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Diversity Sauce
by Diversity Sauce
Diversity Sauce highlights articles from the KIDMAP weekly newsletter and features interviews with producers and researchers focused on the importance of diverse, inclusive, and equitable content in all children's media.
Episodes
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36: The Serpent's Secret: Interview with author Sayantani Dasgupta
After a long layoff, we are back with an interview with Sayantani Dasgupta, author of the middle grade novel The Serpent's Secret!
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35: Summer Catchup and DIYDoc Co-founder David Grandison
Amy and Kabir catchup on the summer, including the recent events in Charlottesville. Then, they are joined by entrepreneur and media producer David Grandison to chat about his brand new app DIYDoc.
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34: Wonder Woman!
Amy and Kabir talk Wonder Woman (spoilers start at the 20 minute mark), the lead-up, sexist reviews, pressure, false risk with a female director. Then, they cover acts 1-3, the Steve Trevor character and gender equality. Finally, they say good-bye to Adam West and discuss the Black Panther trailer.
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33: Diversity in Books and The New Victory Theater with Lindsey Buller Maliekel
Amy and Kabir discuss two articles related to the importance of Diverse Books. Then, a fantastic conversation with Lindsey Buller Maliekel on the incredible New Victory Theater in New York City.
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32: Barbie's (missing) friend, Sesame's newest muppet, guest Lisa Radcliffe from PunkinFutz
Amy and Kabir chat about Becky, Barbie's friend with disabilities who has been discontinued and Julia, Sesame's newest muppet with autism. They are joined by guest Lisa Radcliffe from PunkinFutz whose mission is to build products to meet many physical and emotional needs.
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30: Short Podcast, Big Announcements
Amy and Kabir share some exciting news about the future of DIA, the DIG Toolkit and the podcast! Go See Hidden FIgures! Great Article on Rogue One...
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29: THR Panel, Muslim Girl, Internment camps, Snowy Day and Special Guest Dr. Natascha Crandall
Amy and Kabir cover the week in news including The Hollywood Reporter's non-diverse panel, children's books on the history of Japanese internment camps and A Snowy Day on Amazon. Plus, they are joined by Dr. Natascha Crandall to talk about the importance of psychologists on children's pre-school...
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28: Moana reaction, Disney diversity commitment, guest Sandhya Nankani from Literary Safari
Amy and Kabir discuss recent reaction to Moana as well as a Vanity Fair piece on Disney's diversity commitment. Then, they are joined by Sandhya Nankani, founder of the award-winning company Literary Safari to discuss her newest app Grandma's Great Gourd as well as their entire collection of…
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27: Safety Pin with Children's Media, Target Toy Catalog, Guest "Toy Queen" Keriann Wilmot
Amy and Kabir discuss the safety pin activism that has shot up post election and how children's media has responded. They also talk about the incredibly diverse Target toy catalog (Here: https://goo.gl/RO3pYa) "Toy Queen" Keriann Wilmot joins to talk about her work as an occupational therapist…
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26: Election Reaction, Toca Boca, Guests Michael Robb and Asia Williams from CommonSense
Amy and Kabir discuss the election results as well as a fantastic piece in the Toca Boca magazine. Then, they are joined by Michael Robb and Asia Williams from CommonSense Media to discuss their latest report: "Case Studies of Media Use Among Lower-Income Minority Youth and Parents" Link to Toca...
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25: Black Girls Code, Achievement Gap, Guest Yehudi Mercado
Amy and Kabir have a great conversation with comic book illustrator Yehudi Mercado about his new comic Hero Hotel (herohotelcomic.com) Find more of Yehudi's awesome work at supermercadocomics.com and on instagram at @SuperMercadoComics
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24: Live Action Mulan Concerns, Covergirl's new cover boy and HALLOWEEN!
Amy and Kabir cover some worthy news 1. Concern about a "white savior" live action Mulan 2. Covergirl's new "Cover Boy" 3. Guardians of the Galaxy sequel and the Bechdel Test And then dive into Halloween with a little "Do's and Don'ts for Halloween" focused on Cultural Appropriation as well as...
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23: Reading without walls, Queen of Katwe, and Guest David Kleeman
Amy and Kabir touch on Gene Luen Yang's plan nationwide plan for "Reading without Walls" as well as Queen of Katwe opening this week. Guest David Kleeman (SVP Dubit) comes on to discuss the Emmys (he went), diversity on television and his work with Prix Jeneusse. Plus, He touches on Dubit's work…
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22: Guest Travel blogger Carol Cain plus color-blind casting, Gwen Stefani's Cultural Appropriation
Amy and Kabir discuss "color-blind casting" in the context of Kobo and the Two Strings and the newly announced Wrinkle in Time casting. In addition, they discuss ongoing cultural appropriation by Gwen Stefani in light of her new Nickelodeon show. Our guest this week is Carol Cain, the founder and...
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21: Hidden Figures Trailer, Biased Hiring and Guest Aaron Morris from PBSKids
Amy and Kabir discuss the new Hidden Figures trailer (3:00) and the forgotten history is portrays. Then, they discuss a recent Vox article on biased hiring and potential ways to reduce it (14:00). Then, they are joined by Aaron Morris from PBS Kids to discuss his recent "tip sheet" he authored to...
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20: Disabilities and representation in children's media
Kabir and Amy discuss a recent TV study that showed the overwhelming number of characters with disabilities are played by able-bodied characters (2:00). They also cover the show Stranger Things and how the actor's disability was dealt with in the show. From there, they move to the growing…
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#19: Olympics: The good, bad and the ugly
Amy Kraft and Kabir Seth spend the podcast discussing the Olympics. They kick things off with a history of women at the Olympics quiz (1:30)(Kabir doesn't fair to badly) the dominant and diverse US Women's Gymnastics team (6:30), the worst of sexist olympic coverage (14:00) as well as body…
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18: Better Diverse Books and Polly Conway from Common Sense Media
Kabir and Amy talk about Ezra Jack Keats book Snowy Day and how it makes for a fantastic diverse book. Then, Polly Conway (@pollymarie) from Common Sense Media comes on to talk about Elena of Avalor, the first Disney Latina Princess and diversity generally across the TV landscape. Here is the…
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17: Historic Nomination, Moana Voice Talent, Comic Con
This episode covers Hillary Clinton's historic nomination in the context of how a woman for President was viewed in 1995. Amy and Kabir also discuss recently announced Moana's voice talent and all the awesome diversity news from Comic Con Here is the Ms. Magazine article from a few months ago…
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16: LGBTQ representation in children's media, why are all cartoon animals male, new apps from HITN
Kabir and Amy talk about a recent Guardian article on kids media leading the way in LGBTQ representation as well as the disappointing fact that most kids cartoon animal characters in movies are male for no reason. Erica Branch-Ridley joins Kabir later to talk about HITN's fifteen (!) new apps…
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Episode 15 - Pokemon Go and Ghostbusters. Conversation with Jinny Gudmundsen
Amy Kraft and Kabir Seth talk about the success of Pokemon Go as well as a recent provocative Medium article citing the risks of the game for black men. Keeping with nostalgia theme, Amy and Kabir discuss the new Ghostbusters movie (21:00), specifically the backlash the movie has received for its...
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Episode 14 - Amy Kraft co-hosts, JK Rowling and Cultural Appropriation and the newest Iron Man
Amy Kraft joins to co-host this week. Amy talks about her app, Monkey Spot Scavenger Hunt for iOS (https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/monkey-spot-scavenger-hunts/id972386385?mt=8)and Android (goo.gl/PThKUF)and their partnership with the New York Hall of Science...
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Episode 13: Anne Glick from Globe Smart Kids
In Episode 13, Kabir discusses two articles, one in the Atlantic about the forgotten "She-Ra" TV show and how its failure impacted children's TV over the next 20-30 years plus an article on a recent study on the impact of Disney Princess Toys on children. Our guest this week is Anne Glick,...
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Episode 12 - School Segregation article and Carisa Kluver on the State of the Kids Book App Market
Episode 12 talks about a fantastic piece about the resegregation of schools throughout the country both through a very personal choice by the author and an overview on the history. Here is the "This American Life Piece" about the history and state of the issue....
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Episode 11: Sesame reaching children in refugee camps, the maker movement
Episode 11 touches on Sesame Street starting work to reach refugee children (5:35) and the maker movement (10:15) move to mainstream but still missing minorities. As I mention at the top of the show, DIA is focusing on building out a Diverse and Inclusive Toolkit to that will identify a dozen...
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Episode 10: Flora Ekpe-Idang from Corage Dolls
Our 10th episode features an article about the importance of telling stories from the other side of the tracks (3:40). Our fantastic interview is with Flora Ekpe-Idang from Corage Dolls (7:22), who is in the process of creating multi-cultural dolls to inspire girls of color and reflect the…
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Episode 9: Dr. Vikki Katz on Digital Equity
Almost all our articles this week are about Dolls. We talk about what big companies are doing around diversifying dolls (1:52) as well as startups entering the space targeting boys (4:42). Our guest this week is Dr. Vikki Katz talking about the research she did on Digital Equity partnering with…
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Episode 8: Deborah Castillero from TipiTom Tales
Happy Mother's Day! Our first article talks about how screentime is a feminist issue (3:00) and our second is an introduction to a Native American Comic Book hero (6:15). Our conversation this week is with Deborah Castillero, the founder of TipiTom. Deborah talks about the problem she is…
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Episode 7
Episode 7 talks about an article on "Food Diversity" (3:10) and then a fantastic conversation with Kevin Clark (8:30) about what brought about his focus on creating the center for media innovation and diversity (13:45), recent work focused on African American Teens digital use at home (17:40)...
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Weekly Spotlight Episode 6
We touch on two articles this week, one around the video game Rust (2:15) and the other about Game of Thrones (7:06). And then, we have an awesome guest, Julie Kerwin, CEO of I AM ELEMENTAL (11:00). Julie talks about how her idea turned into reality, the strong reaction the company received not...
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Weekly Spotlight Episode 5
The weekly spotlight highlights the outcome of a recent Red Bull Hackathon (1:48) and what the winning team looked like as well as a better way for business to think about Diversity based on recent research (4:35)
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Weekly Spotlight Episode 4
This week we highlight an article from the Atlantic on how white males have to take the lead on diversity in the workplace (1:50). Then, an awesome conversation with TinyBop Founder and CEO Raul Gutierrez (6:11) about how TinyBop came to be, the importance of "weirdness" (15:00), "designing for...
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Diversity In Apps Weekly Spotlight Episode 3
Diversity In Apps Weekly Spotlight Episode 3 by Diversity Sauce
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Diversity In Apps Weekly Spotlight Episode 2
Welcome to Episode 2 with our first guest Briana Pressey from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. We start by discussing two articles from our newsletter, one from the Guardian about how books about girls can be read by boys (http://bit.ly/1S5pUP8) and another about Warner Brothers plans for a…
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Weekly Spotlight Episode 1
Welcome to first podcast! We begin with a little about Diversity In Apps and our strategy going forward. Next we, discuss two of our articles from this week's newsletter as well as share our updates on the creation of our guidelines for content producers. This podcast is an open forum for anyone…
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Diversity Sauce highlights articles from the KIDMAP weekly newsletter and features interviews with producers and researchers focused on the importance of diverse, inclusive, and equitable content in all children's media.
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