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OBSCENE
by Authentic Podcast Network
OBSCENE is a new podcast hosted by Maya Contreras (EMMY winning Brewed in NY, PBS, ) discussing systemic inequalities that have allowed discrimination to flourish in the United States. We’ll examine discriminatory policies while discussing the history, influences, and future of those policies that directly impact womxn and marginalized groups. Through stories and interviews with experts, you'll be given new insights into the challenges facing womxn and marginalized communities. Through an intersectional approach, the podcast introduces new frameworks to improve your civic participation. As an informed constituency, we can influence our elected legislators to dismantle structural oppressions by drafting inclusive policy that create equity, equal access, and inclusion.
Episodes
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Gun Violence Is A Public Health Issue
Today's interview with Shaina Harrison with NYAGV Shaina on grief and trauma communities deal with due to gun violence: "I think you know when I think about trauma, and especially working in the communities that I serve, I understand that the young folks that I'm working with don't want, they…
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What about the Children? What America owes to Children and Families.
In this Episode of Obscene, I spoke with Julia Davis, Director of Youth Justice and Child Welfare for Children’s defense fund in New York. She helped me break down what’s in the American Rescue Act, whom it helps, and who it leaves out. We also examine what policies could truly protect and aid...
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Voting in 2020: Absentee Ballot vs. Vote-by-Mail
Host Maya Contreras discuss voting by Absentee Ballot, Vote-by-Mail, what the difference is, and how difficult it will be to obtain, mail, and have your vote counted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Your Vote is Your Voice: Voter Mobilization in the Trans Community #2020Election
Ashlee Marie Preston is a Trans Rights Advocate, Cultural Creative & Founder of You “Are Essential”. Ashlee is the first trans woman to become editor-in-chief of a national publication, Wear Your Voice Magazine, and she has just launched a voter mobilization initiative with Human Rights Campaign...
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Everything is on the Ballot: Gun Violence Prevention Policy #2020Election
Shannon Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America—the nation’s largest grassroots gun violence prevention group, with chapters in all 50 states effecting change at the local, state and national level. Her book, Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the…
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Latinx 2020 Voting Outreach And Puerto Rico Statehood #2020Election
Denise Oliver-Velez has been a political activist and community organizer, was in the Civil Rights movement, women's movement, and AIDS activism movement, and was a member of both the Young Lords Party and the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Denise is currently a…
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Language Barriers At The Polls With A Focus On The AAPI Community #2020Election
Dr. Merseth discusses language barrier obstacles are still in place for eligible voters even with the language provision in the Voting Rights Act. Dr. Julie Lee Merseth's interests are situated in the field of American political behavior with a dual and overlapping focus on race and immigration....
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Black Voters Matter: History Of Voter Suppression #2020Election
Dr. Carol Anderson is a Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide, a New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner. She is also the author of One...
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Equal Access: Disability Community And Voting #2020Election
Rebecca Cokley is the director of the Disability Justice Initiative at American Progress, where her work focuses on disability policy. Most recently, she served as the executive director of the National Council on Disability (NCD), an independent agency charged with advising Congress and the…
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The Barriers Native American Voters Face #2020Election
A discussion with the NARF Staff Attorney Jacqueline De León on Native American Rights Fund's (NARF) comprehensive study entitled, “Obstacles at Every Turn: Barriers to Political Participation Faced by Native American Voters.” Jacqueline De León is an enrolled member of the Isleta Pueblo. As a...
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The Myth Of Voter Fraud And The Reality Of Voter Suppression #2020Election
Perry Grossman, is Voting Rights Attorney. He focuses on litigation and advocacy efforts concerning voting rights and election law issues. Perry’s cases include New York Immigration Coalition v. U.S. Department of Commerce, the successful challenge to the Trump Administration’s efforts to put a...
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The Turnout Gap: An Analysis Race and Voter Turnout Outside of Voter Suppression #2020Election
While Voter Suppression and Disenfranchisement have a deep impact on elections, Dr. Bernard L. Fraga research found that there still a gap in voter participation amongst marginalized groups even if voting barriers were removed. We discuss this and his book "The Turnout Gap" in this interview. Dr....
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Some Clarity During the Corona Crisis
On December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization’s office in China heard the first reports of a previously-unknown virus behind a number of pneumonia cases in the city of Wuhan. On March 11, 2020 that virus, now named COVID-19 better knowing as the Coronavirus outbreak was now characterized as…
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Recapping the 2020 South Carolina Primary, and what comes next.
Maya Contreras interviews political wonk Stephen Robinson. Stephan is a writer and social kibbitzer based in Portland, Oregon. He's on the board of the Portland Playhouse theater and writes for the immersive theater Cafe Nordo in Seattle. "Wonkette is an American online magazine of topical satire...
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2020 Democratic Candidates Policies on Children's Education and Poverty
Hello, I’m your host Maya Contreras and welcome to a new season of obscene. This is a special holiday episode, the official new season of Obscene will start the first week of January 2020 were I’ll be talking to candidates running for office, voting rights, and policy issues you should be on the...
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A 'Question' Finally Answered: The 2020 Census and Gerrymandering
Except from the Episode: "Hello everyone! It’s me, Maya Contreras, host of Obscene podcast! On the last episode, you heard an excerpt of my interview with Ben Williams of the Princeton Gerrymandering project. Here is the full episode. I hope you’ll enjoy it. On June 27th, The Supreme Court...
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4th of July Special Episode: What's Patriotism Got to Do with It?
Excerpt from this episode: "It’s the 4th of July, and I know a lot of folks out there aren’t feeling very patriotic, and I completely empathize. It’s difficult to feel patriotic given what is happening at the border, with reproductive rights, and when there are military tanks rolling down the...
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Ask About Abortion: The Importance of Discussing Abortion in Public Spaces and on Film & TV.
On Episode 11 of Obscene, Host Maya Contreras interviews Reproductive Justice Advocate, Renee Bracey Sherman on the importance of Abortion Storytelling, Abortion Funds, and Abortion Access. "Renee Bracey Sherman is a Chicago-born, Midwest-raised activist, writer and reproductive justice activist...
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Reproductive Justice: The Intersectional Movement We All Need Now
Episode 11 is with Jalessah Jackson. What is Reproductive Justice? Host Maya Contreras takes a deep dive on this subject with Jalessah Jackson, Georgia Coordinator at SisterSong. "Jalessah Jackson is a mother, womanist, and interdisciplinary scholar of training whose research explores the...
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Vote Her Into The White House #2020
Excerpt from Episode: What we need in 2020 is something that we’ve never had in the history of this country, a Women President and a Women Vice President. Its clearer than ever that we need a woman at the top of the ticket, and you won’t find anyone who agrees with that notion more than Rebecca...
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The Press Playbook: "Game-Framing" and The Media’s Influence on our Presidential Elections
Excerpt from episode: "I want to look at the media’s playbook. I want to know why the media crafts or goes with a script, I wanted to know how the media influences our elections, their biases, and their “game framing” of political news and media coverage. Luckily I got to speak with Dr. Regina...
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Sexism, Stereotypes, and Negativity in the Media’s Coverage of Female Presidential Candidates
From Obscene podcast host Maya Contreras: "In this episode, I want to talk about the impact the media is having when they are missing the frames to see the big picture of women in politics and women in power. For the interview today, I speak with Dr. Valerie Sperling, Professor of Political…
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Defying The Odds: Women Reentrants and Entrepreneurship
Excerpt from this episode: "Today I want to highlight one program that has had a positive impact on incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women, called Defy Ventures. Defy’s vision 'is to end mass incarceration and cycles of recidivism by using entrepreneurship as a tool to transform legacies…
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Replaced: The Media and Entertainment Industries' Fear of Inclusion
On March 31st OBSCENE podcast will air the first of a three-part series about inclusion or lack there of in the entertainment and media industries. It's clear there are many leading actors and producers worried about being 'replaced' by actors of color and more inclusive stories. Take a look at...
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Access Violations: The Disability Community's Fight for Equity, Equality, and Equal Access
Interviews with Dustin Jones, board member for the Center for Independence of the Disabled, NY (CIDNY) and Rebecca Cokley, a leading disability rights activist in the United States. Rebecca is the Director for Disability Policy at the Center for American Progress policy institute in DC. She...
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Policy is Personal
There are people who don’t always think about the policies that are protecting or not protecting them. For many people policy can feel like a dull hum in that background that they’ve mostly tuned out; and of course, many you might be a bit too busy to contempt what role policies have played and...
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Why Are Black Women Disproportionately Dying During Childbirth?
On the last episode of Obscene my guests and I touched upon a policy that could have assist generations of Americans in poverty. That vetoed policy was the Comprehensive Child Development Act of 1971, was designed to establish a comprehensive domestic system of child care. In this episode we...
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Why Nixon Killed A Childcare Policy That Could Have Upended Poverty In America
OBSCENE Host Maya Contreras talks about childcare and poverty with the following experts: DR. JILL QUADAGNO (F.S.U.) SHIMICA GASKINS (CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND) SUKI GRAVES M.Ed. DR. JESSICA YOUNG (AMERICAN UNIVERSITY) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Pandora to Yoko: Mythology and Contempt
Myths are very revealing. They reveal who we as a society based on the stories we are telling; well, it depends on who is telling the story, doesn’t it? For better or worse, many mythologies act as instructional guide books of do's and don't. I revisit destructive and helpful myths currently...
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Phone Call with Aristotle
Here is the last sneak preview before the first Season of OBSCENE premieres January 20, 2019. Aristotle played by Bobby Crace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Excerpt from Ep. 1: Pandora to Yoko: Mythology and Contempt
A short excerpt from Episode One premiering January 20, 2019 Episode One (excerpt): Pandora to Yoko: Mythology and Contempt Maya Contreras reading: “When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!” - Hamlet, Act IV, Scene V. (Press conference with Yoko Ono) That was Yoko Ono in...
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A Reading List and New Year Wish!
Here are seven books that I read this year that expanded my understanding of American history that is often white washed, pun intended. I hope these books not only broaden your horizons, but empower you, and your advocacy work. Happy New Year. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our...
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An Ode to Advocates, Happy Holidays!
Hi It's Maya Contreras, your host of Obscene. Since it’s about to be a holiday weekend I thought instead of my regular weekly preview I would dedicate this weekly spot to all of the activists and advocates that never seem to have a day off. "‘Twas a few nights before Christmas, through many…
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Jessica
OBSCENE podcast host spoke with Dr. Jessica Young this week. Jessica Young is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Studies at American University. Her work broadly focuses on health in economically distressed and under-resourced communities. Dr. Young’s research centers on…
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Christine
Obscene podcast host Maya Contreras (Brewed In NY, PBS) speaks with Christine Platt in this preview clip. Christine A. Platt, JD is a historian and storyteller of the African diaspora. She holds a B.A. in Africana Studies from the University of South Florida, M.A. in African Studies from The Ohio...
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Hazel
This quick preview clip is from an interview with Dr. Hazel Levy. Dr. Levy is one of the guests throughout this 7-part podcast series premiering January 20, 2019. Preview clips and teasers every Sunday night. Dr. Hazel Levy is a professor of biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
OBSCENE is a new podcast hosted by Maya Contreras (EMMY winning Brewed in NY, PBS, ) discussing systemic inequalities that have allowed discrimination to flourish in the United States. We’ll examine discriminatory policies while discussing the history, influences, and future of those policies that directly impact womxn and marginalized groups. Through stories and interviews with experts, you'll be given new insights into the challenges facing womxn and marginalized communities. Through an intersectional approach, the podcast introduces new frameworks to improve your civic participation. As an informed constituency, we can influence our elected legislators to dismantle structural oppressions by drafting inclusive policy that create equity, equal access, and inclusion.
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OBSCENE is a new podcast hosted by Maya Contreras (EMMY winning Brewed in NY, PBS, ) discussing systemic inequalities that have allowed discrimination to flourish in the United States. We’ll examine discriminatory policies while discussing the history, influences, and future of those policies that...
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