(Far) Left in Texas Podcast

Shannon Carter
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A far-left Texan in far-right Texas on the stories we tell about who we are here in the "Lone Star State." shannon316m6.substack.com

Episodes

  1. 01/20/2025

    Weaponizing (My) Abortion Stories

    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shannon316m6.substack.com

    30 min
  2. Draft: My Abortion Story

    01/17/2025

    Draft: My Abortion Story

    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shannon316m6.substack.com

    34 min

  3. 01/07/2025

    Police Arrest Children at a Texas Birthday Party held at a Neighborhood Pool in 2015

    “McKinney Pool Party” (video), available in full at Washington Post. W. Kamau Bell, “How Do You Know It’s Racism?” Comedy Album, A Semi-Prominent Negro, 2017. Jessica Williams, “McKinney Bikini,” The Daily Show with John Stewart, 2025. “McKinney Pool Party,” Viral Video, June 2015. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shannon316m6.substack.com

    32 min

  4. 01/05/2025

    1836: The Texas White Guy History Project

    TLDR: Texas House Bill 2497, better known as the 1836 Project, was a bill created in June 2021 by the Texas House of Representatives and was signed into law by Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas. The flagship project: a 15-page pamphlet designed to tell “the story of Texas” to be distributed at the DMV w/your driver’s license. This is the story whiteness tells to itself about itself. My goal: to interrogate that pernicious relationship between state-sanctioned “patriotic education” projects like this one and white supremacy. It’s a lot. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shannon316m6.substack.com

    30 min

  5. 01/03/2025

    Bonus: DW Griffith Interview/commentary

    Interview, D.W. Griffith (1935) “The Most Racist Movies in Cinematic History,” Left in Texas. Podcast. December 2023. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shannon316m6.substack.com

    16 min

  6. 01/14/2023

    Patriotism is Funny: How White Supremacy Hijacked Patriotism and How African American Satire Takes it Right the Hell Back

    You know where black comedy began, don’t you? It began on the slave ships (Richard Pryor, Bicentennial N-, 1976) Slavery . . . is not funny. Like, its not funny, you know what I mean? But if you can make it funny? Like, you gotta make it real funny. (Keegan-Michael Key, 2015) Episode includes the following: Dick Gregory, University of Iowa, Darwin Turner Lecture Series on Black Studies (1970); Richard Pryor (Bicentennial N-Word, 1976); Amber Ruffin, “Why We Need White History Month” (The Amber Ruffin Show, 2021); Franny Choi, “Whiteness Walks into a Bar” (2016). * Dick Gregory, 1970 (University of Iowa) Scholarship/theory to help us along with these readings/conversations: Morgan, Danielle Fuentes. Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century. (University of Illinois UP, 2020) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shannon316m6.substack.com

    49 min

  7. 01/12/2023

    Book Review: Texas Trounces the Left's War on History (2021), Episode 3 (1/11/23)

    Ames, Bill. Texas Trounces the Left’s War on History (Taylor Publishing, 2021) On Sandra Cisneros . . . I talk a lot about some undue and infuriating hate thrown at the beloved and brilliant Sandra Cisneros, from one of the “Moms” in the group Ames gleefully calls the “Mom’s Project” . . . she says Cisneros is being included in the third grade curriculum and “she writes erotic poetry!”). I talk about book covers, believing for sure the book included (unnamed in her written comment to the board) must be The House on Mango Street but also allow for the distant possibility that somehow for some reason the second exists somewhere in the orbit of this Garland mother and her three children . . . Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street (1983) The controversial covers of her book of powerful, empowering poetry . . . sexy, yes, beautiful and tasteful—but in a pretty damn tame, to my mind. Cisneros, Sandra. My Wicked, Wicked Ways (1987) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shannon316m6.substack.com

    57 min

  8. 01/12/2023

    Film Review: The Most Racist Movies in Cinematic History (1915), Episode 2

    The Birth of Texas: Martyrs at the Alamo (1915) The Birth of a Nation (1915) Interview, DW Griffith (1930) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shannon316m6.substack.com

    1h 4m
  9. (Far)Left in Texas: History as Propaganda

    01/10/2023

    (Far)Left in Texas: History as Propaganda

    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shannon316m6.substack.com

    49 min
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