Podcasts by Dear White Women
Biracial co-hosts Sara & Misasha - two wickedly smart, funny, compassionate best friends - have very mixed-race children between them, and are personally invested in helping to uproot systemic racism. Weekly episodes include interviews of people whose stories you might not often listen to; deep dives into history, psychology, and current events to explain why we are where we are as a country; and actions that you take right now to make change in your spheres. We're not perfect, but we're real. Join us on this journey.
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234: HOW to Have Uncomfortable Conversations, 2023 Version from 2023-12-05T08:00
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233: Hearts Recognize Hearts, with Ryan Alexander Holmes from 2023-11-21T08:00
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231: Schuyler Bailar, the Man Behind He/She/They from 2023-10-24T07:00
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230: Mixed Asians and Immigration: It’s Not A Simple Story from 2023-10-10T07:00
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229: Mixed Asian (Media) with Alex Chester-Iwata from 2023-09-26T07:00
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228: Multiracial Asians - It’s Time to Get Personal from 2023-09-12T07:00
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227: Reimagine Inclusion with Mita Mallick from 2023-08-29T07:00
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226: Birmingham, Bending Toward Justice, And Hope, with Doug Jones and Bill Baxley from 2023-08-15T07:00
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225: The Humanity Archive, with Jermaine Fowler from 2023-08-01T07:00
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224: Evergreen, with Naomi Hirahara from 2023-07-18T07:00
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223: Catching Up with Christine Platt from 2023-07-04T07:00
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222: The First, The Few, The Only with Deepa Purushothaman from 2023-06-20T07:00
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221: We’re Not Banning Books This Summer from 2023-06-06T07:00
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220: A Sound bowl Healing Session, with Christina Ifurung from 2023-05-23T07:00
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219: The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself, with David Mura from 2023-05-16T07:00
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218: White Women, Jane Crow, and The Gallery of Accomplices from 2023-05-09T07:00
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217: The Biracial Asian Experience in America from 2023-05-02T07:00
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216: Key Cases for SCOTUS In 2023, Part I from 2023-04-25T07:00
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215: We’re Still Talking About Affirmative Action from 2023-04-18T07:00
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214: Behind the Scenes: A Celebration to Kick Off Year FIVE of Dear White Women from 2023-04-11T07:00
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213: Why White Americans Turned Against Unions from 2023-04-04T07:00
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212: What Does a Lobbyist Actually Do? with David Louie from 2023-03-28T07:00
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211: The Role of District Attorneys in Mass Incarceration in America from 2023-03-21T07:00
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210: On Running for Office, with Trinidad Rodriguez from 2023-03-14T07:00
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209: It’s 2023, and the Police Still Don’t Care About Black People from 2023-03-07T08:00
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208: Negro League Baseball and MLB Today from 2023-02-28T08:00
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207: Civics 103 - All About Our Local Government from 2023-02-21T08:00
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206: How Being Anti-History Hurts All Of Us from 2023-02-14T08:00
When people think of the government or they think about elections, they often think about presidential elections, and big federal government. But more often than ...
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205: Civics 102: What Do State Governments Do? from 2023-02-07T08:00
We’re back in our Intro to Civics course! You know, the one you probably took in third grade and maybe, if you were lucky, in some form in middle and high school...
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204: Monterey Park, Baton Rouge, Half Moon Bay, and What We all Should Be Doing Now from 2023-01-31T08:00
This is not the episode we wanted to record this week - but it’s the one that we NEEDED to record this week. Why? Because just as we’re venturing down the rabbi...
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203: I’m Just A Bill… (Civics 101) from 2023-01-24T08:00
I’m just a bill, on Capitol Hill… do you remember that song, from Schoolhouse Rock? If that jogs your memory, this is the episode for you. If you’re too young to ...
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202: Kate Schatz&A White Woman’s Work from 2023-01-17T08:00
We promised to bring you more conversation about civics and engagement - and today we get to bring you a “real talk” episode about one of our favorite topics - ci...
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201: Women’s Health (NOT reproductive health), with Elix founder Lulu Ge from 2023-01-10T08:00
One of our philosophies is that anti-racism work has to be done in a way that’s sustainable - meaning, just like we can’t post a black square to Instagram and say...
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200: Big Plans for 2023 from 2023-01-03T08:00
Welcome to Episode 200 of our podcast, and welcome to 2023! Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu! (Happy New Year!)
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199: 2022 Year-End Recap from 2022-12-27T08:00
It’s that time of year when everyone starts to think about not only the end of this current year but also the beginning of the next. And friends, we’ve got some b...
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198: Everything Adoption - And We Mean EVERYTHING - with Patrick Armstrong from 2022-12-20T08:00
This was a conversation that made us lose track of time. Because even if the core conversation about transracial adoption doesn’t capture your attention - which ...
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197: Being Both Very Asian and American, with Michelle Li from 2022-12-13T08:00
It’s December, the time of year when it seems like regardless of whether you celebrate Christmas or Hannukkah or Kwanzaa or anything else or nothing at all, our s...
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196: Here’s HOW to Have Those Uncomfortable Holiday Conversations from 2022-12-06T08:00
We’ve been asked a lot about how to have uncomfortable conversations lately - namely, the reality that, yikes, my people are coming over for the holidays and how on earth do I handle it when tho...
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195: Why Survivors Need Financial Support, with FinAbility’s Stacy Sawin from 2022-11-29T08:00
For those of you who have been listening to Dear White Women from the beginning, or for those listeners who just joined us (welcome!), you probably understand tha...
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194: The Prosp(a)rity Project, with Briana Franklin from 2022-11-22T08:00
For a lot of the second half of this year, student debt relief and the student loan crisis have been in national news - and there have been a LOT of feelings abou...
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193: 100 Diverse Voices on Parenthood, with Jelani Memory from 2022-11-15T08:00
Hey, so remember how last week we were talking about how we have hope? This is another conversation and way of thinking that gives me hope - in particular for an...
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192: How We Win the Civil War, with Steve Phillips from 2022-11-08T08:00
If you’re reading this on the day this episode comes out, this is a big, big day in America. It’s Election Day 2022, and we don’t think it’s an understatement to ...
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191: About That Voter Fraud from 2022-11-01T07:00
DEAR WHITE WOMEN - About that Voter Fraud…
If you saw the title and thought “oh, I don’t believe voter fraud impacts me” or “oh, I live i...
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190: Why Abortion Became Political from 2022-10-25T07:00
Abortion, by all pollster accounts, seems to be one of – if not THE most – hot-button issues for the upcoming midterm elections in 2022. That’s why we thought it ...
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189: The Book, ONE YEAR LATER! from 2022-10-18T07:00
If you asked me (Misasha) at the end of 2021 how long it had been since we published our book, I would have told you 5 years, give or take 3 - because it felt lik...
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188: The Thread Collectors from 2022-10-11T07:00
Have you ever had your eyes glaze over when someone hands you a history textbook or walks you through a museum full of facts and dates? But then you hate yoursel...
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187: The Case for Physical Education In Every School from 2022-10-04T07:00
When you think of physical education, or PE, or gym class - what do you remember? Probably the physical side of it, like jump rope or pull-ups or dodgeball or ki...
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186: Reaganomics, Student Debt Relief, and Racism Are All Linked from 2022-09-27T07:00
Nothing to kick off this next episode like a fiery title, right? But in case it makes you question whether you’ll hit play, please know that this isn’t your typi...
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185: Democrats used to be Republicans - WHAT? from 2022-09-20T07:00
The 2022 Republican Party would have never been able to back Abraham Lincoln as their presidential candidate - except for one tiny detail: Lincoln
184: Do the Work with W. Kamau Bell from 2022-09-13T07:00
Someone very smart sent me an article just today that talks about the role of humor when we deal with stressful situations/anxiety-creating moments. And on that f...
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183: Do the Work, with Kate Schatz from 2022-09-06T07:00
In all of this anti-racism work, have you ever had a time when the fear of making a mistake kept you from speaking up? It’s not every day we get to interview a N...
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182: What Can I Do to Be More Anti-racist? The Not-a-Checklist Checklist from 2022-08-30T07:00
Over the last 3.5 years, we’ve had this weekly podcast (now on episode 182!), we’ve written a Listen
181: How A Single Judge from Texas Controlled US Immigration Policy from 2022-08-23T07:00
You might be tired of hearing about the Supreme Court taking away people’s rights - but the process behind how SCOTUS does that is important, as depending on the ...
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180: What We Did To Native American Kids - Federal Boarding Schools from 2022-08-16T07:00
In our book, we talk about the federal boarding schools that were just for Native American children - and by boarding schools, we mean that the U.S. government ro...
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179: Fancy Asians, Jungle Asians, and the Model Minority Myth from 2022-08-09T07:00
Have you ever been that kid who tugged at the corner of your eyes, pretending to be Asian, or maybe even mocked people of Asian descent? In today’s episode, Sara...
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178: What is Qualified Immunity, Anyway? from 2022-08-02T21:59:31
In 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, many of us heard the phrase “qualified immunity” for the first time in a new light - but what does the phrase even mean...
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177: Why Reproductive Justice Is Also About Race - Especially If You’re Black from 2022-07-26T07:00
This episode was recorded before the Dobbs decision came out, but it highli...
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176: Can I Say the N-Word? Absolutely Not. Here’s Why. from 2022-07-19T07:00
One question that comes up frequently enough from White, or non-Black, people to cause us to write not only a whole chapter in our book trying to answer it, but a...
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175: We’re Still Talking About Slavery - and You Should Be, Too from 2022-07-12T07:00
So our book, Dear White Women: Let’s Get (Un)comfortable Talking A...
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174: Post Roe – Turning Rage Into Action from 2022-07-05T07:00
For the past 3+ years, we’ve been getting loud on this podcast, where our stated mission is to help White women use their privilege to uproot systemic racism with...
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173: What to Say When You Hear “But All Lives Matter” from 2022-06-28T07:00
All Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter, and decentering the White experience in these conversations. That’s what we’re discussing in today’s episode, because White...
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172: On Performative Allyship from 2022-06-21T07:00
White people, you keep asking us what you can DO differently to be more anti-racist. So this summer, we’re answering that question in bite-sized ways. This isn’...
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171: On White Privilege from 2022-06-14T07:00
As biracial - Japanese and White - hosts of a long-running weekly podcast, we are very aware that, given how we look, we have, at times, benefited from White priv...
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170: On Being White from 2022-06-07T07:00
White people, you keep asking us what you can DO differently to be more anti-racist. So this summer, we’re answering that question in bite-sized ways. This isn’...
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169: Summer Kick-Off And AMA About Being Biracial from 2022-05-31T07:00
This summer, instead of spending 50-60 minutes sharing some of the most amazingly honest and thought provoking conversations that we’ve been personally privileged...
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168: The Overground Railroad, with Candacy Taylor from 2022-05-24T07:00
In 2003, Misasha drove across the country from New York to Los Angeles with two of her law school girlfriends. In her words: “We were all Asian, and this was the ...
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167: Ancestry and Belonging, with Ashlee Davis from 2022-05-17T07:00
If you’ve ever heard about Ancestry.com and thought that this wasn’t something for you due to your own family’s immigration story, or alternately if you love noth...
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166: Intersectionality and Intentionality with Meg He, Co-Founder of ADAY from 2022-05-10T07:00
When we’ve talked about intersectionality in the past, we’ve often talked about it with regard to race and gender, or gender and gender identity - but never quite...
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165: Dear White Women, Please Come Home - with Kimberlee Williams and Debby Irving from 2022-05-03T07:00
You know around here we love a good “Dear…” title, especially when it starts with “Dear White Women.” That’s why we were excited to sit down with this week’s gues...
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164: How We Talk About Race, and Other Hard Things, with Dr Dome from 2022-04-26T07:00
Our platform is called Dear White Women - and through it, we have this podcast, we have a book, we do talks - and a lot of our work, as biracial women, is to welc...
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163: Hey, You’re New to Anti-Racism - Where Do You Start? with Andre Brown from 2022-04-19T07:00
Sometimes we meet people completely new to the conversations about race and racism - and one of the things we say is important to do is to start with introspectio...
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162: What Does CRT Have To Do with Banned Books? from 2022-04-12T07:00
This episode’s topic was inspired by a webinar about banned books that featured Nikole Hannah-Jones, Nic Stone, and Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, in conversation with Dr. Emily Knox. IT. WAS. FIRE. But it...
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161: Unpacking Affirmative Action from 2022-04-05T07:00
April marks THREE YEARS since we started the Dear White Women podcast, so it’s only fitting that we run this back to talk about one of the issues that we get aske...
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160: Do We Really Have a “Pipeline Problem?" Women of Color in STEM, with Michele Heyward from 2022-03-29T07:00
This episode follows the same thread that we started in last week’s episode: namely, how do we create inclusive workplaces, especially for women of color...
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159: Inclusion on Purpose, with Ruchika Tulshyan from 2022-03-22T07:00
While some things have changed in the 18 years since Sara was in corporate America, a lot of things - namely, DEI work, how we talk about DEI, what words we use, ...
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158: Loveboat Reunion, with Abigail Hing Wen from 2022-03-15T07:00
For those of you who grew up not seeing yourself in books, or for those of you who did, but want to understand what that may be like for others - this next episod...
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157: All About Great Girlfriends, with Sybil Amuti from 2022-03-08T08:00
Today is International Women’s Day, which is 8 days into Women’s History Month. So it’s no surprise that we are here with Sybil Amuti, the founder of The Great G...
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156: Reclaiming Your Community from 2022-03-01T08:00
Community. Gentrification. Generational wealth. Low status. Brain drain. When you read those terms, what comes to mind for you? If you know what those words...
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155: When can we go back to America, with Susan H. Kamei from 2022-02-22T08:00
If you’re listening to this episode at the time of release, we’re three days past a momentous anniversary in United States history - and one that you may have nev...
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154: Who We Are, with Emily and Sarah Kunstler from 2022-02-15T08:00
There are those moments when you watch something, or learn something, that changes how you see not only yourself, but our history, along with the future, complete...
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153: A Kids Book About Racism, with Jelani Memory from 2022-02-08T08:00
At the time that A Kids Book About Racism was published, there was no other...
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152: Why We Need to See Midlife Women, with Valerie Albarda from 2022-02-01T08:00
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151: Change Begins with Breathing, with Kim Thai from 2022-01-25T08:00
Have you ever felt like you don’t belong somewhere simply because of one or more of your identities? Being biracial, we’ve felt that way in various settings - som...
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150: What to Do to Protect Voting Rights and Abolish the Filibuster from 2022-01-18T08:00
We had a different episode planned for this week, but in light of the fight that is going down in the Senate right now, we needed to re-release this episode on th...
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149: On Colorism, with Mita Mallick from 2022-01-11T08:00
If you’ve been on LinkedIn recently, it’s likely that someone you know has liked something that our next guest has written - because her posts are just THAT GOOD....
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148: Why We Need Critical Thinking Even More in 2022 from 2022-01-04T08:00
Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu! Or, in English, Happy New Year!
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147: Year-End Recap (Cheers to 2022!) from 2021-12-28T08:00
Well, we made it to the end of 2021. As we think back on this year, we’re sharing not only a little bit about the podcast and Dear White Women platform (along with our favorite episodes and gues...
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146: What Side of History Were You On in 2021? from 2021-12-21T08:00
We’re finally done with 2021… but if 2020-2021 taught us anything, it’s that this period of time we are living through will be examined in the history books. Our ...
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145: Tackling Anti-Racism with Empathy, with Syah B. from 2021-12-14T08:00
One thing that we’ve found to be true, from discussions around the book, to how to have uncomfortable conversations around the dinner or holiday tables, to sharin...
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144: The Sisters Are Alright: Stereotypes Black Women Face, with Tamara Winfrey-Harris from 2021-12-07T08:00
One of the questions that often has come up around our recent publication of our book (leave us a review on Amazon!) is what it was like to write the book during ...
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143: Decolonizing Wellness, with Dalia Kinsey from 2021-11-30T08:00
Our next guest is not only the author of a book we both can’t wait to read - Decolonizing Wellness Listen
142: Here’s HOW to Have Those Uncomfortable Holiday Conversations from 2021-11-23T08:00
We’ve been asked a lot about how to have uncomfortable conversations lately - namely, the reality that, yikes, my people are coming over for the holidays and how ...
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141: Ending Racism with Shelly Tygielski and Justin Michael Williams from 2021-11-16T08:00
When we sat down to talk with our next two guests, we were already big fans. They had presented as part of the Embodied Social Justice certificate course that we ...
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140: Becoming Abolitionists, with Derecka Purnell from 2021-11-09T08:00
We first heard about our guest today when we were all participating in the Edelweiss Book Fest as Editors’ Picks and couldn’t get her, or her book, out of our hea...
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139: Vote for Humanity, AGAIN from 2021-11-02T07:00
If you’re listening to this episode on the day it’s released, this is Election Day in the United States. So, if you haven’t gone to vote yet, and you’re not in a ...
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138: Who Do We Call Americans? with John Tateishi from 2021-10-26T07:00
When we first thought about talking to our guest John Tateishi today, we thought about diving into the reparations process that he helped lead for Japanese surviv...
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137: Reparations with cameron whitten from 2021-10-19T07:00
When you hear the word “reparations” - what do you think? If you’re like us, it’s probably something you sort of thought about in theory, but realize there’s so m...
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136: Book Launch Day, ask us anything! from 2021-10-12T07:00
It’s book launch day! And if you haven’t already pre-ordered, it’s time that you get your order in for Dear White Women...
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135: Remember the Titans from 2021-10-05T07:00
Remember the Titans has the specific scene that happens part of the way through the movie, when Coach Boone gets e...
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134: Beautiful Country, with Qian Julie Wang from 2021-09-28T07:00
Sometimes there are those books that are so hauntingly beautiful, disturbing, or touching (or all three) that you can’t stop thinking about them for days after yo...
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133: The Inner Work of Racial Justice, with Rhonda McGee from 2021-09-21T07:00
Last week’s episode was all about QAnon and how conspiracy theories can divide us as a nation. One of the things we think we can do to bridge the divide is bring ...
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132: Pastels, Pedophiles and QAnon - with Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalen from 2021-09-14T07:00
This fall we’re focused on hot-button topics. If you remember, we kicked off the fall with a conversation about the census and representation, which then moved in...
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132: Pastels, Pedophiles and QAnon - with Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalen from 2021-09-14T07:00
This fall we’re focused on hot-button topics. If you remember, we kicked off the fall with a conversation about the census and representation, which then moved in...
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131: Representation Matters, with Kamala Avila-Salmon from 2021-09-07T07:00
We promised last week in our intro to fall and census conversation that we’d be focusing on some hot button topics that we’ve seen trending of late.
130: School’s Back In Session (And We’re Starting With The Census) from 2021-09-01T07:00
Hello and welcome to Fall! What we’re really excited about - besides our book coming out in mid October! - is our fall lineup of episodes. Now that we’re done wit...
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129: Is Your Workplace Psychologically Safe? with Jeff Harry from 2021-08-25T07:00
Let’s talk about workplace safety. No, not that kind of workplace safety - we’re here to talk about building psychologically safe workspaces, which in our opinion...
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128: Love as a Business Strategy, with Softway from 2021-08-18T07:00
If you’re listening to this episode at the time that it’s being released, and you’re thinking about work, you’re probably thinking about returning to a physical o...
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127: Your Donations Matter. WHERE You Donate Matters, Too. - with Sable Schultz from 2021-08-11T07:00
After last week’s episode with Christine Platt (aka the Afrominimalist), this scenario may sound familiar: You look around your house. It’s full of stuff - stuff...
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126: Minimalism Is Liberation, with the Afrominimalist from 2021-08-04T07:00
When you think about liberation, what comes to mind: Intentional action? Physical protests? Thoughtful contemplation? One thing we didn’t really think about was m...
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125: It’s Time to NOT Watch the Olympics from 2021-07-28T07:00
After what seemed like five years rolled into one in 2020, it’s hard to believe that we are now approximately halfway through 2021. We hope that our earlier summe...
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124: We Can Do Hard Things, with The Opt-In (Part II) from 2021-07-21T07:00
As we’re still in our summer of action, we had a conversation lately behind the scenes to ask ourselves: are these episodes actionable enough? And we really belie...
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123: Cross-Racial Friendships with The Opt-In (Part I) from 2021-07-14T07:00
We’re continuing our summer of action and diving deeper. And as we’re releasing this episode, we’re also in the midst of a summer that’s been filled with more fri...
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122: Being Brave+Kind With Bunnie Hilliard from 2021-07-07T07:00
If you’ve been listening to our episodes in order, you know we’ve been focused on the role of community, as well as small business in community - and how we can s...
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121: Coffee and Community with Nirvana Soul from 2021-06-30T07:00
Let’s face it: we are an app-based, “easy button” based, instant gratification kind of society. One click of a button and we get something brought to our house: f...
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120: A Radical Awakening, with Dr. Shefali from 2021-06-23T07:00
Every once in a while, we both read a book that makes us immediately text the other to say: have you read this? Isn’t it amazing? That’s what happened when we r...
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119: Moms, How Whyte Are Your Circles? With Larisa Courtien from 2021-06-16T07:00
Mamas, here’s a real question for you: How Whyte are your spaces?
We write that word that way because the censors se...
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118: Radical Empathy with Terri Givens from 2021-06-09T07:00
If you’ve been listening to our podcast for a while, you know that we lean into heart-led action to create change - and today we get to interview an expert on whe...
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117: One Year: An Intro to Our Summer of Action from 2021-06-02T07:00
We’re here, just over one year after the murder of George Floyd, with a question: now that we’ve spent a year in discussions centered on being more open about rac...
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116: We’re Not Your Lotus Flower: Asian Women in America from 2021-05-26T07:00
This episode is personal, as we’re both Japanese women. We’ve been called exotic. We’ve had White men visibly change their reactions to us when they find out we’r...
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115: Asians at Work, with Jerry Won from 2021-05-19T07:00
When’s the last time you had a conversation with someone of Asian descent? Not just a transactional conversation, or a “hi how are you” mumbled in passing, but on...
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114: Do You Know Why It’s Called the Model Minority Myth? from 2021-05-12T07:00
Continuing with this focus on our Asian stories during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month this May, we want to dismantle one of the most harmful s...
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113: Anti-Asian Racism Ain’t New, People from 2021-05-05T07:00
In your elementary, middle, and high school years - what did you learn about Asian American history? Can you name even one specific thing that you learned about ...
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112: Asians at (Public) School, with Alan Mak from 2021-04-28T07:00
We’re kicking off a five-episode series that takes a deeper look into what it means to be Asian/Asian-American in this country - looking at the history behind ant...
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111: Pay Attention to Where You Pay Attention with Michael Goldhaber from 2021-04-21T07:00
If you’re listening to this episode while scrolling through your phone, we want you to stop and pay attention. This episode, after all, will be all about attenti...
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110: Why We Should All Care About the Filibuster from 2021-04-14T07:00
The filibuster is a political tool that we’ve been hearing more about in the media - but what is it really, and what role does it play in not only stalling politi...
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109: What SCOTUS May Decide About Social Safety Nets - Including Abortion from 2021-04-07T07:00
While “socialism” has often been the catchphrase used to instantly dismiss any talk of building social safety nets, people in a society do need some fundamental a...
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108: Why We Should All Be Concerned About Voter Suppression from 2021-03-31T07:00
2020 was a record-setting year for voting. As Politico noted, the United States saw the largest raw turnout ever, with 81 million voters backing Biden over Trump...
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107: We Have a White Accountability Problem: Stand Together And Stop AAPI Hate from 2021-03-24T07:00
We are two Asian American women sitting here, shaken, devastated, and ANGRY about the senseless loss of life in Atlanta. Yet at the same time that we heard that ...
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105: Women Are the Majority - Let’s Act Like It from 2021-03-10T08:00
It’s time we talk about the power that women have - and to be clear, we mean anybody who identifies as a woman. We need to talk about the state of womanhood today...
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104: What If We Had Social Safety Nets? The Black Panther Party (PART II) from 2021-03-03T08:00
Learning about the Black Panther Party and its grassroots community programs informs not only our understanding of history but how the modern-day Black Lives Matt...
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103: Policing the Police - The Black Panther Party (PART I) from 2021-02-24T08:00
If you ask many current activists fighting anti-Black racism and inequity today, they’ll tell you that the influence of the Black Panthers is immeasurable....
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102: How to Spot Fake News with Professor Emily Bell from 2021-02-17T08:00
Have you heard the term fake news? It’s been around for a while, but it was popularized by Trump who continues to dismiss all checks to his Big Lie and tries to ...
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101: The Power of Women’s Rage with Soraya Chemaly from 2021-02-10T08:00
If the fuming, seething feeling we sat with for weeks after the Capitol was stormed is any indication, feeling anger stinks and is bad for our bodies. But we as w...
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100: What Leads People to Help Others? Good vs Evil with Professor Ervin Staub from 2021-02-03T08:00
The United States has been divided, and as shown with the storming of the Capitol Building in early 2021, the threat of violence is real. However, there is also t...
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99: What Are White Women Thinking? With Jenna Arnold from 2021-01-27T08:00
Uncomfortable question: Why can’t we as women get behind policies that strengthen all women - not just the ones who are White - Listen
98: Inauguration 2021 from 2021-01-20T08:00
We finally made it to the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. This day is about a break with Trumpism, a break from the directio...
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97: What You Need to Know About Conspiracy Theories with Professor Karen Douglas from 2021-01-13T08:00
In case you didn’t see the news, our US Capitol was overrun by a mob of insurgents at the beginning of 2021, largely spurred on by a conspiracy theory led by the ...
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96: What Side of History Will You Be On? from 2021-01-06T08:00
We’re finally done with 2020… but if 2020 taught us anything, it’s that this period of time we are living through will be examined in the history books. Our grand...
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95: BYE, 2020! from 2020-12-30T08:00
We’ve been waiting to record this episode . . . basically the whole year, or at least since early March. It’s our annual wrap-up episode, except that just like e...
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94: How to Talk With Your Family Over the Holidays from 2020-12-23T08:00
We recently read a great piece on Medium called “Finally an Answer to Why So Many People Voted For Trump” -- which is a question we’ve been asking ourselves, too....
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93: Humanity in Words, with jessica Care moore from 2020-12-16T08:00
There are people among us who elevate art to something beyond imitating life - to something that makes us think deeply, find the beauty in those moments both triv...
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92: Real Talk About Abortions with Dr. Jenn from 2020-12-09T08:00
We spoke with lawyer Melissa Torres-Montoya of If/When/How last week about the legal landscape for women’s reproductive rights with the appointment of Justice Bar...
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91: The Abortion Landscape, and a New Lawyer’s Network with Melissa Torres-Montoya from 2020-12-02T08:00
Abortion.
Whether you’re pro-choice or anti-choice, you’re likely to have some emotions jolt through you when you ...
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90: Remembering Toni Morrison from 2020-11-25T08:00
When’s the last time you had a Toni Morrison book read to you? Like, by Margaret Atwood, Tayari Jones (An American Marriage), Brit Bennett (The Vanishing Half), ...
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89: Police in the Emergency Room - The Less Discussed Angle of #defundthepolice from 2020-11-18T08:00
Here’s something we’ve never thought about before, because we’ve taken privacy law HIPAA at face value. What happens with my private medical information if I’m i...
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88: Fighting Both Hitler and Jim Crow: Honor Our BIPOC Veterans from 2020-11-11T08:00
Who do you picture when you hear the word “veteran”? If you picture someone white, you’re not alone.
Today we spend ...
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87: How to Be An Ally, Even When You (Still) Feel Overwhelmed from 2020-11-04T08:00
It’s the day after the election if you’re listening to this as we roll episodes out. It’s been One Heck Of A Year, and we want to give you this gift of breathwork...
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86: Election Anxiety, with Dr. Sue Varma (Plus a special meditation) from 2020-10-28T07:00
Are any of you feeling like we are - maybe a little anxious now seven months into COVID with various degrees of lockdown, with a very uncertain election layered o...
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85: Vote for Humanity from 2020-10-21T07:00
If we want sponsorship, we must remain non-partisan and can’t talk about political affiliation. We’re here to say that we aren’t seeking sponsorship on those term...
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84: Truths About the US Prison System, with Marcus Bullock, CEO of Flikshop - Part 2 from 2020-10-14T07:00
In Episode 83, we met and heard the story of Marcus Bullock, ...
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83: Truths About the US Prison System, with Marcus Bullock, CEO of Flikshop - Part 1 from 2020-10-07T07:00
Have you ever had someone who has been incarcerated over for dinner, to learn about their story? Or, if you knew that someone was in prison, does that frighten yo...
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82: Living the “T” in LGBTQ – A Conversation with Nikole Parker and Jaime Jara from 2020-09-30T07:00
With conversations about race being at the front of our minds, and being aware of the incredibly difficult and dangerous reality of being a Listen
81: Motherhood So White? Concrete Steps We Can Take, with Nefertiti Austin from 2020-09-23T07:00
Pop quiz: you’re reading an article, and someone refers to “a stereotypical ...
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80: What Do We Do About Fashion’s Racism Problem? With Hope McGrath from 2020-09-16T07:00
Have you ever followed someone on Instagram just because of how their feed looks?
And when you look at social media,...
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79: Beyond Ally to Everyday Activism, Featuring Miss Hawaii USA® 2020 Samantha Neyland from 2020-09-09T07:00
We are tired. You are tired. We see it in the stats, we hear it in your stories.
This wasn’t necessarily the episode we planned to air this week, but it’s one we hope you listen to - espe...
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78: The Intersection Between the American Dream and White Supremacy: An Interview with Mia Birdsong from 2020-09-02T07:00
Today we’re chatting with Mia Birdsong, a woman whose TED talk has been viewed over 2 million times, and who can best be described as a bright light. She’s also one of those people who shows you...
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77: Bonus: Only Dresses with Pockets: The Story Behind Mrs. Jones from 2020-08-28T07:00
When you work on Kanye’s first album, then for Calvin Klein, and then in ethical kids’ fashion, what’s your natural next step?
If you said designing your own (amazing) dresses, you’d be t...
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76: Getting Young Black Boys to Say “I’m a Reader”: An Interview with Barbershop Books Founder, Alvin Irby from 2020-08-26T07:00
Here on the podcast, we’ve been focusing on the intentionality of this sustainable lifestyle shift. It can’t be just reading an anti-racism book once to your child and - suddenly - your child i...
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75: Bonus: How Eyewear Is Helping Flint: The Story of Genusee from 2020-08-24T07:00
What sort of impact can one person (or two people) have on an existing health crisis that’s largely been ignored for years - and that crisis is happening in the United States, to its citizens? Listen
74: Bonus: From Military to Milan: The Story Behind Norie Shoes from 2020-08-21T07:00
When you think about luxury shoe designers, who comes to mind? We’re fairly sure you’re not thinking about Natasha Standard from Norie Shoes - but you should be.
This military ve...
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73: How to Be a Wallet Feminist from 2020-08-19T07:00
If every person in the U.S. spent just $20 at a woman-owned business, it would drive more than five billion dollars towards female-led companies each month.
You’ve heard us talking on the...
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72: Going Back to School During COVID from 2020-08-12T07:00
Parents, we are right there with you with the stress, uncertainty, and fear about how this next school year is going to look. Teachers and administrators, we kn...
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71: What If We Radically Shift How We Think About Education? A Conversation with Colin Seale from 2020-08-05T07:00
As we think about the kids of this country going back to school (or not) in the fall, we can’t help think about how the educational inequality that was already in place is being further exacerba...
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70: Exceptionalism and Educational Inequality with Caylin Moore from 2020-07-29T07:00
Just because one person manages to make it out of a really tough neighborhood does NOT mean that if everybody applies the same level of grit, they should be able to make it out, too. We need to ...
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69: Ask Me Anything: Including, Why Are You Called the Dear White Women Podcast? from 2020-07-22T07:00
Since the influx of new listenership and followers ever since that awful weekend when Amy Cooper was exposed and George Floyd was murdered, we wanted to take this opportunity to re-introduce our...
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68: If/When/How: Because Reproductive Justice is Racial Justice from 2020-07-15T07:00
When we think about abortion, we tend to imagine Planned Parenthood and/or providers who offer women’s healthcare in their doctor’s offices. We don’t really think about people who are choosing ...
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67: How the U.S. Police System Has Failed Black People From Inception from 2020-07-08T07:00
We’ve been hearing a LOT about #DefundThePolice, which doesn’t mean exactly what it sounds like; we’re not here at this point to argue the pros or cons of defunding the police, but what we love ...
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Ep 66: Feeding (Black) Kids in Summer, When There’s No School Lunch from 2020-07-01T07:00
According to Feeding America, African American households face hunger at a rate more than twice that of white, non-Hispanic households. And getting enough to eat is a consistent struggle...
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65: Why Voting Is An Equity Issue from 2020-06-24T07:00
Dismantling police forces and committing ourselves to education and activism is important for #blacklivesmatter – SO, we can’t lose sight of the critical thing happening in the U.S. in November....
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64: The Why Behind Trump’s Juneteenth Rally from 2020-06-17T07:00
We had to postpone our pre-scheduled episode on the importance of voting to bring you this critically-timed conversation on President Trump’s decision to return to the campaign trail on Juneteen...
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63: How To Be An Ally, Even When You Feel Overwhelmed from 2020-06-10T07:00
Right now, during COVID, as #blacklivesmatter has (finally) picked up steam among white people, there is a lot to process – both intellectually and emotionally.
The anti-racism resources ...
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62: Racism Against Asian-Americans During COVID-19 and How to Be An Ally from 2020-06-03T07:00
Unless you’ve tuned out of the news altogether, you will have noted that our President has used language referring to the COVID-19 pandemic as “the China virus.”
How do you think that ha...
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61: Period Kits with Geoff Davis from 2020-05-27T07:00
Aunt Flo, shark week, that time of the month, your red-headed friend: whatever you call your period, menstruation is a natural bodily function that happens to 50% of the population.
For t...
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60: The Hard Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids with Antonio Wint from 2020-05-20T07:00
PLEASE NOTE: This episode was recorded after Ahmaud Arbery's killing but before George Floyd's murder.
Sara and Misasha are excited to welcome Antonio Wint to the show. Listen
59: Mental Health: Finding Meaning During a Time of Crisis with Dr. Sue Varma from 2020-05-13T07:00
Sara and Misasha are pleased to welcome their special guest, Dr. Sue Varma, to the show to discuss the importance of mental health in these very challenging times.
Listen in to this conve...
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58: The School to Prison Pipeline: Six-Year Olds Don’t Belong in Handcuffs from 2020-05-06T07:00
Have you ever stopped to think about what the phrase, “school to prison pipeline” really means? What about who it affects? Chances are unless an issue affects you or your loved ones personally, ...
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57: It All Starts Here: Educational Inequality from 2020-04-29T07:00
In today’s episode, Sara and Misasha continue the election arc with studies involving the root causes of educational inequality.
Join them to hear about educational inequality’s inextrica...
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56: Ableism Part 2: The Whitewashing of Disability from 2020-04-22T07:00
When you think of a disabled person, what image comes to mind? For example, do you think of a particular gender? Do you picture how they get around? How about their skin color?
In today’s...
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55: Special Roundtable Episode: Running While Black from 2020-04-15T07:00
We, Sara & Misasha, were honored to be featured on the podcast of a dear friend, Running Life: A Fitness Protection Production run by host Coach MK - and the content was so important and relevan...
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54: Ableism, Part 1: How Just Being Aware Isn’t Enough Anymore from 2020-04-08T07:00
There’s a lot of consequences out there for people who are fully functional but there are even more consequences for people who have disabilities right now. In today’s conversation, Sara and Mis...
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53: COVID-19: Not Exactly Making Things Better on the Immigration Front, Either! from 2020-04-01T07:00
In today’s episode, Sara and Misasha share how COVID-19 has had a much bigger impact on the rights of immigrants in the United States and detainees at the border than what they originally though...
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52: What Happens When You’re Sick and Poor: Healthcare in the United States from 2020-03-25T07:00
Sara and Misasha continue with their income inequality arc in today’s episode, with a special focus on what happens when you’re sick and poor.
Their recent exploration into income inequal...
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51: Coronavirus: How Sheltering in Place Can Make Us Better Humans from 2020-03-18T07:00
This episode addresses our mental well-being in the face of the dramatic changes that have taken place over the last week.
Join Sara and Misasha as they offer encouragement during this ti...
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50: Why Aren’t Black Kids Playing Baseball? from 2020-03-11T07:00
Welcome to the 50th episode of the Dear White Women Podcast!! Thank you for all your comments, feedback, and support. Please continue sharing this podcast with your friends and family members, e...
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49: Why Are We Talking About Income Inequality When The Economy Is Strong? from 2020-03-04T08:00
You may have not thought about income inequality but it is definitely a big issue heading into this election season.
A new survey released in J...
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48: So What’s the Big Deal with the Primaries, Anyway? from 2020-02-26T08:00
We’re less than one week away from Super Tuesday!
In today’s episode, Sara and Misasha talk about why the primaries are so important and why y...
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47: The Changing Face of Insurance: Why You Should Care from 2020-02-19T08:00
From the recent women’s rights / reproductive issues arc, Sara and Misasha segue today into yet another big issue to consider in the upcoming election, and that’s the subject of health insurance...
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46: Dr. Jenn: An Abortion Provider Answers the Hard Questions from 2020-02-12T08:00
In a continuation of the dialogue on women’s rights, Sara and Misasha sit down to have a special conversation with Dr. Jennifer Conti (“Dr. Jenn”), who is not only an obstetrician-gynecologist b...
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45: Molly Ryan - Kills Enemy: Tireless Indigenous Rights Activist from 2020-02-05T08:00
TRIGGER WARNING: Abuse and addiction references.
Often times, women of color aren’t represented properly or advocated for when dealing with the justice system. They’re typically dismissed...
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44: Recorded Live: The 2020 Womxn’s March Denver from 2020-01-29T08:00
Women are often dismissed or silenced when coming forward in the public eye with their pain, particularly women of color. We’ve adopted this matriarchal mindset that women’s trauma, experiences,...
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43: Let’s Talk About Rights from 2020-01-22T08:00
The progress of obtaining and maintaining women’s rights is not linear. Reproductive rights in the United States are focused on efforts to get and defend the legal right to abortion, and these e...
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42: Presidential Powers and Women’s Rights from 2020-01-15T08:00
Particularly relevant now that we’re in the 2020 election year is the subject of rights, namely reproductive ones and others that directly affect women.
That’s what Sara and Misasha will ...
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41: Ji Seon Song: Understanding and Navigating the Juvenile Legal System from 2020-01-08T08:00
Sara and Misasha’s guest today is Ji Seon Song, a former juvenile public defender.
Join them in this fascinating - and often heartbreaking - j...
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40: 2020 Vision: A Glimpse of Things to Come from 2020-01-01T08:00
Sara and Misasha take a break from the election issues to bring you a little 2020 vision to welcome in the new year and the new decade!
Listen in as they chat about how they envision the ...
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39: Race&Politics: How to Talk with Your Family Over the Holidays from 2019-12-25T08:00
Sara and Misasha bring you a special holiday episode involving how to talk about race and politics over the holidays.
When we gather as families, we tend to avoid spending our time talkin...
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38: Special 3-Part Series: Criminal Justice: 15 Going on 28, Part 2 from 2019-12-18T08:00
Sara and Misasha bring you the second part of their Criminal Justice series and another big issue affecting the 2020 Presidential election.
This episode focuses on the juvenile.
Pa...
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37: Special 3-Part Series: Criminal Justice: Jaw-Dropping Stats You Should Know About Part 1 from 2019-12-11T08:00
Welcome to the first installment of a 3-part series where Sara and Misasha cover topics such as DWB, or driving while black, eye-popping traffic-stop statistics, and an overview of our criminal ...
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36: The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend from 2019-12-04T08:00
You may not be familiar with the subject of today’s show, but he is a senior advisor for policy for President Donald Trump.
Sara and Misasha are going to be digging deep into Stephen Mill...
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35: Election 101: Why Your Vote Does Matter from 2019-11-27T08:00
If you’ve slept a night or two since Civics class, be sure to listen in to this part of their Election Bootcamp series as Sara and Misasha bring us all up-to-date on the electoral vote, how the ...
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34: Election Bootcamp Kickoff: How the F* Do I Make Sense of What’s Coming in 2020? from 2019-11-20T08:00
Join Sara and Misasha in the Election Bootcamp Kickoff!
They’ve got questions, and they have some answers, and they’re not speaking as Democrats, Republicans, or unaffiliateds, they’re ju...
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33: Special 3-Part Series: Domestic Terrorism: Then and Now Part 3 from 2019-11-13T08:00
On today’s episode, Sara and Misasha close out their 3-part series on Birmingham, hate in this country, and why you need to vote in 2020.
Warning: explicit content, not meant for younger ...
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32: Special 3-Part Series: Domestic Terrorism: Then and Now Part 2 from 2019-11-06T08:00
In Part 2 of a special series on hate and violence in the United States, Sara and Misasha continue the dialogue with Charleston, and how we normalized hate in 2015 and going forward, as seen in ...
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31: Special 3-Part Series: Domestic Terrorism: Then and Now Part 1 from 2019-10-30T07:00
Join Sara and Misasha as they take a look back in time. This is the first part of a special three-part series, starting with the church bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.
Just two ...
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30: Crystal Echohawk: Transforming Relationships with Native American Culture from 2019-10-23T07:00
Sara and Misasha are so excited to bring you a conversation with Crystal Echohawk on today’s podcast. Crystal is an advocate for Native American culture and respect and has a passion for buildin...
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29: Halloween and Cultural Appropriation from 2019-10-16T07:00
On today’s episode, Sara and Misasha hash out why a sexy Pocahontas is never a good idea for a Halloween costume.
If you and/or your children a...
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28: Shanicia Boswell: Black Moms Blog and Changing Perspectives from 2019-10-09T07:00
Creating a space within a space to positively replay black parenthood was the vision of today’s guest. Sara and Misasha get to chat with Shanicia Boswell about her unique perspectives as a black...
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27: Hispanic Heritage Month: Recognizing the Humanity in Everyone from 2019-10-02T07:00
Every year, between September 15 - October 15, Hispanic Heritage Month is observed and celebrated by millions of families. Sara and Misasha unpack the history behind it, and the reason it’s a pa...
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26: Summer Recap: Episode Updates, Time with the Kids, and Big Plans for Fall from 2019-09-25T07:00
Today, we are celebrating our return from spending time with our children for the summer and so much has happened since we were last with you in real-time! So, in this show, we are going to reca...
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25: School Lunches: Why Kids Are Going Hungry from 2019-09-18T07:00
Join Sara and Misasha as they “dish” on school lunches: affordability, why kids are going hungry, and a public comment period that’s open until September 23rd, 2019. Federal assistance may poten...
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24: Kibi Anderson: The Significance of Hair from 2019-09-11T07:00
Sara and Misasha sit down with Kibi Anderson and explore the topic of HAIR! Growing up in a country like America, where a lot of standards of beauty are not centered around African culture and A...
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23: Hair&Identity: Don't Touch the Hair from 2019-09-04T07:00
Our hair is undeniably connected to our identity, but what does it mean when random people feel compelled to touch the hair of another, without asking permission? Why do we perceive this as a th...
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22: Caster Semenya: When Protecting Women Hurts Women from 2019-08-28T07:00
Throughout history, women have consistently faced more scrutiny in the public eye. While we’ve made tremendous progress, we’ve also made detrimentally large steps backward.Listen
21: The Alphabet Rockers: Making Music that Makes Change from 2019-08-21T07:00
Creating an atmosphere that celebrates and encourages individuals no matter their race, gender, sexual orientation, or political views is the vision we are all collectively striving to achieve. ...
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20: Hate at School: How to Help Your Child Cope from 2019-08-14T07:00
Today, we’re going to be sharing some reports with you, such as this one released just this year by the Southern Poverty Law Center, titled “Hate at School”.
Teachers told SPLC in informa...
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19: Redlining: Institutionalizing Discriminatory Lending from 2019-08-07T07:00
Have you heard of redlining? If so, do you know what it means today? And are you aware that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), created by President Roosevelt in 1934, actually institution...
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18: Factual Manipulation: Who Controls History? from 2019-07-31T07:00
Did you take the information in your textbooks as the be-all and end-all of everything when you were in school? Have you ever really thought about that? Have you ever wondered who actually contr...
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17: Raising Black and Bi-Racial Children as a White Mom with Debbie Scheer from 2019-07-24T07:00
Raising kids can be really hard at times. And as a white mom raising black kids, it's a uniquely challenging experience.
Debbie Scheer is Sara ...
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16: Concentration Camps: The Humanitarian Crisis at Our Border from 2019-07-17T07:00
Are you aware of the horrors that are going on in concentration camps at our borders? And did you know that although kids are dying there and families are being separated, our government is stil...
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BONUS - Banning Discrimination Against Natural Hair from 2019-07-14T07:00
We have a special bonus episode today, about some big news coming from the state of California.
We're talking about hair. In today's bonus episode, we will be discussing a ban on discrimi...
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15: SCOTUS 101 - 2 Issues That Could Limit Your Rights in 2020 from 2019-07-10T07:00
Today we bring you 2 hot issues coming out of the Supreme Court, as of the end of June: 1) the citizenship question on the 2020 census and 2) gerrymandering and how voting districts are going to...
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14: When Does Character Matter? Case Studies of Tiger Woods and LeBron James from 2019-07-03T07:00
Have you ever thought about why character matters? And have you ever wondered what it is that makes people influential and powerful? Today we're talking about Tiger Woods and LeBron James, two v...
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13: Black Maternal Healthcare: Racial Disparities in the US Healthcare System from 2019-06-26T07:00
Are you aware of the racial disparity that exists in the US healthcare system? And did you know that some people are actually dying unnecessarily as a result? Today, Sara talks to Dr. Monique Ra...
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12: Hate in America, Pt. 2: The Current Resurgence of Hate from 2019-06-19T07:00
Today, we continue with our conversation about the Ku Klux Klan, the history of hate in America, and why we're seeing the current resurgence of hate groups. There...
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11: Hate in America, Part 1: The History of the Ku Klux Klan from 2019-06-12T07:00
It's interesting to know that in 2018, there was a 50% increase in the number of hate groups in America. Currently, the Southern Poverty Law Center is tracking more than 1000 hate groups, so hat...
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10: Equal Pay Day: The Reality of Gender Parity from 2019-06-05T07:00
As women, it’s important for us to advocate for other women, but it’s difficult for us to do that if we’re unaware of other women’s experiences. According to statistics only 62% of Americans eve...
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09: Understanding the Minority Experience from Those Who Live It from 2019-05-29T07:00
We all have our own preconceived notions - it’s part of being human, but how we choose to challenge and question those biases is what’s important. Today’s episode contains interviews with three ...
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08: Micro-Aggression: What It Is and How We Can Combat Bias from 2019-05-22T07:00
We’ve seen a major shift to becoming more accepting as a society over the years, but implicit biases and micro-aggressions still occur more often than you’d think.Listen
07: Unpacking the Psychology Behind Implicit Bias from 2019-05-15T07:00
Have you ever had a thought that didn’t feel completely your own? Have you ever had to counter your initial reaction to a situation? It’s likely that those ideas were stimulated from your subcon...
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06: Mental Health Month: History, Current Events and Marginalized Groups from 2019-05-08T07:00
Mental illness is a topic that society is becoming more comfortable talking about, but there is still a stigma that prevents many people from getting the help they need. Individuals who don’t st...
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05: The College Admission Scandal: White Privilege, Affirmative Action + How We Define Success with Adebisi Adebowale from 2019-05-01T07:00
Today's episode includes special guest, coach and scholar, Adebisi Adebowale. Adebisi joins Sara and Misasha in a discussion regarding the college admissions scandals. They share their thoughts ...
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04: Intersectional Feminism: What It Is and Why It Matters from 2019-04-24T07:00
Practicing feminism is something most women are proud to participate in, but white women, in particular, tend to be unaware of how exclusive feminism itself can truly be. Intersectional feminism...
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03: Why White People Should Care: The Women's Movement and Societal Systems from 2019-04-17T08:21:22
While women have come a long way in regards to rights and gaining positions of influence, the fight for women’s equality is still ongoing. Although, when it comes to feminism it’s easy to dismis...
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02: Why White People Should Care: History, Science + Current Events from 2019-04-17T07:30
The issues with race, sexism, and overall inequality are still very prominent in our current political climate and society as a whole. While it may not be the most comfortable issue to address, ...
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01: Starting Challenging Conversations....... from 2019-04-17T07:00
It’s important to have conversations regarding race, gender, minorities, etc. Unless we as a society choose to acknowledge these uncomfortable but prominent issues, they will never just resolve ...
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