Ep 9: Digital Skin Color, Either/Or Thinking, and Pizza in Dakar - a podcast by April Baskin and Tracie Guy-Decker

from 2020-11-05T08:00

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April and Tracie riff on a seemingly small manifestation of white dominance in our everyday lives: the skin color of emojis. The discussion of digital skin tone leads into a conversation about racial implications of the Simpsons' yellow hue, and on to a focused training about the ways that seemingly benign binaries turn up in malignant ways.

Find April and Tracie's full bios and submit topic suggestions for the show at www.JewsTalkRacialJustice.com

Learn more about April’s work at Joyous Justice: https://joyousjustice.com/
Learn about Tracie at TracieGuyDecker.com and read more of her thoughts at bmoreincremental.com

Resources mentioned:
"Why White People Don't Use White Emoji" by Andrew McGill in The Atlantic May 9, 2016
On the Simpsons Character Apu: a documentary The Problem with Apu (2017)
April's 10 Jewish Principles for Advancing Racial Justice
An article on the characteristics of White Supremacy Culture.
Sao Brazil in Dakar, Senegal