Rain or Shai: Recent Episodes
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www.heyshai.com Stories about systemic racism's affects on an individual’s creativity, and what happens when you shift the energy you're putting into a situation, with mindfulness. If you're a BIPOC, you'll get information to apply to your own life. If you're white, you'll get a better understanding of your racialized friends, to be an antiracist ally.
A brown Canadian is unlearning how the book was taught to generations of people in high school.
Topics: The racist Atticus in Go Set a Watchman. The novel’s position in the zeitgeist of the 1950s and 60s civil rights era. Playground memories of a Black Canadian girl in 1950’s Montreal.
Show notes: https://heyshai.com/podcast-show-notes/
Time Stamps
(00:00) introduction
(00:45) Interview Alisha
(5:00) Recap of Part 2, mob scene
(7:00) Alisha again
(7:50) book - Go Set a Watchman
(11:15) Interview Rachel
(16:15) New Yorker article
(20:03) book - White Fragility
(24:30) book -Deep South
(26:31) Alisha again
(28:41) Alisha again
(30:38) book - The Hate U Give
(32:55) Interview Gilbert
(39:20) book, Maya Angelou
(40:00) book, A Lesson Before Dying
(40:55) Interview Jessica
(48:15) Alisha again
(50:18) Interview Jessica
(59:00) Interview Jessica
• A brown Canadian is unlearning how the book was taught to her in high school.
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Montreal's Black community in the depression era and Canadian racism in the 1930s-1950s.
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Interview: The daughter of a Black Canadian artist who in 1933 was about the same age as Jem in the book.
Show notes: https://heyshai.com/podcast-mockingbird/
Part 2 is about the novel To Kill a Mockingbird's position in the zeitgeist of the 1950s and 60s civil rights era. And about a Black Canadian girl’s experience growing up in 1960s Montreal
- Show notes: https://heyshai.com/rain-out-bias-podcast-to-kill-a-mockingbird
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cuts.and.biases/
This series is about:
- how Shai, a brown woman, broke through being taught it from the white perspective and seeked out a Black one.
- the novel’s position in the zeitgeist of the 1950s and 60s civil rights era.
- a Black Canadian girl’s experience growing up in 1960s Montreal
Show notes: https://heyshai.com/rain-out-bias-podcast-to-kill-a-mockingbird
The N-word at school. Weaponizing niceness. "Respectable racism" in Canada in the post 9/11 era. The confidence to have race conversations. A anti-racism workshop for creative people.
Timestamps
(:20) Nice and ignorant
(4:14) Stereotyping
(5:15) High school social justice class
(14:30) N-word advice
(15:00) James Baldwin
(16:00) San Francisco Karen
(19:45) Xenophobia
(21:15) Post 9/11 era
(25:45) Book, See No Stranger
(29:30) Antiracism workshop
(31:30) Curly hair microaggression
(32:20) The nicest guys
(36:30) Retro rock haircuts
(39:10) Antiracism workshop
Minnesota Nice and Canadian Nice. The N-word. Encouragement to get comfortable speaking up.
Timestamps:
(1:45) Interview about N-word
(14:30) Minnesota Nice
The phrase "NOT NICE." What happened when someone quoted the N-word. This show is a mini class to prep for part 4. The show that was supposed to be part 3 will be part 4.
Part 2. Two friends, one brown, one white, unpack the word "nice" and its role in racism within the phrase "Nice White People."
Unpack the word "nice" and its role in anti-racism within the phrases "Nice White People" and "Nice White Woman" with two friends, one brown the other white.
Two friends, one brown the other white, unpack the word "nice" and its role in racism within the phrases "Nice White People" and "Nice White Woman."
The history of the Namu ghost town and abandoned fish cannery on the west coast of BC, Canada. It's linked to colonial history and anti-Indigenous racism. Interview with an artist who lived there in the 1950s. Show notes: HeyShai.com
TIMESTAMPS
(7:35) history
(19:00) Namu wreckage
(25:00) Names
(30:00) WW2
(34:30) Languages
(37:00) Capital punishment in schools
(45:30) Segregation
(52:00) Namu update
(57:30) Free course
7 tips to be on time and how to say no to latecomers. Plus tips for women about the bias when women say no. Show Notes: heyShai.com
TIMESTAMPS
(2:15) Tip 1. How to leave on time.
(4:00) Tip 2. For the business owner.
(5:20) Survey of late people.
(6:20) Research study.
(7:30) Tip 3
(10:35) Tip 4.
(11:25) Tip 5.
(12:25) Book recommendation.
(14:00) Tip 6. For the business woman.
(15:00) Research study.
(15:25) Survey of early people.
(16:15) Research study.
(17:35) Tip 7.
A Bowie fan explores how she broke a daily, chocolate bar habit. The research also applies to other habits. It includes prompts for you to think about a habit you’d like to break. Show Notes: heyShai.com
TIMESTAMPS
(6:55) Addictive food
(8:50) The brain & music
(11:15) The brain & chocolate
(13:35) Books
(17:45) Dopamine
(19:30) Cortisol
(21:15) Sleep & cravings
A guy named Dick said, "The prettiest one", on TV in 1983. The racial bias of who’s pretty and how it affects young brown & Black women. Racism in the music industry. Data on interracial relationships. Ethnic names: defend yours. Show Notes: heyShai.com
TIMESTAMPS
(2:20) Names, books
(4:25) Bands
(5:50) Interracial friendships
(8:30) TV & Black musicians
(13:00) Interracial dating
(19:43) America’s sweetheart
(21:44) Cloaking ethnicity
(24:25) Names, kids books
(27:29) Interview: 19-yr-old Black Canadian
Topic: Anti-Indigenous racism. A caller in a small town wants to know what to say to people who make racist small talk in the checkout line. A listener recommends a book (fiction) about indigenous intergenerational trauma in Canada, and Shai talks about one that helps you understand it. First released in August 2021. Show Notes: heyShai.com
TIMESTAMPS
(3:24) Book about trauma
(7:50) Listener’s book review
(9:35) Caller’s question
An owner of a small business compares statistics on racism and the economy. If you're a racialized person, you're going to get a lot of information that you can apply to your own life. If you’re white, you're going to gain a better understanding of your racialized friends, and how to be a better ally. —FIrst aired in April 2021. This updated version has additional information added.
Show notes: heyShai.com
TIMESTAMPS
(15:00) Discrimination in stores.
(20:16) Intergroup threat.
(28:00) Mindfulness inner journey.
(29:00) Biased first impressions.
(35:15) Racism & implicit discrimination.
(41:40) Job seekers with ethnic names.
(47:08) Secretly racist.
(51:10) Book: How to Be an Antiracist.
(56:19) Chakra energy.
Stories about how racial identity affects creativity, with lots of facts, stats and a dose of chakra energy.
If you're a person who's racialized, you'll get a lot of information to apply to your own life. If you're white, you'll get a better understanding of your racialized friends, and how to be a better ally. Plus it's about what happens when you shift the energy you're putting into a situation.