LeftPOC

Left POCket Project Podcast
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Bringing you the history of leftists of color one swipe at a time. This podcast is hosted by Left POCket Project creator Wendi Muse & her co-host Richard. Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

  1. 93. Afterhours with Sudip Bhattacharya - Left POCket Project Podcast

    NOV 3

    93. Afterhours with Sudip Bhattacharya - Left POCket Project Podcast

    See full show notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dXuc9D8b8vxZmr8bd2J33Z11Cwt2dQ3gzaAuCbs9MGw/edit?usp=sharing --- “We Need Socialism” - original discussion w/Sudip Bhattacharya: https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/left-pocket-project-podcast-we Sudip Bhattacharya’s works cited in the discussion “There is no socialism without the end of u.s. empire” https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/spring-2025/there-is-no-socialism-without-the-end-of-u-s-empire/ “The Illusion of a Renaissance” (on Jersey City) https://strangematters.coop/jersey-city-gentrification-and-multiculturalism-steven-fulop/ — Theme song by Michael Salamone Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/@leftpoc Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

    3h 8m
  2. 92. Back 2 School in a Hypercapitalist Hellscape - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast

    SEP 1

    92. Back 2 School in a Hypercapitalist Hellscape - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast

    In this episode, I talk about the hypercapitalist hellscape back to school season has become, how this economic system leads to harm and neglect of children, and the ways parents and caregivers have historically pushed back (and still can in the present)! — Learn more about the Left POCket Project via:
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    1h 9m
  3. 91. We Need Socialism - Interview w.Sudip Bhattacharya- Left POCket Project Podcast

    JUL 24

    91. We Need Socialism - Interview w.Sudip Bhattacharya- Left POCket Project Podcast

    In this episode, I speak with Sudip Bhattacharya, PhD candidate in political science at Rutgers about left political thought and organizing among BIPOC and the need for socialism as we collectively confront the ongoing harms of capitalism and neoliberalism. — Works/Issues Cited in the Podcast Sudip Bhattavcharya - “Attacking Difference, Pursuing Unity: Building a Socialist Movement amidst a Dynamic Working Class” in From the Academy to the Streets: Notes from a Working Class Think Tank (various authors, Colin Jenkins, editor) https://www.iskrabooks.org/hampton-reader Steve Phillips https://www.thenation.com/authors/steve-phillips/ Daron Acemoğlu https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/directory/daron-acemoglu Assata Shakur http://www.assatashakur.org/ (archive of writings and interviews) Claudia Jones -Carole Boyce Davies - Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones https://www.dukeupress.edu/left-of-karl-marx -Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean - Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women's Political Writing https://www.versobooks.com/products/2881-organize-fight-win?srsltid=AfmBOorReXXKeF6V9ZfPtFvNO9ZlITZunNe7Bx5m4q5-CyOsjstuHuTR -The Political Writings of Claudia Jones https://1804books.com/products/a-fighting-dream-the-political-writings-of-claudia-jones?srsltid=AfmBOoodwNEnDwRcZk7gQC1oV-AoYrj_WeLs6rcFcZl46WNc2mF1Izsb Efrén O. Pérez - Diversity’s Child: People of Color and the Politics of Identity https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo103673599.html Janelle Wong, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Taeku Lee, and Jane Junn - Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities https://www.russellsage.org/publications/asian-american-political-participation Sonia Song-Ha Lee - Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City https://uncpress.org/book/9781469629803/building-a-latino-civil-rights-movement/ Frantz Fanon - The Wretched of the Earth https://dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-wretched-of-the-earth/The%20Wretched%20Of%20The%20Earth.pdf Schuyler Mitchell - “Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Shows the Progressive Promise of Ranked-Choice Voting” https://truthout.org/articles/zohran-mamdanis-victory-shows-the-progressive-promise-of-ranked-choice-voting/ Glen Ford - The Black Agenda https://orbooks.com/catalog/the-black-agenda/ Mitchell Plitnick - ‘“Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts” https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/biden-staffers-admit-what-we-all-knew-white-house-lied-about-ceasefire-efforts/ Mia Ives-Rublee and Kim Musheno - “The Truth About the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare” https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-truth-about-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-acts-cuts-to-medicaid-and-medicare/ — Learn more about the Left POCket Project via:
Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC
Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc
Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe:
Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc
Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC"
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts
Youtube: www.youtube.com/@leftpoc Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

    1h 52m
  4. 90. Storytelling as Resistance - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast

    10/07/2024

    90. Storytelling as Resistance - Comrade Mommy - Left POCket Project Podcast

    an unfiltered Comrade Mommy episode about the ways storytelling becomes a mode of resistance amid colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and racialized violence --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/@leftpoc Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

    59 min
  5. REPLAY - Discourse on Colonialism, Pt 1. - Left POCket Project Podcast

    01/02/2024

    REPLAY - Discourse on Colonialism, Pt 1. - Left POCket Project Podcast

    REPLAY - Discourse on Colonialism, Pt 1. - Left POCket Project Podcast by Left POCket Project Podcast

    2h 59m
  6. 89. The Last of...Us? w/Dani - Left POCket Project Podcast

    04/09/2023

    89. The Last of...Us? w/Dani - Left POCket Project Podcast

    A discussion of race, class, and politics in the HBO series The Last of Us w/guest Dani. --- Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -Outro: "Wonder & Amazement" (feat. Jeremy Glenn) [Deetron Amazement Dub] by Grand Corporation --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/@leftpoc Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

    1h 28m
  7. 88. Discourse on Colonialism Pt 1 - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast

    02/23/2023

    88. Discourse on Colonialism Pt 1 - #ReadingRevolution - Left POCket Project Podcast

    In this episode, a #ReadingRevolution installment, we discuss the Introduction and closing interview in the 2001 edition of Aimé Césaire's 1950 anticolonial manifesto Discourse on Colonialism --- Readings & Resources: Brent Edwards - The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674011038 Négritude https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/negritude/ German Colonization of Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_colonization_of_Africa Matthias Häussler -  Herero Genocide:  War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HausslerHerero ---- Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -Outro: "Pooh Pah" by I:Cube --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/@leftpoc Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

    2h 56m
  8. 87. Dignified Work - Gender, Race, & Class in Labor in Brazil w. Dr. Cassie Osei - LeftPOC Podcast

    02/07/2023

    87. Dignified Work - Gender, Race, & Class in Labor in Brazil w. Dr. Cassie Osei - LeftPOC Podcast

    In this episode, Dr. Cassie Osei discusses her research on the history of Black women’s labor and related social change in Brazil, conducting research in Brazil as a Black woman herself, and the racial politics of the reality show Love Is Blind: Brazil. — Readings & Resources (from Dr, Osei): Paulina Alberto - Terms of Inclusion https://uncpress.org/book/9780807871713/terms-of-inclusion/#:~:text=Terms%20of%20Inclusion%20tells%20a,citizenship%20in%20twentieth%2Dcentury%20Brazil. Barbara Weinstein - “How does the painting ‘The Redemption of Ham’ by Modesto Brocos illustrate ideas of whitening?” https://www.choices.edu/video/how-does-the-painting-the-redemption-of-ham-by-modesto-brocos-illustrate-ideas-of-whitening/ Katia Costa Santos - “Black Girls of Ipanema” https://nacla.org/black-girls-ipanema Keisha-Khan Perry - Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/black-women-against-the-land-grab Kia Lilly Caldwell - Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/negras-in-brazil/9780813539577 Raquel Barreto - “Amefricanity: The black feminism of Lélia Gonzalez” https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/amefricanity PhDivas Podcast - “Afro-Brazilian Women’s History & Low Femme Theory with Dr. Cassie Osei” https://phdivaspodcast.wordpress.com/2022/05/27/s6e8-afro-brazilian-womens-history-low-femme-theory-with-dr-cassie-osei/ Professor Osei on social media: Twitter: @tropigalia Instagram:@brasilianista — (additional readings & resources): Edward Telles - Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691127927/race-in-another-america Juliana Barreto Farias (editor) - Black Women in Brazil in Slavery and Post-Emancipation https://dafricapress.com/Black-Women-in-Brazil-in-Slavery-and-Post-Emancipation-p81850749 Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman - The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477307885/ Silvio Almeida on youtube (em português) https://www.youtube.com/@silviolual “Maid Saved US$ 5,800 and Took Daughter to Disney World” https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2020/02/maid-saved-us5800-and-took-daughter-to-disney-world.shtml Love Is Blind Brazil https://www.netflix.com/title/81284981 — -Intro: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone -Outro: "Deixa Rolar” by MC Tas --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/@leftpoc Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

    1h 48m
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Bringing you the history of leftists of color one swipe at a time. This podcast is hosted by Left POCket Project creator Wendi Muse & her co-host Richard. Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

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  • Creator
    Left POCket Project Podcast
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2025
  • Episodes
    96
  • Rating
    Explicit
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