The War and Treaty’s Michael and Tanya Trotter grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and Washington, DC, respectively, but both have family roots in the South. They also grew up in the musical traditions of their churches – Tanya in the Black Baptist Church and Michael in the Seventh Day Adventist Church – where they learned the power of song to move people. After becoming a father at a very young age, Michael eventually joined the armed forces and served in Iraq and Germany, where he took up songwriting as a way of dealing with his experiences there. Meanwhile Tanya embarked on a singing and acting career after a breakthrough appearance in Sister Act 2 alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Lauryn Hill. Now, after a long and sometimes traumatic journey, Michael and Tanya are married, touring, winning all sorts of awards, and set to release their fifth album together, and their fourth as The War and Treaty. Sid talks to Michael and Tanya about the new record, Plus One , as well as their collaboration with Miranda Lambert, what it was like to record at FAME studios in Muscle Shoals, and how they’re blending country, soul, gospel, and R&B. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
Platypod is the official podcast of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. We talk about anthropology, STS, and all things tech. Tune in for conversations with researchers and experts on how technology is shaping our world. (Jingle by chimerical. CC BY-NC 4.0)
Platypod is the official podcast of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. We talk about anthropology, STS, and all things tech. Tune in for conversations with researchers and experts on how technology is shaping our world. (Jingle by chimerical. CC BY-NC 4.0)
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Yifan Xia can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/03/what-are-walking-simulators-ethnographically/. About the post: “Gaming” is conceptually branching out. It “virtually” overlaps with museum visuals and actively engages with lived cultures and heritage. Both developments point out that perhaps even with the prevalence of computation, there is still something we can learn from sociocultural anthropology, especially the anthropological ways of writing cultures – ethnography.…
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Cheryl Hagan can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/02/responsible-ai-in-action-beyond-policy-regimes/. About the post: Researchers at RAIL are acting in good faith and their research requires them to negotiate and make choices that result in both inclusion and exclusion. They are also making choices that have been structured by colonial legacies.…
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Katrina Nicole Matheson can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/02/the-cyborg-is-dead-the-node-rises/. About the post: As social scientists, we can contribute to the creation of liberatory networks by shifting from investigations of embodied hybridity to examinations of nodality: why nodes connect and how they authenticate social constructions. Arguably, this shift supports an epistemic departure from algorithmic Modernity to whatever qualitative, post-AI ethos may come next.…
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by A.R.E. Taylor can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/02/major-internet-outages-are-getting-bigger-and-occurring-more-often-a-reflection-on-the-crowdstrike-it-outage/. About the post: The CrowdStrike outage provided us with an eye-opening reminder of the vulnerabilities that arise from the centralization of computing infrastructure. When one corporation dominates its market to the extent that CrowdStrike does with endpoint security, the result is a single point of failure.…
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Emery Vanderburgh can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/02/disruptions-in-grace-embracing-mutation-and-disability-in-nature-through-art/. About the post: For disabled audiences, an artistic language that represents how we see our skills, barriers and bodies can help to unite us by updating our activism’s symbology to match new theories of disability.…
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Amrita Kurian can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/01/thinking-with-epistemic-things-quality-and-its-consequences-in-agri-commodities-markets/. About the post: What happens when an "epistemic thing"—an unstable, experimental object of scientific research—is taken out of the controlled confines of the lab or the pages collated from a scientific symposium and introduced into the real world?…
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Rosario Rm can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/12/on-menstruation-and-feeling-shame/. About the post: Menstruation as a subject of study is not new. Margaret Mead, Mary Douglas, Chris Bobel, Miren Guillo, and Karina Felitti, among many others, have discussed how menstruation has been related to specific practices, and how taboos present great dynamism and variability as specific cultural constructions frequently linked to systems of bodily control and gender. In this article, I present the advances of research that explores how taboos associated with menstruation are reflected in the bodily and emotional trajectory of menstruating women and people through the implementation of a methodology based on the collective construction of emotional corpobiographies (Ramírez, 2024). (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)…
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Valerie Berseth can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/12/swimming-against-the-current-navigating-distrust-in-open-science/. About the post: In the effort to build trust in science, the complexities of distrust must be confronted. Open science practices alone are unlikely to address deeper issues of power and people’s past experiences with technology, particularly in times of increasing scarcity and uncertainty.…
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Insha Bint Bashir, Luis Felipe R. Murillo and Matias Milia can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/12/commons-in-science-and-technology-dispatches-from-the-seekcommons-network/. About the post: As a distributed network of researchers, technologists, and environmental activists, we proposed, therefore, to shift the frame from debates about the promises and perils of “openness” to the anthropological question of the “common” as a mode of participatory governance that sits in between markets and states, but also, and most importantly, as a political principle for community-building around common tools and approaches to socio-environmental studies.…
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Henry Snow can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/12/work-together-eat-bread-together-stardew-valley-and-the-dream-of-the-commons/. About the post: “The Farm” is a saccharine settler colonialist homestead fantasy that legitimizes an industrial production process as dystopian as any. Perhaps the American gamer wants this too.…
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by PRATYUSHA KIRAN can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/11/underneath-it-all-unveiling-the-toxic-reality-of-fast-fashion-underwear-and-the-social-dimension-of-health/. About the post: The health concerns related to fast fashion primarily stem from chemicals in synthetic dyes and other low-quality raw materials used by manufacturers to keep the prices low. Exposure to these chemicals can be through the wastewater generated during manufacturing, and from direct contact with clothing itself.…
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam and Maythe Han can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/11/dining-with-dogs-more-than-human-relations-in-food-media/. About the post: Human and nonhuman lives may have first become closely entangled with the rise of agriculture as we raised animals to eat, and other animals that could help us manage the animals we raised to eat. However, the relationality between humans and animals expanded beyond that based on function and survival since the advent of agriculture. Today, we share our homes with them, and, as we will discuss in this post, our food and eating practices with them as valued members of more-than-human families, co-participating and co-producing our complex and ever-evolving cultures surrounding food.…
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Aikaterini Mitselou and Isabell Hedke can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/11/green-lady-cambodia-a-small-initiative-for-a-big-change-on-menstrual-health-and-hygiene-education/. About the post: Achieving menstrual health is crucial for attaining good health and well-being, ensuring quality education and promoting gender equality.…
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Guillermo Echauri can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/11/the-evolution-of-the-digital-divide-new-dimensions-of-digital-inequality/. About the post: From the emergence of the Web, through milestones such as the rise of mobile phones and social media, and up to the current hype around AI, the development, access, and use of digital technologies have not been exempted from the impact of prevailing global inequalities, especially socio-economic ones. As these disparities emerge between regions, nations, societies and communities, digital inequalities continue to arise through various means and ways. (This episode is available in additional languages on Platypus, The CASTAC Blog.)…
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Savannah Mandel can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/10/trade-versus-academic-press-part-2-of-publishing-in-academia/. About the post: The decision between the two publishers was not simple. It was financial. It was personal. It was intellectual. It was also ideological.…
Welcome to Player FM!
Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.