#npr's code switch podcast

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (24-30 Dec 2023)

*delighted* this show went straight to full musical episode in only the second season. amazing.

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 Hither, Page (Page & Summers #1) (Cat Sebastian, author; Joel Leslie, narrator) - reread; christmas-set post WW2 cozy mystery (vibes are basically 'agatha christie but queer')

🥰 The Missing Page (Page & Summers #2) (Cat Sebastian, author; Joel Leslie, narrator) - reread; the further adventures of Leo & James

😍 We Could Be So Good (Cat Sebastian, author; Joel Leslie, narrator) - reread; this was one of my fave books of the year tbh; loved the setting and the characters and the vibe

😍 Bells Are Ringing (A We Could Be So Good Holiday epilogue) (Cat Sebastian) - so grateful that Cat S gifts us a holiday epilogue every year!

🥰 The Things We Hide (ThePirateStorm) - 109K, stucky no powers omegaverse/accidental mpreg with fantastic amounts of pining and a great cast of fully realized supporting characters; I fucked up my sleep schedule to finish reading this and had zero regrets.

🥰 I'd Swing With You for the Fences (nontoxic) - 86K, Schitt's Creek AU with MLB player Patrick and David (who's still mostly canon David) - very warm and sweet and absolutely DELIGHTFUL

🥰 Third Eye (Felicia Day, author; full voice cast) - comedy fantasy audio drama about Laurel, who 15 yrs ago was the Chosen One and who…failed. Now her life is sad but she gets a 2nd chance when a terrible teen (who may also be the Chosen One) cannonballs into her life. Had a lot of fun listening to this, great voice cast featuring FD, Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, London Hughes

💖💖 +186K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

[PODFIC] A Nativity of Oranges (Tanouska) - MCU: stucky, 9K - great podfic, reread, great Stucky holiday fic

How The Elf-King Stole Khuzmus (DeHeerKonijn, PointlesslyPoetic) - LOTR: 1.3K - a The Hobbit/Dr. Seuss mashup, very clever, great art

[Podfic of] Spaceships & Laserswords (blackglass, klb, luvtheheaven (VioletEmerald), reena_jenkins, Shmaylor, silverandblue, wordsaremyfaith) - Star Wars: finnpoe, 4K - great podfic of a short but hilarious & very sweet fic - modern AU where weirdo hermit Luke joins the (college-age) 'kids' D&D game & volunteers his sister to DM

[Podfic] Mission Impossible (quietnight) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 20K - hilarious shrunkyclunks fic, great podfic version of it

flow through (rainbow_nerds) - Stranger Things: steddie, 6K - a gift for me! I requested @rainbow-nerdss continue in the universe created by sharp temporary walls and it was everything I could have wanted!!!! 💜

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2023

The Legendary Rick Perry and the Art of Dimension 20

D20: Fantasy High: Sophomore Year - s4, e21-22

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - s1, e7-10; s2, e1-10

Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road (2023 special #4)

Midsomer Murders - s24, e1-2

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

⭐ Hit Parade - Second-Chance Hits Edition

Vibe Check - 2023, Don’t Let The Door Hit You…

Ologies with Alie Ward - Alieology (YOUR HOST): an Ask-Me-Anything Goofy Hang

It's Been a Minute - Why grief sometimes looks like a hyphy party

One Year - The Making of One Year: 1990

⭐ Code Switch - The Fallout of a Callout

Hit Parade - The Posthumous Hits Edition, Live from Seattle

Pop Culture Happy Hour - 2024 Pop Culture Predictions

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Fun Christmas Oldies

my Dolly Parton Christmas playlist

Swingin' Christmas

Presenting Lindsey Stirling

Power Ballads Forever

[thoughtportal]

What happens after a public callout? For comedians Hari Kondabolu and Hank Azaria, the answer to that has a lot to do with their race.

In this week's Code Switch, Hari and Hank speak to each other publicly for the first time since Hari's documentary The Problem With Apu came out in 2017. The film called out Hollywood's portrayal of South Asians and doubled as a criticism of Hank, who is white, for voicing the Indian Simpsons character, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. They talk about what went down in the aftermath, and how the fallout defined their careers — and their lives — in very different ways.

[danny-chase]

Do you listen to Connor Goldsmith’s Cerebro podcast?

No, sorry

[protoslacker]

The implications of the case against ICWA | Code Switch

NPR Podcast

The Supreme Court is about to decide on a case arguing that the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) discriminates against white foster parents. Journalist Rebecca Nagle explains how this decision could reverse centuries of U.S. law protecting the rights of Indigenous nations. "Native kids have been the tip of the spear in attacks on tribal sovereignty for generations."

[suchananewsblog]

Hank Azaria opens up about voicing ‘dehumanizing’ Apu on ‘The Simpsons’

Hank Azaria, 59, opened up about voicing “The Simpsons” Apu Nahasapeemapetilon as a white man on the latest episode of NPR’s podcast “Code Switch.” Apu is a recurring Indian-American character in the show who runs the Kwik-E-Mart convenience store, which often keeps him from his wife and eight children. Azaria was first publicly called out in 2017 when comedian Hari Kondabolu, 40, who’s of Indian…

[otherpplnation]

809. Matthew Salesses

Matthew Salesses is the author of the novel The Sense of Wonder (Little, Brown & Co.).

Salesses' other books include the national bestseller Craft in the Real World, the 2021 finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, and two other novels. Adopted from Korea, he has written about adoption, race, and Asian American masculinity in The Best American Essays 2020, NPR's Code Switch, the New York Times blog Motherlode, and The Guardian, among other media outlets. BuzzFeed has named him one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers. He lives in New York City, where he is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University.

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[ultimatesponge]

Where are we now? Why are conversations about racial, social, and cultural inequity important at this moment?

Critical Race Theory Panic: What’s Really Behind It? More Perfect Union (Video, 10 min)

Why Cities are still segregated [6-minute video] (NPR Code Switch)

Goodman, Moses, & Jones (2012) ‘Race and Education’ in Race: Are we so different? 

Eliza Shapiro, ‘Segregation Has Been the Story of New York City’s Schools for 50 Years’ in NYTimes, March 26, 2019

Ed Week, What is Critical Race Theory and Why is it Under Attack? and Map: Where Critical Race Theory is Under Attack

PBS News Hour, ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law brings worry, confusion to Florida schools

Therese Quinn and Erica Meiners, ‘Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall: Moving beyond equality’ in Rethinking sexism, gender and sexuality, pp. 27-37

Optional:

Matt Birhold, ‘Racial Capitalism and the Structural Roots of White Nationalism’ 

Connie Hassett-Walker, ‘The Racist Roots of American Policing: From Slave Patrols to Traffic Stops’, The Conversation, June 2020

The Daily podcast, The Debate Over Critical Race Theory, [33 minute podcast]

The Advancement Project, ‘We came to learn: America’s history of policing students of color’

Rethinking Schools, ‘Black Students’ Lives Matter’, pp. 16-21

Class Resources

[joshdelpino]

#jamesbaldwin

[noisynutcrusade]

NPR launches a paid podcast bundle, hoping to convert a national audience into local donors

NPR launches a paid podcast bundle, hoping to convert a national audience into local donors

NPR launched a paid podcast bundle on Tuesday, giving subscribers access to bonus content, ad-free episodes, and other perks from nearly a dozen NPR podcasts including Planet Money, Fresh Air, and Code Switch. To join NPR+, listeners must make a new recurring contribution to their local member station starting at $8/month or $96/year. Unlike the pilot program that offered single podcast…

[tiannasdndjournal]

September 17

Today I also spent a great portion of my day just working on my mural. I spent about 7 hours (from 12 to 8, and a lunch break in between) painting and mixing colors. I enjoy spending this much time and effort in my work, but sometimes I feel I need to work smarter and not harder. I have noticed that throughout my time painting I am a hard working, but not sure about the smartest. I get caught up in the details and forget about the piece as a whole, and that the smaller details don't matter as much just because of the scale. I also paint layer after layer instead of just getting a more opaque paint, or mixing cornstarch in as my other artist friends suggested.

Whilst working on this mural, I have yet again dedicated time to listen to podcasts and music. I listened to quite a few episodes of NPR code switch, the episodes contained of how different POC comedians joke about race and whether or not therapy can solve racism. I also listened to NPR politics, giving me updates on midterm elections, predictions, and controversy, as well as a look into Obama's speech writer and his life/perspective on American politics and democracy. I greatly enjoyed these episodes as I always seek to learn more and see different perspectives. I notice that while listening to news/political/philisophical podcasts I feel enlightened, which is probably why I continue to go back and listen more to educate myself.

Today I also drove myself to work and spent 20 dollars on gas, which is roughly 5 gallons. I am still getting used to driving by myself as I don't drive as often, but I spent a total of an hour for my commute. While driving isn't the most environmentally friendly, at least my parents don't have to drive me back and forth to drop and pick me off- which wastes more gas compared to me driving alone back and forth.

[health28]

How COVID exposed racial disparities in all aspects of the healthcare system : NPR

How COVID exposed racial disparities in all aspects of the healthcare system : NPR

NPR’s Karen Grigsby Bates from the podcast Code Switch talks with journalist Linda Villarosa about how COVID exposed racial disparities in all aspects of the healthcare system. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Life expectancy in the U.S. has always been different for white people and Black people. And since the start of the pandemic, that difference has widened. Linda Villarosa is familiar with these…

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (14-20 Jan 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

Death in Soho (Augusta Peel #1) (Emily Organ, author; Sarah Nichols, narrator) - acceptable cozy mystery set post-WWI. Perfectly cromulent and will probably read another when I'm craving an uncomplicated read. Did appreciate that Miss Peel is middle-aged, not an ingenue/flapper

Ever Since New York (AHM1121) - 94K, shrunkyclunks omegaverse - just a really satisfying omegaverse fic, loved these versions of them

Running on Air (eleventy7) - 74K, drarry - it's 8 yrs post-war, draco's been missing for 3 of them and harry's been assigned the cold case. There's driving and melancholy and eventually sorting out feelings and stuff

💖💖 +199K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Quench (AidaRonan) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 9K - reread, all time forever fave with possibly my fave description of thick steve: 'built like a mack truck made out of ribeye' (all the simile action in this fic is fantastic tbh)

This Light-Struck Country (TentacleParty) - The Witcher: eskel/oc (monster), 18K - some truly quality monsterfucking

sunrise supplications (liadan14) - The Old Guard: kaysanova, 12K - great modern AU enemies-to-lovers with a very clever spin on joe & nicky's canonical meeting

Slow Boat to China (Penguinjava) - A Charm of Magpies series (KJ Charles): Merrick & Lucien, 7K - wonderful vignette of the boat trip to china after lucien's horrible father banished them & the foundation of their relationship

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Brooklyn Nine-Nine - s8, e1-4

Dirty Laundry - s3, e10

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Summer Breakdown" (s21, e2)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Fs Get Defgrees" (s16, e2)

Mrs Sidhu Investigates - s1, e1-4

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

⭐ Desert Island Discs - Greta Gerwig, writer and director

What Next: TBD - Is Your Car Tracking You?

Ologies with Alie Ward - Carcinology (CRABS) Part 1 with Adam Wall

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Our Emmys Recap

Switched on Pop - Soundalikes: Lil Nas X and Ariana Grande

⭐ The Sporkful - The Hidden Battle Over Grocery Store Shelves

99% Invisible #566 - Imitation Nation

Code Switch - The women who masterminded the Montgomery Bus Boycott

⭐ Films To Be Buried With - Joel Kim Booster

Just One Thing - Take Vitamin D

NPR's Book of the Day - 'The Golden Screen' chronicles the films that shaped the Asian American diaspora

Vibe Check - Wesley Morris, or Wesley Snipes?

Welcome to Night Vale - Bonus Ep: Riddle Guy

NPR's Book of the Day - 'The Frozen River' tells the fictionalized story of a real 18th century midwife

Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club - Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer with Winnie M Li

Today, Explained - How the war in Gaza ends

99% Invisible - Power Broker #01: Robert Caro

Dear Prudence - I Spend Hours a Day Having Intense Romantic Daydreams. Help!

Endless Thread - Where's the Beef?

What Next: TBD - The Great British Library Hack

It's Been a Minute - The political power of white Evangelicals; plus, Biden and the Black church

Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly - When Bad Commercials Become Cult Classics

Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! - David Oyelowo

You're Dead to Me - The Bloomsbury Group

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

The Definitive Croce

Classic Bedtime Favorites

Presenting Lionel Richie

'80s Pop Party

Green Day

Presenting Gordon Lightfoot

Presenting Steely Dan

[npr]

With the distance of time, I can see that my first McDonald's was an unremarkable thing. There were the antagonistically hard plastic seats. The interior lights that seemed meant to shoo you away. The PlayLand with the broken-down carousel that yelped out tinny renditions of John Philip Sousa songs. And of course, there was that smell: maybe a little bleach, but mostly the aroma of cooking french fries that seemed engineered to induce a limbic response.

But as it was my first McDonald's, it was the one I imprinted on and to which I would compare all other fast-food establishments forevermore. The store on Broad and Carpenter was a waypoint between my mother's South Philly rowhouse and my grandmother's, which meant that several times a week, my mom had to bat away entreaties from my sister and me when we walked past.

So much of my neighborhood has changed since I was a kid — the notorious Martin Luther King projects were razed, public schools were shuttered and once-thriving churches shriveled up — but that McDonald's still sits brightly and defiantly on the corner of Broad and Carpenter. It's almost certainly changed hands in the four decades it's been there, but that McDonald's remains one of my old neighborhood's most enduring institutions.

And as I learned recently from Marcia Chatelain's new book, Franchise: The Golden Arches In Black America, the preponderance of Golden Arches in locations like my poor, redlined, black neighborhood was hardly some accident. Chatelain, a historian at Georgetown and host of The Waves podcast at Slate, outlines a forgotten history of the fast-food behemoth's rapid expansion into black America in the post-civil rights world.

When McDonald's Was A Road To Black Liberation

Illustration: Dion MBD for NPR

[underoosstark]

(i was tagged by the lovely @buttercup-the-bard )

Podcast Rec: Code Switch (by NPR)

Specifically, I really urge all of you to listen to their first episode: Can We Talk About Whiteness?  The episode talks about why it’s so hard to talk about whiteness & white identity, and the impacts that can have on white people AND on POC. 

You can listen to the episode FOR FREE anywhere podcasts can be found & on NPR’s website here:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/05/31/479733094/the-code-switch-podcast-episode-1-can-we-talk-about-whiteness

Next up: @harperhug :)

[disneyforprincesses]

Mickey Mouse’s Minstrel Roots

“How exactly is it that blackface is everywhere and nowhere at once?

Nicholas Sammond argues in his book, Birth Of An Industry: Blackface Minstrelsy And The Rise Of American Animation, that many of the conventions of blackface are actually hiding in plain sight, like, for example, that icon of Americana, Mickey Mouse.”

Listen to (or read) the rest of this episode of NPR’s Code Switch: From Blackface To Blackfishing