Here's The Thing, Tho with Soaliha

This week we discuss interracial dating - all things internalised racism, awkward race preferences and the unique challenges that come with dating someone outside your culture.   We answer some questions about interracial dating scenarios from listeners and use those to get into discussions around our own relationship   Instagram: @soalihaofficial  Email: heresthethingthopodcast@gmail.com PayPal:...

This week we discuss internalised racism - what it means, how it manifests in our lives and the damaging effects it has on POC's self worth and identity.  We talk about skin bleaching, fetishising mixed race babies, the exotification of WOC, the emasculation of brown men, the model minority myth and the pursuit of white validation.   Instagram: @soalihaofficial  Email: heresthethingthopodcast@gmai...

An icon of women’s rights and gender equality: the esteemed and much loved RBG’s death has left the world reeling, but as critics highlight the inconsistencies of her politics, we must ask -- who was the Notorious RBG? In this episode we discuss the issue of idolising political figures, the duality of RBG, white feminists and their penchant for putting powerful white women on iconised pedestals, a...

This week we discuss the power of makeup - does it really empower us? Can it ever be liberating? Or does it just reinforce unattainable beauty standards and strengthen our ties to the capitalist machine?  We talk about the myth of cosmetic-related “empowerment”, the positive feedback loop that keeps us reapplying our makeup, girlboss culture and the commodification of our bodies.  Instagram: @soal...

This week we debate the value of token diversity - does it really make a difference to society? Is it actually progressive? Is it worth fighting for?  We discuss John Boyega’s recent GQ interview about how Disney did him dirty, and wonder if the suffering POC go through to bring us on-screen diversity is worth the hate they are subjected to for it.  Instagram: @soalihaofficial  Email: heresthethin...

Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast!  This week we talk about the toxicity of white feminism and how it exists in direct opposition to intersectional feminism (the only valid feminism). We discuss ways white feminism excludes and attacks WOC (hello tone-policing), and if white women have a place in intersectional spaces.  Instagram: @ soalihaofficial Email: heresthethingthopodcast@gmai...