One Week A Thing One Week A Thing

This week, in honour of Black History Month, Sienna and Savannah teach each other something about Black history! Find all of our sources below, please go directly to these sources and more to do further learning, and when you are able send money to the Black people that are educating you online! 

Sienna’s Sources:

General Research: 

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-coloured-corps-african-canadians-and-the-war-of-1812

https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/culture/clmhc-hsmbc/res/information-backgrounder/richard-pierpoint

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/black-history-month/transcript-black-soldiers-fight-canada.html

Black History Month short interview with scholars:

https://www.tvo.org/video/bringing-overlooked-canadian-black-history-to-the-fore

This American Life - Talking While Black:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/758/talking-while-black

Docushort about a family’s black Canadian heritage: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCg1t3mdWwM&list=LL&index=2&t=633s

Savannah’s Sources:

28 Moments of Black Canadian History:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT9MbfNkf-UjoR-4wYeVWxiyxoIxQPlXF

theGrio: Video by Opiniated AF Danielle Young "AAVE is not Internet Culture":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_lyirTiedU&ab_channel=theGrio

So Much Modern Slang Is AAVE. Here’s How Language Appropriation Erases The Influence Of Black Culture - By Sydnee Thompson

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sydneethompson/aave-language-appropriation

Sydnee’s Article links this Source as well:
A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part 1

https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-oral-history-part-i-coming-together/

AAVE Explained: A Dialect That Transcends Internet Culture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnOLKqhx_Co&ab_channel=BabbelUSA

IT’S TIME TO STOP USING AAVE IF YOU’RE NOT BLACK - By Nina Doyle:

https://www.hercampus.com/school/bu/it-s-time-stop-using-aave-if-you-re-not-black/

The etiquette of whether to say ‘YAS QUEEN’ (Cicely-Belle Blain Quote):

https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/02/28/the-etiquette-of-when-to-say-yaas-queen.html#:~:text=The%20phrase%2C%20which%20is%20a,used%20by%20Black%20trans%20women.

SRT and SRT get into V-day. We talk classic Valentine’s Day gifts, money bouquets, first dates, Rom Coms, celebrity crushes and relationships. But above all we talk Kanye West internet controversy! Happy love day to all the beautiful hearts out there. We love you and you are enough. 💕

What’s up Weeklings. This week SRT and SRG dive deep in many direction. Listen as the duo offers live updates and commentary on the world’s ever growing population. SRG gets into therapy talk, SRT talks getting swol, the pair break down texting etiquette, and they both share even more tales of elementary school moments. 

Above all, we have a planets talk. Big ones, small ones, smouldering ones, and some that don’t quite make the cut (I’m looking at you Pluto).

Shoutout if you’re here reading this because SRG told you to. You’re the real MVP. This episode SRG discusses a weird consumerist dream, SRT talks her elementary school ghost club, and both share fond memories of winning prizes. SRG breaks down a very condensed and limited history of makeup. and we talk about how miserable non-binary candy is all we deserve. Shoutout to the orange M&M who has been selected as OWAT’s person of the year.

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-did-we-start-wearing-makeup

https://medusasmakeup.com/pages/history-of-makeup

https://www.geriwalton.com/french-mouches

https://nuvomagazine.com/daily-edit/the-origins-of-makeup

https://www.happi.com/issues/2020-10-01/view_out-of-africa/a-rich-colorful-history-for-african-cosmetics

https://www.racked.com/2018/1/23/16901594/black-makeup-brands-history

SRT and SRG try to sell you hot pocket perfume, slippers for cats, trucks, and Little Caesars. We make the cutest lil lists, look at a crazy fuckin’ big scary otter, and say some gross shit. There is a lot of laughing that makes some sense after years of carefully and lovingly built friendship, but we think you can enjoy it too. SRT schools SRG on the worlds fanciest crime couple, Bonnie and Clydie! And you know what they say: “Some days are tomato, some days are tomahhtoe. And some days are tomorrow.”

SRT and SRG have the biggest surprise for you. Bigger than a puppy on Christmas. Bigger than a mouse in your shoe. Bigger than Mariah Carey coming to your neighbours engagement party. Listen, and I mean listen for this HOT HOT HOT content. We also talk about how The Big Bang is G.O.A.T., What you would do if you found out you were The Patriarchy embodied, and SRT reveals herself to be a Tube Earther. Oh.. and also we touch on every Eon of Geological History that has ever existed…..And yah we know this is a bit like Atlantis but don’t lose your shorts. We will talk about Selling Sunset soon.