S1, E4 The World is Basura en Fuego

The world is a dumpster fire! Today we're talking about what's been helping us get through quarantine, the Anthropocene and the hypocrisy of its hyper-ethics, Black feminist futurity and imagination and environmental racism and the slow violence of redlining, superfund sites, and the water in Flint, MI. We also discuss the value of taking up arms versus taking up community care during and after the revolution, as well as the ethics, politics, and erotics of sharing videos of Black death. Liked what you heard? Donate here! Discussed this week: Blackness and the Pitfalls of Anthropocene Ethics (Axelle Karera, 2019) Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Donna J. Haraway, 2016) How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering (The New York Times, Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich, 2020) In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Christina Sharpe, 2016) Transcript is available on our website here. Be sure to check out the Syllabus for Zora's Daughters 100. Follow us @zorasdaughters on Instagram and @zoras_daughters on Twitter!

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What is cultural appropriation? Should Black people really get 40 acres? Is abolition even possible? Learn and unlearn about these and other hot topics of interest to Black folks as Alyssa and Brendane close read pop culture through the lens of academic scholarship and colorful insight. Our hope is that you will gain new perspectives that inspire you to start conversations and make real change.