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Welcome to Season TWO of Dating White! 
In this episode, your hosts Myisha + Nkechi check in with each other and discuss their own journeys in processing the last year. What does the "new normal" look like now in dating and partnership? What will it look like in the future?
Also, we've invited a few guests to drop in for Season Two. We're so excited to share more perspectives, stories, and insight with our listeners.
 
 

Mycall Akeem Riley went to a predominantly white upper middle class high school. As a Black gay teen, his first crushes were on sad white boys. In this episode, Mycall reflects on his earliest attractions and the complicated experiences that led up to a no white BFs policy. 

Season 16, i.e., 1,000,000 of The Bachelorette was WILD. If you somehow missed this history making season of reality TV, Nkechi + Myisha are here to hold your hand and break it down for you from the Dating White perspective. We're talking about interracial dating and the way it's misrepresented, and underrepresented in media. And more importantly, how getting it wrong is keeping us from having discussions about race in our romantic relationships. 

As a Black woman of mixed race, Shaquille Heath has a lot of experience navigating microaggressions pointed at her Blackness (is she Black enough?) and her long term partnership with a white man. In this episode, Shaquille describes what it was like growing up in Utah and how working in tech and then the arts has brought her further and further into white spaces, despite living in a city as diverse as San Francisco. She also shares with us how she managed, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, the burden of being “[the] only black friend, maybe even [the] only black acquaintance,” a role she was previously unaware of that reshaped how she sees allyship now.

In this episode Nkechi and Myisha examine what was said and unsaid when Oprah interviewed Meghan and Harry back in March. Was too much burden placed on Meghan to explain the racist events that led to her family leaving the Royals behind? And just how much sympathy should we even expect from a royal legacy of colonial imperialism? We. get. into. it.

On this episode of Dating White, Nkechi + Myisha chat with Alexandra Ofori-Atta about trying to find connection through online dating in COVID, the challenges of being someone's first non-white partner and the allure of the sad white guy (something they all relate to). Listen to hear amazing anecdotes about the complexities of modern dating and what it means to perform wokeness!