This week’s episode connected the erasures of Black women we see in daily life to the larger systems of misgynoir, exploitation, and patriarchy we interact with every day. Get into it!
In the first segment, Jenn and Daren discuss the Canadian Poet Laureate who stole ‘Still I Rise’ from Maya Angelou, the problem with those “Phenomenal Women” t-shirts, and the historical erasure of Black Women’s work. (more…)
In the first segment, Jenn and Daren discuss how Serena Williams and Beyonce were treated during their pregnancies. Their experiences are indicative of how Black women really are damned if they do and damned if they don’t, and pregnancy and motherhood are fraught with racial and gendered biases and innuendo. (more…)
You can cop our first three episodes on Stitcher now. We will be promoting our Stitcher timeline on the podcast and we need you to listen and give us great reviews so we won’t get hammed by the Stitcher gods. This is especially important ahead of our iTunes launch in October. (more…)
In “First Things First”, we talk about how we were introduced to masculinity and the impact of growing up in single-mother households. (more…)
In this episode, we discuss the white supremacist march and rally in Charlottesville, abstinence parenting, and why it is important to be honest with kids about the political realities facing the world today. In the first segment, we talk about what happened in Charlottesville and how it affects Black families. Read more…
In the first segment, Jenn and Daren describe how they came to be called “That Black Couple” by walking through how they became a couple in the first place. Highlights include when Daren had to literally be Jenn’s mouthpiece and their “Never Felt This Way Moment” at the back of Read more…
Hey. Hi. Thanks for stopping by. The big news is: We decided to hang with the cool kids and start a podcast. It is launching in October 2017. Somehow, we managed to keep it on the low for months (which is very impressive considering that Jenn is physically incapable of Read more…