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Kinda Sorta Brown
by UC3P
Kinda Sorta Brown is a conversational deep dive into the intersection of identity, policy, and action. This show tackles issues that are real and deeply rooted in the experiences of POC communities across the US. Tune in for fresh content every other week. As part of the KSFam (our listeners), we welcome you to engage with us on our people forward social media @kindasortabrown on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
Episodes
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Intro to Third Spaces
Third time's the charm, right? With home and work being the two places we are at most often, there is something special about whatever your third space is. Whether it is your church, local bar, art studio, or the gym, these places are where people choose to go to enjoy themselves and those around...
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KSB Presents: Kinda Sorta Live! (2024)
Hey KSFam! We are finally releasing the audio from our yearly live recording event - Kinda Sorta Live! We had a great time discussing community, coalition, and collaboration with representatives from cultural affinity groups on campus. Tune in to hear about what it means to be a student of color…
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Community & Coalition
Welcome back KSFam! This is the first episode of our tenth season! To celebrate this milestone, we are diving into our namesake - what does it mean to be Kinda Sorta Brown? For some of us, it is term that gathers all people of color together. For others, it resembles a personal message of a...
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Boys II Men
Hey KSFam! It all starts with mom although we’ve come to the end of the road, we just can’t let you go without discussing the pivotal role black mothers play in their sons’ lives. The portrayal of Black men, in media, continues to have negative effects on the way Black boys perceive themselves…
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Bleeding Hearts See Red
Welcome back KSFam! Listen in as Zara and Hina consider Black womanhood through the lens of expressive action, manifesto and poetry, and hear from UChicago Underground Collective’s Lauren Dotson discuss their relationship to expression through poetry. Stay tuned until the end to hear a live...
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The Horrors of Black Girlhood
Welcome back KSFam! This episode opens the door to the chilling world of black girlhood and horror from this unique perspective. Explore the eerie realities of everyday life through the lens of black girlhood and how the horrors of her world take on a hauntingly distinct form when portrayed in...
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Black to Our Roots
Welcome back KSFam! We welcome you to a fresh season of Kinda Sorta Brown! We invite you to join us on the life journey centered in Blackness through the perspective of a black girl. As she grows into adulthood, as does everything around her- this brings us to talking points. What makes us...
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Reimagining Sex Work
Join Sam and Hope as they reimaging sex work with Dr. Zoya Sameen postdoctoral fellow teaching in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. They dive into the ins and outs of sex work past and present and lead into a conversation on the future of policy surrounding sex work....
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Reimagining Covid
Looking back on Covid-19 what could have been done differently? In what ways can we change our perspectives to address the ongoing pandemic? In this episode, join Narvella and Aaron as they discuss the Covid-19 pandemic past, present, and future, with an emphasis on folks with disabilities and...
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Nothing About Us Without Us
Think of your favorite museum. How is the museum layed out? Who or what does the museum give space to? What is exhibited? Where are said items from and how were they obtained? War, violence, and theft underlie the history of museums in addition to the artifacts that lie within them — a colonial...
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Re-evaluating, Re-educating and Reimagining
In the two and half years since KSB’s inception, going on eight seasons, the number of transformational guests we’ve welcomed, and the countless KSFam we have been listening in, our time has been spent learning, questioning, and diving into issues that matter to our POC communities. The…
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Information as Resistance
Discussions on Palestine in the U.S. are always framed as a “conflict”, when the issue is not really a matter of two equally matched opponents, but rather the occupation and extraction of resources by Israel that has displaced Palestinians from their homes. Although Palestinians still in…
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The Non-profit Industry: Who Is Really Profiting?
When you think about the non-profit sector, what do you think: harmful or helpful? As the third largest workforce in the United States, the nonprofit sector creates 11.4 million jobs… What was once a web of grassroots and community-centered organizations has gained so much momentum that it has...
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A Dream from C.R.E.A.M
It is no exaggeration to say that cash rules everything around us. The need for money dictates where we work, what we eat, and how we spend our free time. For those who are in an area of low income and low resources, it is even harder to function. It is easy to get stuck in a cycle that keeps one...
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A Penny For Your Thoughts: On Economic Justice
KSFam, before listening, pause! Have you calculated the time cost of you tuning into this episode? In a world run inequitably and exploitatively by capital, much of our existence revolves around the labor we perform to generate personal and corporate profits. Season 7’s opening episode features a...
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Future As Reimagined Presents
What exactly is our future? How do we envision it? After four intense season episodes where the KSB Team tried defining the future from four unique angles, we’re turning the questions inward once again. Here, we share our reflections of where we imagine ourselves once we have reached our imagined...
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Green Visions: Growing Gardens & Community
Green spaces are vital to our growth and survival as people. These spaces help provide sanctuary to care for ourselves and allow us to strengthen our connections to others and our community. The amazing benefits of engaging with green spaces, like gardens, however, may not be immediately apparent...
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Healing: Making Way For Our Future
What does it mean to practice self care? And why is self care so important for Black people, especially Black women? With this on her mind, Narvella set out to explore the answers to these questions. And in seeking answers, she consulted with family and friends by asking them: how do you practice...
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Black to the Future
Do Black people exist in the future? This question, a tough question, seems to sit unanswered amongst the Black community. Often the victims of police violence and discrimination, a people where a Black girl can literally disappear without a trace, it’s a real question. One way to think about...
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Heartbeat of Mother Earth
“There is no beginning and there is no end, and this drum is a big part of who we are as people…I use my drum when I sing to people and I refer to this drum as the Heartbeat of Mother Earth”. (If you’re curious about how this episode got its name and/or the full context of our conversation with...
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This Is Our Future
Happy new year KSFam and welcome back to a brand-new season of KSB! We’ve missed you all so much (as much as you’ve missed us we hope) and sitting here knowing the kinds of episodes we’ll be dropping in ✨the future✨, all we can say is, get hyped!! The new year is always dedicated to new…
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Art Around the Block: A Student Creative Takeover
In the finale for our sixth season “Art, Life, Resistance”, artists from all across the UChicago campus have partnered with the KSB Team to bring you an intimate look into what it means to create and share art for one’s self and in one’s community. This episode features breakdancers, sculptors,...
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Policing Artistry
Artists of color are constantly being told how they can and should engage with their art and consumers are always placing their own artistic expressions onto pieces that aren’t their own. But the real beauty of art is that art can be anything. And within its “anything-ness” art carries meaning,...
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Whited Out: Art History in Hue
Countless artists of color have been erased from history books. In recent years, historians have been widening which artists receive their due recognition (like with Beethoven!), with many who work explicitly to fight whitewashed history. From composers of the classical era to iconic dancers of…
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Comedy of Color: PWI-ing While Black
Comedy is a vessel for the truth. Ever wondered why every great joke, every surprised laugh, feels like a realization? The art of laughing at oneself and the surrounding world, even when one might be more inclined to cry, is the art form by which movies like “Get Out” can elicit tears of laughter...
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Art, Life, Resistance
Art does not simply “imitate” life. Art IS life, in its most unadulterated, unabridged forms. Our brightest moments of humanity and darkest hours of adversity are recorded, without fail, in a world full of color, language, movement, sound, taste, space, and time. From racial and social injustice…
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JLo, Again?: Latinx Love Onscreen
Hopelessly romantic people are people who like to dream. Often, this means living out romantic fantasies through the film industry. But if you happen to be a Latinx person of color like this week's host, Fernanda, you might have noticed it's often hard to see yourself and the people of your...
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Where Is the (Self) Love?: Beyond Beauty Standards
Where Is the (Self) Love?: Beyond Beauty Standards takes a dive into Self-Love and Beauty Standards for minority communities and looks at how geography can be intertwined in them. With numerous personal anecdotes from around the country and world this episode aims to get the scoop on the…
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On Revolutionary Love
On revolutionary love is an exploration of the stereotypes that often plague communities of color and how we as a collective have flipped those tropes on their heads in the past and in the present. Starting with the once deemed radical demonstration of self love with the Black Panthers to more...
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What Lives in Your Mind Rent-Free?
KSB has spent the season talking about some of the recent headlines that captivated us and significantly impacted Black and Brown communities. But why stop there? In this finale of Season 3 of Kinda Sorta Brown, we have one question: what headlines are living in our guests’ minds rent-free? Take…
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Coming to America(n Detention): The Shifting Narratives of Immigration
After years of Trump’s blatantly bigoted, anti-immigrant rhetoric, a new tide has turned - or has it? In the midst of Trump-era immigration policy reversals by the Biden administration, VP Kamala Harris recently told Guatamalens “do not come,” in her first trip overseas, sending mixed signals in…
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Fire, Fox (News), and the Facebook Court on Free Speech
In a country founded on principles of free speech, one where Fox News finished 2020 claiming the title of “most-watched cable news channel in history”, the outcry of “silenced conservatism” may sound ironic. But is there truth to this sentiment? What do Twitter and the Facebook Supreme Court have...
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Coding Hate and Reclaiming Our Data
In our haste to digitize, computerize, and distill our world into comma-separated values and JSON files, necessities of diversity, diversity in data collection, and diversity in programmers gets lost in the mix and is deemed unimportant. So, when a Black man and his friends are tagged as…
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It's the Co-Opting for Me
There are numerous variations of American English, yet none suffer the amount of stigma that African American Vernacular English (AAVE) does. “Unprofessional” and “uneducated” are only some of the words that often brand those who speak it. Yet, not everyone bears the burden of this linguistic...
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Now Playing: Disability, Media, Revolution!
The disabled population is the LARGEST minority group in the world. But have you even heard about the Disability Civil Rights Movement or the diverse culture and identities created by people with disabilities? Probably not. We live in a world that still gives Hollywood the O.K. on “cripface”…
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Color Between the Headlines
Season 3: Color Between the Headlines -- Your favorite podcast is finally back! Spring is in the air, and our hosts have been hard at work creating new material for you all to resonate with and reflect on. Speaking of which... media overload is tooo real right now. News articles, social media...
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Intersectionality: Community at the Margins
Throughout the season we’ve discussed how different issues — from housing to policing — can bring about unrest within our communities. Despite the unrest, we’ve seen how communities build unity to address these issues and fight back against the problems they cause. Lex Thompson, our guest…
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Home Sweet Human Rights: Housing and Segregation
Who are the homeless? Maybe it’s someone you know. Housing insecurity is real, pervasive, and traumatic. As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, more and more people are teetering on the edge of homelessness. But what historical factors impact where traditionally segregated groups of people choose (or...
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Race and the Schoolhouse Door
It has been less than 70 years since the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education desegregated America’s education system, yet education still seems to be largely divided along racial lines. Achievement gaps have proven that marginalized students are being left behind--underserved…
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We’re Black in Business
Let's dive into the realities of the intersection of identity inherent in being a Black woman and an entrepreneur. Join Dinah as she discusses how the broader business industry treats marginalized communities and provide real and present examples of the barriers to success faced across the board....
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Reimagining Safety: Community Power v. Policing
Let’s take a moment to reimagine. The police state claims the role of safety, power, and accountability in communities, with the argument that they are there for “us”. This episode will not be discussing who is included in this “us”, because, at KSB, we know it was never our communities. Get...
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The CommuniTEA: Unity and Unrest
New Year, New Episodes, Same Energy! Listen, absorb, and resonate with the intro to our NEW season, The CommuniTEA: Unity and Unrest, as the KSB Team welcomes you, our KSFam, into a roundtable discussion of home, community, and identity. Jumping off the author Taiye Selasi's question of "Where…
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Protecting Your Energy
Would you rather have a melted ice cream cone or no ice cream cone at all?” Join our hosts Chase and Jon as they ponder this question with UChicago Health and Wellness Committee Co-Chair, student Ella Bradford, as they discuss the mental health stigma and racial disparities within mental health...
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Election Season and the Voting Game
Election season was a wild ride, but is any of it really over? Answer: Nope, not if you're an organizer in Georgia, someone who believes that Black lives still matter, or if voter suppression in America alarms you. Join hosts Chase and Daisy with their very special guest, Liliana Zaragoza from…
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Decolonizing Diet
Who is over being colonized? In this mini-episode, Lena makes the case about how our relationship with food has been colonized - sharing stories and community with Tambra Raye, an advocate for the diaspora and founder of WANDA. Tune in to be inspired to decolonize our lives and reclaim our...
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Black Reckoning
In this episode of Kinda Sorta Brown, we unpack the fight for black lives in the present day, as student activists Sydney Jackson and Sequoia Ramirez share their experiences protesting police violence, while hosts Dinah and Jon dive into America’s long history of rioting and civil unrest as a...
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The Book of -Isms: Texturism!
Our first mini-episode of season: The Brown Breakdown is all about HAIR! Tune in to learn more about texturism and its impact on the Black community. You’ll hear stories from Samantha Elise, a fashion blogger and stylist, and some of our listeners describing their relationships and power that is...
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COVID-19 and Medical Racism
In this episode of Kinda Sorta Brown, we analyze COVID-19's impact on POC communities and looking at the historical (and current) racist practices in medicine. Our speakers Symphony Fletcher and Dr. Aresha Martinez-Cardoso will help us further understand the systemic, underlying factors…
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2020: The Brown Breakdown
Kinda Sorta Brown is kinda sorta HERE! On the opening episode of the KSB podcast, join University of Chicago undergraduates Lena, Hope, Jon, Dinah, Chase, and Daisy as they introduce their new team of hosts, new format, new season, new action segment, and a new seat at the table for (you!) their...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Kinda Sorta Brown is a conversational deep dive into the intersection of identity, policy, and action. This show tackles issues that are real and deeply rooted in the experiences of POC communities across the US. Tune in for fresh content every other week. As part of the KSFam (our listeners), we welcome you to engage with us on our people forward social media @kindasortabrown on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
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UC3P
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Kinda Sorta Brown is a conversational deep dive into the intersection of identity, policy, and action. This show tackles issues that are real and deeply rooted in the experiences of POC communities across the US. Tune in for fresh content every other week. As part of the KSFam (our listeners), we...
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