UNWOKE: A Memoir in Episodes

Jebra discovers that dog ownership is racist. Dosha, her Goldendoodle, snores on her feet, unaware of her privilege. She takes her to Land Acknowledgment Ridge, formerly the John Muir Loop, currently under review, where a ranger named Juniper leads the group in apologizing to a sycamore tree.Then Charcuterie gets a playdate invitation. Jebra prepares a screening checklist. The family fails immediately. They are unvaccinated and probably Republicans. Jebra finds this deeply problematic.for those who enjoy: political satirewoke culturecancel culturesuburban momcomedy fictionserialized fictionsocial commentaryprogressive humorpolitical humorsatirical memoirLos Angelesaudio fiction

Jebra attends a fashion event introducing shoes made from recycled TukTuk tires, and learns the shoes were made in a sweatshop.She discusses how everyone should own electric cars and talks about being driven off the road after seeing a truck with a Trump flag.Themes of this podcast include:woke culture cancel culture suburban mom comedy fiction serialized fiction social commentary progressive humor political humor satirical memoir Los Angeles audio fiction  woke culture   cancel culture   suburban mom   comedy fiction   serialized fiction   social commentary   progressive humor   political humor   satirical memoir   Los Angeles   audio fiction

Jebra reimagines Thanksgiving.Gone is the colonizer's turkey. In its place: wild-craftedinsects, foraged mushrooms, a faux buffalo hide tablecloth, utensils made from animal bones, a PowerPoint on smallpox, slam poetry, and a Western Apache seed mix fritter cooked on the sidewalk to shun modern appliances. She calls it Ancestral Gratitude Day. She posts it on Instagram. She gets canceled within the hour.This podcast is created for those who enjoy any of the following: political satirewoke culturecancel culturesuburban momcomedy fictionserialized fictionsocial commentaryprogressive humorpolitical humorsatirical memoirLos Angelesaudio fiction

A deleted scene from the UNWOKE archives. *satire*Jebra is sitting in Los Angeles traffic listening to The Soft Awakening, the podcast where host Harper Solstice decenters urgency, reimagines compassion, and holds space for collective healing in a late-capitalist world.Today's guest is Halo Indigo Voss. Academy Award winner. Climate advocate. Founder of the HIVV Conscious Living Collective. Creator of the viral Vaccines Are Self-Care campaign. Author of Nourish the Resistance. And the creator of HIVE Honey serum at only $100 for two ounces.Allow her to inspire you.

Jebra spends Saturday at the Farmer's Market, where a woman tests bread with a pendulum for vibrational energy, a vendor sells dream catchers made of umbilical cords, and Jebra runs into someone she got kicked out of the PTA. She offers no apology.Then Brad invites new friends for dinner. Their names areTyrone and Sasha. Jebra attends a Zoom symposium on decolonizing your settler concepts and spends three days purging the house of colonial candles, a marblebust of Thomas Jefferson, Brad's calendar (time is a colonial construct), and anything that might trigger ancestral trauma.This backfires.

It's January 6th, and Jebra will never forget the fear shefaced that day.She locks every door and window in case the insurrectionistsbook a connecting flight to LAX. She converts the pantry into an emergency bunker with canned chickpeas and dried jackfruit. She starts a GoFundMe for her emotional recovery. Then Ginsburg comes home from the park radicalized. He islistening to The Daily Wire. He has hung an American flag in his room. He has created a PowerPoint about small government.Jebra emails Ibram X. Kendi for help, but he doesn't reply.She researches orphanages in Canada to rehome him. She buys a telescope to monitor her neighbors, whom she suspects are radical MAGA. She considers pubertyblockers for Ginsburg’s ongoing interest in right-wing politics.Then she Googles "symptoms of political radicalizationin children" and finds something she wasn't looking for.

Jebra's neighbor Joe offers to fill her tire. He is Black. He has a Let's Go Brandon sticker. Jebra struggles to be an ally and to convince him to accept reparations.Then George Floyd happens, and Jebra does what any committed ally would do — she takes her reluctant teenage daughter to CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle, packs organic mushroom jerky, and prepares for the Summer of Love.Featuring: a glow-in-the-dark BLM flag, five Blacknificent t-shirts, a gender-fluid Anne Frank play by candlelight, a tear gas canister to the chest, and Literaleigh eating a Cinnabon at the airport while her mother processes her radicalization.

It's 2016, and Jebra Faushay is certain Hillary Clinton will win. She has the fireworks, the vegan charcuterie, and the champagne ready to uncork.In the first chapter of UNWOKE, Jebra takes us through the election night that broke her, the COVID years that consumed her, and the glorious arrival of Joe Biden, coming to save the country.Featuring: a four-hour champagne hunger strike, a hazmat suit at Whole Foods, six keyed cars, and the ancestry results that made her 0.1% African and 100% certain she was now BIPOC.

Before Chapter 1, meet Jebra Faushay. Suburban Los Angeles mother, former ally, recovering activist. This is her story. UNWOKE: A Memoir in Episodes, new chapters every Monday.