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This Is Black Focus: An Open Discussion podcast is for anyone and everyone willing to broaden their horizons and understanding of complex issues as it relates to social justice. This is the place where conversations of current events, pop culture, and analyzing the current political climate takes place. Listen with your friends and family, and engage every week in this open discussion.
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S2E4: Exploring the Bisexual Community
Welcome back to An Open Discussion podcast and welcome to Season 2: Plumb the Depths
Episode 4 encompasses a conversation with S|HE probing the conversation and stigma around the bisexual community. Listen in on this deep dive into a community within a community. Listen to S|HE as they articulate powerful critiques of societal conditioning and how it directly impacts human behavior.
Watch This is Black Focus: An Open Discussion every Monday and Friday.
This season Kenya & S|HE are hitting the ground running with two episodes a week. S|HE's episodes will air on Mondays and Kenya's will air on Fridays. This season is organized around interrogating the origins of definition making and challenging cultural competency through an intersectional lens. Engage in the conversation as we deep dive into the complex ways we deal with and unknowingly accept antiblackness.
Conditioning is a strong slave master and we plan to equip viewers with all the information necessary to cultivate a better understanding of the perils our world faces today. Have we missed a topic you feel needs more attention? Comment below and let us know! We will make every effort to discuss what's important to our viewers, so you can feel just as connected to the dialogue as we do.
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S2E3: Unlearning Conditioning & Imagination Building
Welcome back to An Open Discussion podcast and welcome to Season 2: Plumb the Depths
Episode 3 encompasses a conversation with Kenya that is based on an analysis of the psyche and self awareness. This is episode is information packed from beginning to end!
On this episode, expect a deep dive into defining unlearning and the many facets that coincide with decolonizing mentality, perspective, and experience with personal anecdotes from Kenya Harris.
Watch This is Black Focus: An Open Discussion every Monday and Friday.
This season Kenya & S|HE are hitting the ground running with two episodes a week. S|HE's episodes will air on Mondays and Kenya's will air on Fridays. This season is organized around interrogating the origins of definition making and challenging cultural competency through an intersectional lens. Engage in the conversation as we deep dive into the complex ways we deal with and unknowingly accept antiblackness.
Conditioning is a strong slave master and we plan to equip viewers with all the information necessary to cultivate a better understanding of the perils our world faces today. Have we missed a topic you feel needs more attention? Comment below and let us know! We will make every effort to discuss what's important to our viewers, so you can feel just as connected to the dialogue as we do.
Subscribe to catch the latest episodes and stay in the know with two trusted academics.
Follow us on Social media:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisisblackfocus/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/weareblackfocus
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThisisBlackfocus/
For more streaming platform options, see our linktree:
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References:
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1384&context=tvc
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/why-social-movements-need-radical-imagination/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03626784.2020.1813001?casa_token=S5jrV7ahENwAAAAA:x7xXk922K2OgTnx1r3Aer2Ietpw8TNOOrkWL2LyZCeRejyttB7XxjJk8Q__hpNM8x0oXiz7wQFE3
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0377919X.2020.1842017?needAccess=true
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1631368?scroll=top&needAccess=true -
S2E2: The Depths of the Lesbian & Gay Community
Welcome back to An Open Discussion podcast and welcome to Season 2: Plumb the Depths
Episode 2 encompasses a conversation with S|HE that is based in definition building and historical context. In this episode you will hear about:
-Defining the labels Lesbian & Gay, & learning when/how to use them
-The significance of the Stonewall Riots
-A lesson every minority can learn from the Lesbian community
Watch This is Black Focus: An Open Discussion every Monday and Friday.
This season Kenya & S|HE are hitting the ground running with two episodes a week. S|HE's episodes will air on Mondays and Kenya's will air on Fridays. This season is organized around interrogating the origins of definition making and challenging cultural competency through an intersectional lens. Engage in the conversation as we deep dive into the complex ways we deal with and unknowingly accept antiblackneess.
Conditioning is a strong slave master and we plan to equip viewers with all the information necessary to cultivate a better understanding of the perils our world faces today. Have we missed a topic you feel needs more attention? Comment below and let us know! We will make every effort to discuss what's important to our viewers, so you can feel just as connected to the dialogue as we do.
Subscribe to catch the latest episodes and stay in the know with two trusted academics.
Follow us on Social media:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisisblackfocus/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/weareblackfocus
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThisisBlackfocus/
For more streaming platform options, see our linktree:
https://linktr.ee/thisisblackfocus
References:
https://www.britannica.com/event/Stonewall-riots
https://gaycenter.org/about/lgbtq/
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Season 2: PLUMB THE DEPTHS Ep 1: The Olympics vs. Black Athletes
Welcome back to An Open Discussion podcast and welcome to Season 2: Plumb the Depths
Watch This is Black Focus: An Open Discussion every Monday and Friday.
This season Kenya & S|HE are hitting the ground running with two episodes a week. S|HE's episodes will air on Mondays and Kenya's will air on Fridays. This season is organized around interrogating the origins of definition making and challenging cultural competency through an intersectional lens. Engage in the conversation as we deep dive into the complex ways we deal with and unknowingly accept antiblackneess.
Conditioning is a strong slave master and we plan to equip viewers with all the information necessary to cultivate a better understanding of the perils our world faces today. Have we missed a topic you feel needs more attention? Comment below and let us know! We will make every effort to discuss what's important to our viewers, so you can feel just as connected to the dialogue as we do.
Subscribe to catch the latest episodes and stay in the know with two trusted academics.
Follow us on Social media:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisisblackfocus/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/weareblackfocus
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThisisBlackfocus/
For more streaming platform options, see our linktree:
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Episode 6: This is Understanding Queer Histories, Experiences, & Movements
Here is where the real conversation begins. Join Kenya Harris and Dr. Seth Stewart for this captivating conversation where the two discuss LGBTQ historical movements and experiences and apply their knowledge to broader conversation about social justice movements and centering LGBTQ and BIPOC experiences within them. The conversation is outlined with questions that address the broad strokes of understanding LGBTQ experiences, and Dr. Seth Stewart primes listeners with several resources for further research. This is Black Focus: An Open Discussion continues to push discussion in a meaningful way that encourages further discussion from their audience.
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Episode 5: This is Understanding Community & Parts of Queer Culture
On this episode of This is Black Focus: An Open Discussion, Kenya Harris discusses with guest speaker Lapis Lazuli the importance of community building and unpacking intersectional identities and their experiences. The two will discuss Afrofuturism as a primer for future discussions and use this conceptualization to frame ideas of inclusivity and progression. Join Kenya as she listens to the intellectual and spiritual guidance offered by Lapis Lazuli, and learn about a community, The Radical Faeries, within the LGBTQ community.