Can You Hear Us Now: Inclusivity in the Media

Guest:  Mariam Ali

Guests include Professor Carl Kenney and Dr. Meredith Clark

Guests: Rachel Ferris, Uma Volety

Guest:  Cory Shinohara

Guest: Abbey Forbes

Guests:  Alexis Gardner, Ashleigh Crawley, J'Sha Gift

Guest; Joy Goodwin

Guests:  Mballa Mendouga, Essence LaTalia

Guest:  Andrew Prevatte

Guests:  Aditya, Stephen Anderson, Ken Weiss

Guest  Erin Matson

Guests   Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig Ineye Komonibo

This episode will discuss the 2023 Barbie movie. The team members explore how the public felt, the themes found in the film, and how we believe the movie could have been better or more inclusive. This episode is an overall critique the film from different perspectives since it was so popular amongst young adults and was featured heavily in the media.

Guest, Dr. Hailey Otis

Guests include Tamu Lewis, Florisel Hernandez, and Carolyn Weekes

Guests David Garcia is a professor of music at UNC Chapel Hill specializing in the research of black and Latin music in the Americas. He is the director of UNC’s Cuban dance and salsa music ensemble, Charanga Carolina, and he has several distinguished published works relating to the origins and presence of Latin and black culture in popular music.    Eran Akyil is a resident DJ at Stillife Chapel...

This episode explores the disparities and discrimination within healthcare. We aim to show how unequal the American healthcare system is in terms of who gets treated and how, as well as accessibility. Our guest, Dr. Nori Comello, discusses how health can be framed to represent different identities better.

This episode will focus on the authentic representation of different groups, what this looks like for different social communities, and what this means for the people that identify as members of those communities in the entertainment industry as a whole (fashion and workplace). Our team spoke to Clay Morris, the Editor-in-Chief of Coulture Magazine, a fashion and lifestyle magazine at UNC-Chapel H...

This episode will detail the pros and cons of Cancel Culture. Our team has a discussion with UNC senior, Kene Uwajeh, who is a Black content creator and dives into her experiences as a creator; the good, the bad, the ugly and most importantly, how she has dealt with cancel culture. We also discuss the unfairness that is shown to people of color in the media industry, focusing on how certain action...

This episode will take a deep dive into a few different popular media tropes/stereotypes, where they come from, and the harm that they do. Media tropes don't just come out of nowhere, so we want to explore some of them and their origins, give examples, and discuss them further than they are often discussed. Our team speaks to Dr. Antonia Randolph and Professor Rick Warner about the use of tropes i...

In June 2022, the Supreme Court overruled the landmark decision of Roe versus Wade. This decision eliminates the federal jurisdiction granting access and privacy to reproductive healthcare. Power is left entirely to state representatives to generate their legislatures deciding if they will permit limited, or any, reproductive access at all. This episode explores how this ruling will affect women a...

This podcast is an explores the ways men receive messages saying they have to be manly enough, where those messages come from, and how we see it manifest in our society today. UNC student Zach Turnage offers perspectives on what it’s like to be a man on a daily basis, including the judgment he has faced for showing emotion from peers and the role of female figures in his life. UNC Women and Gender...

In the media, African American female collegiate athletes are underrepresented among their peers. This episode will examine the perspective and role of black women in college sports and sports administration, as well as their trials and triumphs. Our panel includes Dr. Deborah Stroman, Marlynn R. Jones, and Abbey Forbes. Their expertise in the industry provides insight into the shortcomings of Tit...