Best Davi Sharmas Podcasts (2024)

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7 Different Types Of Fertility Tests And Their Uses 4:51

2M ago4:51

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In the current era, infertility has become a common issue and is faced by many couples. When couples fail to conceive despite having unprotected sex for over a year, then it is termed infertility. It can happen due to different factors and can be treated effectively. Couples facing problems getting pregnant must visit the best IVF centre in India a…

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How to deal with postpartum depression and not let it affect the equation with your newborn? 4:51

10M ago4:51

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Episode 64: Evicted with Maya Dukmasova 1:12:33

2y ago1:12:33

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“We can’t have a conversation about affordable housing without having a conversation about landlord profit.” If you were mad about landlords before, just wait until you listen to this conversation. The mainstream narrative on affordable housing has revolved largely around public housing, but a glaring absence is a much larger demographic: low-incom…

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Episode 63: The Question with Bernardine Dohrn 1:00:37

2y ago1:00:37

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The Question by Henri Alleg is a short book with a lifelong impact on today’s special guest. The legendary radical activist and movement lawyer, Bernardine Dohrn, first read this anti-war, anti-colonial, anti-racist pamphlet from 1958 as a student in high school. The Question recounts French journalist Henri Alleg’s experience of thirty days of tor…

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Episode 62: Care Work with Heena Sharma 1:02:28

2+ y ago1:02:28

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There are no shortcuts to disability justice. Access is a process, not a list that can be checked off in organizing work. Part-manifesto, part guide, part-memoir, and so many more parts, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a necessary intervention in our largely ableist movements and world. In this episode, …

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Episode 61: Zami with K Agbebiyi 53:57

2+ y ago53:57

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Audre Lorde is revered for her poetry and writings, rightfully so! Her works are fundamental to the development of Black Feminism. But what did she have to say about her own life? What were the themes and lessons she learned from her experiences? How does Audre, the person, differ from Audre "the icon" that many of us know? As Audre insisted: “If I…

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Episode 60: Capital with Angela Davis 1:23:10

2+ y ago1:23:10

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An epic book and an epic guest: Welcome to episode 60! Since the start of this podcast, the Lit Review has always wanted to feature Marx’s Capital with someone who could really help organizers dig into it. Published in 1867, this 1,000+ page text offers a thorough, interdisciplinary critique of capitalism. This book is rich with history, philosophy…

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Episode 59: Kindling with Shira Hassan 59:19

2+ y ago59:19

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The healing justice movement is an intersectional and organized resistance to the state and state violence, but why is it so often misunderstood as simply an opposition to grind culture? In this episode, we discuss ableism, disability, healing justice, and the book Kindling by Aurora Levins Morales with one of our sheroes and teachers, Shira Hassan…

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Episode 58: Ain't I A Woman with Stacy Davis Gates 58:17

2+ y ago58:17

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bell hooks left us in this world with a literal STACK of wisdom and analysis about love, life, and feminism. Her work has transformed the thinking of many people we know in our organizing community. We couldn’t think of a better way to honor bell hooks’ legacy than starting off a new season with this virtual interview with Stacy Davis Gates, Vice P…

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Episode 57: The In-between Episode! 32:49

3+ y ago32:49

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It’s a wrap for Season 3! In 8 episodes, we went deep on topics including colonization and land justice, civil rights history, and movement and organizing fundamentals. And in the midst of the pandemic, uprising, and elections, we did our best to highlight the amazing resistance work happening in Chicago. There’s no special guest on this season fin…

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Episode 56: From the Ground Up with Juliana Pino 1:24:58

3+ y ago1:24:58

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To close out the season, Monica and Page talk with Juliana Pino Alcaraz, Policy Director at the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, about From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement by Luke Cole & Sheila Foster. This short but dense book focuses on the history of the Environmental Justi…

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Episode 55: Groundwork with Christian Snow 1:09:49

3+ y ago1:09:49

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Despite some truly 2020-style audio recording issues, our second to last episode of the season is here! Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America, edited by Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard, and Charles Payne, unearths the buried stories of the people, places, and struggles that laid the foundation for the Civil Rights movement. Monica …

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Episode 54: Freedom Farmers with Vivi Moreno 53:28

3+ y ago53:28

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Fannie Lou Hamer is increasingly recognized for her leadership with the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party, but did you know about the 600-acre Freedom Farm Cooperative she started? This is one of many examples of Black farmers organizing for power and self-determination highlighted in Monica White’s Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and t…

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Episode 53: Borderlands with Trina Reynolds-Tyler 47:35

3+ y ago47:35

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This was a hard book to talk about, but we’re so glad that we did. The late Gloria Anzaldúa’s book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza is beloved to many and considered a fundamental text in Chicana and Latinx studies. With gorgeous prose, she richly captures the unique experiences of those who inhabit the borderlands; of place, gender, class…

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Episode 52: Discourse on Colonialism with Asha Ransby-Sporn 43:42

3+ y ago43:42

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Originally published in 1950, Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire directly and dramatically influenced the liberation struggles happening in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. A blazing collection of thoughts that affirms Black identity and culture, embraces surrealism as revolt, and demands decolonization movements that “decolonize our…

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Episode 51: Rules for Radicals with Maira Khwaja 48:42

3+ y ago48:42

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Have you ever heard of the term “Alinsky-style organizing” and the rules that are involved? For example, “A tactic that drags on too long is a drag” and “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Here in Chicago, Saul Alinsky is often mentioned both for what his analysis is missing, as well as for the helpful basics his traditio…

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Episode 50: Blood, Marriage, Wine and Glitter with Stephanie Skora 43:27

3+ y ago43:27

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Ready to learn and get in your feelings? In this episode, Monica and Page connect with Stephanie Skora, Associate Executive Director of Brave Space Alliance and author of the Girl, I Guess Voter Guide.Stephanie shares her love and learnings from S. Bear Bergman’s Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter, a book of personal essays about their queer and trans…

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Episode 49: Hammer & Hoe with Bettina Johnson 53:11

3+ y ago53:11

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There’s importance in collaboration and experimentation when it comes to organizing. But what does that work look like in a community you’re not from?Monica and Page chat with Bettina Johnson, co-founder of Liberation Library and member of Chicago Afrosocialists & Socialists of Color of the DSA, about Hammer & Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Gr…

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0108 Jake Kassan - Turning an Indiegogo campaign into a $100M exit 55:40

4y ago55:40

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Today’s topics: (1:08) Moiz introduces Jake Kassan of MVMT, a men’s watches, accessories and lifestyle brand. (14:00) Jake discusses the operational issues he encountered when first starting MVMT. (17:40) MVMT did about $1m its first year, with most growth coming organically. (24:20) Moiz and Jake discuss their experiences with venture money and th…

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0107 Chris Davis - Scaling to $170m in 4 Years and Then Going Bankrupt 55:04

4y ago55:04

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Today’s topics: (1:10) Moiz introduces Chris and discusses what Loot Crate is (“Comic-Con in a box”). (2:58) Loot Crate launched in 2012, by 2016 had $170M in revenue (with 600,000 subscribers) and ranked as the fastest growing e-commerce company by Inc. (6:00) Chris discusses marketing strategy with Facebook vs influencers and the importance of au…

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0106 Jesse Horwitz - From 0 to Nine-Figures, How Jesse Horwitz Built a DTC Giant 52:18

4y ago52:18

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Today’s topics: (1:01) Moiz introduces Jesse Horwitz, founder and CEO of DTC contacts brand, Hubble. (03:02) Jesse explains the origins of Hubble. (05:57) Hubble soft launched, collected about 2,000 emails and began shopping the idea to investors. (06:45) Hubble raised $3.5M in May 2016, $3.7M in October and launched in November. (08:20) Jesse expl…

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0105 Paul Tran - How Manscaped Created a Nine-Figure Business by Inventing and Dominating the Pubic Grooming Industry 1:00:04

4y ago1:00:04

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(0:57) Moiz introduces Paul Tran, the CEO and founder of Manscaped, founded in 2016. Manscaped sells grooming products (3:25) Paul discusses the ages and gender of Manscaped’s customers (5:40) Paul talks about the lack of options in the pubic grooming space for men. Manscape capitalized on a white-space (9:10) What goes into creating the actual pro…

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0104 Nik Sharma - How To Build and Invest in Great DTC Brands 1:02:25

4y ago1:02:25

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Today's topics: (12:24) Nik gives his background, hes an investor in a handful of DTC startups. He’s hands on, does something for each brand every week (14:20) Getting domain names and handles for a startup. Nik just paid low 5-figures for judy.co (16:00) Moiz talks about how he came up with the Native name and dealing with trademark issues. Had to…

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0103 Kara Goldin - Hint Water’s Alternative Fundraising Strategies, Superbowl Ads, & Most Effective Marketing Channels 1:28:43

4+ y ago1:28:43

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(01:15) Kara’s story to how quitting diet soda inspired her to start Hint (7:20) How did Kara figure out the right formula? (11:52) Hint’s process & formula to make the create the end product (15:15) Hint’s bold move to not add preservatives (20:25) Hint’s first big break: Google (25:15) How Hint is servicing companies during COVID-19 (27:05) At wh…

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0102 Andrew Dudum - Bold Strategies That Propelled Hims & Hers Into Unicorn Status 48:33

4+ y ago48:33

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Moiz (@moizali) is joined today by Andrew Dudum (@andrewdudum), founder of hims (@wearehims), hers (@wearehers), and Atomic (@joinatomic). Today’s topics: (1:20) Andrew breaks down Atomic (2:25) How does Atomic spin up companies? (5:13) Atomic’s portfolio of innovative companies (8:16) Atomic’s founder resident program (11:50) Him’s road to unicorn…

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0101 Nick Green - Thrive Market’s Unconventional Rise to Success 46:50

4+ y ago46:50

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Moiz (@moizali) is joined today by Nick Green, founder of Thrive Market (@thrivemarket) - a membership-based retailer offering natural and organic food products at reduced costs. Today’s topics: (0:47) - Moiz introduces Nick Green, and they discuss the history of Thrive Market (3:48) - How Nick and the founding team bootstrapped the business (5:09)…

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Coming Soon: Exit Strategy with Moiz Ali 1:26

4+ y ago1:26

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On April 9, The Hustle launches a new podcast, Exit Strategy with Moiz Ali. Why Moiz? He took Native from $0 to $100M in 28 months, so he can ask the tough questions that only operators have the right to ask. His rapid-fire, straight-shooting style unveils the nitty-gritty details, techniques, and strategies behind billion-dollar brands like Thrive…

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Episode 48: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded with Joy Messinger 50:42

5+ y ago50:42

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INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence hands us a sharp critique of the toxic role that the non-profit industrial complex can play in managing our movements in The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, published in 2007. Monica and Page talk with Joy Messinger, a queer disabled femme organizer, former Program Officer at Third Wave Fund, and currently th…

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Episode 47: Green is the New Red with Brad Thomson 51:00

5+ y ago51:00

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In the U.S., it’s becoming increasingly trendier to “go green” and become more environmentally-conscious in our daily lives under capitalism. However, there’s a whole other movement of eco-consciousness and activism that is being heavily criminalized and repressed. In his debut book, Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement …

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Episode 46: Fascism Today with Kelly Hayes 50:48

5+ y ago50:48

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What does fascism look like today in the U.S.? Where does the alt-right fit into this? How can it be fought?!Monica and Page sat down with Chicago-based Native abolitionist organizer, co-founder of Lifted Voice, podcast host of Movement Memos, and Truthout writer Kelly Hayes to discuss Shane Burley's Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It.…

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Episode 45: Making the Second Ghetto with Lynda Lopez 45:37

5+ y ago45:37

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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 by Arnold Hirsch is considered a premier text on the subjects of housing and displacement. However, at about 382 dense & jargon-filled pages, it can be a bit intimidating. Here to offer a helpful summary is life-long Chicagoan, writer, co-founder of Transportation Equity Network, and n…

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Episode 44: The Battle of Lincoln Park with Daniel Kay Hertz 44:53

5+ y ago44:53

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A hyper-local conversation: Who knew that the Chicago neighborhood 'Old Town' was actually part of Lincoln Park? Who knew it was a site of transformation, displacement, resistance, gentrification, AND urban renewal?Monica and Page sat down with author and policy analyst Daniel Kay Hertz to talk about his new book, The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban…

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Episode 43: The New Jim Crow with Patrice Daniels 45:50

6y ago45:50

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Monica has a phone conversation with dear friend, poet and incarcerated activist, Patrice Lumumba Daniels, currently serving life without parole in IDOC for a crime he committed at 18 years old. Patrice and Monica talk about one of his favorite books, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. Banned fr…

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Episode 42: Black Reconstruction In America with Frank Chapman 1:08:45

6+ y ago1:08:45

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Monica and Page revisit Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. Du Bois, this time with community organizer, Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racism and Political Repression, and former political prisoner, Frank Chapman. Tune in to hear Frank’s take on Du Bois and the social, economic and political changes that were taking plac…

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Episode 41: Occupied Territory LIVE with Simon Balto and Toussaint Losier 1:02:04

6+ y ago1:02:04

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In this episode, Monica and Page bring you the Lit Review LIVE from Hairpin Arts Center, the site of For the People Artists Collective’s first city-wide exhibition, Do Not Resist? 100 Years of Chicago Police Violence.Monica and Page chatted with Simon Balto and Toussaint Losier, two radical authors and professors, about Simon’s upcoming book, Occup…

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Episode 40: Rethinking the American Prison Movement with Toussaint Losier & Dan Berger 51:22

6+ y ago51:22

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Monica and Page sat down with Dan Berger via Skype and Toussaint Losier in Chicago to chat about their latest book, Rethinking the American Prison Movement, which provides a short and accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America's prison system. From forced labor camps of the 19th century, to rebellious protests…

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Episode 39: Kuwasi Balagoon - A Soldier's Story with Jason Lydon 57:34

6+ y ago57:34

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So often we hear anarchy equated with chaos and collapse: a complete breakdown of society. This hour, we're rejecting that. We sat down with Jason Lydon to help us understand what anarchy is and isn't. We define terms, talk through principles, and take seriously the anarchist vision for collective liberation. To help us ground our conversation, we …

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Episode 38: Season 1 Finale 57:33

6+ y ago57:33

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In the final episode of the first season, Monica and Page reflect on a year of the Lit Review podcast! They share some of their favorite episode excerpts from conversations in Season 1 with Joey Mogul, Andrea Ritchie, Bill Ayers, and Debbie Southorn. They also make a surprise phone call to a very dear abolitionist friend and mentor, Mariame Kaba, w…

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Episode 37: This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed with Mia Henry 1:02:40

6+ y ago1:02:40

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When we are taught about the civil rights movement, the narratives of communities trained up in armed self-defense and grandmas with guns sitting on their porch are definitely left out. In Charles E. Cobbs Jr.’s book, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible, we are face-to-face with the vital role t…

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Episode 36: Octavia's Brood with Tanuja Jagernauth 43:42

6+ y ago43:42

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In Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, co-edited by adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha, we are gifted twenty short stories exploring the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change.For this episode, Monica and Page sat down with Chicago-based playwright, dramaturge, and…

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Episode 35: Resistance Behind Bars with Victoria Law 55:10

6+ y ago55:10

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Did you know that the first mass clemency won in 1990 for 25 domestic violence survivors incarcerated for self-defense happened because of incarcerated women organizing themselves on the inside? Or did you know that in the 1970's, a California women's prison cancelled a Christmas visit with incarcerated women & their children with no explanation. T…

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Episode 34: Pedagogy of the Oppressed with Hilda Franco 53:44

6+ y ago53:44

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There is a role for people who know things that others don’t, but how has our relationship with education and the teacher-student dynamic been shaped by colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy? In 1968, Brazilian educator Paulo Freire wrote Pedagogy of the Oppressed, proposing a new relationship between the teacher, the student, and society. In …

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Episode 33: Transgender History (2nd Edition) with Susan Stryker 44:18

6+ y ago44:18

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With the 2nd edition of Transgender History by Susan Stryker just released, it was a good time to revisit the book, see what’s changed, and touch on parts that didn’t get covered in an earlier conversation on this book in episode 4 with Benji Hart.Monica met up with professor, author, and filmmaker, Dr. Susan Stryker herself, to discuss the new edi…

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Episode 32: the Earthseed Series LIVE with adrienne maree brown 1:22:32

6+ y ago1:22:32

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Do you have your “go bag” ready? Are you ready to lose everything and everyone in order to get free? Aren’t these intense questions?? These are just some of the themes that are explored in Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, a two-book series of dystopian, science fiction novels by the late Octavia E. Butler, where society has collapse…

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Episode 31: Assata with Imani Council & Pat Frazier 57:13

6+ y ago57:13

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A former member of the Black Panther Party and political prisoner, Assata Shakur's intensely personal and political autobiography continues to be a landmark text in many young Black peoples' politicization.For this episode, Page interviews two young Black women about the ongoing lessons they have learned from Assata. Pat Frazier and Imani Council a…

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Episode 30: The Sympathizer (A Novel) with Van Huynh 41:09

7y ago41:09

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For this episode, Page turns to fiction as a way to more fully understand the stories and truths of immigration, war, and identity.Page sat down with Van Huynh, an immigration attorney & community organizer in Chicago to discuss Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Sympathizer, a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gri…

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Episode 29: From Deportation to Prison with Arianna Salgado 44:01

7y ago44:01

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From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America by Patrisia Macías-Rojas unpacks how the incarceration of over two million people in the United States gave impetus to a federal immigration initiative—The Criminal Alien Program (CAP)—designed to purge non-citizens from dangerously overcrowded jails an…

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Episode 28: Demand the Impossible with Bill Ayers 48:45

7y ago48:45

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A manifesto for movement-makers in extraordinary times, Demand the Impossible! urges us to imagine a world beyond what this rotten system would have us believe is possible.Monica and Page sat down with insurgent educator and activist Bill Ayers to talk about his book and envision strategies for building the movement we need to make a world worth li…

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Episode 27: The Warmth of Other Suns with Walter May 38:43

7y ago38:43

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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of Black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in sea…

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Episode 26: Exile & Pride with Alison Kopit 44:38

7y ago44:38

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First published in 1999, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare is a groundbreaking book in the political realm of disability politics, and essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the intersections of queerness, disability, environmentalism, class, race, and more.Monica and Page sat down with Alison Kopit, …

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