Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast
A decolonized podcast hosted by sexuality educator Ericka Hart and Ebony Donnley. The show centers on lovers on the margins, exploring black queer love ethics, radical politics, and pop culture. Episodes blend humor and critical analysis while dismantling white supremacy. Topics also include house plants, books, and everyday life from a decolonial perspective.
Episodes
Genocide Island: Neoliberal Reality TV Chicken Soup for the Soulless
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Everybody Don't Need to Be in Everything Unless They are White: Empire Blues and White Lies
We're back, ya'll! Join us for another episode in the terrordome:
What does freedom look like?
white "rappers" and all manner of wiggerish nonsense
the "comfort" of the west
Sinners and Black Queer Representation
Mass Submission and Resignation
Little Pete Hesgeths
The Racial Geography of Passive Aggression in the Pacific Northwest
Condemning Marty Supreme
Ericka's first book, Nasty Work out on
Heated Rivalry: A Yearning for D!ck and Crude Oil featuring Bryson Rose
This Episode is dedicated to the People (those living and fighting another day from Venezuela to Iran to Minneapolis to N.E.W. Oakland to Nigeria to Chicago to Brooklyn to Harlem to Queens, the Bronx, Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis, Alannuh, to Gaza to Cuba to LA, the martyrs, the humans, the siblings, the children, mothers, fathers, lovers, artists, creatives, fisherman, etc. amerikkkan media rath
What's Love Got to Do With It: The World Hates Blacks but...
...we are not allowed to hate back. Does whiteness make room for love? Does it have the capacity to do so?
I think Aileen Wuornos may have been onto something...
This episode is dedicated to the legacies of Jamil Al-Amin and Alice Wong. Rest in Power
**Editors Note before some of yall start: yes, I know that Valerie is a cover by a white British group before Amy did it and they was appropria
Desirability Part 2: Disobeying white Eurocentric Beauty Standards
...And the beauty of not falling in line.
Ya'll asked, we complied: the desirability episode part 2!
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or via Venmo: @Ericka-Hart, Paypal: ericka@ihartericka.com. Be sure to like, subsc
On Desirability: Karl Marx, Beyonce, and You feat Deme & Isaiah
This episode is dedicated to the life of Selamawit D. Terrefe, George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson. Rest in Power. Free Em All
Join us for a very special Black August episode with our Black Loves, the only two light skin friends we have left: the illustrious Deme Brown (she/her), Brooklyn community advocate, screenwriter and director (@Demegawd_) and Dr. Isaiah Blake (he/him), Phd, East New York
Pride of Mass Destruction: Do You Want The Aesthetic of Freedom or to Actually Be Free?
This episode is dedicated to the life and memory of Adriana Smith
Donate to the Celebration of Black Transwomen Cookout in NYC: https://www.gofundme.com/f/gia-love-x-angelito-black-trans-love-cookout-fundraiser
The episode (note, there is a 6 second breather in the beginning, don't worry, just breathe, we still here lol)
"Happy" Pride** with a major asterisks
No pride with genocide
Everything yo
The Merrells to Misogyny Pipeline: What Mr. Charlie/Sanders/Schulz Taught You About Being a Man
-Said another way, all the lies white cis men have told Black cis men about manhood (p1)--Happy Pride!
- They thought they found "aMerIKA" and the nigga they say "founded" it never made it to North America but fast forward centuries later and ya'll still believe it
- They said they descended from Aryans because the word had a ring to it, used to create the myth of a superior race but now they ha
Put Some Lulu on My Butt While Whitey's on the Moon: What's a Life Worth...
...under global racial capitalism and whose lives are seen as valuable in the first place? What makes a life worth living to those who decide whether we live or die? Valuable and worthy enough to suffer, to fight and resist said suffering without validation from those causing it. The racial capitalism episode part 1.
Recommended Reading:
https://antipodeonline.org/geographies-of-racial-capitalism
Restoring American Values: Buying Skims in a Lonely Sundown Town
Episode dedicated to the memory of Sam Nordquist (Rest in Power)
Free Melissa Atwell-Holder, Rumeysa Ozturk, Mahmoud Khalil NOW
Free Em All
Justice for Momodou Taal Now
Alt Episode Titles:
There were no executive orders to ban sundown towns but there is one in West Virginia named Eleanor--wonder why?
What Happened to Black People Predates the Creation of Fascism and is Far Worse
Who Said the US
New DEI, Same Ol' Ethnostate: Desperation, Extermination, Imitation
If you'd like to join the Spring 2025 Cohort for Sex Ed as Resistance, apply here!: https://ihartericka.com/sex-ed-as-resistance/
"Racism and racially structured discrimination have not been deviations from the norm; they have been the norm"---Charles W. Mills
"White supremacy forced white americans into rationalizations so fantastical that they approached the pathological."--James Baldwin
Alt
Bipartisan Genocide: Don't Blame the Colonized for the Colony's Design
...What we finna do come tomorrow?
...especially if the overseer of your choice doesn't win
...will you fear power or contest with it?
A hallmark feature of any presidential election in a racist country is the continued psychological warfare against the colonized, especially Black people, who, along with Arab Muslims, will be inevitably blamed, scapegoated or strategically pitted against one ano
There's No Democracy to Save and No One is Telling Ya'll Not to Vote: Hammer, Sickles & Stickers
Intro: Fannie Lou Hamer's Credentials Committee Testimony (1964) for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party which she co-founded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRCUUzpfV7k
Alt episode titles: Vote and/or Die
The Revolution Will Not Be TikTok'd at the DNC
Voting in this country was created as a means of giving those least empowered the veneer of control over a democratic system that was desi
Painting the Rainbow Green: The White Cisgaytriarchy’s Oeuvre of the Almighty Dollar
Alt episode titles: Somewhere Over the Chase Bank, There is Community and Solidarity
They Just Want Our Money, Not Our Pride: The Rainbow Capitalism Episode
Intro Audio Excerpt: Sylvia Rivera (Rest in Power) interview from NYC Pride 2001
https://x.com/ben_0207/status/1800675695661842651
Who does rainbow capitalism benefit most? Who does it protect?
What it is and what it is not
Who gets seen
Until Black Trans Women are Free, Ya'll Will Have Macklemore Ol' Bleach Blonde Ass ft Elle Moxley
No Pride without Black Trans Liberation and Reparations--Not Rations, Pooh.
Black trans liberation, much like Black liberation and the liberation of all oppressed peoples across the globe, requires a complete redistribution and reorganization of the current power structure/status quo--is GLAAD ready? Is GLSEN ready? Are you ready?
Alt episode titles:
How do we respond to white violence? (aka wh
Don't fall for the okey doke: Anti-Blackness is Divisive and Perpetuates Settler Colonial Violence
For Hind, For Dexter, For Wadea, For Jordan and all others whose names go underreported, whose lives are undervauled, whose resistance is met with no fanfare.
Support Within Our Lifetime, Palestinian led NYC based community organization: https://wolpalestine.com
The genocidal settler colonial regime of Israel will be brought to heel, the genocidal settler colonial United States government will b
Who Tf Was I Friends With? Community and Friendships in the Age of Aquarius feat Elle Moxley
Parts 1 and 2
If the shoe fit, go grab some socks
"without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and [their] oppression."--Audre Lorde
Join us for a special episode of Black People Tell Black History (yes, it's giving very much Anita Baker 365 days of the year same ol love) with our love Elle Moxley talking about community, how
Be a Revolution or Get *Swallooowed* Up feat Ijeoma Oluo
Alternate episode titles:
-Be a Revolution or Keep it Moving, either way don't step on a n*gga toes
-Just Circling Back to Next Steps from 2020
-Ijeoma is about to go chill and write mysteries cus a lot of yall dont want to be a revolution nor talk about race
Join us for a very special episode with Ijeoma Oluo talking about her new book, "Be a Revolution", out now, the racism in the publishing wo
Resting My Eyes (with a pistol in my apron): Tricia Hersey's Ministry is About More Than Naps
...and can save your life. Join us for a very special episode of Black People Tell Black History with the one and only Tricia Hersey (IG @thenapministry) as she gives you a quick 30 minutes of necessary game on this Monday afternoon made for wage theft and dream death on how imagination was a requisite for our ancestors' freedoms, the blueprint they laid out for revolution and how to take back you
While White People Didn't Create Country Music, They Did Manage to Invent Colorism feat. Mayowa
...it is now a multiracial collaboration, an amerikkkan "folk" tradition, if you will.
From its pseudoscientific, colonial roots to nick cannon, join us for another episode of Black People Tell Black History and a deep deep conversation with one of the leading voices drawing attention to and upending colorism as it iterates itself in all facets of life, across the globe, @mayowasworld. We cover w
Saifa is Not About the Silos: What Black Intersex Justice Got to do With It? Everything.
“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
― Audre Lorde
Join us in discussing the Black intersex revolution, imagination beyond violence visited upon our bodies and community as home with our dear love Saifa Wall.
Sean Saifa Wall (he/him/his) is a Black queer intersex activist and rising scholar. Born and raised in the Bronx, Saifa attended Wi
Twin, Where Have You Been?: A Tender Conversation with Dr. Joy James
Alternate episode titles:
-Dr. Joy James Might Break the Internet If You Would Let Her Upgrade You
-This is a wonderful, Establishment, Trump and Swiftie friendly episode, absolutely nothing to shadow ban here, nope not at all (devil emoji)
If you couldn't tell, we are super juiced to invite you all to a very special, mind reconfiguring politic shaking and shaping episode of Black People Telling
Black Midwives Existed Before Doctors and are Still Delivering Us Today ft. Racha
Traditional Midwives were criminalized, exploited and erased, their 1000 year old practices mined to create the field of obstetrics and this marginalization of Black and Indigenous midwives continues today. Learn more about the origins of the Black maternal health crisis in this country and movements to resist it--one birth at a time.
Alternate episode titles:
-We gone be known as the niggas tha
From the river to the sea (who gon check me boo?): Someday We'll All Be Free
It's me again...and we're back...
Alternate episode titles:
-One genocide minds
-Destabilize, Disrupt and Destroy: US Foreign Policy in Palestine, Syria, Yemen and the entire Middle East
-AFRICOM: Obama's Scramble for Africa Still Scraping By Under the Doppler in 2024
-Freedom ain't free: On a politics of indifference to Black death
From Congo to Tigray to Darfur, there are multiple genocides
Gettin' Free: A Juneteenth Collaboration
Gettin’ Free! : A Juneteenth Collaboration brought to you by Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast. We know that history is told from the side of the colonizers but that leaves room for misinformation and false narratives.
We are on a mission to change that.
11 Black podcasts have come together to reclaim our history and tell it our way - flavor and all. Welcome to a chronological journey to get
Why Ya'll Gagging Tho: Black Queer and Trans Origins of Club, House and Techno Ft. Deborah Conton
And disco and every other offshoot and derivative therein. Argue with my mom, who was there and could tell you. Black queer and trans people were forced to build space, shelter and sanctuary in the dancerie so we could all be free…follow us and Deborah Conton (@deeeebo_x)as she leads us through cultural memory, history, place and legacy. Part 2 coming soon!!
Deborah Conton is an Atlanta native an
The Spiritual Experiences of Negros--Stolen: All "American" Music is Black Music Feat Patience Sings
Or alt title: Stealing Negros Spiritual Experiences. And I don't know how many times we have to say this. Even the existence of such a thing as "American" music is dubious. Black people created all genres of music in the US and despite the global influence and unabashed imitation of our Black American cultural art forms, we've profited the least from their reach and much propaganda persists:
Blac
Are US schools really desegregated if Black history is illegal? Feat. Liz Thompson
Day 3: Black People Tell Black History feat Liz Thompson.
69 Years after Brown v Board of Education and 59 years after 464,000 Black NYC public school students and teachers staged one of the largest protests in US history, led by Reverend Milton Galamison on Freedom Day, we are still questioning whether or not the US education system is still as racist and inequitable as ever (it is).
Elizabeth
Intersex People Be Clapping Cheeks Too feat. Saifa Wall
Day 2: Black People Tell Black History featuring the number one cheek-clapper-in-residence---activist, researcher and scholar Saifa Wall (@saifaemerges on IG) who is making Black history by highlighting the contributions, age old existence and movement building of Black intersex folks across the globe.
Sean Saifa Wall (he/him/his) is a Black queer intersex activist and rising scholar. He is a Mar
Living in the Last Days of Antiblackness and Transphobia feat. J Mase III
Day 1: Black People Tell Black History with J Mase III (@jmaseiii)
In the beginning there was the Word and the Word was with God but it was also likely Black and it certainly wasn't just cisgender and straight.
I'm sleep tho, in Jesus Name.
J Mase III is a Black/Trans/queer poet & educator based in Seattle by way of Philly. As an educator, Mase has worked with community members in the US, UK, a
What is Brown?: The Fear and Future of a Black Planet feat. Alan Pelaez(@Migrantscribble)
BIPOC, POC, NBPOC and other acronyms for Others...what are their origins and how do they inform a desire for and distance from Blackness across nation-states? Is the term POC a relic from slavery legislation in the US or a useful modifier that can unify the "global majority"?
Leading up to Transgender Awareness Week we get deep into it all and mo' with our love and special guest, afroindígena poe
You Can't Tax the Rich in an Oligarchy: Haiti, Afghanistan, Upper East Side Goddam
A longie but goodie just in time for the fall of US imperialist projects in Afghanistan...and autumn. TLDR: It’s giving very much hating on the not rich who did not understand the assignment of shutting the fuck up and running politicians their propers for re-election. A tax on vibes.
If "Taliban" means "student" in Pashto--the US is the teacher.
Have you ever asked yourself why tax reform is su
The Negro Problem and Asian Hate: The Fight for White
This episode is dedicated to the memory and power of the victims of white domestic terrorism in Atlanta, the survivors and their families as well as the victims and survivors of all forms of sinophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-sex work and anti-Asian xenophobia/ US imperialist violence against Asian bodies happening all around the globe. If you would like to join us in a moment of silence, fast forwa
Our Election System is Based on 5 Black Ppl Being Worth 3 white but the US is definitely a Democracy
I know because my fascist government that sends its CIA to destabilize other countries it criticizes for not being democracies in bloody coups that kill millions of innocents all over the world while waging genocide against Black people for over 3 centuries while begging me to send $3 to a white cis man in order to save the country from another white cis man told me so...even though we don't have
White Ppl Can't Get Cancelled: The Bezos You Know; The Hankinsons, Cosgroves and Mattinglys You Dont
And the Epsteins, the Michael Wolls, the Roger Stones, the Alexander Hamiltons, the David Starkeys, the Stephen Millers, the William Barrs, the Joe Biden's, the Tucker Carlsons, the Reed Hastings, Benjamin Netanyahus, Winston Churchills, FDRs, your non-profit executive director, maybe your partner, maybe you. There are so many names of white cis men who commit murder, spew anti-Black racism with i
When the Chickens Come Home to Roost They Will Be Seasoned
There is a genocide against Black people in the United States happening now and white people are intentionally killing us while other white people, incentivized by our deaths, write FB statuses. Black skin in white masks beg for forgiveness on white ppl's behalf, rationalize their terror as some fault of our own and do the bidding of the police state and the mainstream white corporate celebrities
30 Days A Slav--Essential: Disposable Tomorrow.
It's business as usual in AmeriKKKa...a state of emergency has been declared in New York State yet rent is still due all the same. Black people still comprise the highest number of deaths from COVID 19 across the nation and our enemies couldn't be more visible. Dr. Armen Henderson, a black doctor in Miami was handcuffed by police for no reason while administering COVID 19 tests for the unhoused. E
Washing Our Hands of White Supremacy: Coronavirus and all the Other Pandemics #Suspend Rent Now!
Suspend Rent Now. Tweet, call your state and local elected officials, send them letters, sign existing petitions like this one or create your own: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/reclaim-our-homes-rent-suspension-now?source=facebook&&fbclid=IwAR0k822tpVxcZCieQlNpvMYuyV2ZDHYYsXAuolABqMjKT5SceD6VTBuTj5w.
I know we are all asking ourselves, "how long do we have to live like this?" in regard to
Hell in a Handbasket: Which Old White Person You Voting For? #Notmeyall
Alternative episode names:
-Bandaid over a Gunshot Wound: #Notmeus2020
-I don’t care who you vote for just get your hand outta my pocket
-Bush, Bernie and Biden Don’t Care About Black People (no Kanye)
It’s a whole lot of democratic socialism goin on round here, boy. You know the kind where people weaponize their so-called “leftist” or radical sensibilities to gas light others into voting for th
Love is Love...Or is it Tho? The Interracial Dating Episode
Does black love include white people (or anyone who isn't black)? We all know the answer to that. Pack a lunch---this is a long one with an extended review of Queen and Slim *SPOILER ALERT* at some point but not spoiley in beginning. Skip review if you haven't seen it yet.
Highly Recommended Reading
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (available for purchase online, fuck A
Toxic Masculinity: How to be a White Cis Man 101
From Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly of America's early industrialization period to the "only Christopher we acknowledge", the drive to forgive the transgresses of abusive cis men celebrated the world over for the exploitative power of their influence and the allure of toxic masculinity across the gender spectrum has gone seldom challenged for millennia. Yet it's not the love of cis men that e
Everything's #Epic, Everyone's #Iconic, Everybody's #Dead: The Internet
This internet shit is fake as fuck and it's hard to navigate--join us as we attempt to.
Highly Recommended Reading:
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg---for Consent: The Political Economy of the Non Profit Industrial Complex by Cory Morningstar
http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/17/the-manufacturing-of-gre
The Light Skin Elephant in the Room---Colorism
Join us for one of an ongoing conversation on colorism--the light skin elephant in the room; seldom talked about but no less visible when we walk down there street, turn on the television, roll over next to your partner in bed, scroll IG, go to the racial justice workshop or slide to the function.
Highly Recommended Reading:
My Face is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Re
Two Geminis and a Sag Walk into C.O.G.I.C. on Mothers Day feat. Elle Hearns (@soulfreedreams)
Ramadan Mubarak!
Join us for an intimate conversation with our special guest veteran organizer, renown writer and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Network and Executive Director of the Marsha P. Johnson Institute (www.marshap.org), Elle Hearns aka our pookie bear baby butt. It's hella raw, it's mother's day coming up on Sunday, we thinking about clear nail polish and stockings and talking abo
What is Black? Happy April Fools Year & the Words They Say to Make us Think They Aren't Bigots.
And what exactly do ya'll mean by "woke" when you say it in response to people resisting their own subjugation? Why would Van Jones applaud right wing views and also herald Kim K as the next coming of Malcolm in criminal justice reform? Why is the Mayor of Chicago so upset with one case, considering this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theroot.com/feds-confirm-that-the-chicago-police-dept-is-as-
Stop KonMari'ing Ya'll racism: Bernie, Kamala & What Won't Bring You Joy (reparations) in 2020
Happy Black Everything At All Times and Happy Black Hixtory Month. Join us for our first lil episode of 2019 and I'm already not having it.
Alternative Titles:
Stop Playing and Let a Real Nigga Bring You Joy in 2020
What Might Bring You Joy in 2020 Might Bring You Hell in 2021
What Bring You Joy in 2020 Won't Bring Reparations, Liberation, Justice for Black People or anyone, really in 2020
Do Mar
So We All on the Same Page in 2019: Gentrification is not Normal, it's Intentional ft. @Ecofeminista
FREE CYNTOIA FIRST AND FOREMOST:
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/free-cyntoia-brown
Get this so we can all be on the same page in 2019: Gentrification is not a normal process whereby increased real estate development in a once systemically neglected area leads to greater economic change but rather it is the targeted displacement of "undesirable" groups in a given area to attract "desirable" (re
Gone til November: You Want Voting to End Oppression So You Won't Have To Featuring @iischristy
"I know there's voter suppression but...
"I know it won't change anything but...
"Stop complaining and vote but...
"Don't you dare sit at home and do nothing"
Voting simply isn't a sufficient means to end systems of oppression because our political system remains invested in keeping power concentrated in the hands of a small few whom we elect to represent our interests every two to four years, of
Will the World Ever Change or it Will it Continue to White?
Is the World Cruel or is it just White?
Will it ever change?
How is changed defined?
Who gets to decide?
Greater good or creating change---are they real or some veiled gospel of prosperity that’s mostly self interested and leaves us, the “change makers” at the center of it?
Examples
Jeff bezos
Anne Hathaway
HRC
Non profits—origin of non profits, where did they come from? Why do we need them?
Everybody wanna be black til it's time to be white: Non-Black POC & AAVE in service of Antiblackness
AAVE=African American Vernacular English
POC= People of Color
This Episode could have had a couple of names:
No one wins when veiled anti-blackness among non black POC is a proxy for solidarity
no one wins when you use AAVE and you're not black: the anti blackness of non black POC
no one wins when you're neither black nor really my family so don't call me sis: POC and anti blackness
this epis
Whathahappened Was: Niggas in Andalucia & also Paris & London (Ep. Dedicated to Milan & Mama Rose)
Back like we left something, Ericka and I just been in Europe where global anti-blackness (and baguettes) abound. It was hella racist but was it worth it?
Recommended Reading:
Scathing read of Drake's wack ass new album: https://www.refinery29.com/2018/07/203408/drake-scorpion-album-review
More information on Pleasure Chest Sex Stores Workers' Struggle to Unionize: https://www.liberationnews.o
Happy Pride: We are Coming OUT!
You want me to come out but get mad when I call you out.
The name of this episode could have been "Congratulatory, Aggrandizing and Gross" but it's Pride month, so any talk about white folks being entirely interested in their internet outrage and disdain for the systems of oppression they benefit from most will be postponed til July 1st.
Recommended, Referenced Reading:
Tulsa Oklahoma Massacr
This is America: Black Cis Men Never Held Accountable for Selling Out Black Pain for White Pleasure
WHITE CIS MEN HAVE COMMITTED MORE MASS SHOOTINGS IN THE US THAN ANY OTHER GROUP...but I'm sleep.
Black people are murdered and it’s an idea for a storyboard for a rap music video without a trigger warning. Black people are not paying attention, while the world continues to kill us. We only pay attention when black cis men tell us to. Listen to them. Black cis men know what we need. And we should
Black People Die and People Theorize about their Deaths: Typical Day in America
Typical day in America: people die at the hands of antiblack racism, people theorize about their deaths. An intellectual distancing from the deaths of black people doesn't stop it from happening. What are our options?
Join us for a live episode of Hoodrat to Headwrap and if you feel some type of way, email us at **hoodratsandheadwraps@gmail.com**
Recommended Reading: Stuffed and Starved by Raj P
Diversity and Inclusion is for White People: Beyond Bruno Mars, and the Love of Light Skin
https://www.patreon.com/seren_sensei
"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us."---Audre Lorde
To preamble the episode: We didn't talk about how Twitter and companies like it-Google, Facebook, etc. have whole diversity departments, committees and initiatives an
A Revolution Televised and Paid for by Disney: Black Superheroes for the White Imagination
Imagine that: a vision of Africa that puts the onus of "what it could have been" on an imaginative restructuring of a whole 53 country continent while failing to hold the European countries and institutions responsible for its perceived degradation accountable inside of a fictional universe created by a white person in the 60s, adapted to a film, produced by Disney.
And it's only February.
Join
Astrology Takin' Over for the 99 and the Two Thou: A Chani Nicholas Gamesgiving
Lots of memes declaring snarky platitudes and generalizing quips about astrological signs (e.g., what each sign would do in a horror movie, lots of other ones we can Pinterest lol)circulating round the net. Needless to say, the younger generation is getting witchy, but it wasn't cool to be witchy back in the day outside of 90s pop culture references, movies like The Craft w/ the tartan skirts, whi
#TimesUp on Defending Rich White People and Oprah: A Defense of Those Who Don't
H & m and how companies stocks go up when they stoke black peoples' anger in order to get a rise out of the market and oh, yeah, the Golden Globes. This is your bonus episode of Hoodrat to Headwrap
Recommended Reading: Excerpt from Nicole Ashcoff's book, The New Prophets of Capital: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/may/09/oprah-winfrey-neoliberal-capitalist-thinkers
At the Dark End
When Black Scholars Fonk, a Cismas Miracle, a Look Ahead on the Late Night Tip
Our last episode of the best and blackest year yet, we leaving 2017 with a pillar of salt in its wake.
Recommended Reading on Obama Admin's mixed, nuanced immigration legacy: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not
Cuffing Sagittarius Seasonal Affective Disorder: Winter with the shit
A special winter is coming edition of HRHW where we reveal the ultimate gag about instagram activism, GOP tax cuts and how to be sad, mad and possibly okay.
References:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/08/bill-gates-jeff-bezos-warren-buffett-wealthier-than-poorest-half-of-us
http://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/38006/1/in-the-trump-era-money-is-black-peoples-greatest-weapon
October is Weird
Strange happenings that have nothing to do with Halloween, roaches at the W, one #metoo too many, and a live troll on this latest catch-up episode of HRHW
How We Love and Why Even Bother: The Black/Queer Way
We're just being hella vulnerable with each other about relationships, including friendships, how and why they end and the traumas and triumphs that inform them.
Can Distraction be Decolonizing?
Said lil b***h (anxiety) you can't f**k w/ me (you could) if you wanted to:
Fenty, Football, Fanfare and Puerto Rican-U.S. diplomacy for dummies
Tips to help folks help folks in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria:
1. Call Congress 202-224-3120 and tell them to release disaster aid now
2. Donate to mariafund.org, NOT the red cross
*Correction of acronym: LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy)
Update:
Gender 101: The Binary Won't Save You
Refusing to acknowledge how gender works isn't doing you any favors, so gather round for this long awaited, very special teach-in episode w/ Resident Headwrap Sexuality Educator Ericka Hart as she helps you help us destroy white supremacist cis het patriarchy.
Referenced Reading: http://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/straight-black-men-are-the-white-people-of-black-people-1814157214
DACA is Racist and Anti-Poor
While DACA certainly isn't the enemy, patently xenophobic and anti-poor US Immigration Policy is certainly not a friend to those seeking refuge and opportunity in the land of the broke and home of the slave. Talking DACA, West Indian Day Parade, and a lil' bit of gender.
AFTERPunk: We Reminisce Over You, My God
Ya'll remember that song by J. Cole featuring Drake, "In the Morning", where Drake's voice is hella scratchy as if the song was recorded in the morning and you couldn't tell if that was intentional or if the nigga throat was sore? Well, that's how we sound after this past weekend at Afropunk---the good, the bad, the binary. Find out if this shit was for us.
Eclipsing Whiteness
When even saying, "I hate white people" is a privilege.
Melanated Alt-Right
Self-care, shit talk and real shit for Black and POC in Perpetual Charlottesville.
Music by Nappy Nina
https://soundcloud.com/nappy_nina
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