18 min
Ep 9: Digital Skin Color, Either/Or Thinking, and Pizza in Dakar The Joyous Justice Podcast
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April and Tracie riff on a seemingly small manifestation of white dominance in our everyday lives: the skin color of emojis. The discussion of digital skin tone leads into a conversation about racial implications of the Simpsons' yellow hue, and on to a focused training about the ways that seemingly benign binaries turn up in malignant ways.
Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com
Learn more about April’s work at Joyous Justice: https://joyousjustice.com/
Learn about Tracie at TracieGuyDecker.com and read more of her thoughts at bmoreincremental.com
Resources mentioned:
"Why White People Don't Use White Emoji" by Andrew McGill in The Atlantic May 9, 2016
On the Simpsons Character Apu: a documentary The Problem with Apu (2017)
April's 10 Jewish Principles for Advancing Racial Justice
An article on the characteristics of White Supremacy Culture.
Sao Brazil in Dakar, Senegal
April and Tracie riff on a seemingly small manifestation of white dominance in our everyday lives: the skin color of emojis. The discussion of digital skin tone leads into a conversation about racial implications of the Simpsons' yellow hue, and on to a focused training about the ways that seemingly benign binaries turn up in malignant ways.
Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com
Learn more about April’s work at Joyous Justice: https://joyousjustice.com/
Learn about Tracie at TracieGuyDecker.com and read more of her thoughts at bmoreincremental.com
Resources mentioned:
"Why White People Don't Use White Emoji" by Andrew McGill in The Atlantic May 9, 2016
On the Simpsons Character Apu: a documentary The Problem with Apu (2017)
April's 10 Jewish Principles for Advancing Racial Justice
An article on the characteristics of White Supremacy Culture.
Sao Brazil in Dakar, Senegal
18 min