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The Other Story is podcast about the stories we live by. Each episode, we will examine a dominant narrative in our society and ask how it came to be, how it might be changed, and the role the entertainment industry has played in reinforcing or deconstructing it. You can find a transcription of each show as well as resources related to the topic of the episode at: https://theotherstory.substack.com/
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Man up. Take it like a man. Boys will be boys. Boys don’t cry. Don’t be such a girl. These familiar phrases reinforce long-standing patriarchal tropes about what it means to be a man. Those ideas about masculinity are constantly being modeled back to us in our media and are introduced into our psyches at a very young age - a recent study found that…
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Trans narratives with Dr. Susan Stryker
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Only 20% of Americans know someone who is transgender. That reality has meant the majority of the public learned all they know about Trans people from media depictions. This is a problem, since historically there has been little to no Trans representation in writers rooms. This has led to Trans characters often being portrayed in ways that perpetua…
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Black mental health narratives with Abraham Sisay
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We're going to be talking with Abraham Sisay about the portrayal of black mental health in the media. Abraham is the founder and lead strategist of Alkamba Company, a modern day content distribution agency based in Kansas City. He started his company to help create a bridge between cultures through storytelling. Abraham is also the creator and exec…
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Women's mental health narratives with Jessica Good
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Hysterical - that was an actual medical diagnosis used to describe women experiencing any type of mental health condition. Looking at women’s mental health through that bianary - the happy woman with no opinions or the insane, wild woman - has been the hallmark of how women’s mental health has been portrayed in film and television since the beginni…
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Mental health narratives with Ruhi Bhalla
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Hollywood has a long history of misrepresenting, well, just about everything having to do with mental health. A recent USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative study found that it is rare to find content with a mental health storyline, and those storylines are often disparaging, satirizing, or trivializing when made. These types of portrayals create fear…
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Youth mental health narratives with John MacPhee
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According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in five American youth experience a mental health condition, but as many as half will not seek out support. The way young people are conditioned to understand and respond to their experiences is often influenced by the media. So when programs about young people glamorize suicide, mock asking…
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Native American narratives with Maya Rose Dittloff
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In this episode, we speak with Maya Rose Dittloff, a Blackfeet, Mandan, and Hidatsa writer, director, and activist. We discuss the the essential role of narrative sovereignty in narrative change, and the growing world of Indigenous cinema as a response to that need. We’ll try to better understand how to identify and deconstruct these pervasive domi…
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Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) narratives, with Jaimie Woo
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The anti-Asian hate occurring across the US is finally shining a light on what has been a long history of oppressive and discriminatory narratives about the AAPI community. We speak with Jaimie Woo, Emmy-nominated creative producer, New York Times best-selling author, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion consultant, about the dominant narratives th…
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Jee Kim, founder of The Narrative Initiative, and Romain Vakilitabar, founder of PathosLabs, speak with Jennifer Gottesfeld about what narrative change actually means and how that work intersects with the entertainment industry.
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