GBA 148 Musa Okwonga

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In GBA 148 we get better acquainted with Musa Okwonga. We talk privilege, empathy, black history, climate change, progressive economics, TV/film, rape culture, inequality, journalism and so much more. Musa plugs: http://www.okwonga.com/ https://twitter.com/Okwonga I plug: Edit's of earlier GBA episodes are going out on Resonance 104.4 FM at 11am Fridays (repeated 2am Tuesdays): http://resonancefm.com/ Tragic Heroes: 21st March @ The Hackney Attic: https://www.facebook.com/events/502957866479816/ We mention: Musa's blog on feminism that I was reading while waiting to have a vasectomy: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=591 Fast and the Furious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious Spock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock Zachary Quinto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock Chris Pine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pine Star Trek: Into Darkness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Into_Darkness New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/ Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/ Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/uk This is Africa: http://www.thisisafricaonline.com/ EDL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Defence_League Musa's blog on Tommy Robinson: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=820 Owen Jones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Jones_(writer) Laurie Penny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Penny Musa's Nelson Mandela Article: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=869 Audre Lorde: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde Ivan Massow in Evening Standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/ivan-massow-this-new-gay-hedonism-is-not-what-i-fought-for-8678761.html Rosa Parks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks Stokely Carmichael: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokely_Carmichael Kate Tempest: http://katetempest.co.uk/ March for the Alternative: http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/truth.html Musa's blog on empathy: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=933 Ian Duncan Smith: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Duncan_Smith Tim Montgomerie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Montgomerie This American Life: money episode - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/423/the-invention-of-money Black Tudors article: http://mediadiversified.org/2014/02/12/its-time-to-talk-about-black-tudors/ Margaret MacMillan: The Uses and Abuses of History: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Abuses-History-Professor-Margaret-MacMillan/dp/1846682045 Musa's article on WW! and Empire: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/01/dear-mr-gove-we-need-talk-about-empire-our-schools Orientalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism Edward Said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said Male Gaze: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze#The_.22male_gaze.22_in_feminist_theory Foucault: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault Eminem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem Little Britain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Britain David Cameron: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron James Arthur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Arthur_(singer) Property article in the evening standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/londons-100bn-property-boom-as-last-homes-under-100k-are-snapped-up-9082716.html Niels Bohr: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/941-the-opposite-of-a-correct-statement-is-a-false-statement You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

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