de-mine Cambodia (and other places), APOPO is doing amazing work saving lives and boosting economic development as well.
• Want to support a US organization that is addressing food deserts? Check out Daily Table
• West Seattle's Delridge Farmer's Market
• Pandemic worsens food deserts for America
• House republicans' policy related to food access

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Season 3 starts on September 19th so now is the time to subscribe!

We have a lot of fun in store for you this season like...

• Food Politics
• Patriotism
• Philanthropy (should we abolish it?)
• and much much more!

Thank you to Inny PDX for the music!

Woke Points uses affiliate links for purchases made with the excellent Bookshop.org, so if you purchase books through these links you help sustain both our podcast *and* independent bookstores across the country — thank you!

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In our last bonus episode before season 3, Ted and Marni talk about Americans' relationship to international travel, our shared love for solo travel, and why wanderlust drives us both.

Thank you to Inny PDX for the music!

Woke Points uses affiliate links for purchases made with the excellent Bookshop.org, so if you purchase books through these links you help sustain both our podcast *and* independent bookstores across the country — thank you!

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Another bonus episode! Join Ted and Marni for an earnest conversation with professional Dominatrix and fetish wrestler Katarina "The Domme Kat" Pierce, and sexual health educator Momo, about the wide world of sex work. We'll get their perspective on *everything* Sex Robots too. Did we mention that Momo had a sex robots blog back in the 2000s?

Learn more about Kat via her website or Instagram, or visit her Link Tree. Follow and learn (and laugh!) from Momo on Instagram.

Check out this book that comes up during the episode as well. 

Thank you to Inny PDX for the music!

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Podcaster, Political Commentator and founder of the More Freedom Foundation Rob Morris joins Ted and Marni for this bonus episode to reveal the unseen violence of US Sanctions, and we do our very best to have fun while doing it.

Check out Rob across multiple social channels:
YouTube
Twitter
Instagram, TikTok, and Threads: @morefreedomfoundation

Listen to Rob's podcast
Read Rob's Book

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Just like any reputable educational institution, Woke Points works in semesters. So now's the time we sign off for Ted and Marni to take a summer break!

Now is also a great time to catch up on any episodes from Season 1 or Season 2 that you've missed.

Season 3 is coming at the end of August.

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University of Alabama Communications Professor and author AJ Bauer joins Ted and Marni for this week's deep dive into the history of truth and fairness in media.  By the end, we wonder, "is truth even the right goal?"

Follow AJ on Twitter, and buy his books: the acclaimed News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures, and his forthcoming Making the Liberal Media.

Resources from this episode:
Institute for Public Knowledge
News on the Right: Studying Conservative News Cultures

Thank you to Inny PDX for the music!

Woke Points uses affiliate links for purchases made with the excellent Bookshop.org, so if you purchase books through these links you help sustain both our podcast *and* independent bookstores across the country — thank you!

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In this episode, Ted blows Marni's mind by explaining to her that once upon a time it was legally mandated that news outlets (at least those using terrestrial channels) present both sides of a story.  Our current Fox News vs MSNBC world seems very far from the days of the Fairness Doctrine.

While we recognize that cable news would not actually fall under the decree of the rule we discuss in this episode, we do wonder whether it could have helped us avoid the extremes we live with now.

Resources from this episode:
Host: Deep into the mercenary world of take-no-prisoners political talk radio by David Foster Wallace
Ziegler's takedown of David Foster Wallace
5 Facts About Fox News
What Happened When Fox News Viewers Watched CNN for a Month
Trump Couldn't Have Incited Sedition Without Fox News
Fairness Doctrine Topic Guide

Thank you to Inny PDX for the music!

Woke Points uses affiliate links for purchases made with the excellent Bookshop.org, so if you purchase books through these links you help sustain both our podcast *and* independent bookstores across the country — thank you!

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Have you had enough Sex Robots talk yet? Of course not! In this episode, Ted and Marni welcome Tania Leiman, Dean of Law at Flinders University, and legal scholar Madi McCarthy (no relation to Ted), both of whom have studied and written extensively about how the law handles intimate AI.

Find Tania's publications here.

Thank you to Inny PDX for the music!

Woke Points uses affiliate links for purchases made with the excellent Bookshop.org, so if you purchase books through these links you help sustain both our podcast *and* independent bookstores across the country — thank you!

Enjoying season 2?
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