Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast

You want me to come out but get mad when I call you out. The name of this episode could have been "Congratulatory, Aggrandizing and Gross" but it's Pride month, so any talk about white folks being entirely interested in their internet outrage and disdain for the systems of oppression they benefit from most will be postponed til July 1st. Recommended, Referenced Reading: Tulsa Oklahoma Massacre in...

WHITE CIS MEN HAVE COMMITTED MORE MASS SHOOTINGS IN THE US THAN ANY OTHER GROUP...but I'm sleep. Black people are murdered and it’s an idea for a storyboard for a rap music video without a trigger warning. Black people are not paying attention, while the world continues to kill us. We only pay attention when black cis men tell us to. Listen to them. Black cis men know what we need. And we should l...

Typical day in America: people die at the hands of antiblack racism, people theorize about their deaths. An intellectual distancing from the deaths of black people doesn't stop it from happening. What are our options? Join us for a live episode of Hoodrat to Headwrap and if you feel some type of way, email us at **hoodratsandheadwraps@gmail.com** Recommended Reading: Stuffed and Starved by Raj Pat...

https://www.patreon.com/seren_sensei "The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us."---Audre Lorde To preamble the episode: We didn't talk about how Twitter and companies like it-Google, Facebook, etc. have whole diversity departments, committees and initiatives and...

Imagine that: a vision of Africa that puts the onus of "what it could have been" on an imaginative restructuring of a whole 53 country continent while failing to hold the European countries and institutions responsible for its perceived degradation accountable inside of a fictional universe created by a white person in the 60s, adapted to a film, produced by Disney. And it's only February. Join us...

Lots of memes declaring snarky platitudes and generalizing quips about astrological signs (e.g., what each sign would do in a horror movie, lots of other ones we can Pinterest lol)circulating round the net. Needless to say, the younger generation is getting witchy, but it wasn't cool to be witchy back in the day outside of 90s pop culture references, movies like The Craft w/ the tartan skirts, whi...

H & m and how companies stocks go up when they stoke black peoples' anger in order to get a rise out of the market and oh, yeah, the Golden Globes. This is your bonus episode of Hoodrat to Headwrap Recommended Reading: Excerpt from Nicole Ashcoff's book, The New Prophets of Capital: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/may/09/oprah-winfrey-neoliberal-capitalist-thinkers At the Dark End of...

Our last episode of the best and blackest year yet, we leaving 2017 with a pillar of salt in its wake. Recommended Reading on Obama Admin's mixed, nuanced immigration legacy: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not

A special winter is coming edition of HRHW where we reveal the ultimate gag about instagram activism, GOP tax cuts and how to be sad, mad and possibly okay. References: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/08/bill-gates-jeff-bezos-warren-buffett-wealthier-than-poorest-half-of-us http://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/38006/1/in-the-trump-era-money-is-black-peoples-greatest-weapon

Strange happenings that have nothing to do with Halloween, roaches at the W, one #metoo too many, and a live troll on this latest catch-up episode of HRHW

We're just being hella vulnerable with each other about relationships, including friendships, how and why they end and the traumas and triumphs that inform them.

Said lil b***h (anxiety) you can't f**k w/ me (you could) if you wanted to: Fenty, Football, Fanfare and Puerto Rican-U.S. diplomacy for dummies Tips to help folks help folks in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria: 1. Call Congress 202-224-3120 and tell them to release disaster aid now 2. Donate to mariafund.org, NOT the red cross *Correction of acronym: LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) Update: Jo...

Refusing to acknowledge how gender works isn't doing you any favors, so gather round for this long awaited, very special teach-in episode w/ Resident Headwrap Sexuality Educator Ericka Hart as she helps you help us destroy white supremacist cis het patriarchy. Referenced Reading: http://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/straight-black-men-are-the-white-people-of-black-people-1814157214

While DACA certainly isn't the enemy, patently xenophobic and anti-poor US Immigration Policy is certainly not a friend to those seeking refuge and opportunity in the land of the broke and home of the slave. Talking DACA, West Indian Day Parade, and a lil' bit of gender.

Ya'll remember that song by J. Cole featuring Drake, "In the Morning", where Drake's voice is hella scratchy as if the song was recorded in the morning and you couldn't tell if that was intentional or if the nigga throat was sore? Well, that's how we sound after this past weekend at Afropunk---the good, the bad, the binary. Find out if this shit was for us.

When even saying, "I hate white people" is a privilege.

Self-care, shit talk and real shit for Black and POC in Perpetual Charlottesville. Music by Nappy Nina https://soundcloud.com/nappy_nina