UNWOKE: A Memoir in Episodes

Jebra Faushay
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Jebra Faushay did everything right. She marched. She masked. She decolonized. She was, by any reasonable progressive measure, one of the good ones. Then something went wrong. UNWOKE is the fictional memoir of one suburban Los Angeles mother's eight-year descent into ideological certainty and her embarrassing, reluctant, deeply funny crawl back out. Each episode follows Jebra through the events that defined a decade of American life: CHAZ, an ecosexual wedding, a decolonized Thanksgiving, a crypto scam, a rage choir, and the slow realization that she may have been the problem all along.

Episodes

  1. 1D AGO

    Chapter 4: Bison Horns & Chapter 5: Ginsburg Derangement Syndrome

    It's January 6th, and Jebra will never forget the fear shefaced that day. She locks every door and window in case the insurrectionistsbook a connecting flight to LAX. She converts the pantry into an emergency bunker with canned chickpeas and dried jackfruit. She starts a GoFundMe for her emotional recovery. Then Ginsburg comes home from the park radicalized. He islistening to The Daily Wire. He has hung an American flag in his room. He has created a PowerPoint about small government. Jebra emails Ibram X. Kendi for help, but he doesn't reply.She researches orphanages in Canada to rehome him. She buys a telescope to monitor her neighbors, whom she suspects are radical MAGA. She considers pubertyblockers for Ginsburg’s ongoing interest in right-wing politics. Then she Googles "symptoms of political radicalizationin children" and finds something she wasn't looking for.

    19 min

  2. 2D AGO

    Chapter 2: Traitor Joe & Chapter 3: The Summer of Love

    Jebra's neighbor Joe offers to fill her tire. He is Black. He has a Let's Go Brandon sticker. Jebra struggles to be an ally and to convince him to accept reparations. Then George Floyd happens, and Jebra does what any committed ally would do — she takes her reluctant teenage daughter to CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, packs organic mushroom jerky, and prepares for the Summer of Love. Featuring: a glow-in-the-dark BLM flag, five Blacknificent t-shirts, a gender-fluid Anne Frank play by candlelight, a tear gas canister to the chest, and Literaleigh eating a Cinnabon at the airport while her mother processes her radicalization.

    21 min

  3. 2D AGO

    Chapter One: Biden Spiritually Renewed Me

    It's 2016, and Jebra Faushay is certain Hillary Clinton will win. She has the fireworks, the vegan charcuterie, and the champagne ready to uncork. In the first chapter of UNWOKE, Jebra takes us through the election night that broke her, the COVID years that consumed her, and the glorious arrival of Joe Biden, coming to save the country. Featuring: a four-hour champagne hunger strike, a hazmat suit at Whole Foods, six keyed cars, and the ancestry results that made her 0.1% African and 100% certain she was now BIPOC.

    18 min

  4. APR 30

    Podcast Trailer

    Before Chapter 1, meet Jebra Faushay. Suburban Los Angeles mother, former ally, recovering activist. This is her story. UNWOKE: A Memoir in Episodes, new chapters every Monday.

    1 min
  • 4 Episodes

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Jebra Faushay did everything right. She marched. She masked. She decolonized. She was, by any reasonable progressive measure, one of the good ones. Then something went wrong. UNWOKE is the fictional memoir of one suburban Los Angeles mother's eight-year descent into ideological certainty and her embarrassing, reluctant, deeply funny crawl back out. Each episode follows Jebra through the events that defined a decade of American life: CHAZ, an ecosexual wedding, a decolonized Thanksgiving, a crypto scam, a rage choir, and the slow realization that she may have been the problem all along.

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